Expansions are often fixing small annoyances which you can't live with after you try not to. E.g. I can't imagine how it would be to play Heroes of Might and Magic III without expansions, especially the second one - things like being able to revisit a place by hitting space, being able to buy non-upgraded creatures even after building a structure for upgraded ones, corrected units' statistics, getting wounds by staying in a moat etc. etc.

Expansions and DLC are just tools originally intented to extend your gameplay experience and net the company more profit for its next project. With the availability provided by the internet, this has been abused by many just for easy money and an excuse to push out incomplete games. I thought The Shivering Isles is like the former while (insert your greatest disappointment here) is the latter.

They'll add the expansions later, gog is awesome like that.

For the the problem of the lack of expansion, is that I can't find the expansion for purchase anywhere by its self. Its only available in the Gold or Universe editions of the game and if i decide I want to play it i don't want to buy 2 copies of the same game.

Looked with Google shopping and found only one place that has it. They didn't have a rating, and the site looks pretty basic, so buyer beware.

http://www.cenfonix.com/product_info.php?currency=USD&info=p32819_Spellforce-2--Dragon-Storm--Add-on---PC-.html

Spellforce 2 is not that old (or good) either :p. actually I'd like to see more new releases even though the name is good old games.

Woot woot! Wishlisted.

Agree. GOG definately takes care of the customers who purchase the product now. They have never failed to add more "free" extras. Even if the expansion isn't free, it will still be priced fairly.

Cool, nice to have this DRM-free.

But why the expansion wasn't released here, being this the regular instead of the gold edition? I hope GOG will update it to Gold in a later late.

The game is DRM free on all DDs, I think. No use in using DRM since the multiplayer servers are shut down anyway.

Didn't know that, thanks. Yeah I've read the servers are down, at the GOG description; very nice that they clearly include that multiplayer notice there.

Yet, we're still waiting for GOG's automated cd-key delivery system, for other games. ;)

There are a lot of things I find I can live without when enough money is involved.

I know I played it and it's a blur. I don't remember the expansions adding that much to the game.

Some random monsters, a new campaign/scenarios, a new faction or two?

To be frank, the golden era of that series was the second game for me.

The third added some innovation (mostly the heroes specialties), but moved away from the cartoonish graphics that I liked. The 4rth showed some promise. Then, they got back to the same old formula on the 5th and I had the impression I was playing the 3rd again in 3D.

I stopped paying attention after that.

Most of the stuff you mention seems like it could have been added in a patch. At worst, they could charge 2$-5$ for such a patch, but not 20$-40$.

So... does that mean GoG won't host The Witcher 3 sometimes in the future? personally i don't think a classic game should be defined primarily by age. There's a certain quality in games, its ability to draw you in and immerse you, that makes it a classic. WItcher 2 fits that criteria and thus deserves its place here, there's no reason that a good, new-ish game should be banned here, IMO

OK, but I've bought the expansion for the first time when it cost, like, 15 zł (about $5).

I agree but I think it's their business idea to keep getting classics on their site that were somewhat lost in the midst of all mediocre games or perhaps by mainstream games and therefor didn't sell very well. Obviously those titles that did as well to be added with all their extras along with runable on new hardware and OS. As time goes however GOG will obviously will be filled with most of the old games and they will probably adapt to closer release ergo perhaps only 2 to 3 years old games. I mean, all the game needs is
1) perhaps 1-2 years age so it's not considered new
2) Old enough so the general price is not above $10
3) Above fair in rating in anyway so there's still a need for it

As for Spell Force 2 I never actually liked that game, they changed too much from the original (I believe the devs were bought up by JoWood or some other publisher) aside from the story (the added backstory to Order of Dawn and the other EXPs were great). It might fit into my GOG collection in the future and was therefor added to my long, ever growing wishlist.