Xana - Dark Messiah - again - Developers

I read all related posts that I found here and on other websites. Like many users before, again, I am looking for original human and demon Xana from Dark Messiah Of Might And Magic game. All links everywhere, including garrysmods.org are broken. Yes, I saw Xana demoness pack, but this is not original one from the game, but fan made that is looking completely different. I also found this but I am not able to download the file or contact the author: [url]http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=148521442[/url] Is anyone able to help a poor guy who is searching google for few hours and not able to find working file link? If you have these files, then you can upload them to garrysmods.org, speedyshare.com or any other host. I will very appreciate any help.

Just a small note for you here; in order to download the files from that workshop mod you linked to, you have to subscribe to it first and then launch GMod. Assuming you're running on a legitimate Steam copy of the game, it should automatically begin downloading the files to your computer when you next launch the game.

I have original box with CD release from 2006. It is non steam version.

there was a cd release for gmod? legit? lol if so... it should activate with the key in steam and dl it. if not... or just for that 4,5 models... tho... screw it... rip it. they stolen too and they're nowhere else anymore and a bunch of them seem broken anyway. this nothing but a decompile and work. *shrugs* *yes*

[QUOTE=episoder;49122721]there was a cd release for gmod? legit?[/QUOTE] GMod never had any physical copies. It's only ever been available digitally.

forgot to quote the lol. the sarcasm. i know that. ;) just had to point at this what legit behaviour would be, not a fraud.

In 2006 there were not much or at all steam releases in my country - Poland. All games and software were released fully on CDs. Maybe it depends on country and it was exclusive release, like for example germany has censored games. But back to the topic, the reason was that almost every gamer in my country in 2006 year had very slow internet connection or not at all. Only very few had awesome 128 kbps connection. Example 1 GB game on steam would download about a week, so no one were interested in such releases. What is more, in my country in 2006, most higher internet connections had limited transfer per month, so for example, user could download no more than 2 GB internet data per 30 days. There is very big difference between United States and Europe which is much slower with technologies, especially in 90s and 2000s. Today it is looking much better, but still many gamers have 1-8 Mbps connections in smaller towns. Ok, so anyone still have these files somewhere?

you could buy a legit gmod on steam. how much is it for you? there -> [url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_pQQ7YfZgJxbWlUVkRoQ0RrRXM/view]take it[/url]. backup provided as it is. for me it's broken models. if it's broken for you too you gotta fix it yourself. i'll not do it.

[QUOTE=ociebieda;49123044]In 2006 there were not much or at all steam releases in my country - Poland. [B]All games and software were released fully on CDs.[/B] [B]Maybe it depends on country and it was exclusive release, like for example germany has censored games.[/B] But back to the topic, the reason was that almost every gamer in my country in 2006 year had very slow internet connection or not at all. Only very few had awesome 128 kbps connection. Example 1 GB game on steam would download about a week, so no one were interested in such releases. What is more, in my country in 2006, most higher internet connections had limited transfer per month, so for example, user could download no more than 2 GB internet data per 30 days. There is very big difference between United States and Europe which is much slower with technologies, especially in 90s and 2000s. Today it is looking much better, but still many gamers have 1-8 Mbps connections in smaller towns. Ok, so anyone still have these files somewhere?[/QUOTE] Not trying to nitpick here, but Garry's Mod has literally [I]never[/I] had any physical copies released, it's honestly only ever been a digital release. If you happened to get your copy of the game on a disk, then chances are very likely that you either have the old free version of the game from when it was still just seen as only a mod (which is no longer supported) and got it for free from someone else, or you were conned out of some money for the old free version by someone that was just trying to make a few quick bucks. Regardless of what your download speed is now/was at the time, that version is unfortunately no longer supported. Even if someone were able to get the files to you, I don't think it's very likely that they'd work in that particular version of the game since they'd most likely have certain features that aren't supported by that version of the game.

I am very anti steam user. I am gamer since 90s and if I pay for something then I like to have it in physical version. Maybe for new gamers it is ok, but I do not like this way where gaming industry is going. You know, pirates are laughing if you are not able to play the game which you paid for, because you have temporary internet problems or producer servers are offline or overloaded, what automatically do not let you play the game. Also, there are often other problems like auto update on steam, where your save games started to be not compatible and you must play the game from the beginning again, or your favorite mods are not compatible with latest update that is less important for you. Thats why I very like GOG, and I hope that GOG will start to sell more new games in the future. They started own new platform called Galaxy, so probably they are thinking about expanding their services to something more, and if yes, then their ideology is anti steam from the beginning. It is good that still some games are released in non steam versions too.

damnit. old anti internet games blah. back off. this old sh*t. steam serves good. now... does the download work or not?

