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Posted May 07, 2012
Forgive me if I missed an announcement, but is GOG no longer doing the stacking promos where the more games from the group/publisher you buy during the promo the bigger the discount you get? I don't recall any of these type of promos ever since the holiday 50% off sale. I recall a few of them late last year, though. Are these done for or do they only happen rarely throughout the year?
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Posted May 07, 2012
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LCAWC: Forgive me if I missed an announcement, but is GOG no longer doing the stacking promos where the more games from the group/publisher you buy during the promo the bigger the discount you get? I don't recall any of these type of promos ever since the holiday 50% off sale. I recall a few of them late last year, though. Are these done for or do they only happen rarely throughout the year?
They received a lot of negative feedback, and I imagine the sales results weren't too spectacular, either. So they were probably scrapped.
Posted May 07, 2012
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LCAWC: Forgive me if I missed an announcement, but is GOG no longer doing the stacking promos where the more games from the group/publisher you buy during the promo the bigger the discount you get? I don't recall any of these type of promos ever since the holiday 50% off sale. I recall a few of them late last year, though. Are these done for or do they only happen rarely throughout the year?
This kind of promos was common for a time last year, but appears to have been discontinued.
Posted May 07, 2012
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gameon: Do you remember which games were in any of those promos? It sounds like there were some interesting deals.
The first one was the Atari Hasbro D&D games, I think, but the rest I don't remember. And the latest iteration of the GOG news archive is pretty much impossible to search in.
Posted May 07, 2012
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gameon: It wasn't this was it?: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/buy_one_get_one_free_all_dandd_games_on_sale_for_a_whole_week/page17
No. I found one, it looked like this:
http://www.gog.com/en/page/promo_enlight_mix
Posted May 07, 2012
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gameon: Thanks for finding that! By looking at that, 6 games were $19.14 in total. Perhaps GOG felt that they were losing too much money by doing those kinds of deals!
I think it was because the backlash was very intense. You had a lot of people saying "I should not be punished for not buying all of the games," which of course is a joke since a discount is not punishment.
Posted May 07, 2012
The biggest thing was that if you already owned some of the games, they didn't count towards the discount. So if you already owned half of them, even if you wanted EVERY other game in the promo you'd get a raw deal.

If they'd made it so that owned games counted towards the percentage, I think it would have been fine. I personally never bought anything because they didn't offer anything I wanted that I didn't already have.
Posted May 07, 2012
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bevinator: The biggest thing was that if you already owned some of the games, they didn't count towards the discount.
They did, actually.
Posted May 07, 2012
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bevinator: The biggest thing was that if you already owned some of the games, they didn't count towards the discount. So if you already owned half of them, even if you wanted EVERY other game in the promo you'd get a raw deal.

If they'd made it so that owned games counted towards the percentage, I think it would have been fine. I personally never bought anything because they didn't offer anything I wanted that I didn't already have.
Hmm - I'm not sure that is correct. I have this memory (and it could be a false memory I admit) that there was something in the small print of at least one of those promos that if you already owned the game it counted towards the total discount. I remember being amazed and impressed that they would do that.

EDIT: ninja'd (and confirmed) by bazilisek
Post edited May 07, 2012 by brianhutchison
Posted May 07, 2012
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bevinator: The biggest thing was that if you already owned some of the games, they didn't count towards the discount.
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bazilisek: They did, actually.
Yes, bazilisek is right, they did count.

The first one was the D&D promo, IIRC starting at 30% off with an additional 5% discount for every game after the first, topping at 70%.
I remember wanting to buy all of them but Dragonshard and Demon Stone, but adding those two would have cost me only 1 or 2 $ more, so I went with the whole package.
Great deal.

EDIT: Also, IIRC, before these 'scaling' sales, there were also sales were single games were at 50% off, but the whole package at 70% off, without in-between steps.
Post edited May 07, 2012 by uchos
Posted May 07, 2012
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bevinator: The biggest thing was that if you already owned some of the games, they didn't count towards the discount. So if you already owned half of them, even if you wanted EVERY other game in the promo you'd get a raw deal.

If they'd made it so that owned games counted towards the percentage, I think it would have been fine. I personally never bought anything because they didn't offer anything I wanted that I didn't already have.
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brianhutchison: Hmm - I'm not sure that is correct. I have this memory (and it could be a false memory I admit) that there was something in the small print of at least one of those promos that if you already owned the game it counted towards the total discount. I remember being amazed and impressed that they would do that.

EDIT: ninja'd (and confirmed) by bazilisek
Why wouldn't it? It would be dickish to do so seeing as they would get more money than if you bought the game as part of the promo. But, technically, you're correct, they weren't obligated to do so.
Posted May 07, 2012
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gameon: It would be nice if they offered individual codes for games bought in batch. That way you could get discount on games you want, and then trade the ones you dont want with others.
If you purchased bundle as a gift, you could redeem the gift yourself to get the games you didn't already have, but the gift code would still be valid for the games you already had.
Posted May 07, 2012
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gameon: It would be nice if they offered individual codes for games bought in batch. That way you could get discount on games you want, and then trade the ones you dont want with others.
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Rodzaju: If you purchased bundle as a gift, you could redeem the gift yourself to get the games you didn't already have, but the gift code would still be valid for the games you already had.
But that still has the problem that you only get one gift code for multiple games. Especially with giveaways this is tiresome.

*cough*

http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/site/multiple_gift_codes_with_one_multiple_games_purchase
Posted May 08, 2012
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bazilisek: They did, actually.
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uchos: Yes, bazilisek is right, they did count.

The first one was the D&D promo, IIRC starting at 30% off with an additional 5% discount for every game after the first, topping at 70%.
I remember wanting to buy all of them but Dragonshard and Demon Stone, but adding those two would have cost me only 1 or 2 $ more, so I went with the whole package.
Great deal.

EDIT: Also, IIRC, before these 'scaling' sales, there were also sales were single games were at 50% off, but the whole package at 70% off, without in-between steps.
Ah! The D&D one was when I first joined GOG, I loved that promo! I wasn't really interested in Demon Stone and Temple of Elemental Evil, but if I bought them along with all the other games I wanted I practically got them for free.

Did GOG really stop the scaling promos due to "fan backlash"? I really dislike all the childish complaining in the release and promo threads about pricing. It seems that sadly a lot of forum users on GOG never seem to grow out of the pre-teen mindset that they are entitled to whatever they want. GOG doesn't need to put any of their items on sale, but they do because they're a bunch of swell gentlemen (and ladies?). I hope they bring back the scaling promos sometime this year, I can't possibly be the only person inclined to spend more to save more with these types of promos. I also really hope GOG never kowtows to fussy manchildren that post on these otherwise swell forums.
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