GreenManGaming PC DD - Civ 5 Gods and Kings - $3.15
 

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Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods & Kings [greenmangaming.com] - $4.49 minus 30% with coupon GMG30-DPLIM-DN831

Final price - $3.15

Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods & Kings Expansion Pack (PC Digital Download) $3
 

Green Man Gaming has Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods & Kings Expansion Pack (PC Digital Download) for $4.49 - 30% off voucher code GMG30-DPLIM-DN831 = $3.14. Thanks xanchui

Note, this is an expansion pack and requires Civilization V base game to play. Activates via Steam client.

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Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Gods and Kings is an expansion pack for Civilization V, which is required to play this.

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I'm getting 29.99 from the link..

Edit... starts sunday... Crap

Starts 12/30

Thought this was the game, not the expansion. Still seems like a good deal, might have to pick up the game on steam. The question now is... Should I buy the GOTY edition for $12.50 or the regular civ 5 for $7.50?

i paid $6 from int keys.com. and just wasted like 10 hours taking over the world. this game will make time fly fast.

Don't forget to get the base Civ 5 game in order to use this expansion.

If you never played Civ before, be advised this expansion requires Civ 5 standalone (which is around $7.50-$15 depending on the sale).

Anyone know if you have to own Civ 5? Or is this not an expansion

edit: I asked too slow

Awesome! Thanks, OP.

Yeah I noticed that after my post, kind of feel dumb now haha, would you recommend civ 5 GOTY for $12.50 or just the regular civ 5 for $7.50?
The vanilla civ 5 game is on steam sale today for those that don't know for the above prices ^

I've got a copy you can have for $5. lol

for the price, I would personally just get the base Civ 5, then pick up Gods & Kings. I really didn't care much for the extra DLC that GOTY will include.

Finally down to a good price, thanks!

Dang. I just bought Civ 5+GaK on Amazon for $20 three days ago. My fault for being impatient.

The expansion is really recommended though. It's almost like a completely new game.

Thanks rep'ed

Steam also sells an upgrade to GOTY for $5, so if you want the dlc later on you can pick it up when it goes on sale again.

been waiting for this , thanks.

I don't have any of the DLC, but since this is your first Civ game, the regular edition should be plenty for you to enjoy.

I would agree that even if you bought the expansion pack, learning the base game and not using the exp. pack until after you're comfortable. However, you're never going to see GaK drop below $3, so I'd pick it up anyways while it is so cheap.

Civ 5 GOTY is also on Amazon for $12.50, and you get a promotional $5 to use in January for their specified rules.

Civ 5 GOTY [amazon.com]

Gods and Kings is $7.50 on Steam today.

Amazing! I bought Civ V launch day and didn't bother with any of the DLC's. I will be upgrading to GOTY as well as buying the expansion when the sale starts. Thanks!

ok, so I got the base game Civ 5 ... does the dlc from GOTY add anything to my vanilla experience to justify $5 upgrade (or I can save that $5 to something else)? Note: I haven't touched the game yet. it just sits there on my backlog

Awesome thanks! I got $2.25 in trade-in credit from all the free games they give out.

Does this GMG Gods & Kings expansion pack work with Steam's Civ V base game?

Yes. Anything CIV 5 related MUST be redeemed on Steam, regardless of what site you get it from. You don't have a choice.

Gotcha, thanks. This is a sweet deal then. Rep to you and the OP :)

For the same price, you could have gotten Civ 5 GOTY+GaK+Civ 4+Stronghold collection

2K Strategy Super Pack

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/...2445220011

Great deal. I've been wanting to try out the expansion for a while, and at this price, I can't really pass it up.

I almost bought this for 7.50 in the Steam Flash Sale today. Glad I didn't. Thanks, op.

That purchase should have also netted you the complete CIV 4 collection, plus the complete Stronghold collection, minus a $5 coupon.

Don't forget the $5 2K coupon that is still good until 12/31!

:nod:Nice deal.
Thanks,op.

