JacobNZ: Also for those of you stating that GOG know whats best ofr them via Profit analysis, for an profit analysis to be accurate it needs risks, i.e. if we do this, our customers will do this.
Navagon: There's nothing wrong with offering constructive criticism. But you've got to accept that you're probably going to get your suggestions criticised as well. One price point (if something that GOG had from the start) would only further limit what titles were available on an already niche site. Decreasing the price points now is simply impossible.
Personally, I think it would have been better if GOG had simply set a minimum and maximum and let publisher set their own prices between those figures. I'm willing to bet that if GOG did away with fixed prices altogether they'd have a lot more publishers and titles here than they do. But then we as customers don't really want what that would result in.
I have no problem with those criticsing my opinion, cept those that just say piss off. :P
Also thats a good suggestion.
Crassmaster: Yes that may be the case but GOGs sale was sadly stale in comparasion to steams.
Many of them are easy to find via budget re-release if not in retail, then in the likes of amazon.
Yes I already do, I only buy when theirs a promo. They had the entire catalog, with the exception of maybe 3 games, marked down. I'm honestly curious how that's stale.
Okay, but again, how many of those copies purchased via Amazon and the like will work on XP/Vista/7, and how many are still loaded up with the DRM that has been removed from the GOG versions?
I meant stale as in the amount of the discount and no group discounts (some games had been given much larger discounts pre-xmas sale).
I know re-releases like those of the sold-out are designed to work on vista. Many do not have DRM, as DRM was not around as much then as now.
To be honest I am not that fussed with DRM, as long as it not crippling like you have to be connected to the internet to play single player. Most old school DRM was cd keys, which was simple and easy to use, which only on rare occassion hindered anyone till it was sorted with the software provider.