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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

It is today that Distant Worlds: Universe will hit the Matrix, Slitherine and Steam Stores. Distant Worlds: Universe is the latest in the popular Distant Worlds Series. The game will be available on our stores around 12.00 GMT and the Steam release will be around 4.00PM PDT. Distant Worlds: Universe combines all previous content in a single $ 60 package and expends on it by adding the Ancient Galaxy storyline, lots of balance changes and technical improvements and vastly expanded modding capabilities, making this the ultimate Distant Worlds experience! To celebrate this joyous occasion, we are giving you a $ 10 discount for everyone who purchases Distant Worlds: Universe within the first week of release.

Upgrade
For those who already own one or more games/expansions in the Distant Worlds series, we have created a system for you to upgrade to Universe. You will be able to get a $ 10 discount for every Distant Worlds game/expansion you own. This means that, if you Distant Worlds plus all three expansions, you will be able to generate a $ 40 coupon code for Distant Worlds: Universe. This is then added to the $ 10 release discount we are giving for a total of $ 50 off the regular price.

In order to generate this coupon, you must register your Distant Worlds content on the Matrix games Members Club. After you have done this, click the “My discount coupons” button on the right side. Here you will be able to get your coupon.

Note: Make sure to register ALL your Distant Worlds content before generating the coupon. It can only be done once, so if you do it before you registered all Distant Worlds keys, you will not be able to use the full discount!

After you have your discount, just add Universe to your card and enter the coupon code when required.

Steam
Today (or Saturday, depending on where you live), Distant Worlds: Universe will also be released on Steam. Everyone who buys Universe from our own stores will be able to redeem their Steam keys as soon as the game is released there. In order to do this, you must register you copy here. Next you can click the “Steam Keys” button in your profile page and press “Redeem Key”. You now have a Distant Worlds: Universe key you can activate on Steam.

About Distant Worlds: Universe
Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.

Vast galaxies are made to order: up to 1400 star systems, with up to 50,000 planets, moons and asteroids. Galaxies are so deep, fun and immersive that you won’t want to finish the game. Build, expand and improve your empire while playing through one of the storylines, with victory conditions or in an open-ended sandbox mode.

Get the game from the official Product Page.

Find the game on Steam here.

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ORIGINAL: Stilletto
The coupon for $40.00 worked. Where is the $10.00 discount for purchasing it in the first week? I see the price is still what it was at launch so the price was not lowered by $10.00 for launch week. Where is the mysterious 10.00 launch discount?

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ORIGINAL: invaderzim

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ORIGINAL: Stilletto
The coupon for $40.00 worked. Where is the $10.00 discount for purchasing it in the first week? I see the price is still what it was at launch so the price was not lowered by $10.00 for launch week. Where is the mysterious 10.00 launch discount?

Wouldn't an additional $10 make it almost free? I'm interested if this is the deal... what exactly is going on?

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ORIGINAL: Icemania
You obviously have records of who purchased the game before Universe release i.e. through Matrix stores.

You also have records of who purchased the game after release AND applied a discount as we had to go through Matrix.

You could once again try to contact those people that did not claim a discount and pin a thread on both Steam and Matrix forums with instructions on who to contact if they fall within this category.

I don't know what Steam can provide to help but you also have records of who payed full price at least through Matrix.

Perhaps a partial refund is problematic (keeping in mind these customers will still have invested significant money in the game) so at least a Matrix games credit?

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ORIGINAL: vmxa
If they could not pull the trigger in three months, why would anyone feel badly about them? Life does go on and if you snooze, ya loose.

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ORIGINAL: Icemania

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ORIGINAL: vmxa
If they could not pull the trigger in three months, why would anyone feel badly about them? Life does go on and if you snooze, ya loose.

Many of us have periods where we are offline for extended periods due to real life or we come back to a series later on. I'm one of them. I could have easily missed this promotion in half of the last 10 years, and Matrix would have lost a customer, there would be no AI Improvement Mod, no suggestions many of which have found their way into recent patches. To me the right thing to do is ensure established customers are looked after, particularly when we are talking about such an expensive game.

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ORIGINAL: MrAce

I totally agree. After paying over $80 alone for the original DW and its expansions, I would've thought that I'd be given at least a discount.

Please allow this discount to be used once again. I don't feel like spending another $50 on an updated form of the game. :(