Great deal

My friend says there are multiplayer issues. :o can anyone comment on this?

get ready for sleepless nights.. so many nights that I played till 2 and said "oh f*ck...." After 10 hours, I decided to use cheats... it actually made the game a lot more fun! I just put infinite amount of money only.

I've played all the Civs from 1-4. TBH, I got a little Cived out, but I'm a little intrigued by the expansion for this cheap.

How does Civ 5 compare to the previous ones?
Does the GaK expansion add new gameplay? Or is it more of the same.

Basically, just trying to figure out if it's worth my time to sink my time in this and go for "just 1 more turn."

Thanks for any responses.

Thanks OP, I should really be playing more Civ V.

I've never had issues with my friends in the USA. However, I keep having problems with my friend in Ireland. I think it's his crappy upload speed of 40KB/s, but not 100% sure.

Don't buy GOTY until you've played through 10 or 20 games of Civ or if you are certain you WILL play though it 20+ times. The DLC will go on sale periodically, so you can always pick it up later, and imho the DLC is only valuable after you've played through the game 10 or 20+ times with the existing civs, and want to try playing with some new civs or on new maps, or with new scenarios.

That said, I really really enjoyed playing with Inca, Korea, Nebachanezzar, and Dutch (I find Kamehameha, Boudicca, Austria and the civ that gets an extra religion bonus to be major letdowns, though they would seem cool. I also really like the Continents Plus and Pangea Plus maps. I never got into the new scenarios much, but I have friends who like those, since they are shorter games.

Civ V received mixed reviews, especially at release. The game was probably released a year too early, and many of the G&K features probably should have been included at launch. There was also some major patching for 6 months after release to address multiplayer issues, among other things. So a lot of negative reviews should be read in this light; e.g., some people just hate the concept of DLC and can't let go of the fact that G&K cost add'l money on top of the release.

That said, I think Civ V is a great new game to complement the Civ series, one that continues in the tradition of giving players intriguing strategic decisions to make, turn after turn. More so than previous games, Civ V, imho, gives you many more varied ways to play the game, new wonders new civilization abilities, and new cultural policies to make the game fun. It's far from a re-hash of prior games, but the genre is unchanged. You'll find that most of your Civ IV strategy won't translate directly (i.e., the things that worked to win games in IV don't work the same way in V, so you need new strategies), but overall the more general skills built through playing prior Civ games will translate, i.e., understanding balance and bottlenecks, the importance of research and expansion, etc. Just remember that Civ IV didn't really hit it's prime until the expansions were all released and implemented, and I think Civ V is probably still getting better. There are also a ton of mods that you can install to add to the gameplay.

Good luck!

Yeah, the mods were the best part of Civ IV, IMO. I actually created a couple of mods and released them, but by the time I got the first expansion of Civ IV, I was getting tired of the game, so I never really tried it out after playing with some of the new races. My favorite Civ of all time was probably Civ 2

Thanks for the response!

I play multiplayer fairly regularly with friends on steam. We tend to do 2v2v2v2 against other AI teams of 2. It's hard, however, to find a good matchmaking game, however, but I think that's just the nature of the game. Rarely will you find 6 or so random people who have 6+ hours to dedicate to a single game. And then people will drop if they get a shitty starting spot or start losing early, so meh, what can you do. But the multiplayer complaints you read about probably aren't about the difficulty of finding a good game online, but rather, relate to the fact that at release, multiplayer was plagued with problems, among them: very slow turns, problems in turn order, and mostly lots of lag that made the game unplayable. These problems have been addressed to my satisfaction, because when I play with 1-2 other friends, I don't think the turns take much longer than playing locally (maybe 20-50% longer time between turns; whereas, before, it was like 200-500% longer turn times).

I can't recommend highly enough the mods available at this website: http://civmodding.wordpress.com/
I think the vanilla enhanced has been fully tested and is just awesome. But I been playing G&K since release, and for the past 4 months I've been playing the G&K Enhanced Mod. I love it. Though it slows the game down a bit and still has a few minor bugs in it, it adds so much to the game. I'd play the normal G&K a few times first, get comfortable, and then if you want some new challenges, install the GEM. It makes the game entirely new again!

