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Relic Entertainment / SEGA have announced that all players that have Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II have been given a free upgrade to the new Anniversary Edition.

From the announcements:

The fan-favourite and legendary release of Dawn of War and Dawn of War 2, originally developed by Relic Entertainment in 2004 and 2009 respectively, have just turned 20 and 15 years years old! To celebrate, we’ve put together two Anniversary Editions, collecting the original game with all its DLC and expansions, as well as a host of fun extras for fans. To celebrate 20 and 15 years of these seminal titles, the Anniversary Editions will be a free upgrade for all existing owners of Dawn of War 1, and Dawn of War 2!

So players who have Dawn of War will now get:

  • Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
  • Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Soulstorm
  • Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault
  • Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade

Players who have Dawn of War II will now get:

  • Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
  • Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution
  • Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising
  • All additional DLCs such as exclusive multiplayer army skins, and campaign and Last Stand wargear previously only available as DLC packs.

This is really nice to see. Currently this change only seems to be live for the Steam versions.

Dawn of War II does have an old Native Linux version from Feral Interactive. Although you may wish to use Valve's Proton due to no cross-platform online play.

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Mal Sep 20
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What? 20 years? How is it possible? When did that time pass by?


Last edited by Mal on 21 September 2024 at 10:43 am UTC
I hope by 'all existing owners' they will not forget that GOG users are also their customers.
Scytale Sep 20
It seems like yesterday i send and photo of my boxed Dark Crusade version to Relic support to get a free Steam key for it.

How time flies...

For a moment I wished for Dawn of War III finally being developed after so many years after the awesome DoWII, and than I remembered...
I played both of these for the first time a few years back now and really enjoyed them

Such fantastic games, I wonder what these fun extras are


Last edited by Doktor-Mandrake on 20 September 2024 at 10:03 am UTC
Zlopez Sep 20
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It's missing the platforms where the update actually happens.

Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeI played both of these for the first time a few years back now and really enjoyed them

Such fantastic games, I wonder what these fun extras are

I finished both of them multiple times and I definitely agree there are both great games!

It's shame that the DoW 3 didn't ended up being that good as the previous ones.
So they relabeled the GOY editon to Anniversary edition and doubled the price? Or am I missing something?
Linux_Rocks Sep 20
Remember when Dawn of War II was a Games for Windows Live game? I've still got my physical copy of it and the Chaos Rising expansion somewhere. lol


Last edited by Linux_Rocks on 20 September 2024 at 5:18 pm UTC
such Sep 20
Quoting: SchattenspiegelSo they relabeled the GOY editon to Anniversary edition and doubled the price? Or am I missing something?
Something's wrong. People who didn't own everything got everything, but that's it. You get a Relic account login prompt, but it does nothing and is not reflected anywhere, seemingly. The game that installs when you install base DoW1 is still the GotY, there's also no extras, and when I tried installing Winter Assault manually I got an error.

Someone screwed up, looks like. Don't do releases on Friday, people.


Last edited by such on 20 September 2024 at 10:04 pm UTC
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Quoting: MalWhat? 20 years? How is it possible? When did that time pass by?
When I think about a couple of the people I played the game with back then, it's easy to think it was that long ago. I'm not even the same person I was back then. But I did play over 5 hours of Space Marine 2 yesterday.
neolith Sep 23
I have gotten the games with some bundle ages ago, I think – but I've never gotten around to play them. Do they still hold up today?
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