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Vestin: so I'd only vote for adding $7.99 (and, perhaps, $3.99 if there are people ready to sell games this low).

I want them to stay exactly where they are with just $5.99 and $9.99. I know I have been one of the people complaining that some games are not worth the $9.99 price but thats not GOG's fault. Introducing any price flexibility at all would be a bad thing as publishers would have one more bargaining chip. No longer would GOG be able to say only 2 price points.
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JacobNZ: I think GOG should consider one pricing option $5.99. This is because lately their has been a slew of old games that oblivously should be price at the lower stand point of $5.99. In my opinion I think some developers are taken advantage of some users of this site, as steam offers many new games (yes, mainly on special) albeit with some DRM for less than many games of the games on here. I know this is my option but when you consider the age, technical and gameplay elements to a new game they do not stack up, these games complete on nostagic values alone. The $10 price point used to be reserved for special games now it seems like every new release is at the $10 price point

I agree 100%. the 9.99 tagged games rarely seem "worth it", adn when they on sale, they are always 6.99, which is still not worth it.
Don't worry, a lot of the regulars will say "you are cheap, the games are worth it, etc", but hold fast. The Steam/D2D sales have shown that MAINSTREAM hits can be sold for LESS THAN $5, so GOG has no excuse, asside from getting fucked in the negotiations with publishers, or greed.
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anjohl: a lot of the regulars will say "you are cheap, the games are worth it, etc",

No most of us would say wait till the game is a price you are comfortable paying for. If you don't think a game is worth buying at $9.99 then don't buy it at $9.99. I have never seen a thread with 'regulars' saying "Oh you are all cheap and should buy everything to support GOG regardless of the quality".
All my purchases here are for replacements for disk based games I already own and will not run under XP / Vista / W7. I do not want the hassle of messing with DOSBox and feel the prices here are worth it for me to be able to load and run these games. I can still load and run the Divinity games / Arx Fatalis and others so there is no need to buy them for me. Sticking to $5.99 and sales has alowed me to play some of my favorite oldie that have just been sitting taking up space on the shelf.
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anjohl: (...) GOG has no excuse, asside from getting fucked in the negotiations with publishers, or greed.

It never ceases to amuse me when people accuse corporations of greed. It's almost as if they expected to be dealing with a charity...
As much as the GOG team likes us - I'm sure they want their company to prosper and to get paid well. I doubt they will and don't think they should limit their profits to the absolute minimum that you'd consider not greedy.
Also - this:
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Crassmaster: I think it's a bit odd to actually be complaining about a game costing a whopping $9.99.
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anjohl: (...) GOG has no excuse, asside from getting fucked in the negotiations with publishers, or greed.
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Vestin: It never ceases to amuse me when people accuse corporations of greed. It's almost as if they expected to be dealing with a charity...
As much as the GOG team likes us - I'm sure they want their company to prosper and to get paid well. I doubt they will and don't think they should limit their profits to the absolute minimum that you'd consider not greedy.
Also - this:
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Crassmaster: I think it's a bit odd to actually be complaining about a game costing a whopping $9.99.

Actually for the type of games sold on GOG $10 is alot.
Considering i got the sigma team games for $1 each.
CS:source for $5
Tourchlight for $5
Every Unreal game for $13
every ID game for $23
etc I could go on.
Also at $10 DD I can get most of them for new at retail for less.
As these games have already been released years prior, many sold prior at full price, meeting and exceeding initial R&D expenditure. Also as its digital in nature and the sale of information the contents do not erode with continuous sale reducing the cost of sale. This essentially means any game sold on GOG is pure profit for the developer, thus in my mind cannot justify their pricing.
Yes I know it is not alot of money, but it is in comparasion to the other games you can get for the same amount.
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Delixe: "Oh you are all cheap and should buy everything to support GOG regardless of the quality".

There do seem to be some that do though. Even if they don't advocate it.
Edit: Also to those that will reply go elsewhere, no. I enjoy using GOG, it is more constructive critisim. As I would hate to see GOG go down hill. The only way to prevent this is to provide continuous feedback to them.
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.
This information is found via customer feedback, which is out value to them. As this is why sony opens their own retail outlets at huge cost, companys ask for feedback or buy it off third parties and one of the reason their are customer service reps.
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JacobNZ: Actually for the type of games sold on GOG $10 is alot.
Considering i got the sigma team games for $1 each.
CS:source for $5
Tourchlight for $5
Every Unreal game for $13
every ID game for $23
etc I could go on.
Also at $10 DD I can get most of them for new at retail for less.
As these games have already been released years prior, many sold prior at full price, meeting and exceeding initial R&D expenditure. Also as its digital in nature and the sale of information the contents do not erode with continuous sale reducing the cost of sale. This essentially means any game sold on GOG is pure profit for the developer, thus in my mind cannot justify their pricing.
Yes I know it is not alot of money, but it is in comparasion to the other games you can get for the same amount.

First off, if you're going to try making price comparisons, at least compare apples to apples and compare regular prices, not try to compare GOG regular prices to Steam sale prices. So it's actually :
CS : Source $19.99
Torchlight $19.99
Unreal pack $39.99
ID pack $69.99
Secondly, I would love to know how many of these games you can actually find at retail, and how many of those retail versions would actually work on a modern OS.
And finally...again...nothing sends a bigger message than people not showing a willingness to pay the $9.99 price point of they don't think it's fair. So just don't pay it.
Post edited January 09, 2010 by Crassmaster
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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.

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.
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JacobNZ: Actually for the type of games sold on GOG $10 is alot.
Considering i got the sigma team games for $1 each.
CS:source for $5
Tourchlight for $5
Every Unreal game for $13
every ID game for $23
etc I could go on.
Also at $10 DD I can get most of them for new at retail for less.
As these games have already been released years prior, many sold prior at full price, meeting and exceeding initial R&D expenditure. Also as its digital in nature and the sale of information the contents do not erode with continuous sale reducing the cost of sale. This essentially means any game sold on GOG is pure profit for the developer, thus in my mind cannot justify their pricing.
Yes I know it is not alot of money, but it is in comparasion to the other games you can get for the same amount.
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Crassmaster: First off, if you're going to try making price comparisons, at least compare apples to apples and compare regular prices, not try to compare GOG regular prices to Steam sale prices. So it's actually :
CS : Source $19.99
Torchlight $19.99
Unreal pack $39.99
ID pack $69.99
Secondly, I would love to know how many of these games you can actually find at retail, and how many of those retail versions would actually work on a modern OS.
And finally...again...nothing sends a bigger message than people not showing a willingness to pay the $9.99 price point of they don't think it's fair. So just don't pay it.

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.
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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
Post edited January 09, 2010 by JacobNZ
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JacobNZ: 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.

Sold-Out/Mastertronic do not use DRM? News to my copies of Deus Ex, Medieval Total War, Tomb Raider: Legend, Deus Ex: IW, Spellforce, Hitman 2 and Mafia.
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JacobNZ: 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.
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Delixe: Sold-Out/Mastertronic do not use DRM? News to my copies of Deus Ex, Medieval Total War, Tomb Raider: Legend, Deus Ex: IW, Spellforce, Hitman 2 and Mafia.

I didn't say they didn't, I said they work on vista. What I did say is many don't unless you count disc checking as drm.