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Posted November 21, 2012
I recently got down-repped for a post talking about the futility of the down-rep button as it is, because the person didn't agree with me. Which exactly illustrates my point, and I'm glad that others here have pointed that out.
Posted November 21, 2012
Just my two cent criticism: I don't like the discrepancy between normal prices and promos. This is just a cheap psychological effect to make them visibly cheaper by creating a higher artifical discount and again artificially limiting supply timewise. Of course every sale comes again with more than one sale per week on average. Even an Interplay sale will come again. I feel like I have to constantly follow GOG to get good prices for games and that steals my time which is also valuable. All in all I am not really satisfied with the situation and would prefer stable long time low prices with occasional discounts in the 20-30% range if people buy more than one game. Higher discounts just mean that the normal price is meaningless. But then you can make the logically following step and get done with normal prices and decrease them. I see that this problem isn't restricted to GOG but nevertheless this is the single most annoying feature of GOG for me at the moment.
Posted November 21, 2012
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DieRuhe: I recently got down-repped for a post talking about the futility of the down-rep button as it is, because the person didn't agree with me. Which exactly illustrates my point, and I'm glad that others here have pointed that out.
How do you that a specific person down-voted you? As I understand it, for a post to show up as "low rated" it has to receive many down-votes...
Posted November 21, 2012
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mondo84: snip
I wasn't referring to you in a slightest way ;)
Posted November 21, 2012
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Trilarion: Higher discounts just mean that the normal price is meaningless.
Every normal price is meaningless! Welcome to the real world!

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yyahoo: How do you that a specific person down-voted you? As I understand it, for a post to show up as "low rated" it has to receive many down-votes...
cuz I informed him, to illustrate my point that NOTHING AT ALL happens if a particular person downvotes you. If they don't say it and the forum software keeps it anonymous, you don't notice. I win.
Posted November 21, 2012
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mondo84: snip
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keeveek: I wasn't referring to you in a slightest way ;)
Then you stole my phrase!
Posted November 21, 2012
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DieRuhe: I recently got down-repped for a post talking about the futility of the down-rep button as it is, because the person didn't agree with me. Which exactly illustrates my point, and I'm glad that others here have pointed that out.
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yyahoo: How do you that a specific person down-voted you? As I understand it, for a post to show up as "low rated" it has to receive many down-votes...
Because the person specifically mentioned that he/she did it, as part of his/her response. :-)
Posted November 21, 2012
So, in summary:
PEOPLE CAN criticize GOG.
PEOPLE MUSTN'T criticize criticizing GOG.
PEOPLE CAN criticize criticizing of criticizing of GOG ?
Posted November 21, 2012
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Vestin: So, in summary:
PEOPLE CAN criticize GOG.
PEOPLE MUSTN'T criticize criticizing GOG.
PEOPLE CAN criticize criticizing of criticizing of GOG ?
You've completely missed my point. The whole idea here is that "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is probably the best play ever made.
Posted November 21, 2012
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Trilarion: Just my two cent criticism: I don't like the discrepancy between normal prices and promos. This is just a cheap psychological effect to make them visibly cheaper by creating a higher artifical discount and again artificially limiting supply timewise. Of course every sale comes again with more than one sale per week on average. Even an Interplay sale will come again. I feel like I have to constantly follow GOG to get good prices for games and that steals my time which is also valuable. All in all I am not really satisfied with the situation and would prefer stable long time low prices with occasional discounts in the 20-30% range if people buy more than one game. Higher discounts just mean that the normal price is meaningless. But then you can make the logically following step and get done with normal prices and decrease them. I see that this problem isn't restricted to GOG but nevertheless this is the single most annoying feature of GOG for me at the moment.
I think it would be good if you could get email alerts when wishlisted games go on sale/are part of a sale, so that you didn't have to pay much attention but could automatically get notified.
Posted November 21, 2012
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DieRuhe: I recently got down-repped for a post talking about the futility of the down-rep button as it is, because the person didn't agree with me. Which exactly illustrates my point, and I'm glad that others here have pointed that out.
I got heavily bashed for posting an opinion about The Withcer 2 that it was not really enjoyable due to anti-gay bias - in balance of things - in portrayal of Dethmold character that in my view incorporated about any conceivable negative cliché.

