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Posted February 13, 2018
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UhuruNUru: Even Steam has given up doing this shit, I thin k it's long past time GOG also did.

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amok: off course Steam had to give them up due to their new refund policies.

edit - but yes, I thoroughly dislike flash sales as well.
This. It wasn't really that they decided against flash sales, it's just that having flash sales and a refund system wasn't workable.

A lot of people miss the flash sales since they feel developers aren't willing to go with discounts 'as deep' as they did for the flash sales for a whole sales period. (which was certainly true the first big sale it was done that way).

That said, GOG was the one who made a point that things like flash sales were bad practices and then ended up doing it anyway so yeah...
Posted February 13, 2018
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UhuruNUru: ...
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jepsen1977: It's always worth it to complain about anti-consumer practices - no matter if Steam or GoG are the one who does shady stuff.
Honestly I fail to see how this can be considered "anti-consumer practices" ?

I mean that some peoples don't like it because they don't want to have to check Gog every X hours to see if there are a new deal and they find that inconvenient for them that's one thing, but just because something is inconvenient doesn't mean that it's automatically an "anti-consumer practices".
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Pheace: That said, GOG was the one who made a point that things like flash sales were bad practices and then ended up doing it anyway so yeah...
They weren't speaking about flash sales but about big discount sales in general.
Post edited February 13, 2018 by Gersen
Posted February 13, 2018
These sales are Anti being Able to pay my bills crap!
Posted February 13, 2018
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Martian12: It seems I'm the only person that likes flash sales. I kinda miss those flash sales in Steam too.
I think the main people who hate these sales are those who want the games at those prices but don't have the time to visit the site every hour.
Posted February 13, 2018
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Martian12: It seems I'm the only person that likes flash sales. I kinda miss those flash sales in Steam too.
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tfishell: I think the main people who hate these sales are those who want the games at those prices but don't have the time to visit the site every hour.
You hit the nail on the head, it's called "life" some of us have one, work, family, pets... something that takes you outside the virtual relm for extended periods.
Posted February 13, 2018
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UhuruNUru: Even Steam has given up doing this shit, I thin k it's long past time GOG also did.

Have a sale, and make all the deals available for the full length of the sale.

No stupid gimmicks, just the best deals available for the full length of the sale.

If I want to buy any of the games, I will do so.

All these Flash sales do is lose GOG sales, from those that haven't the time, or inclination to chase this crap.
Plus customers like me that, have and will by many games on GOG, but boycott these types of sales entirely.

Far from getting me to chase these silly time limits, these deals make me avoid GOG for the entire sale.
I won't return here until 21st Febuary, when this trashy sale is finished.
Considering how much GOG's sale prices have gone up recently, I am glad to have a chance to get a better deal even if it is very inconvenient. GOG's sales definitely aren't what they used to be. (Jazz Jackrabbit on sale for $9?!) I have not bought much on GOG for a long time now because of the price increases, but hopefully the flash sales will have some real bargains.
Posted February 13, 2018
i miss the steam flash sales , you always hoped it would go better in each flash sale , i dont see the problem with it since almost all digital stores have flash sales, steam specifically took it out because of the refund policy and the sheer amount of games they have , flash sales would always almost crash the website or slow it down to a crawl.
Posted February 13, 2018
I agree it's an annoying gimmick, but apparently people really need such gimmicks nowadays. At least this isn't quite as bad as the insomnia sales - the flash deals last hours, and there's a normal sale going on besides it. I'm not going to watch the deals change like a hawk, but I'm not boycotting it either. If a good deal is up when I'm around - great. If not... >shrug<. Anyway, I don't care much about this sale. I doubt I'll be buying anything, my backlog is big enough. It would have to be something I really badly want, really ridiculously cheap.
Post edited February 13, 2018 by Breja
Posted February 13, 2018
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Gersen: Honestly I fail to see how this can be considered "anti-consumer practices" ?

I mean that some peoples don't like it because they don't want to have to check Gog every X hours to see if there are a new deal and they find that inconvenient for them that's one thing, but just because something is inconvenient doesn't mean that it's automatically an "anti-consumer practices".
It's not anti-consumer because the flash-sale is inconvenient but because the sale plays a trick on us. It uses our need for hoarding in times of scarcity by putting a fairly strict time-limit on the sale. That tricks the brain into wanting to get the "thing" before it's gone and also by not giving us enough time to really research the game before we buy. GoG apparently need to trick us to buy something rather than the standard sales with anywhere from 4-14 days to make up your mind. Flash-sales aren't the worst though - the insomnia-sale are much much worse in this but I would consider both to be anti-consumer in that they use a gimmick to get us to buy rather than a straight up sale.
Posted February 13, 2018
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liquidsnakehpks: [...] i dont see the problem with it since almost all digital stores have flash sales, [...] .
it would just result in a massive amount of refunds. a person buys a game on sale, later it pops up in a flash sale, and the person refunds the game just to buy it back again the the flash sale to save a few bucks. The only way to avoid this would be to disband refunds during sales.
Posted February 13, 2018
Moot for me. I have no way to add money to my wallet here.
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nightcraw1er.488: Pissing off in progress ;op
Make sure you clean that up. That stuff stains. :)

I cover on occasion at a local self storage place that's dog friendly. You have no idea how often I go in to find little piles of doggie poop on the floors. *sigh*
Posted February 13, 2018
I get that some folks don't like them, but what's the 'anti-consumer' part of it?

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jepsen1977: It's not anti-consumer because the flash-sale is inconvenient but because the sale plays a trick on us. It uses our need for hoarding in times of scarcity by putting a fairly strict time-limit on the sale.
I could agree with this if gOg had but one or two sales per year, and that the flash gimmick meant you had about a 4-hour window out of 8,760 annual hours. But there is quite literally something - often many somethings - discounted on the site all the time. Last month we were grumbling about sale-overload when they whipped out the Resolution event.

As far as the trickery part, I'd like to think that anyone smart enough to embrace DRM-free is also smart enough not to be fooled by the gimmickry. : )
Posted February 13, 2018
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HereForTheBeer: [...]
As far as the trickery part, I'd like to think that anyone smart enough to embrace DRM-free is also smart enough not to be fooled by the gimmickry. : )
you don't visit these forums often, do you?
Posted February 13, 2018
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HereForTheBeer: [...]
As far as the trickery part, I'd like to think that anyone smart enough to embrace DRM-free is also smart enough not to be fooled by the gimmickry. : )
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amok: you don't visit these forums often, do you?
Um, er, ah...

I got nuthin'
Posted February 13, 2018
To each their own. I much prefer flash deals to pinatas mystery "deals" or insomia-style sales.
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