When GOG used to sell complete packages of games.
I just discovered that Steam for example has a Panzer Corps Gold bundle, with heavy discounts compared to the GOG version. And many games with lots of DLCs have that.
Also GOG used to have bundles where you'd pay only for the difference, now Steam implements that a lot better. For example on GOG the new Neverwinter Nights Deluxe is a big FU in the face of those who bought it because now it includes Moonsea, but on GOG you have to buy the DLC separately, no option to "complete" the bundle at the price difference and better discount.
Seems to me that Steam gained a lot regarding of fair pricing while GOG has lost a lot... Just some end of the year musings. I wonder if anyone at GOG actually cares about these...

You surely know that saying "Merge si asa" (I don't really know how to translate it, something like "it kind of works"), that's pretty much GOG.

One of the aspects I really loved about GOG in the past was their fair pricing model. If you already owned 3 out of 5 games in a bundle you would still get the big discount on the last 2 games but without having to pay for the 3 you already owned. Steam used to be bad at this and Bethesda are the absolute worst at this.

These days GOG bundles leave a lot to be desired......

Yes, seems an eastern European thing :( Steam's "bundles" are much better lately from what I've seen. GOG is losing ground in this regard, unfortunately.

Last time I checked GOG does have discounts for buying a complete series.

The problem is the discounts don't stack with sale discounts (and as they are much less than sale discounts, are only useful if you desperately have to have that game now).

The other problem is the sheer stupidity involved in the making up of some of the series bundles.

Try the buy series option for Divine Divinity

It will put both "Divinity Original Sin - Enhanced Edition" and "Divinity Original Sin - Enhanced Edition Collector's Edition" in your basket.

Take one out? No discount for you.

In short, the series option may as well not exist.

Many GOG users used to whine about those bundles though, as in:

"What if I don't want to buy all the games, but only some? Why don't I get the same highest discount as those who complete the set, for example because I have some of the games on Steam already? Not fair! Bwaaaa! Mom, change my diapers, poo poo in there!"

They got their wish, nowadays we apparently don't have those deals anymore where people who complete the set get the highest discounts.

You can't please everyone.

EDIT: It might also be that those "complete the set" deals don't work anymore simply because many GOG games nowadays have so many different editions. I think I still haven't figured out all the Pillars of Something editions, Hero/Royal/Ultimate/Ultra/Megazinga...

For a moment I thought it was a thread about old days when GOG sold complete versions of games, no DLCs, with goodies, with one world - one price policy and what not...

So long as they sell The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II - Shining Pom Bait Set 3, I don't think those days will return.

And they were good. But now steam has more awesome bundles with great discounts. Ie: the Panzer Corps bundle above. On gog even the grand campaign DLC alone is more expensive than that whole bundle

I checked Panzer Corps (Gold) on Steam, and it simply seems to pack all the separate Panzer Corps pieces together into a bundle. It is not a new "Gold" release of the game or anything, like e.g. The Witcher 3 GOTY is (compared to buying the vanilla Witcher 3 + all the DLCs separately).

Also, I don't think that "Gold" bundle takes into account if you already have some of those pieces bought separately on Steam. You don't get a discount for the pieces you already have from the Gold bundle. You have to pay it full either way. So no, Steam does not offer a similar "you pay only for the parts that you didn't own already" as GOG used to.

So, yeah, GOG could (should) just as well introduce a similar "Panzer Corps Gold" which simply bundles all those separate Panzer Corps items into one bundle, and then a slap a lower price on it. For a person who doesn't yet own Panzer Corps or any of its DLCs yet, yes buying the Gold bundle from Steam is a much better deal that buying the base game + all the DLCs separately from either GOG or Steam.

You can apparently still buy the Panzer Corps base games + DLCs separately on Steam as well and pay much more that way too, just as you do on GOG.

GOG certainly has done similar bundling with many other games, e.g. I was miffed when GOG released Kingdom Come: Royal Edition which included all the DLCs too, for a cheaper bundle price. I had already bought the base game + most of the DLCs separately, and I wouldn't get any discount to "upgrade" to the Royal Edition, but instead I'd have to pay the full price for Royal Edition (including the base game + DLCs I already had on GOG), OR buy the missing DLCs separately (which still does cost quite much).

I am pretty sure the Steam version of Kingdom Come has the very same issue. It doesn't compensate for you having most of the game bought separately before.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_buy_series_discount_list

So does that mean that the actual Royal Edition does not offer that same advantage (as it apparently doesn't on GOG either)? At least I don't see the blue "bundle" in the name.

https://store.steampowered.com/sub/368776/

GOG has the "Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Royal DLC Package" which apparently is supposed to be an upgrade path from the base game to the Royal Edition, but at least in my case it doesn't seem to lower the price due to me already having most of the DLCs.

It's not a bundle, so it won't allow the discount. I'm honestly not sure why that's even still there at all given that the bundle option includes everything in it (and what it doesn't include is marked "Free" on the store page anyway).

edit: Actually, I partially retract that. I see why it's there - in theory you could buy the Royal Edition on Steam and then just use the Collection bundle to round off the remaining DLC you didn't get in it. In this instance I don't know how that would balance out as I don't own the game there to see the prices shifting in either direction.

I have no idea about the GOG end of things.

Well, I presume it is there because the bundle that you pointed to costs so much more (101,89€ normal price, compared to Royal Edition's 39.99€).

Content-wise the only difference between those two seems to be that the higher priced bundle collection has soundtracks, making-of videos, some fencing documentary etc. included, ie. non-gameplay extra material. I personally am not interested to pay that much more for mere trinkets, so yeah I want the Royal Edition content and that's that.