It is normal DVD-BOX release like other original games, not CDR. It has polish language prints (content is still english), copyright 2006 information, and could be purchased in popular real shops. It is exclusive license by distributor (or even Valve) for Poland or europe I guess, and even original developer may not know about it. You know, I am colleting games since early 2000s, and in my country there were not much steam games for sale in the past. Like germany has their exclusive censored games, poland had non steam exclusive licensed by distributor releases, because otherwise no one in 2006 would buy these games for the reasons I mentioned. Some countries are different than United States and require completely different strategy to be able to sell games on specific market. My friend has the same CD and few years ago it was working with Dark Messiah files. He does not have these files anymore, so thats why I am asking.

should i burn it on cd and send per snail mail? lol do the files i uploaded work? if you're blind: i posted the link in post #8. it's underneath the TAKE IT.

I somehow missed your post. It is 2 am here so I will check how it is working later, but I downloaded this file, so thanks!

good night... then. still... if you didn't notice it's 2 am here too. ;) i don't care about that. if you got it loaded and checked just post it or just don't. you have it... you can do whatever the f*ck you want with it. i'm sure you'll have to fix it. not my problem now.

[QUOTE=ociebieda;49123327]I am very anti steam user. I am gamer since 90s and if I pay for something then I like to have it in physical version. Maybe for new gamers it is ok, but I do not like this way where gaming industry is going. You know, pirates are laughing if you are not able to play the game which you paid for, because you have temporary internet problems or producer servers are offline or overloaded, what automatically do not let you play the game. Also, there are often other problems like auto update on steam, where your save games started to be not compatible and you must play the game from the beginning again, or your favorite mods are not compatible with latest update that is less important for you. Thats why I very like GOG, and I hope that GOG will start to sell more new games in the future. They started own new platform called Galaxy, so probably they are thinking about expanding their services to something more, and if yes, then their ideology is anti steam from the beginning. It is good that still some games are released in non steam versions too.[/QUOTE] If you paid for it you were duped. You bought a pirate version on CD. Nothing anyone here can do. There just never was a physical, non steam release of gmod. (nor for CSS, Half life 2 and many other source powered games)

[QUOTE=ociebieda;49123327]I am very anti steam user. [/QUOTE] i don't understand people that say this like seriously you dislike one of the best ways to get games online, what if your cd is one of those one time code things, or you lose it, or if your cd's breaks huh? fixing it will cost money or if its snapped broken you have to buy a new one, but with online services like steam( and i think g2a i'm not sure never used g2a), if your pc needs reformating you can literally just download it again since you bought it you get unlimited downloads every time you reformat or get a new pc

There is non steam collectors edition of Half Life 2 distributed by Valve in Europe. It has big box, many gadgets with the game and solid book. Pirates do not release collectors editions with all these things. Also, real shops can not sell pirated software. Like I said, europe is not United States. Many countries have very slow and unstable internet connections, especially in smaller towns, and to be able to sold games on this market, they had to offer exclusively different type of distribution. It depends on country. Like for germany there are exclusive censorships for many popular titles, where some games not just have no blood, but even humans are sometimes turned into robots, and such changes you will not find in any other country releases. Why? Because germany is germany and thats how it must be. Why Poland has non steam releases? Because Poland has weak internet connections in most smaller towns, and they will not buy steam games. I guess that you are steam users only and never collected real physical games before. Steam is popular for new gamers mainly. Not many older gamers (30+, or just gamers since 90s) or real collectors are buying games there. If you do not believe, then you can check out collectors community forums or even youtube channels where gamers are talking about their real collections. And yes, I already tried some games on steam and had following problems: - auto update and broken save games, so I had to start the game from the beginning, and it happen very often with few titles to me, and is annoying as hell especially for larger games - auto update with not important changes that destroyed compatiblity with all mods - Half Life 2 update was one of popular example, where whole HL2 mod community users were angry as hell on steam for that - temporary no internet connection, server offline or overloaded what makes you impossible to play the game in single player - again to give few examples that this problem often exist on europe servers is Settlers 7, Diablo 3 (that one was on europe battle net, but it is another platform like this) and other popular titles As about original CDs or DVDs, they are much more solid than CDR, and they read good even if scratched. You must really want to break them by yourself. Also read steam license and terms of service very carefully. You buy only service and not a game like it is with non steam releases where you can even exchange games with other gamers. Your account can be blocked any time for any reason and you lost all the games you paid for. This happened to some of my friends, and steam has a right to not telling you what was the reason. They lost 100 or more games on steam with their account. Steam reponsonse was just if you want these games back, just make new account and buy them again - super cool, right? [editline]16th November 2015[/editline] One more thing, I just checked out right now. These CDs and DVDs have gravered IFPI codes. Pirate releases never had them and they do not care about it. If you do not know what IPFI codes are, then you can check out google for more details. They appears also on movie DVDs and audio CDs. This way collector can be sure if it is original and where it was manufactured. Hope that helps. Thanks again for files!

