Leroux: I'm not so sure if this is a good idea, since a similar thread I made in a past sale was mostly overlooked, but let's try again. The Summer Sale offers hundred of discounts, but sadly GOG's UI still doesn't support much needed functions like "sort by price", "sort by discount" etc., so it's difficult to get a good overview. And the official Summer Sale thread, while the most active, is also the most fast-paced thread, where many posts get overlooked quickly. So this a desperate attempt to find out about the more interesting offers and the most interesting games on sale, kind of like a Gaming Deals thread, Summer Sale edition.
It's meant for answering the following questions:
- What deal in the Summer Sale do you consider a steal?
- Which games do you recommend to try at the current prices?
- Are there any games you're unsure about buying and that you'd like the opinions of others about?
Agreed, sort by price and discount both in forward and reverse are sorely needed. I'm not sure if they haven't implemented that because they just have higher priorities, or because they purposefully don't want people being able to sort by price so they're forced to have to spend 20 minutes poring over an entire list of titles hoping they'll do whimsical buys outside of the price range they were looking for or what, but IMHO it results in some amount of lost sales. There have been several big promos in the past where I just wanted to sort the entire list of games from lowest to highest price like I can do on almost every other game retailer website out there, then scan through from the lowest price up to a certain dollar value of what would ultimately be instabuys, where if I see a game I really want for a great price I'll practically buy it on sight, and don't have to put much effort into the process. Then I may fire up my wishlist and want to sort it by price also, then scan down the wishlist for any other titles and if there's a good enough discount on something at any particular price I may buy it. But I don't always have the mental energy or patience to navigate the entire website in unsorted order to find something whimsical to buy, and I shouldn't have to and generally don't want to have to resort to using 3rd party software/websites to implement the functionality that should be on the GOG site properly.
There are definitely promo sales in the past where there were games I did not buy because I didn't have a quick and easy solution to look for exactly what I wanted at that moment, so I just said "they'll always be on sale in the future again, perhaps when I have more time and patience." :)
This sale I've had more time and patience and also used Mrkgnao's helpful per-day sale links, however I believe all of the prices that show up on there are in USD (not sure if there's a currency option, didn't try to check).
Really needs to be a sort-by option on the front page, the Games page, the game Library page, the Wishlist page, anywhere there is a list of games that someone might want to sort really.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/skeletonbow/wishlist/ has sort by price which is nice for example.
https://www.gog.com/account/wishlist ... not so much.