Well I mean technical wise hows the multiplayer. I have a group of friends who already play civ V with me. We have played 12 hours straight 4v4v4 (even though it says map can' support it lols). Fun.

Do you play hotseat with your friends or are you playing on a LAN? I don't think online multiplayer would be very different from LAN at all. There are some slight technical issue with multiplayer in terms of turn order. Right, so everyone is ready for a new turn, and then the barbs/citystates get to act, and then it's a new turn. Now let's say you and your allied friend are both within 2 tiles of some ruins, it's basically a race to whoever clicks the movement to see who gets it first. Likewise, let's say an open borders deal just expired with one of the AI civs. Either you or your ally can do a new open borders deal (and sometimes get some gold in return for opening your borders), and again, it's a bit of a race between which of you gets that done first during the new turn. Likewise, when you aren't playing against the AI, and let's say it's just a simple 2v2 game with 4 humans. If you are at war, and a new turn begins, there's a little bit of a race to see who attacks who first when the turn begins. So maybe there's a bit of RTS in play in multiplayer games. But I think it's been improved (I can't say for sure) so that there's a tradeoff now in place when you're at war, so that after Player1 attacks Player3 with a unit, I don't think P1 can attack the same P3 unit again until P3 gets a chance to respond (retreat/counterattack/etc). I think they introduced that to make the multiplayer less dependent on speed of play.

We all play at our homes and I just invite them in a private multiplayer lobby. Even without any expansion packs, civ V seems to freeze (doesn't go to next turn) even when everybody finished. So we always have to reload the game (everyone quits and I rehost with save) every 10 or so turns.

Ah, so I think this problem is from packet loss and connectivity. I don't think Civ handles packet losses very well, so when the connection between any one of the players gets a little fuzzy (due to local issues like intermittent wireless router problems, or due to more general issues over the interbitz where data is being interrupted somehow), Civ V is kinda quick to assume a player has dropped, rather than stall the game and wait for the connection/information to stabilize.

I play with friends online and this only happens once every 50-100 turns. I've played multiplayer games with 6 people online and it sometimes won't happen but once every 30 or 50 turns. My advice is to find the friend with a spotty wireless connection, play without him and see if the problems persist. If you can narrow it to just 1 or 2 players who seem to be causing all the problems (likely the guy who drops every time), tell him to fix it or to play locally :D

What time zone is greenmangaming in?

GMT. Their daily deals go live at Noon GMT, or 7:00 AM EST.

can't wait to get this deal, totally worth getting up early :-)

Is it going to be a limited # of purchases or something? I've never bought from there before.

Just purchased and currently downloading on Steam.

finally got it can't wait to download this now lets go back to sleep. :-)

Get Civ5 and this G&K (feels like a totally different game, definitely worth it) and don't install ANY other mods, just this one:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedf...d=77097295 <- Civ Nights

Civ Nights is an all-in-one complete game modifier, don't put other mods on with it, as you'll just end up with stability problems. For anyone that says they like the look and hexes and new features of Civ5 but wish it had the depth of Civ4, that mod is all you need.

There is a reason it has 986 ratings with a perfect 5 star score!

Thanks, there goes the day... Rep'd

Anyone having payment issues through the site? Tried three different cards and it wont process the order.

Just purchased and activated in Steam on the Mac. Thanks, and repped.

Just got it, great deal, thanks!

I had that issue when I bought the base Civ5 game, but it was because I was attempting to buy it when I was out of the country. The British seller didn't like that I was using a US credit card while in China, I guess. I got my wife on Skype to make the purchase for me stateside and it went well from there. Don't know if any of this applies to you at the moment. :)

Best deal I've seen on this expansion so far. Can't refuse it for $1.92 after credits!

there always seem to be people with issue purchasing on Greenman. i think most of the problems stem from using a Paypal account with a different email than the email account used on Greenman.

