Serious Sam games went also from 9.99$ to 5.99$.

I didn't talk about chasing, I talked about buying when the price point is acceptable, or even giving GoG the snub by using your purchasing power and telling GoG the reason why. It's far from chasing when you send a two minute email explaining the disgust in price and the need to change it.

The loss of money, or the refusal to buy at current price, sadly, speaks more volumes to businesses. We are free to express that right and enact change. We are consumers, but we should not expect to sit idly by and expect our favored seller to always do best for us. That's where the personal account comes in. I have done it myself in the past, and it has worked. I'd argue as consumers we should not just consume, but also influence also. A little work should be expected.

Onto Atari and data, it feeds into what I said before. When(not if) they see the low sales numbers from GoG due to the price, and when GoG brings the issue of lots of emails due to price, then it's very possible for the price to drop. In the meantime, the game IS the cheapest digitally in at least a few countries. It's clear to see GoG have mentioned the overprice (as others stated) during the negotiations and might've won out in that regards. I'd argue that GoG did maintain their philosophy, for me.

In regards to AC1, they have added a multitude of value due to the litany of music added to it. Alone yes it IS overpriced, however GoG has addressed that issue by adding so much to the package. You might argue that you are not interested in the extras, and that's fine, since there are plenty of channels for getting it very cheap, retail being one, like you already have.

Then again, there are caveats, DRM being one.

As to the champion of the people, GoG treats it's consumers very well, but money is money and I'd rather them release even more games to the service, grow their catalouge and enact DRM free on a larger scale. I''d agrue a game on here is better then no game, since it's an extra channel for the pub/dev to recognize another market. It's naive to think any business could be a champion of the people, but GoG isn't about that, it's about being fair to the customers and the recent Bontanticula issue highlights that. So does the fair price package last year with TW2.


Refusing to sell the game does no one good. We lose out on a game, and the relationship between GoG and Atari might be strained. It's about give and take, in this instance, you are free to give nothing to GoG, and take the game when it's on sale. TeT mentioned the negotiations as well, Atari wasn't willing to budge, so they released the game as cheap as possible.

GoG is changing yes, but they are releasing games weekly that are $5.99 and $10.99, that are good, and that are new.

I understand that you are annoyed and a little worried, what I can say to that is spread your eggs and make sure that if ever GoG becomes too big for it's boots, take the money elsewhere and tell them why.

Wow, nice release.
Regarding the price: I'm sure the games are worth the asking price. What unsettles me is rather that it might become a precedent, meaning that we'll never see games from 2006+ even for $10 anymore, only as "premium editions", even if they are 4-6 years old.

Anyway, nice game, thanks, GOG; I'll be sure to pick up this pack sooner or later (I'm glad I can complete my Rollercoaster collection here!).

I wouldn't worry about that too much. Deus Ex was added to Steam, the land of infinite price points, at $10. Publishers are usually good at knowing what prices they'll get away with.

The problem is, you need to hunt down an email address, then take the time to write it, in a closed environment where big companies are likely to just click the delete button and carry on, in such a fast moving industry, this time and effort rarely sees any pay-off until the next controversy is needed to be tackled.

A forum is a way to leave your post in the open for a longer amount of time, and to receive immediate support from other people with similar interests.

The rest I agree with in the most part, the pieces I don't are just minor philosophical differences.

I still enjoy GoG's service and will be a customer until/unless as you say gog becomes too big for it's boots.

It's a neat game, and the graphics are better especially for the rides themselves, but it doesn't have the same sort of appeal for me as the originals. For instance, it's a lot harder to take the "Dungeon Keeper" approach to park management, like drowning troublemakers or making evil or fatal coasters.

For reference, here's a link to Mr. Bones' Wild Ride, courtesy of 4chan. (It's in two parts, check the comments. The pics are too big for me to post here.)

I made a ride in RCT3 once, that took the passengers through a rapid switch from about +70 to -25g. No fatalities. :(

Oh my god, I'd completely forgotten about that. Thank you!

Mr. Bones' Wild Ride deserves an entry in the The SCP Foundation.

Good game, but $20, c'mon. I can get the jewel case for 4.99 at target.

Jewel case? I'll raise that with a BogBox I recently found in a local Carrefour (of all places) for about $2.

Only they didn't inform us that the new price points may also apply to older games, I think that's the issue people are having with it here. There already are newer games in the GOG catalogue (up to 2008, I think) for only half the price.

Can we at least agree that there's nothing Premium about those extras? *crosses arms*

One of the discussion within the price thread was the application of higher price points to older games. It was unanimously felt that it would be a bad idea, but I believe past a certain point (2005 onwards I think) it kinda would be ok. People were against it, and other felt as if the game in question is the deciding factor. In the end nothing much was decided on the matter, only the newer games were felt to be warranted a higher price point unanimously.

Though again it depends on what your definition of old is and like I mentioned before, imho, R3 really isn't an 'old' game per se. Aged, sure, but not old.

In all likelihood, GoG pushed for a $15 price point, since it would then be the cheapest DD, by a mile. Atari for whatever reason decided against that.

That's the bit that really bugs me... if the extras were better I'd still buy it to replace my discs.... but I just wouldn't be too happy over doing so ;)