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What I do not like (And I'm sure other people can agree with me) is that there is no incentive to buy more, like Steam has, Steam has a lot of Fantastic bundles for series/franchises/publishers. GOG does not have this

Buy more and Pay less is the way it should be, flat rate discounts also work good but I just prefer this method more
I wouldn't be against it, but it would be very overwhelming from a psychological point of view, suddenly having access to all games. When I buy a game/s here, I immediately like to back it up, check to see if any technical issues exist with it, and also check to see of any fan patches, widescreen mods, etc, exist. Being able to purchase a few titles at a time, get them installed and ready to go.
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Roman5: Buy more and Pay less is the way it should be, flat rate discounts also work good but I just prefer this method more
I usually don't buy more than 2 games at once. Maybe people like me ar majority, and GOG came to the conclusion flat discounts are better for them? (more revenue)
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Crosmando: I wouldn't be against it, but it would be very overwhelming from a psychological point of view, suddenly having access to all games. When I buy a game/s here, I immediately like to back it up, check to see if any technical issues exist with it, and also check to see of any fan patches, widescreen mods, etc, exist. Being able to purchase a few titles at a time, get them installed and ready to go.
Well you know, I see where you are coming from, I, for a guy who has over (not that I want to show off) 150 Steam games I struggle to see what I could play and often end up spending less time on games. In this respect overwhelming yourself could be a good thing sometimes, like an American breakfast you just take what you want and the rest you leave. As for the backup thing I'm assuming you backup the games you buy because your internet is slow and you wouldn't have the time to re download them if anything (excuse me if I'm wrong). The truth is I think you should one day try to see what it's like having more then the normal amount of games and upgrade your internet to see that backing up is useless in this scenario when the games can be downloaded again at any time and then you will see where I'm coming from with this idea... Again this is just a suggestion so no guarantees this will come into effect and it would be near to impossible for this to happen overnight if anything...

Finally sorry for any non-intended puns Crosmando, I often like to just type and then not proofread (terrible I know), but anyway I'm just trying to voice a suggestion for those of us who this would be suitable for, I mean this system could act in many ways the same as OnLive...
Post edited April 22, 2012 by BurningCa007
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BurningCa007: How do you know it would cost $2500?! I mean steam usually gives a discount when buying these bundles... Anyway just a suggestion so no harm done right?
I took an approximation of what the games would be worth then, based on it being 378 games for 5.99 and 9.99 USD. The discount is already in the price, or it would probably be around 3000 to 3200 USD.
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BurningCa007: How do you know it would cost $2500?! I mean steam usually gives a discount when buying these bundles... Anyway just a suggestion so no harm done right?
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Protoss: I took an approximation of what the games would be worth then, based on it being 378 games for 5.99 and 9.99 USD. The discount is already in the price, or it would probably be around 3000 to 3200 USD.
I figured that in the end, thanks for clarifying, anyhow, now I've suggested a possible monthly subscription...
Post edited April 22, 2012 by BurningCa007
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Crosmando: I wouldn't be against it, but it would be very overwhelming from a psychological point of view, suddenly having access to all games. When I buy a game/s here, I immediately like to back it up, check to see if any technical issues exist with it, and also check to see of any fan patches, widescreen mods, etc, exist. Being able to purchase a few titles at a time, get them installed and ready to go.
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BurningCa007: Well you know, I see where you are coming from, I, for a guy who has over (not that I want to show off) 150 Steam games I struggle to see what I could play and often end up spending less time on games. In this respect overwhelming yourself could be a good thing sometimes, like an American breakfast you just take what you want and the rest you leave. As for the backup thing I'm assuming you backup the games you buy because your internet is slow and you wouldn't have the time to re download them if anything (excuse me if I'm wrong). The truth is I think you should one day try to see what it's like having more then the normal amount of games and upgrade your internet to see that backing up is useless in this scenario when the games can be downloaded again at any time and then you will see where I'm coming from with this idea... Again this is just a suggestion so no guarantees this will come into effect and it would be near to impossible for this to happen overnight if anything...

Finally sorry for any non-intended puns Crosmando, I often like to just type and then not proofread (terrible I know), but anyway I'm just trying to voice a suggestion for those of us who this would be suitable for, I mean this system could act in many ways the same as OnLive...
Well, I don't really use steam (apart from Valve games), but I know exactly what you mean.

I think it's mostly in my head but I like to have to have the reassuring feeling of having "completed" my collection of games, which of course is rather silly as I'm always having to buy the latest titles on GOG, get them installed, see if they need tweaking or whatnot, I feel more at ease this way, and I know it's silly.

As for the downloading thing, no it's not a problem, I have a download cap per month of 400GB, and average download speed is about 1.5MBs. I just like backing up my GOG's on a secondary hard-drive like above, for some kind of peace of mind, even if I can just download them again anytime I want on this site. Believe me it's nothing comparing to my other compulsive habits...

Anyway, back on topic I get what you mean about the breakfast comment, I do find that I naturally play the games that are taking my fancy at the time, and ignoring the others for a rainy day.
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BurningCa007: Well you know, I see where you are coming from, I, for a guy who has over (not that I want to show off) 150 Steam games I struggle to see what I could play and often end up spending less time on games. In this respect overwhelming yourself could be a good thing sometimes, like an American breakfast you just take what you want and the rest you leave. As for the backup thing I'm assuming you backup the games you buy because your internet is slow and you wouldn't have the time to re download them if anything (excuse me if I'm wrong). The truth is I think you should one day try to see what it's like having more then the normal amount of games and upgrade your internet to see that backing up is useless in this scenario when the games can be downloaded again at any time and then you will see where I'm coming from with this idea... Again this is just a suggestion so no guarantees this will come into effect and it would be near to impossible for this to happen overnight if anything...