GD it, I just paid $20 for this a month ago.

The pack slows down the game, but not enough that I've deactivated the new content. It's close, though. (By slows down, I mean adds layers to the gameplay, not bogs down the computer or anything)

In for one, thanks.

I kinda wish I had waited for another sale. Its crazy where prices go during the holiday season now. I got this for $7.50 certain that it wouldnt go any lower anytime soon and now this. Good for those who get in on this - I still havent played it lol but Im sure I wont regret buying it. Supposed to be a great expansion.

Is Steam the cheapest place to get GOTY at the moment? I see $12.50 earlier int he thread but I'm guessing that was a one day deal. It's up for $24.99 right now.

Got a copy. At almost 90% off, this is an incredible deal. Thanks!

paypal and CC not working. i'm going to tinker with my GMG info and make it match the rest.

EDIT: some info in GMG was outdated, upon correcting, it worked fine!

This expansion was extremely overpriced for the longest time but I'm glad its finally so cheap! I would consider this an essential addon to Civ V. The original game was incomplete. This expansion really increases the importance of city states which adds to the overall fun and balance of the game (esp if you start out in a location with a disadvantage).

$0.90 after credit from all the free games they gave away =D

Not anymore...sad face :(

if you have a middle initial or name on your card, then you'll probably need to add that in your profile under your first name. so if it's Malcom X on your card then you need Malcom X as your first name on profile. fight the power

Thanks OP I just got it... now to wait for Civ 5 to go on sale.

Nice price got it.

It was just on sale on steam the other day. It might come back though before the sale ends.

thanks OP - got Civ 5 for 7.50 friday and now this for 3.15 - great deal!

Thanks - tried again and still wouldn't process. Switched over to paypal and went right through.Thanks OP and repped!

I bought Civ 5 a few weeks ago but haven't played it yet. Is there value to buying this and playing with the expansion if I'm a newbie?

Anyone not using their $5 coupon could possibly give it to me? I want to buy strat pack on amazon for $20

good deal

so anyone having issues activating on steam? i bought, got the code, added to steam...steam says its already been activated on my account, but it doesn't show in my list..

Practically impossible to check out!! What a horrible experience. Paypal doesnt work, amex doesnt work, my debit card doesnt work ... every time I get a message saying your bank has rejected this payment. some financial institutions consider greenmangaming to be a gambling website -- we are working with those organizations to resolve this issue.

you need the base game civ 5.

right click civ v and click view dlc, it should list it there.

thanks for the share op

Amen! It's all on their side.

GMG's anti-fraud system is FUBARed. I've verified and re-verified my account info, quadruple checked my contact info, tried PayPal and four cards. I've disabled all extensions in Chrome. Tried IE, FF, Opera, and even Safari. I created a VM with a clean install of Windows, stood on my head while drinking water, patted my head while rubbing my stomach, and even sacrificed to the Little Green God - nothing.

The transactions don't even make it to my banks. They all tell me there's been no transaction requested.

It works one day, then won't the next, then will randomly go through. Their forums are full of complaints.

It's DLC. Pretty sure it won't show in the list, but should be available in-game, despite.

:worship:

thanks, now i see, hadnt' tried starting it, all my other expansions show as separate line items :)

Thanks. Used my $6 credit from the Sleeping Dogs purchase last week.

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Right on cue, Steam now has Civ 5 on sale for $7.50!

Thanks, so glad I missed the Steam sale.

oh damn.... bought goty upgrade pack ($5) before seeing this. thanks for the info bro. Can I disable the goty content then?
update: bought gods and Kings too since it's so freaking cheap --> spend totally $13 for all civ5 content (base game: $5, goty upgrade: $5 and g&k xpac: $3) :D

I have had Civ V GOTY sitting in my steam inv for months. Went ahead and added it to my library and added this. One more game for the backlog. Thanks OP :)

I wouldn't disable the GOTY content since you've already purchased it. Kahluatex is basically saying not to purchase the GOTY until you know you will keep on playing the game (i.e., you enjoy playing Civ 5) as it goes on sale quite often.

