I wouldn't worry about it, it happens to everyone. Remember when the first Star Wars games arrived on GOG with less than 30% launch discount? Yeah, I was one of those people. I also bought Shadow Warrior classic during a sale but the game was free a few months later. Then again, I don't really mind too much cos GOG has given me like 50 freebies since I've been with them.

But I would watch the spending though. If you buy a game now, are you just going to let it sit on the backlog? When Fallout 3, NV and Oblivion came to GOG, I only bought NV because I intend to start the game right away and left the other 2 on the backlog for now. That way if NV goes on sale again for cheaper, I'm not going to care so much cos I played it sooner. I also check howlongtobeat.com to see how long a game takes to finish. If it isn't too long, usually I get around to it pretty quickly and not let it sit on the backlog.

Edit: However, you might still end up buying games you're interested in with a 90% discount but if you leave them on the backlog, who cares? It's unlikely they'll be coming back at a lower price

Yes! That's a great attitude. As for the Broken Sword 1+2+3+4, they're totally worth 15 dollars :)


Indeed! :P

Especially since you get the original dos versions and not just the horrible remakes.

Still in this case, especially since gog for the first time with "all games on sale, no bundles, daily deals, time based offers" you buying them at full price when clearly gog made a big mistake of not putting all prices reduces out for the irst day of their summer sale event is something you might contact them about. If they are friendly, they give you a refund, simply because it clearly was their fault and not yours.

I could try, and that's a good advice, indeed, but the burocracy could be a little too big for just 11 bucks.

And I'd be a little sad if the Broken Sword games were tainted with some kind of "fight". (That sounds a little sensitive, I know... but a guy must have some love for his childhood games! :D)

Interesting question. Not really sure, as when I pull the trigger on a game, it's because I feel it's worth the price. Hell, I have a ton of games in my backlog that I've not even played and picked up either at full price or at a slight discount. If you consider the fact that the majority of these have at some point appeared at a steep, steep discount, then I guess I've suffered a fairly large 'loss'.

:P

Well, it's happened to me more than a couple of times, but let me just say this considering where we are right now - I bought Rebel Galaxy on release, without much of a discount. Didn't get the time to play it so far either :).

That's life for you. But I'm not bitter about it - I consider it an investment in DRM-free gaming. I just wish GOG would stick to a more purist approach when it comes to no DRM :|.

I bought the first Witcher at full price, and I'm still glad I did :)

I got it for free. I still think I got ripped off. :P

You get cheated at Steam and other DRM-websites. There you pay for games that you don't own. Plus at Steam, sales are only rarely, but at GOG every week!

You get cheated at Xbox Live. Never ever a sale (I waited for years, it never happened, at least not for the games I wanted!!!), only for Gold members who pay anyway, what a joke. Microsoft is greedy, I swear.

You DON'T get cheated at GOG. Prices here are crazy cheap, with or without sales. I understand your reaction, but if you sometimes pay more at GOG, you support the only gaming website who treats their customers with respect and a team who loves games. All the others just want to rip you off.

That says more about you than about the game, I reckon ;)

Well, at least in GOG the games are good and cheap :) Imagine the hundreds, or thousands, spent in new games at retail stores throughout the years :P


Yeah, that's the right mindset! The more we support services like GOG, the less is the fear of everything becoming Steam-like.

So you didn't tell us if you downloaded them?

Either way priceless games, great voice acting, enjoy them. Have you played them before?

Of the four, I've downloaded the first one :) But nevermind, I've decided to let the things be as they are. In this summer sale I've bought 35 great games for 70€. That's the price of one sealed current gen game (most probably crappier than the cult classics!), and just 2€ per game. Complaining for 11$ over a gem like Broken Sword... nahhh... :P It was just a "moment thing"! :P

To answer your second question: When I was a child, I've played a little of Broken Sword 1 in someone's house. In that time I only had a Master System and a Megadrive ehehe. But the love for graphical adventures (point and click adventure games) was there!

And that's a good thing that I've never played any, because in these days of somewhat weak games, I can play for the first time classics like Broken Sword, Monkey Island, etc!

How exactly is GOG cheating you? Should GOG disallow someone from purchasing a game a day/week/month before GOG knows they will be putting it on sale? What if they don't know until a day before the sale? What happens, you go to buy the game and GOG gives an error saying "You can't buy this game right now, try again on June 8th, we can't tell you why right now but trust us we're your buddy and you'll thank us for not letting you buy it right now!"? Should they give you the discounted price of the sale that's coming up in advance? In that case, they'd essentially be making the sale prices of all games in a 2 week long sale become a 4-5 week long sale, and one could simply say "but I bought the game a week before *THAT*, and GOG cheated me!" ad infinitum.

It's nonsense. Products are regular priced and people decide on their own merits if the product's price is of value to them when they buy it, and the person receives the value that they expected at that point in time. Products also go on sale at every store (not just video games) at unpredictable intervals and at unpredictable discounts that the stores might not even know far in advance, and could be the store's price choosing, or the publisher/manufacturer. No store is obligated or expected to tell their customers about promotions in advance, nor to grant people special promotional pricing because they bought something the day before it was on sale, and if you do it for one person then you do it for 20 million people and the sale is essentially extended by N days/weeks before the sale.

If you want to buy something for the best price, it is upon _you_ to shop looking for the best price. That means monitoring the patterns of when sales do happen, and while that is not predictable to the day or even week on GOG, it is well known in the community that GOG has a seasonal sale each season, plus a few other major promotions throughout the year, along with a history of dates of when they occur which are usually predictable within anywhere from a few days to a week or two of when the major sale might happen. On top of that there are weekly sales every single week. People who want the best price will wait for a sale, and if they really want the best price they will make an account on https://isthereanydeal.com and import their GOG wishlist into the site using the ITAD browser plugin and set up notifications for when their wishlisted games go on sale. You can even specify the maximum price you're willing to spend, or the minimum discount you expect to get (or both) and have email notifications sent to you whenever they go on sale. It works not only with GOG.com, but Steam and virtually every other major legitimate/legal gaming retailer around the world. It even shows a graph of the price history of a given game on every retailer you check off the box for, so you can predict how often a game goes on sale and when the next sale might be on a given retailer.

It might not feel good to buy a game for full price and then find it on sale the next day, but be honest with yourself - you're not feeling bad or upset because *GOG* cheated *YOU*, but rather that you cheated yourself by not being a better bargain shopper. If you want the bargains, the power is within you to seek them out and get them every time, and the tools exist on the Internet exist to help in that quest.

Yeah, it sucks... but blame yourself, not GOG. They did nothing wrong other than run a business normally.

Did you read the thread before posting that wall?

Your post is *WAAAAY* over the top, dude :P