Finally sorry for any non-intended puns Crosmando, I often like to just type and then not proofread (terrible I know), but anyway I'm just trying to voice a suggestion for those of us who this would be suitable for, I mean this system could act in many ways the same as OnLive...
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Crosmando: Well, I don't really use steam (apart from Valve games), but I know exactly what you mean.

I think it's mostly in my head but I like to have to have the reassuring feeling of having "completed" my collection of games, which of course is rather silly as I'm always having to buy the latest titles on GOG, get them installed, see if they need tweaking or whatnot, I feel more at ease this way, and I know it's silly.

As for the downloading thing, no it's not a problem, I have a download cap per month of 400GB, and average download speed is about 1.5MBs. I just like backing up my GOG's on a secondary hard-drive like above, for some kind of peace of mind, even if I can just download them again anytime I want on this site. Believe me it's nothing comparing to my other compulsive habits...

Anyway, back on topic I get what you mean about the breakfast comment, I do find that I naturally play the games that are taking my fancy at the time, and ignoring the others for a rainy day.
Yea, kind of the same here, except we only get a rainy day once a year lols... Well I got speeds of 30mbps when downloading anything without any cap on the limit, so our situation does slightly differ in this respect... I have trouble backing up my games as I have all or most of the games on my Steam account installed filling up nearly a full terabyte. Anyway thanks for providing your opinion.
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Crosmando: Well, I don't really use steam (apart from Valve games), but I know exactly what you mean.

I think it's mostly in my head but I like to have to have the reassuring feeling of having "completed" my collection of games, which of course is rather silly as I'm always having to buy the latest titles on GOG, get them installed, see if they need tweaking or whatnot, I feel more at ease this way, and I know it's silly.

As for the downloading thing, no it's not a problem, I have a download cap per month of 400GB, and average download speed is about 1.5MBs. I just like backing up my GOG's on a secondary hard-drive like above, for some kind of peace of mind, even if I can just download them again anytime I want on this site. Believe me it's nothing comparing to my other compulsive habits...

Anyway, back on topic I get what you mean about the breakfast comment, I do find that I naturally play the games that are taking my fancy at the time, and ignoring the others for a rainy day.
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BurningCa007: Yea, kind of the same here, except we only get a rainy day once a year lols... Well I got speeds of 30mbps when downloading anything without any cap on the limit, so our situation does slightly differ in this respect... I have trouble backing up my games as I have all or most of the games on my Steam account installed filling up nearly a full terabyte. Anyway thanks for providing your opinion.
Oh, I only back-up GOG games because it's easy, a single executable file (or sometimes some bins), I wouldn't bother with steam, too much hassle.
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BurningCa007: Yea, kind of the same here, except we only get a rainy day once a year lols... Well I got speeds of 30mbps when downloading anything without any cap on the limit, so our situation does slightly differ in this respect... I have trouble backing up my games as I have all or most of the games on my Steam account installed filling up nearly a full terabyte. Anyway thanks for providing your opinion.
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Crosmando: Oh, I only back-up GOG games because it's easy, a single executable file (or sometimes some bins), I wouldn't bother with steam, too much hassle.
Yea I once tried to backup all my steam games to install on another computer it took 36 hours to get to 50% so I decided to re-download....
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Crosmando: Oh, I only back-up GOG games because it's easy, a single executable file (or sometimes some bins), I wouldn't bother with steam, too much hassle.
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BurningCa007: Yea I once tried to backup all my steam games to install on another computer it took 36 hours to get to 50% so I decided to re-download....
How do you back-up steam games exactly, just copy the folder in program files? Wouldn't that mess up settings or something?
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BurningCa007: Yea I once tried to backup all my steam games to install on another computer it took 36 hours to get to 50% so I decided to re-download....
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Crosmando: How do you back-up steam games exactly, just copy the folder in program files? Wouldn't that mess up settings or something?
Right-click game -> Backup game files, you then select the games u want to backup and set the size of each part (if you want parts) it comes with an exe to unpack the backup... but this is incredibly inefficient and takes forever, simpler to copy the steamapps folder where you installed steam and then verify integrity of game cache in steam when you place the steamapps folder into your new steam installation...
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Crosmando: How do you back-up steam games exactly, just copy the folder in program files? Wouldn't that mess up settings or something?
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BurningCa007: Right-click game -> Backup game files, you then select the games u want to backup and set the size of each part (if you want parts) it comes with an exe to unpack the backup... but this is incredibly inefficient and takes forever, simpler to copy the steamapps folder where you installed steam and then verify integrity of game cache in steam when you place the steamapps folder into your new steam installation...
Oh yeah, I just pulled up the client and I see it, though it would obviously wreak havok with unofficial mods which you can get to view in the steam client.
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BurningCa007: Right-click game -> Backup game files, you then select the games u want to backup and set the size of each part (if you want parts) it comes with an exe to unpack the backup... but this is incredibly inefficient and takes forever, simpler to copy the steamapps folder where you installed steam and then verify integrity of game cache in steam when you place the steamapps folder into your new steam installation...
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Crosmando: Oh yeah, I just pulled up the client and I see it, though it would obviously wreak havok with unofficial mods which you can get to view in the steam client.
It might, but those unofficial mods are installed in the sourcemods folder in the steamapps folder, who knows they may be backed up separately...
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Crosmando: Oh yeah, I just pulled up the client and I see it, though it would obviously wreak havok with unofficial mods which you can get to view in the steam client.
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BurningCa007: It might, but those unofficial mods are installed in the sourcemods folder in the steamapps folder, who knows they may be backed up separately...
Not half-life 1 mods.