RWarehall: What it comes down to, is some people are not satisfied unless it is perfect for them.

For example, with the mystery boxes, people kept complaining it was random, but the truth was closer to "I wanted game X which was at the best discount. GoG sucks because they didn't offer me exactly what I consider the best deal in the sale."

The same with the game bundles, whether they be weekend sales or part of a bigger one. When Nordic was going away and they had a 90% off if you buy everything bundle. People complained because they somehow felt they should have a right to piecemeal it. The only reason they offered it at 90% was because it was a large bundle. If GoG would have offered it piecemeal, it would NOT have been 90% off. Period.

Just like this sale. If it were not random. Many of these games would not be sold for $3. So take away the randomness, then you can take away half the games on offer in the pinata part of the sale. But people want to complain about it as if they should have some automatic right to $30 and $40 games for $3. Change the sale, those games are not offered.

It not to say there are not some legitimate complaints about the pinatas. The whole Sword of the Stars debacle for those with all the parts. The extremely limited quantities of a few titles and the fact they cannot warn you ahead of purchase that you are going to receive a gift because you own everything available. These are all very valid issues.

But complaining because you can't take the randomness away is not a valid complaint, because then GoG would also have to take away the possibility you might get something a little more special. Complaining that GoG should check your Steam profile first is rather silly too as they are competitors. Complaining because one of the games was offered with a bigger discount in the past, again, that's almost every weekend sale too. So what? You should have bought it then. The whole concept of the pinatas is some wins are better than others. They are all good discounts, its just that some of them have been slightly better in the past, but for a very limited time. And if every item were guaranteed to be "the best deal ever offered", guess what, expect fewer of the premium games in the offer.

Its not like all the forum goers don't know the sale is going to be tracked. It's not like you cannot make an informed decision. And for all the people complaining about games offered cheaper on Steam, guess what? It's the truth across the board. You can go to "Isthereanydeal" or whatever it is and look it up. I don't recall ever seeing the best deal on GoG in history ever being lower than the best deal ever on Steam for any game. Those are just the facts. So what. There are other reasons people prefer GoG, but most of us realize buying games here will cost more than Steam, so its not a fair comparison.

LiefLayer: what you say it's true... I got Dreamfall Chapters on Insomnia sale and it was 13€ (with 3 € back for fair price), not $3.
but I know that I loved Insomnia sale, it was actually really fun.
I really don't like this pinata sale because I don't like to pay for a lottery (I actually don't care about the price).
Also, there are really few games in this sale. I really hope we can get another Insomnia sale.

Lappro: Yea GOG just threatened to kill my family if I didn't buy a pinata, it was terrible!

budejovice: I forget about the freebies. They were probably compelling to people who are easily compelled.

budejovice: Yeah, OP was hyperbolic and technically wildly incorrect. I assume they didn't value the game highly themselves, but definitely was't the sticker price.

IronArcturus: Well I would counter that GOG is a business as well and they're doing just fine selling DRM-free games! I would much rather have my games not need any kind of mandatory client to make them work. I know with the GOG installers that the games will work 10 years in the future without needing access to the internet. The only thing needed would be a compatible OS.

zeroxxx: Why do you think they're pushing Galaxy so hard? DRM free games do NOT need any client, right, but why? Galaxy all over the place now.

Thus the need to do more than selling mere DRM free games without compromising the principles.

(well, they did throw one of their core principles to trash bin, anyway)

RWarehall: It should be very obvious why they are bringing in Galaxy and there are two main reasons...
1) Multiplayer platform to bring in more of those types of games...a hub to help players to connect to each other for these games. Especially if it allows games to connect GoG players to Steam players...
2) Attract games from developers who are committed to "achievements" and/or leaderboards. Many publishers are avoiding GoG because they feel their games wouldn't be the same without them.

In both cases it helps them acquire more games from reluctant developers.