GOG isn't that big, and they can't afford to make sales every single week. You're comparing David with Goliath here.

yes, i think GoG is missing out on a lot of potential revenue by not competing with other digital distributors' various sales.

but you have to keep in mind that compared to other digital retailers, GoG is relatively small and the number of games on offer is rather limited. GamesGate, for example, offers a large number of games that are also on GoG, but in addition, they have hundreds of newer as well as lesser known games, and DLC.

with fewer games on offer, you can't have as many sales and discounts as other retailers.

This.

lol this.
and when a sale does come along, people complain about the discounts being too small.

More like $6 and $10 games. And a lot of people aren't rich and can't spend so much money on things that are not essential for survival. And a lot of people are just cheap, so don't know why it amazes you that people want a sale every day. One can say, why don't they just f*cking wait until it is near Christmas or the next sale happens. Well, a lot of people are also impatient. If you are a real gamer, waiting to play a game is painful.

PS
I'm not saying GOGs are overpriced at $6 and $10.

my bo... wallet is ready.

I am glad GOG doesn't join Thanksgiving sales. It's a European site (Polish in fact) and there's already too much americanization going on this side of the Atlantic ocean. Next week is St. Nicolas day here in Holland and I'm mighty glad Christmas preparations only start after St. Nicolas. So GOG has it mighty fine with the sale starting on 8 december.

But all those sales, damn, it's bad for my spare time: I already have over a dozen games in waiting, that I bought but don't have time for playing yet. Just Baldur's Gate can keep me busy for years, it being fun enough to start new campaigns over and over again.

I don't know why so many people had to bash on OP... He WANTS to buy from GOG. He's just probably limited to a budget like most people are, and with awesome deals appearing left and right from all the other DD sites with no guarantee of what GOG's going to offer, it's pretty easy to spend everything you've budgeted before GOG announces a deal for anything you want. I haven't been around here long but I remember how GOG's summer sales really knocked every penny out of my wallet, but had I been looking into Steam sales as well during that period, GOG would have earned maybe half of what they did from me. Speaking of this season alone (from Thanksgiving), I've already spent more than half of my winter gaming budget at this point, and pretty much most of my impulsive-buying budget. Like the $2.50 Terraria daily deal on Steam? I would've bought that without a second thought if I had a little more leftover cash, but I'm not able to touch it right now. It's just different logic coming from different people with different situations.

I totally agree with you!!

+1

;-)

I don't think the point of these current aggressive sales (including OnLive's "Get any game for $1!" deal a couple of days ago) have that much to do with making quick extra buck for either the digital distributors, let alone the IP owners of the games. This, even though it is true people tend to buy games on promos that they possibly would not otherwise buy, but then promos come and go.

It has more to do with getting as many new users locked to their DRM delivery system as possible, now that there are more and more such distributors around, Origin is picking up, OnLive is getting more and more prominent etc. The more they can get folks signed now when the gold rush is on, the more secure their future is because there is inertia preventing people from changing their DRM-distributor on a whim. The Christmas season is the good hunting season for new customers because people are willing to spend money now.

GOG is in a bit different situation because there is only a faint, if any, umbilical cord connecting GOG users to the GOG service, thanks to the DRM-free nature of GOG games. Thus it does not make quite as much sense for GOG to join the current rush for as many new customers as possible in the least possible time (or locking their old customers even tighter to the current distributor so that they wouldn't even look elsewhere), as for the DRM sites, even if it means someone may be buying a $1 OnLive game instead of a $5 GOG game.

it's 5.99 to 9.99, actually. GoG has only two different price points.