Excellent, thank you very much!

Great, just got it

I went through the same thing as you; I think because I had a diff name on Paypal on my first try it failed and never would accept anything regardless after that. After taking a couple hours to cool off, I created a new account on the site and made sure to type my middle initial. I avoided using PP and went straight to a credit card and it worked.

Insta buy for $3.

OK, so I'm going to go ahead and buy this expansion and the base game (without GOTY content).

Should I bother playing the base game alone or should I just play GaK? Seems like the additions of GaK (like religion and espionage) make the game better and there may be no reason spending time playing without them.

Opinions are welcome...

This makes the game more like civ 4, this religion mechanic is a little more steam lined. I wouldn't fret about getting or not getting the goty or dlcs. If you enjoy any of the civs, you enjoy this. If you are a civ fanboy, you're going to bitch about how nothing will ever be as good as civ 2, and play it anyway.

Thanks I used credit left over a while back brought it down to a buck :), haha awesome game btw everyone should have it if you like strategy

I bit for $3.15. $7.50 for Civ 5 on Steam but I can't buy it via iOS app which makes no sense! Hopefully I'll be home in time to get it

If you've played other Civ games before, you probably want the G&K expansion, because it adds religion and maybe half a dozen new civilizations, and vastly improves the ranged units by giving them a consistent upgrade path (with G&K, archers that become crossbowmen can now become gatling guns and machine guns in later years, whereas without G&K, there are no GGs/MGs, so the crossbowmen become regular infantry, and the bonuses they accumulated for ranged attacks become useless).

If you've never played Civ before and aren't sure how much you want to invest in the game, there's still plenty to enjoy in the vanilla version, and you can expect G&K to be on sale again next year at some point.

Skip straight to G&K and never look back. G&K only adds to the game, it doesn't take away anything that you would enjoy from the vanilla Civ V.

Re: GOTY advice

To clarify my earlier statement that seemed to discourage GOTY purchases: you are more than welcome to get the other civ/map/scenario DLCs that come with GOTY (I enjoy them and am happy to have paid for them), but frugal shoppers may want to pocket the $5 or so and wait to see how much they like Civ V first. I've probably played through the game 100 times or so. If I only had 1 civilization to use, I probably would have stopped after 5 or 10 playthroughs. I think the base game has like 12 civs or something, and G&K adds maybe 6 more, so that's a lot of variety already. GOTY probably adds another 4-6 civs. You can easily play through the game one time with each Civ, trying out different strategies for achieving global conquest. So if you're only gonna play through the game 5-10 times, just use the civs that are there. If you want to play this timesuck of a game for 1,000 hours like me, then get GOTY :D

You could just open up Mobile Safari and buy it from there.

I tried a new PP account, too. GMG just hates me.

* EDIT: Nvmd. I see what you did. Trying it now.
* EDIT 2: Nope. GMG really does hate me.
* EDIT 3: Finally got it to work on my mobile phone.

Had a bunch of problems trying to get through checkout also. I found the problem once i went into my account settings. For some reason the registered address did not have my State selected. So those with problems make sure that address is 100% correct

And even if stuff is 100% correct and it doesn't work, keep trying. It only took me 32 tries for it to work.

I think GMG must have flagged my ISPs IP range. My smartphone is in a different IP range.

I actually enjoy Civ V more than Civ III and IV, and have been waiting for a great deal on this expansion.

Edit: No problems checking out with PayPal. Ordered and started downloading from steam in about 2 minutes.

this game has the best replay value, the best immersion and just pure fun of all other games. The most fun $20 can buy.

doh, didnt realize it was a one day sale. Might grab it from steam or amazon for a little more...

$10.65 for both base and GaC expansion (no GOTY content). I'm pretty excited to try it out! I wonder if the history lessons are real.