[QUOTE=ociebieda;49126688]There is non steam collectors edition of Half Life 2 distributed by Valve in Europe. It has big box, many gadgets with the game and solid book. Pirates do not release collectors editions with all these things. Also, real shops can not sell pirated software. Like I said, europe is not United States. Many countries have very slow and unstable internet connections, especially in smaller towns, and to be able to sold games on this market, they had to offer exclusively different type of distribution. It depends on country. Like for germany there are exclusive censorships for many popular titles, where some games not just have no blood, but even humans are sometimes turned into robots, and such changes you will not find in any other country releases. Why? Because germany is germany and thats how it must be. Why Poland has non steam releases? Because Poland has weak internet connections in most smaller towns, and they will not buy steam games. I guess that you are steam users only and never collected real physical games before. Steam is popular for new gamers mainly. Not many older gamers (30+, or just gamers since 90s) or real collectors are buying games there. If you do not believe, then you can check out collectors community forums or even youtube channels where gamers are talking about their real collections. And yes, I already tried some games on steam and had following problems: - auto update and broken save games, so I had to start the game from the beginning, and it happen very often with few titles to me, and is annoying as hell especially for larger games - auto update with not important changes that destroyed compatiblity with all mods - Half Life 2 update was one of popular example, where whole HL2 mod community users were angry as hell on steam for that - temporary no internet connection, server offline or overloaded what makes you impossible to play the game in single player - again to give few examples that this problem often exist on europe servers is Settlers 7, Diablo 3 (that one was on europe battle net, but it is another platform like this) and other popular titles As about original CDs or DVDs, they are much more solid than CDR, and they read good even if scratched. You must really want to break them by yourself. Also read steam license and terms of service very carefully. You buy only service and not a game like it is with non steam releases where you can even exchange games with other gamers. Your account can be blocked any time for any reason and you lost all the games you paid for. This happened to some of my friends, and steam has a right to not telling you what was the reason. They lost 100 or more games on steam with their account. Steam reponsonse was just if you want these games back, just make new account and buy them again - super cool, right? [editline]16th November 2015[/editline] One more thing, I just checked out right now. These CDs and DVDs have gravered IFPI codes. Pirate releases never had them and they do not care about it. If you do not know what IPFI codes are, then you can check out google for more details. They appears also on movie DVDs and audio CDs. This way collector can be sure if it is original and where it was manufactured. Hope that helps. Thanks again for files![/QUOTE] You aren't getting this. There is no non-steam physical version of GMOD, it doesn't exist, it never has, it never will and that's all there is to it. The only non-steam physical version of GMOD that you might have is a pirated copy that someone put on a disk, that's the only way. You can email garry himself if you want and I'm sure he'll tell you that he has never released anything like that anywhere.

Well look if you have that version of GMOD you're talking about (I have one too) you actually have a legitimate version of the game. All you need to do is check in the manual inside the DVD case for the CD key, then go to steam (if you don't have make account and log in) and activate the key. It is supposed to unlock HL2 + Garry's mod. There was actually a time when Orange Box, CSS, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic and GMod were in physical CDs and DVDs. I'm proud owner of the full collection and I can assure you all the CD keys worked fine for me, but I do activated them long time ago. Still I don't suppose Valve changed something on those. So once again if what you said is true, just look for the CD key :P.

