Trying to download Vic2

[MJAnderson]

With Vic3 coming out I've been wanting to play Vic2. I bought it from Paradox a long time ago, and it shows up as a game (along with the 2 DLCs) but I can't download it from here. I linked my Steam account hoping it would give me credit for the game over there but it doesn't. I don't want to buy it again... anyway to get it?

 

[AndrewT]

We do not host game downloads. Wherever you got or installed the game from before, you do it the same way again.

Sounds like it was not a Steam edition from what you say, so possibly GamersGate, Amazon, or a DVD edition?

 

[Kovax]

Note that the downloads from most services are interchangeable (you can add an expansion from GOG or Amazon to a GamersGate or CD base installation), but Steam downloads are NOT compatible with anyone else's, including the original V2 CD. A lot of Paradox's downloads in recent years went through Steam and required a Steam account.

Since Windows 10 does not support on-disc DRM, the original CD will no longer work, so I had to re-purchase the base game to go with the expansions which I had previously purchased and downloaded from two different sources. It all installed, after running a registry cleaner to remove the annoying bits and pieces of the old CD installation that were preventing it from re-installing. Since then, it has run flawlessly (not a single crash in over a year), despite the base game and expansions coming from 3 different services.

If you wait for a GOG sale on strategy games, the whole package is pretty cheap, about what I previously paid for a single expansion.

 

[MJAnderson]

Thank Kavok. Yea they were the original CDs but I thought I remember a time when Paradox did host the games and I downloaded it (I thought after moving PCs) from here before they went to Steam. Sucks to have to buy a game twice.