I must say that it was not the down-repping that bothered me - that much - but vitriolic opinions that were expressed.

What can I say, except: look forward to hear if #3 (presumptive) is more balanced. But I shall not pre-order that one.

As to criticism of technical nature: when either playing Mac versions, or, running Windows OS on Mac HW, the stability is not always great. In my case, I had to ultimately buy NWN2 with Aspyr to make it run. After that bloody lengthily download, too! Despite the upgrade (that was long to download, too) , it just did not launch.

Plus: i never got to import my Baludr's Gate character into BGII despite buying both from here. This one really annoys me.

Meanwhile, Steam - tried it once, and suspect it does not like Mac HW - MS OS set up, unless it is generally bugging and unstable.

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Edit: not really an edit, which might be added to technical reservations. This was intended as a posting in response.

Edit2: have eliminated (hopefully) the above mentioned response to post it later as such. Support wide and extended edit capability, but would quite prefer a distinction to "reply" within a tread.
Post edited November 21, 2012 by TStael
Posted November 22, 2012
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TheEnigmaticT: We have mods. They just don't mod much. :P
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StingingVelvet: If you ever need another I'm good at doing absolutely nothing.
That's just what this site needs, moderators who came from the community. That *always* works out, and *never* leads to conflicts of interests, favoritism, etc.
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Trilarion: Just my two cent criticism: I don't like the discrepancy between normal prices and promos. This is just a cheap psychological effect to make them visibly cheaper by creating a higher artifical discount and again artificially limiting supply timewise.
I'm with you. My position differs though, in that I think digital games should cost pennies on the dollar compared to current prices. I would prefer a digital market that mirrored the supply/demand of brick and mortar, but gave proper digital prices. I have no interest in using artificially inflated prices to "protect" the physical market. If the publisher is saving X% on selling me a digital game vs. a physical game, I want them to pocket no more than X-1%. SOME of the savings of the lower production has to go to the consumer. In an ideal world, over half of that savings would have to be reflected in the cost, and this protected in law, but I digress.

I have the same problem with chinese made goods, where comparable products made in countries with 10-20X the hourly wage standards cost roughly the same. This obviously indicates that the producer using the chinese manufacturing is pocketing the extra on the bottom line.
Post edited November 22, 2012 by anjohl
Posted November 22, 2012
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Vestin: So, in summary:
PEOPLE CAN criticize GOG.
PEOPLE MUSTN'T criticize criticizing GOG.
PEOPLE CAN criticize criticizing of criticizing of GOG ?
I think tfish just asks for good will of all participants. Of course just asking doesn't mean he will get anything. But it also doesn't hurt, does it? And he is not a blue, so he cannot make any rules. So everybody can do everything they want.
Post edited November 22, 2012 by Trilarion
Posted November 22, 2012
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Vestin: So, in summary:
PEOPLE CAN criticize GOG.
PEOPLE MUSTN'T criticize criticizing GOG.
PEOPLE CAN criticize criticizing of criticizing of GOG ?
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tfishell: You've completely missed my point. The whole idea here is that "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is probably the best play ever made.
Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by a mile. :P
Posted November 22, 2012
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Trilarion: I think tfish just asks for good will of all participants. Of course just asking doesn't mean he will get anything.
That's not the point I was trying to make. Basically: up- and down-voting posts is an incredibly efficient and meaningful way of interacting with what other people write. They carve a mark into a given one only if plenty of people feel the same way about its contents, serving as instant insight into vox populi. THAT'S A GOOD THING.

It's helpful to think of low-rated posts as multiple people frowning and high-rated posts as multiple people smiling at you. To suggest that we shouldn't even express our disdain through such silent forms is so silly to me, I have trouble finding a way to explain why it doesn't make sense; it's so counterintuitive...
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