Gnostic: I thought we are having that now?
copied directly from the gog announcement.

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The Promo and Piñata include a completely separate batch of games, so there's plenty of variety and surprises - we'll also rotate the Promo and Piñata lineup after three days, just so that things don't get too stale.
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People concentrate on the Pinatas and ignore the Promo rotation?

IronArcturus: Well I can't help but notice that the prices of this current deal are much higher than the Bundle Tower deal. I still think GOG could do better.

Breja: I have to say, this time around the Humble Store really blew GOG out of the water. Way better prices, and the "build a bundle" things made for some even better deals. Now that's a gimmick I can get behind.

Breja: I have to say, this time around the Humble Store really blew GOG out of the water. More discounts, and the "build a bundle" things made for some even better deals. Now that's a gimmick I can get behind.

stg83: I think its unfair to compare this promo with Humble's because they have their Summer Sale at the end of the season instead of earlier like GOG. So a fair comparison actually would be GOG's Summer Sale vs. Humblebundle's current sale.

IronArcturus: I miss the times when Humble was purely DRM-free. Now it's just another Steam store. GOG is our last DRM-free hope, but they've really dropped the ball with this current promo.

Breja: Maybe so (and the Summer Sale here was great), but it's hard not to compare sales as they coincide, as that's the choice of which one to spend money on we have to make. And this time Humble won- for a price that would get me maybe two games from my wishlist on GOG I build two whole bundles of them on Humble.

Maxvorstadt: The only question is, where is Mista Dabolina?

willietrom: My personal dislike for this sale is that it's supposed to give you games that you don't own, but GOG provides no way for you to let it know which games you own elsewhere, and so this second round has been four games I don't own at all, seven games I own but not through GOG, and all of which I haven't been willing to purchase at their previous sale prices. My expected price for even just a game I don't already own, then, is over $5, for games that have nearly all been on sale at some point for $5 or less.

The first round went pretty much the same way (apparently with some of the games I actually didn't own even selling out by the time I got to them), and I can't help but expect the next to do so as well.

As long as GOG is unwilling to let us register ownership for games owned outside of GOG, and as long a they have a policy of not letting us know that they will eventually sell games that they don't sell at launch (leading us to buy those games elsewhere), then this type of sale will never be a good idea to participate in, I think.

blakstar: And don't say that they should give you a way to register games owned from other places -- as yet, I haven't seen anyone do that, so I wouldn't be too quick to blame GOG.

JDelekto: Interesting, they already said what price ranged game you may get in return, what you may value at $2.00 is probably not at the price the game is sold, but worth what you're willing to pay for it.