Really? GOG is all about service. And this case can surely happen. The goal would probably be that such faults can be prevented easily. GOG should just indicate how many of my wishlisted games are currently on sale on the wishlist. It's much easier than checking the current sale everytime. That is tedious and boring work.

But of course such a feature would have to be completely optional with the default is turned off. That should satisfy everyone.

What about percentage checkbox and input? "Notify me if game is at least xx% off", where you checkmark it and then input two digits, and an email will only be sent if said game is at least that number off.

Hmmm... How about 'at least xx% off OR under $yy'? So you could say 50% off or under $10.

Yeah, that would be really cool to set the Notifications to only notify if a certain discount is reached.

Good idea, though I assume the currency would change based on location.

Ever heard of isthereanydeal.com? Having used their service and then looking at the GOG way of implementing it one can only do a quick, benign smile and move on.

I have, but haven't used it myself.

isthereanydeal.com already does this and works for pretty much every store out there including GOG, although it requires a greasemonkey script for GOG unless they've updated it to work with public wishlists since I last checked. It'd be nice to see GOG improve the on-site features but the truth is that ITAD rocks and the functionality there will probably trump anything GOG puts up for years to come.

The thing is that storefronts like to remain simple so they don't confuse certain customers with excessive numbers of options. Additionally stores are not likely to put options in their web interfaces that could have an effect of reducing/limiting sales by excluding things. There are exceptions to this out there such Steam allowing some minor configurability, but generally speaking that sort of functionality is absent from most online stores and minimal where it is present. The incentive for a store to add it is very small since only few power users would likely use it anyway, while other users could be confused or overwhelmed by options.

This is where a standalone 3rd party website can shine, because they don't have to fear losing customers if their entire purpose is to provide much greater functionality than the stores offer themselves. It becomes their value-add that draws users to their own site, such as isthereanydeal.com. The more functionality they provide, the more users that want that type of functionality they draw in.

ITAD is just a nice one-stop-shopping do-everything site when it comes to finding the best deals on any kind of video games anywhere online, and they already have more features than any individual store or every store out there combined. The recommendation to use this site can't be overstated enough. :)

Exactly. I shake my head when I see people saying things like, "[Store] should be embarrassed that IsThereAnyDeal does this so much better!" Given that this is literally the reason for ITAD's existence, it's the other way around -- if stores like GOG implemented this type of feature better than a heavily specialized site like IsThereAnyDeal, not only should ITAD be deathly embarrassed, but they would absolutely deserve to go out of business.

Indeed. Most retailers do not have any incentive whatsoever in terms of it benefiting themselves. If a store perceives a feature can benefit themselves and the cost of the manpower to implement it is worthwhile then they might go ahead and do it, but if they do not perceive it to be a benefit, or if they weigh the engineering costs of doing it as being too high compared to something more beneficial that the same amount of engineering man hours could be spent on then they will do something else with those man hours.

A site like ITAD is not selling games nor competing with stores that sell games. They are purely providing value-add services in a central location for certain types of consumers, namely gamers in this particular case. Most gamers might not even know or care that such a site even exists and are content to just go right to a store such as Steam or GOG directly and ignore the rest of what's out there.

I've told many of my friends that game on PC about isthereanydeal and they probably have never even visited the site. Instead they'll tell me "oh, did you see $somegame is on sale on Steam for 50% off" when I've seen the same game for 75% off or even in a bundle or something. I've told people of a deal on a game I found out about through ITAD on say the Humble Store or Bundlestars store, and even give them links to ITAD and Humble/Bundlestars, and they don't even click on them. They take the name of the game and look it up on Steam and buy it regular price or buy it for 50% off or whatever Steam is selling it at. They simply don't understand the concept of other storefronts and resellers and finding the best deal out there and/or they couldn't be bothered.

It's too bad though because I've gotten games for free, for 97% off, or other massive discounts simply passively using ITAD. It's funny though, one person told me "I don't have time to go to another site". If someone doesn't have time to look for deals on games, that is precisely why they SHOULD be using ITAD, as it is one stop place to keep track of game deals either actively going there and looking, or passively receiving notifications when some random store puts a game they want on sale with a discount to their liking. :)

I still laugh and shake my head when I see a friend pay $20 for a game that is currently being sold for like $3 in a bundle on a bundle site simply because they "don't understand" or whatever. :)

Now it just needs a third one proclaiming how ITAD changed his life forever for the better and cured his partners cancer... oO

Kidding, just never heard of it. But if you praise it that much I'll take a look at it in the future. :)

PS: Thanks and +1 for that overall really helpful info, probably not just for me.

Very good, well founded, explanation. +1

Also, this is likely the explanation why features of storefronts are likely ending up as spam/advertisement. They simply do not have the same interests as their customers.