I wonder, if the avatars are those ugly mugs from the main page banner. GOG's avatar MO is "take stock art, select a face, crop, scale, save as".

Why would gog be the champion of the people by refusing to sell for $20 here? If they refused to sell for $20, that would just mean the game wouldn't be available here, not that Atari would suddenly lower their price.

Why not? There's no disc, no packaging, so if anything retail should be more expensive with additional overheads, and yet the game is available in practically every country with PC games in retail for half the price.

Hell, in Germany the whole lot is available for 10 euros in every store in town. I saw it in the UK for even less than that.

While I find the $20 price point as a general possibility for certain titles appealing, I'm less than enamoured with the way it has been used to date. Assassin's Creed, HOMM5 Complete and RT3 Deluxe are all twice what they cost at retail. Fine if you can't get them on disc in your respective country, but there is absolutely no compelling reason to get them otherwise.

To add insult to injury, the Deluxe version of RT3 on CD is completely copy-protection free, so you don't even need the disc in the drive once installed.

Why would GOG be able to discuss internal business decisions with us?

Fair enough, but can you make a 1:1 copy of the disc? If you can't. do that there is still some DRM involved and you will be screwed if the CD gets damaged beyond the warranty period. With the GoG DD version I can download the release as many times as I want and make any amount of copies of that data for failover purposes. I don't have te be online to legally install a backup copy.
A disc release might have cost and overhead to produce a physical copy complete with packaging + shopkeeper margin if sold through a physical shop; digital distributors need to pay for recurring server costs and don't forget data traffic for every download. Data traffic is anything but cheap.

I disagree, I originally spent $110 dollars on the series. $20 seems fair. No bullshit DRM makes this package worth every penny.

Enough said!

Mhm. Some people asked for additional price points back in January 2010 (Not sticking to $5.99 and $9.99?). Loads people back then (me included) feared that exactly this would happen - publishers going for the higher price points even if what's on offer, in comparison to other games on GOG, wouldn't really justify it.

I don't mind the newer indie releases. I don't mind that those got a higher price point, either. I do mind that GOG moves away from the simplicity in its pricing for re-releases of older games. I liked that a lot about what GOG offered - it seemed very much a customer orientated guarantee in that all old games are priced (nearly) equal, regardless of what the publisher insists their game should be worth. It's not the price point in itself, but the slipper slope it indicates. A price range from $5.99 - $19.99 for old releases is, I think, too broad and moves the pricing power a lot more toward the publishers side.

$110? Now that's overpriced.

While I agree with many other people that $20 for this game seems overpriced (which is to say that it's also overpriced at the various other distributors as well), my main concern here is that if this is an indication of things to come it may have quite an impact on how people buy from GOG, and not in a good way. While I obviously don't have sales data to back up my handwaving, I'm guessing that a large amount of the business GOG does is driven by impulse buys. At $5.99 and $9.99 price points if people see a game they're potentially interested in get released (or just notice it while browsing the catalog) there's a good chance they'll buy on the spot if they have the money. At higher price points, though, the bulk of the purchases being made are going to shift from people looking for a game to people looking for that specific game (which is a much smaller group of people). The larger danger is that if higher priced releases such as this become the norm you'll end up changing people's habits regarding GOG, with fewer people eagerly loading up the website every Tuesday and Thursday ready to crack open their wallets, and instead just dropping by if they get a hankering for a specific game, or waiting for sales to stock up. Basically a shift to the kind of behavior that people display with Steam and Gamersgate, and I'm not sure that GOG has a large enough catalog to compete effectively and draw in enough business without the impulse buys driving things.

I just wanted to let everyone know that I have a pet rabbit. Congratulate me.

meh rct 3 is not that great compared to the previous two games , not sure if it fits that price point

I'm allergic to rabbits.

Well it's DRM free and $20 you'll never miss. I'm not sure it matters unless GOG starts price gouging on a massive scale. For instance if they offer Solar Winds for $20 I'm...well okay I'm going to buy it and praise GOG every day for the rest of my life but that's a bad example. Who are you again?

Now I wish I hadn't voted for getting newer games on GOG on that survey that they gave us.
I'd rather not have newer games on GOG (or any game) if they're going exceed the $9.99 price for old games.
After all, I can simply buy them from Steam and typically for much cheaper.
I don't have a particularly huge issue with DRM either, but I was willing to support GOG on principle.
If GOG deviates from their principles then I guess I will also refrain from buying on principle.