Thank you for the reply and listing all those games.

I think maybe you misread my statement there. I never claimed this was the best sale. I said it was a pretty good sale. I also only said there are plenty of games over 80% and many up to 90%. There are over 3000 games listed in the sale.

Some of the bundles in the sale brings the prices down to 85% to 90% and unless I'm mistaken they should be historical lows. Such as the Lucas Arts, Paradox bundles, etc.

There are indeed plenty of games that went the other way and had less discount than their historical lows as you listed. The sales have always been like this.

Some (or many) discounts are worse than the last one and some are better. I'm not sure what people were expecting, but I feel lucky I can snag a few whenever these sales happen. I really hope people aren't expecting prices to to get to lower and lower until the games are finally tagged at 100% off. That only happens in my fantasy, but usually not with games lol.

So no, I didn't find it underwhelming as their last sale or the previous or the one before, etc. since they all had similar highs and lows. In which case they may all be called underwhelming if that's the case or we could just call it a typical seasonal sale.

Go in without expectations and you'll be much happier and less disappointed. Maybe even a few pleasant surprises. Trust me, cross my heart. =P
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Like I said, they have announced during the sale early this year that we should prepare for the largest discounts during the winter. It did not happen.

Wording is a funny thing and each of us take those wordings from our own perspective.

I'd like to think some games did reach it's largest discount yet. Go back to my comment about Lucas Arts and Paradox bundles. So if we're going strictly by wording, they lived up to that statement.

Now if they added to that statement that this would be the largest selection of highest discounts in the history of GOG, then yeah, I'd say they let us down.
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It's all marketing BS. Here's an example of TP product I was recently looking up.

Charmins brand TP. The package keeps listing 24 = 108 rolls and makes it sound like we're getting the best value ever. Yet if you break down the sheets per roll, they are basically saying we used to buy single rolls in the past with only 70 sheets!

I'm pretty sure I never bought a single roll TP that only had 70 sheets lol. I'm switching to Quited Northern, same quality and much cheaper. =P
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Thank you for the conversation, it was fun.

In this case we'll just agree to disagree and get back to enjoying our holiday.

Take care until the next topic. :)
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Sure thing.

Thank you both for the information!

Maybe they are waiting for "ACTUAL" snowy winter to come to Poland :P

Please, do something about list formatting :S
It's hardly readable now :S I know you meant well but it's pretty bad atm.
Perhaps use bold here and there, that could possibly improve readability of it.

Bethesda.net functionality was already stripped out of both Dishonored 2 and Death of the Outsider. After a patch on steam that axed denuvo, you could sign into BethNet to unlock some additional game features - a Sin City styled filter and the option to replay a mission with any powers you didn't have when you originally played that mission - but they're included out of the box on the GoG versions. (https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dishonored_2#Availability)

FO4 only has Creation Club and the in-game mod browser tied to Bethnet. The latter might stay in since its pretty platform agnostic and doesn't keep anything cool hostage that can't be found elsewhere like nexusmods. CC..... we'll have to see, I guess.

They still promise a surprise for us before the Winter Sale ends. :)

But unfortunately more and more otherwise good offers are getting ruined by the constantly increasing amount of regional pricing. Prices 20, 30 or even more percent above the US price are just off-putting. And GOG/CDPR meanwhile is amongst the worst offenders.

You mean Noire filter? /s

I meant more in a sense that GOG executables generally differ from Steam ones in some ways that break compatibility with mods and not all mod maintainers are willing to release GOG compatible secondary versions.
Besides... Steam workshop...

Shame I can't get Devotion during the winter sale.

If that's true then that truly is unfortunate to hear. Any particular game you were looking for that is priced far above the US price?
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Nothing in particular. Most of the games on GOG are regionally priced meanwhile. Prices 20% above the US price are more the rule than the exception here now. Cyberpunk 2077 (almost $20 above the US price) is just one example, but remarkable as it comes from the company which once was actively promoting flat prices. Prey was one of the last games I was looking into and got annoyed about the pricing (30% above the US price). And the most offending case I remember is the regional price for LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, which is not far away from double the US price here (+82%).

In the beginning regionally priced games were only a few percent more expensive here than in the US and I've tolerated it. But the difference has grown constantly over the years and I do not support that anymore. Games which are more than 10% above the US price I only buy on very high discounts.

Just out of curiosity how things work on GOG: I know that when you want to gift a game which regionally has a lower price than in the US you have to pay the higher US price for the gift copy. But how is it for games which in some regions have a local price above the US price? How much would you have to pay for a gift copy of Cyberpunk 2077 in the US? The regular US price or more?

If I add it to my cart and go to the checkout, it's $59.99 USD.

Once the transaction is completed, they can't raise the price on a completed order after the fact. I'm pretty sure that would not be legal if that were to occur.

I don't know much about regional pricing, but that 82% you mentioned does sound unusually excessive. Also, I don't know how much say GOG has on the pricing without the developers or publishers or license holders consent.
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