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General discussionWhy GOG is (almost) never part of a bundle program ? (33 posts)(33 posts)
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Posted December 11, 2015
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Starmaker: For the record, I despise those who despise $1 private-use bundle buyers. If a game is sold for $1, or for that matter given away -- like e.g. CItizen Kabuto right now on GOG -- it means the rightsholders have decided to sell it for $1 (or give away for free). Unless something unethical is happening behind the scenes (like, rightsholders trying to cheat contractors out of royalties), then it's okay to get the game.

(And if the rightholder is in fact trying to cheat a contractor out of royalties, it's better to abstain from buying altogether and maybe donate to the contractor's legal fund.)
Looking at your comparison and choice of words, I think you didn't understand the "pay what you want" model at all.
Posted December 11, 2015
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Starmaker: For the record, I despise those who despise $1 private-use bundle buyers.
Feel free to do so, I won’t get upset for that ;)

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Starmaker: If a game is sold for $1, or for that matter given away -- like e.g. CItizen Kabuto right now on GOG -- it means the rightsholders have decided to sell it for $1 (or give away for free). Unless something unethical is happening behind the scenes (like, rightsholders trying to cheat contractors out of royalties), then it's okay to get the game.
Well, to be honest I don’t think that by putting their games for sale for "pay what you want" developers are expecting to get 0.10€ for each game (even less once you take out Humble’s and charities’ shares). You’re free to do it of course, but if you think the devs don’t deserve more than this maybe it wasn’t a good idea to buy this bundle in the first place.

Just to be clear: I’m not talking about games individually sold for 1$ or less here, but about "pay what you want" bundles.
Posted December 11, 2015
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Klumpen0815: Looking at your comparison and choice of words, I think you didn't understand the "pay what you want" model at all.
I understand "pay what you want" very well. It means "pay what you want", as indicated on the page, and get the games according to how much you paid. Cheap lower tiers work as advertisement for the higher tiers (once you're already getting you card out / recalling your paypal password, why not buy the whole bundle?). The sale organizer and the rightsholder(s) decide which games to offer on which tier to maximize profits and how to split them between participants if there are more than one (as it is in a classic Humble Bundle).

And yes, the promo gets abused by resellers (against the TOS), scammers looking to legitimize their steam accounts, version splitters (who distribute platform access keys without the right to transfer the the license). But the $1 purchases? That's intended. Or do you think so lowly of Humble that you imagine, when faced with the fact that $1 purchases exist, Humble consider them against the TOS but can't possibly invent a way to stop them?
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