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Posted May 08, 2012
Hey, I don't want to make a fight here, I'm a GOG user and also a Steam one.

All of you will know that either "Alan Wake" as "Anomaly: Warzone Earth" were added to GOG recently, this first one with an amazing offer, 15$.
Today Steam have show their new offers:

Here in Europe they are like this:
Alan Wake - 13,99€ (Standard) 15,99€ (Collectors edition, same goodies as GOG version, but with OST) VS 15$, 11.52€ on GOG
Anomaly - 3,99€ from 9,99€ VS 9,99$, 7,67€ on GOG

I think this is a direct attack to GOG from Steam, like a "hey, don't annoy me from now on, or you'll see", what do you think people?

PS: Sorry for my English, hopefully there won't be no problem to understand what I am trying to say.
Post edited May 08, 2012 by Nice_Boat
Posted May 08, 2012
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Nice_Boat: Hey, I don't want to make a fight here, I'm a GOG user and also a Steam one.

All of you will know that either "Alan Wake" as "Anomaly: Warzone Earth" were added to GOG recently, this first one with an amazing offer, 15$.
Today Steam have show their new offers:

Here in Europe they are like this:
Alan Wake - 13,99€ (Standard) 15,99€ (Collectors edition, I thin it has the same goodies as GOG version, but with OST) VS 15$, 11.52€ on GOG
Anomaly - 3,99€ from 9,99€ VS 9,99$, 7,67€ on GOG

I think this is a direct attack to GOG from Steam, like a "hey, don't annoy me from now on, or you'll see", what do you think people?

PS: Sorry for my English, hopefully there won't be no problem to understand what I am trying to say.
There's a difference in Euro and Dollar. Steam usually screw us Europeans that way.
Posted May 08, 2012
DDs matching each others' sales and pricing points is not a new thing.
I don't see this as an attack on GOG, but as tacit collusion.
Post edited May 08, 2012 by FraterPerdurabo
Posted May 08, 2012
Yeah, I totally agree with that. but this is not why I created this thread (anyway, I hate when they use the 1$=1€).

Edit: Well, GOG is starting now to selling new games officialy, and of course, this is normal in business, but for me is a clearly creepy wellcome, too much coincidence.
Post edited May 08, 2012 by Nice_Boat
Posted May 08, 2012
No, it is not.

It is a thing called competition between businesses.
Posted May 08, 2012
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Nice_Boat: Yeah, I totally agree with that. but this is not why I created this thread (anyway, I hate when they use the 1$=1€).
So isn't the prices more or less the same?
Posted May 08, 2012
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kavazovangel: No, it is not.

It is a thing called competition between businesses.
And there we have it.

Competition is healthy. Worst case scenario for GOG is that new games don't sell and they stick to classics.

I can live with that ...
Posted May 08, 2012
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Nice_Boat: Anomaly - 3,99€ from 9,99€ VS 9,99$, 7,67€ on GOG
Steam offer is only valid for 24 hours .
Posted May 08, 2012
Steam has a long tradition of making sales when there's a significant change within a game or another title is added to the library. A recent example can be Serious Sam 3 which was on sale because the Mac version release. I think Alan Wake is on sale because the sequel is up for pre-orders.
Posted May 08, 2012
If anything this is a good thing, they see GOG as something worth competing with.
Posted May 08, 2012
It was said in the other thread that Alan Wake's American Nightmare is going up for preorder tomorrow.

So this isn't an attack on GOG, but simply two companies using the same marketing spiel.
Posted May 08, 2012
Nope. Cynical as I am about Steam, this is not an 'attack'. Simply a response to the current market. It's not at all uncommon for one vendor of any particular good to lower their prices to match or beat a competitor's pricing. It's just business.
Posted May 08, 2012
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Nice_Boat: Yeah, I totally agree with that. but this is not why I created this thread (anyway, I hate when they use the 1$=1€).
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Tarm: So isn't the prices more or less the same?
No, the prices ARE not the same. 1 euro=1.3 dollars. So if an american buys a game that costs 30 dollars, a european pays 39 dollars.
Posted May 08, 2012
All it means is that GOG is very much on Steam's radar.
Posted May 08, 2012
Was't GOG the one making digs at Steam recently?

The Alan Wake thing could simply be a simultaneous release planned by the publisher. Anomaly is a bit more consipcuous :p
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