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General discussionWeekend Sale: Interplay 35th Anniversary, up to -66%(46 posts)(46 posts)
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Posted May 04, 2018
Well played.

You know, 35 years is a pretty long time. But when you've spent most of that in the company of cult classics like Earthworm Jim, MDK, Sacrifice, or Toonstruck, it feels like they breezed right by. Today, Interplay, the fellas behind these reinvigorating masterpieces, are having a grand 35th Anniversary Sale and you are more than welcome to join in. Almost everything is 66% off, with Star Trek games going for 30% off.

Descent, the series that made 360o first person action a thing, are front and center (also up and down) in this collection. Intense dogfights and non-stop thrills make for some of the most enjoyable time you can have inside a cockpit.

Criminally overlooked in its time, Toonstruck is every bit as hilarious, inventive and downright fun as the point & click classics of that era. Its wacky humor, cartoon visuals and stellar voice-acting hold up amazingly well, too.

The Interplay 35th Anniversary Sale ends May 7th, 10pm UTC.
Posted May 05, 2018
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OldOldGamer: Yes, publisher decides about prices, but sales are the same over and over again.

No changes or surprises.
What about GOG injecting some PM value in all this?
Proposing simething new to publishers?
New formats? Something different?
It really isn't GOG's fault if Interplay has chosen this method of marketing. It's pretty obvious that the business model of current Interplay is fully based on overpricing their catalogue and trying to increase the sales with recurrent discounts.
Posted May 05, 2018
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OldOldGamer: Yes, publisher decides about prices, but sales are the same over and over again.

No changes or surprises.
What about GOG injecting some PM value in all this?
Proposing simething new to publishers?
New formats? Something different?
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tomimt: It really isn't GOG's fault if Interplay has chosen this method of marketing. It's pretty obvious that the business model of current Interplay is fully based on overpricing their catalogue and trying to increase the sales with recurrent discounts.
GOG sales are carbon copies of previous ones.
Same games. Same discounts.
I m suffering from GOG fatigue.
Posted May 05, 2018
The prices are higher but the sale prices are the same as they were.
Posted May 05, 2018
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Spectre: The prices are higher but the sale prices are the same as they were.
Look on Winter Sales 2016 prices... or Descent price during Fall Sale 2015...

So low prices are not necessary, but comparable prices with similar games during sales events would be fine.
Post edited May 05, 2018 by IXOXI
Posted May 05, 2018
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OldOldGamer: GOG sales are carbon copies of previous ones.
Same games. Same discounts.
I m suffering from GOG fatigue.
Then stop using GOG or use the competition? Or go play with your enormous backlog (granted, nobody does that ;)?
Posted May 05, 2018
It might have helped if we didn't have this exact same sale the last week of March / first week of April. All the same games and all the same prices. That was only 5 weeks ago...
Posted May 05, 2018
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RWarehall: ...
I hope there will be some better offer during Summer Sale, but considering how discounts are changing I'm not expecting to buy Interplay games before Winter Sale or even Summer Sale 2019... :(
Posted May 05, 2018
Old dudes on suits trying to sell old games at the high price. Color me surprised.
Posted May 05, 2018
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ciemnogrodzianin: snip
The truth is that Interplay has never been very good with the discounts of individual games. Back when they were $5.99, the max discount was usually 60% ($2.39). Of course now 66% of $9.99 is $3.39 which is quite a bit worse.

They have been generous with free games by offering a number of their titles in those promos, but otherwise, to get any big discounts, you had to buy bundles. Their few series (like Descent or Star Trek) would occasionally see one, but most of the titles, one had to buy from the "every Interplay game in the catalog" bundle to get 80% or 90% off.
Posted May 06, 2018
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za.ch: Are you guys aware that the "games you own" thing and checking your library on the website does not work anymore?
It SORT OF works... but yeah, they screwed this up. Instead of adding a NEW item for "profiles" they REPLACED the old item with the new one.

However, if you hover (not click) on the place you used to click, you get a drop-down, and you can get to your games list that way.

GoG really should have added the (unwanted, as far as I'm concerned) "public gamer profile" in a new location, rather than hijacking an existing one. But it took me all of about thirty seconds to figure out how to get to what I wanted to get to.
Posted May 06, 2018
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za.ch: Are you guys aware that the "games you own" thing and checking your library on the website does not work anymore?
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CLBrown: It SORT OF works... but yeah, they screwed this up. Instead of adding a NEW item for "profiles" they REPLACED the old item with the new one.

However, if you hover (not click) on the place you used to click, you get a drop-down, and you can get to your games list that way.

GoG really should have added the (unwanted, as far as I'm concerned) "public gamer profile" in a new location, rather than hijacking an existing one. But it took me all of about thirty seconds to figure out how to get to what I wanted to get to.
Think is one the website I don't own any games anymore in those convient lists of sales which seperate games you already own from those games. This is broken on the homepage and works fine on the galaxy client. Furthermore there is no tool tip for the wishlist, games or movies anyway.
Posted May 06, 2018
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Posted May 06, 2018
Well I see comments that the promos are repeatable and not everyone is happy bcs of that, but I dont see any reasons to say that is bad. IMO it just looks like the rotation of available characters in League of Legends or etc. If somebody wants some bigger deals it is always a bigger festival every 3 months so keep calm and wait for summer sale ;)

And dont forget that the GOG will celebrate 10th birthday in this year so really keep calm ;)
Posted May 06, 2018
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OldOldGamer: GOG sales are carbon copies of previous ones.
Same games. Same discounts.
I m suffering from GOG fatigue.
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tfishell: Then stop using GOG or use the competition? Or go play with your enormous backlog (granted, nobody does that ;)?
Yes.
That is exactly what I'm doing.
Pity is I've already nearly 900 games on this platform, and joined so much time ago... I'm sad to see this place in such a pity state.
Posted May 06, 2018
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iRevolt: Old dudes on suits trying to sell old games at the high price. Color me surprised.
He's 56. He's not that old:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Herv%C3%A9_Caen

Folks can buy the company if they want. Market cap in under a million.

edit: Hmmmm......
Post edited May 06, 2018 by drmike
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