What would be the actual equivalent of about 20 euro in the US?We're in times of recession and the newer the games, the more expensive they are.

$26.68 according to Google (just type "20 euros is USD" or whatever currencies you wish to convert in Google and see the magic happen), but apparently Steam has a 1€ = 1USD policy or some such.

Let me just say. the new price point is $14.99

Legend of Grimrock is cheaper because of the pre-order offer.

We were given a poll to see what we would want from GoG, one of the questions was about price points and $15 was one of them.

In other words this new pricing was chosen by the Users.

I picked 15 as well but for DRM free I'll pay standard box cost up to $50 for a new DRMfree title.. no question no hesitation...

Yeah but they are bundled with the later non-freeware games, which is kinda nifty.

Albeit, apparently Betrayal in Antara was a mere shadow of BAK, milking on its success. Or so I've heard, yet to play it. If the game mechanism is the same as in BAK, I'm probably quite happy because the much vaunted story in BAK didn't interest me, I don't even recall what it was about.

There was some guy with a fake white beard who was talking all the time, and another with a fake moustache who talked back, and in the end they ended up in some other dimension where crystals were growing from the ground. That's about all I remember about the story.

I know, but /right now/, the package is these two games, so even if someone feels that BaK should be free, the value is more that the packaging convenience for new systems.

The page isn't showing on Wayback after 2002. Yes, six years is long, but it was ten years ago.

Makes you wonder whether we're finally going to see the old Epic, 3D Realms and Id games here...
After all, here you can buy:
-Quake, Final Doom, Doom 2 and Ultimate Doom for $20 apiece.
-Hexen, Heretic and Wolfenstein 3D for $15 each.
-Spear of Destiny and a Commander Keen collection for $10.
Here the 3D realms games are available:
-Balls of Steel and Shadow Warrior for $10.
-Blake Stone, Commander Keen pack #1 & #2, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Crystal Caves, Death Rally, Duke Nukem, Duke Nukem 2, Hocus Pocus, Math Rescue, Monster Bash, Mystic Towers, Paganitzu, Planet Strike, Realms of Chaos, Rise of the Triad, Secret Agent, Terminal Velocity, Wacky Wheels, Wolfenstein 3D and Word Rescue for $6 each.
Hell, some of them can still be bought physically from here.
And then there's of course the games from EPIC, which are available physically from Epic Classics. I dunno whether they are officially affiliated with Epic though.

To be REALLY optimistic there's the old Blizzard games...

And don't forget occasional older title that is sold for more elsewhere like Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines and people might be willing to couch more money to get rare titles like System Shock 2 as well.

Also keep in mind that while you might not be willing to pay the intial price, what ever that might be, there WILL be promos eventually that might drop price low enough for you to buy the game. On the other hand if game is not sold at all here, you can neither promos to lower the price nor game to buy.

Other have already mentioned other use for higher prices and thats game bundless and collections allowing you to buy set of games at lower price than separately.

If it's for sale somewhere it's not abandonware dude. That's the whole premise of abandonware.

These companies these days...

That's not entirely true. Just because something is abandonware doesn't mean that it isn't being sold by someone or some company. I know for a fact that some of the software here on GOG is abandonware.

And for those who are concerned, or want to circumvent any of the pricing legalities of some of the abandonware, there is always the "we don't charge for the software, but the CD itself will be $29.95, thank you", marketing tactic that we've all seen many times before, so no, not everyone who is making abandonware available is making it available for free.

I posted about this years ago, demanding they no longer stick to those price points, for GOG, I want a bigger library, not stifled releases.

I forgot all about the d@mn DRM that nobody likes. Thanks for reminding me about that. That too is a very justifiable reason for some of the pricing on a lot of the software. Well, what do you mean by 'stifled'? Are you saying that some of the releases on Gog are just crippled versions of what would otherwise be legitimate software?

Missing soundtracks or other additional materials, maybe missing expansions or even additional levels or other forms of support.