[QUOTE=ociebieda;49126688]There is non steam collectors edition of Half Life 2 distributed by Valve in Europe. [/QUOTE] Look I'm czech, and trust me when I say that there is no non steam version of HL2. There never was. Valve did not even release a steamless version in CIS territories, let alone EU2 (the zone Poland is in by steam)

ok il just point out some things: [QUOTE]- auto update and broken save games, so I had to start the game from the beginning, and it happen very often with few titles to me, and is annoying as hell especially for larger games[/QUOTE] this is not steams fault, its the games fault not the updates, considering the creators actually made the games and are pumping out updates. obviously if a save game doesn't have "new content" its gonna break the game [QUOTE]- auto update with not important changes that destroyed compatibility with all mods - Half Life 2 update was one of popular example, where whole HL2 mod community users were angry as hell on steam for that. [/QUOTE] they were angry because it wasn't what people were actually wanting, they were thinking more along the lines of source 2 hl2 remake. [QUOTE]Steam reponsonse was just if you want these games back, just make new account and buy them again - super cool, right?[/QUOTE] *cough cough family share cough* [QUOTE]Your account can be blocked any time for any reason and you lost all the games you paid for. This happened to some of my friends, and steam has a right to not telling you what was the reason. They lost 100 or more games on steam with their account. Steam reponsonse was just if you want these games back, just make new account and buy them again - super cool, right?[/QUOTE] the vac waves banned anyone that was cheating/hacking within source games and such. there obviously were people that got banned that weren't hacking, it was an automated system, how can you stop it? [QUOTE]- temporary no internet connection, server offline or overloaded what makes you impossible to play the game in single player - again to give few examples that this problem often exist on europe servers is Settlers 7, Diablo 3 (that one was on europe battle net, but it is another platform like this)[/QUOTE] [url]http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5870527537[/url] this is diablo 3 offline singleplayer, these games are not meant to be played offline, they are mmos [QUOTE]There is non steam collectors edition of Half Life 2 distributed by Valve in Europe.[/QUOTE] haha, no there's not! a VAST majority of people in europe (me knowing some, not including fp) have decent internet, hl2 is what? 3-4 gb? ok yeah back in 04 the internet was kinda shit, but i mean i have probably the same net speed where i at atm, compared to 04 which is about roughly 512kbps and if you're gonna say "steam wasn't around back then" steam officially came out 12 years ago hl2 came out 11 years ago [QUOTE]Many countries have very slow and unstable internet connections, especially in smaller towns, and to be able to sold games on this market, they had to offer exclusively different type of distribution.[/QUOTE] ok yeah obviously since australia is one of them, if you have slow internet get a disc copy, but my internet connection is good for what i use it for, oh and you're 5 spots above australia for internet speed so. [QUOTE]I guess that you are steam users only and never collected real physical games before.[/QUOTE] please don't assume this, just because someone uses steam doesnt mean they don't have physical copies of games.

Here's some history taken from the steam forums regarding the retail version of HL2, CSS, DODS and few more. I'm sure there was a topic about the retail version of orange box and Garry's Mod too. [url]http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2006776[/url]

[QUOTE=NapoleonII;49135653]Here's some history taken from the steam forums regarding the retail version of HL2, CSS, DODS and few more. I'm sure there was a topic about the retail version of orange box and Garry's Mod too. [url]http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2006776[/url][/QUOTE] While HL2 and CS:S do have physical copies that were released (and DoD:S to an extent for anyone that purchased a physical copy of the game through EA before they stopped releasing the physical copies), the physical retail copies were, and still are, [I]heavily dependent on Steam[/I]. Upon inserting the disks for either the standard edition or collector's edition of HL2 (with the collector's edition also including a copy of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life: Source on the DVD), you're required to install Steam (if you haven't already; the game will detect whether it's installed or not on its own and just skip the Steam installation process if it finds Steam on your system) in order to have the key(s) activated on your account (assuming the account already exists; if it doesn't, one will need to be made first). The same goes for CS:S and DoD:S. The Orange Box was more or less just another collection of Valve titles on a disc (if not multiple discs; people have claimed to have only gotten one disc from the Orange Box while others have claimed to have gotten multiple), being comprised of the HL2 series (HL2, Ep1, and Ep2), Portal 1, and Team Fortress 2. Garry's Mod has [I]never[/I] had a physical retail copy made for distribution; it has literally only ever been released [I]digitally[/I] (both before it became a product on the Steam store pages and after), and any supposed physical copies are either a copy of the game when it was still a free mod or associated with warez (aka, pirated copies that have been tampered with to make it not require Steam) and being sold by con-artists. Whether the OP likes Steam or not, they aren't going to find any physical copies of the game anywhere, so they'd only be able to find the currently-support version on Steam.

Well I haven't said that those physical copies didn't required steam. However I'm sure that at some point I played those games offline. The multiplayer required you to install steam, the single player however didn't.