I'm "hoping" for Friday!

RE: games being too pricey. This is one of the few things I don't like about digital purchases and sales (and it's a GREAT problem to have). I often try to "win" a purchase. I can't count the amount of times I've held off buying something because I just *know* it'll be on sale - even when I find the price to be more than acceptable.

Now, on the one hand, maybe I *do* end up rewarding and supporting a developer that puts out a game I wouldn't have otherwise bought. But I find I'll sometimes feel guilty because I'll also "hold off" buying a game from a dev I REALLY want to support, who has a game at a fair price... because I know it'll hit sale. So, yeah, there's my fight with sales and prices in the digital games era ;)

Too much for how much I would be willing to try it out for. Someone else may enjoy the game more and the price would probably be more fair, but I am more ten bucks interested than twenty.

It'll get there some day. I have a rule, I look at a game and if I like it enough to ever want to consider trying it or better - I wishlist it more or less. I'll get an idea of what kind of price I'm willing to pay based on how excited I am about it and how soon I want to play it. For the most part though most games even if I'd really like them, I am in no hurry to play tomorrow and can wait it out for as long as I feel until I am actually ready to play them. Due to this, I generally wont pay full retail prices for things and instead wait for them to be really cheap during discount sales and whatnot. There are exceptions such as The Witcher 3 which I bought for pre-order discount pricing, but exceptions are rare.

So I basically pre-decide what price I will pay maximum for the majority of games I want. The game publisher and distributor then get to decide (unknowingly) how soon they might want to receive my money. When their price matches my price or better and I'm aware of it, then it's time to rock and roll.

The thing is though that for any given game genre, I have ancient, old, semi-old, not-so-old, more-recent, and recent titles I own that I haven't played yet, or have only played briefly to trial. If I desire a particular genre of game play I almost certainly have multiple titles that are of a similar vein to fill in the time rather than needing to rush out and buy $currentgame at $fullretailprice etc. :)

Food? Fuck that! I need beer!!!

I find it amusing I could get a physical copy for ten bucks. Too bad it's a Steam copy.

Weeeeell, considering that The Witness is at 40 bucks and it's just a glorified puzzle game...

PoE is a game with lots and lots of content. It's a good price for a large RPG, especially at 50% off. Of course, it's bound to get a 75% or even a 90% off at some point in the future, so if money is an object you can always be patient and wait a couple of years more. It will probably get better in the meantime, since it's still being frequently patched and updated.

Blaming market prices is counter-productive, they won't lower because of it. Instead ask yourself why you think it is so? Do you lack the money? Answer is easy; save, earn more of it or wait for a better sale. Do you have the money but for some reason want to complain anyway? Perhaps then you are not assigning such a high value of your potential purchase as much you want to.

Personally, based upon what I've played in PoE I would say the Hero Edition at 50% is a very good offer.

I could be wrong but I think the idea of the higher priced versions of PoE is that they are for die hard fans of the game who not only want to own the bonus content, but who greatly respect the artwork and the developers who produced this game in an otherwise more or less dead subgenre. As far as the game itself is concerned, you get the same game no matter which tier you buy so the only compelling reason to buy the more expensive ones is to support the developers/artists and/or out of great desire for the extra bonus content and consider the extra price worth what you get in return.

There are people out there who really want collectors editions of things like this and are willing to pay that much extra for it, but nobody is forced to buy it really, and the prices on everything will naturally come down over time also. GOG's existing back end infrastructure apparently doesn't support it currently but some day they may have support in their backend for providing upgrade packs to pay more to upgrade to the higher editions of the games that include more bonus goodies. When that time comes, people can upgrade to the full edition without the premium new-release pricing if they desire it. From reading around the forums here and elsewhere it appears that the developers are happy to provide such an option once GOG's infrastructure is able to offer the option so it's not an unlikely scenario in the future.

I don't agree with that. PoE looks great. Every scene is put together.

I think that the market economy works as a whole on average, but nevertheless it's mostly trial and error. You never know the value of your product to your customers and also it may constantly be changing. So I guess that failures in hitting the sweet spot are not only possible but also unavoidable and will happen regularly. Failling is part of the game.

Here, from my experience with other games of similar content, I would say they slightly fail.

I think that it's a shame that GOG doesn't offers upgrade options for Pillars even after a year.

...a lot, especially if you allow for 50% discounts? Take your pick:
DROD TSS
Divinity 2
Expeditions: Conquistador
La-Mulana
Trails 1
Eisenwald
Xulima
Metro
SR: Dragonfall
Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms
Stasis
Underrail
TW2 (okay, that's cheating)
Xenonauts

Rules: games released on GOG within 1 year of general release*, rated at least 4.3**, long and/or highly replayable. US prices, obvs.
* so as not to compete with classic package deals such as Heroes III, MM1-6, QfG.
** I haven't played some of the games on the list.

I tend to agree. I brought the base game when it was released, and its a good game. For the two expansions, £20 on sale (not sure if thats correct as prices seem to change on my machine) is a bit much. So I will wait and see, maybe a year or two down the line there will be a complete version. Much like the Witcher 3, have the first two and really enjoye them, but will wait for a complete pack before even contemplating buying it.

I think it's an awesome game that's worth every penny, and that you're a cheap-ass. Of course, I'm heavily biased, so my opinion isn't even worth the drive space this post takes.

EDIT: Counting only the above two sentences, uncompressed at one byte per character, that's 178 bytes. Using the current price of a 2TB 3.5" SATA HDD in Sweden as an approximate measure of value per byte, and xe.com's current conversion from SEK to USD, my post is roughly valued at 6.658*10^-9 USD or 0.0000006658 US cents.