Heroes of Might and Magic 5 -- $17.99 Preorder

[imported_Kudos]

deals dead, and I bet they'll just charge you the remainder without saying anything when the game ships

 

[Coquito]

March 1st now, hmmm...

 

[cyberkost]

I just installed HOMM3 (that's a product that's installed on every PC I own)
on my new PC which has Dell 2005FPW attached to it. When the game
starts the picture gets stretched to 16:10 proportions of the monitor. I want
to run it in a window, and I was certainly able to do that under Win98/Me on
one of my older laptops. Is there a way to get HOMM3 to run in a window
under XP?

 

[OhNoPoPo]

Should be a graphics card setting. In my nvidia control panel, there is a selection for how it handles non-native resolutions. Poke around!

 

[JacobJ]

Originally posted by: SirFshAlot
Heroes III is the most addicting game I have EVER played.

Long after DukeNukem, Quake, Half-Life, Age of Empires, Unreal, Battlefield1942 et. al. have had their spot on my PC, HOMM III still resurrects itself over and over to consume me.
LOL

I feel excited to hear of a newer offering of the same gameplay.

I should dig out hommiii again...

 

[cyberkost]

Originally posted by: OhNoPoPo
Should be a graphics card setting. In my nvidia control panel, there is a selection for how it handles non-native resolutions. Poke around!

No, that's not what I want. I just want a 800x600 window with HOMM3
on my 1680x1050 desktop. It's gotta be the windows thing ... and what
pisses me off the most is the fact that it was there in older Windows.
For now, I just set the monitor not to do stretching when the resolution
is set to a non-native one.

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: cyberkost

Originally posted by: OhNoPoPo
Should be a graphics card setting. In my nvidia control panel, there is a selection for how it handles non-native resolutions. Poke around!

No, that's not what I want. I just want a 800x600 window with HOMM3
on my 1680x1050 desktop. It's gotta be the windows thing ... and what
pisses me off the most is the fact that it was there is older Windows.
For now, I just set the monitor not to do stretching when the resolution
is set to a non-native one

Check around (in readme, and on net, and in FAQs like on gamefaqs.com). There's often a command line switch to run many apps in windowed form. Example: -window

 

[Basilisk]

Everywhere it's $49.99 now! Sigh, another deal missed. And it's still a PreOrder?!

 

[GameManK]

:|

Greetings from Target.com.

We regret to inform you of an error that has resulted in the display of
incorrect pricing of the video game
"Heroes of Might & Magic 5" you have ordered. Regrettably, we are unable
to offer this item for the incorrect
price. The correct price is $49.99. We have canceled your order for this
item. Please accept our sincerest
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Again our apology for any inconvenience this has caused you. Thank you for
being our valued guest.

Sincerely,

Target.com Guest Services

 

[hotshot2000]

same here

 

[SniperREX]

Ditto.

It was too good to be true DOH .

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: hotshot2000
same here

Yep..here also.

How exactly could this be a 'mistake'? Bleh.

 

[Dulanic]

Same

 

[Mermaidman]

Originally posted by: CadetLee

Originally posted by: hotshot2000
same here

Yep..here also.

How exactly could this be a 'mistake'? Bleh.

On the 10-key, 4 and 1 are right next to each other. Mayhap that was the source of the errurr.

 

[courtjester]

Originally posted by: Mermaidman

Originally posted by: CadetLee

Originally posted by: hotshot2000
same here

Yep..here also.

How exactly could this be a 'mistake'? Bleh.

On the 10-key, 4 and 1 are right next to each other. Mayhap that was the source of the errurr.

 

[SuperBacon]

Mine cancelled too. GRRRR!!

 

[fargus]

Bummer.

 

[Staver]

Cancelled, as well.

 

[Gverig]

@#$^ers!!!
Are there any organizations to complain to? I mean the price has been on their site for a pretty long while and they had to have known about the price it's being purchased for. WTF?!

Doesn't purchase confirmation constitute a contract or something?

Ohh... they do cover their asses in "help" section. Still, it would be nice to check how enforceable this is...

 

[Dulanic]

That comes up every time, there is nothing to do, we dont get it, thats it.

 

[Devistater]

Don't forget the open beta coming up soon:

http://www.mightandmagic.com/us/

Your chance to make the game better
ubisoft says that they plan for it on monday:
http://forums.ubi.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/1851065692/m/5581040104


Gverig: Its covered for several reasons. One being that since they dont charge you until they ship, its not a "contract" yet. Two its in thier policy. Three, this all dates back from the buy.com monitor mistake that many people (including me) for a $50 check as a settlement from a class action lawsuit from one of the first big price mistakes. Since then everyone has put something like that into their policy.

 

[Tegeril]

Yeah, can't wait for the beta, preordered the collector/limited/whatever edition from Ubi's store. Can't wait!

 

[Traveler]

Tried the beta, it looks really nice, which is much better than HOMM4.

By the way, since 5 is not out yet, HOMM3 so far is the best, especially the art.