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Here, have some Stilton to go with that wine! It is exquisite.

i just buy lagrandia tails of the sky plus many dlc

"Lucy, you got some 'splainin to do!"

Marketing, my dear. Sales are marketing. Lower the prices across the board once and you get a news post once. Lower them temporarily once per week and you get news posts once per week. That, and the other stores might bitch and insist on their own similar arrangements were gOg to switch from periodic discounts to fixed price drops for a large portion of the catalog.

Regarding the store-publisher details, I suspect these are handled a few different ways. Some publishers may have allowed for a hands-off approach, setting some parameters and gOg works within those, and others may require a more active permission process. My guess only. Maybe they've shared those details publicly but I don't recall them saying how it works.

And yes, fatigue. Which seems silly because A) you're being offered discounts, and B) it's voluntary. But still, sale burnout happens. I do, however, like the smaller weekly sales. While the titles change every week, the sale format itself is pretty stable and the number of games - 15-50 - feels more manageable. The big sale every 4 to 6 weeks, lasting 8-12 days? I'm mostly done with them at this point. Can't be bothered to again swim through 400+ titles, most of which have been on sale 3+ times already just since late October. But that's where the marketplace has gone.

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Disclaimer: I don't work for GOG or have any insider information. Based on what I have read on other platforms, the developer generally sets the price, though GOG will likely provide a suggested price based on what their data shows will make everyone money. As far as I know GOG cannot discount the game without the developer's permission. As for how they convince the developer to sell their games at a discount, I would assume they have data showing it increases sales numbers (or at the very least copies sold.)

With regards to sales vs. permanently cheaper games, I would recommend reading up on what happened when J.C. Penny attempted this (tl;dr it ended very, very badly.) Basically, a customer perceives a $20 item being discounted to $5 as a better value than if the item is always $5, even if $5 is the reasonable cost for that item.

Italics should be to the left of the area you write your message in, it's the first of four buttons (italics, bold, underline, and hyperlink.) Perhaps your browser didn't completely load the page?

It's kind of a gray area. GoG has listed sales prices on games only to have publishers have GoG remove their games from sales once they see them.

I'd point you at examples but I'm a bit busy today. I'm sure someone here can provide an example or two.

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My god, is it that hard.

Gog is a shop.

It acquires the right to sell a product. It sells the product at a margin. Sometimes it sells the product at a smaller margin.

You buy it.

Etc etc

I hadn't heard about that. Do you know if the pricing was a mistake (e.g. pricing a game at $2.49 instead of $24.99), or just the publisher/developer not being happy with a discount?

I recall one recent time where a staff member saying the publisher was unhappy with the listed sales price and they had it removed.

Unfortunately in this case a not-so-quick google search isn't finding the thread since there are too many threads about similar topics.

The other times, it's a customer saying that it was probably an unhappy publisher looking at the pricing that caused the unlisting.

Thank you, that's quite edifying.

You're thinking of Martin Shkreli.
A short time ago he bought 3D Realms and decided that Duke Nukem 1 and 2 should start selling for $1500.00 a piece. GOG refused and he pulled the games.