I have not and refuse to in the future, provide meaningful discourse.

My comment wasn't specifically about GOG, but let's talk about GOG then:

1) Do non-EU customers end up paying more than the price tag shows during the checkout? AFAIK, they don't.

2) Aren't all sales officially registered within EU area (Cyprus/Poland/some other place)? Shouldn't that make VAT prices the default, which has never been the case so far?

3) I have hundreds of games on GOG, but to date, my receipts have never, not once, showed the VAT percentage, which at least in my country is required by law just like having the final price visible.
And often also stating which country's VAT rate is being used, if it's not obvious otherwise, which has never been shown in GOG receitps either.

4) Case Switzerland. I believe VAT in Switzerland is 8%. They are not part of EU and don't use Euro.
Why do they have to pay that extra price then?
(Of course if we think about those FIGS translation costs and increased production costs, 3 out of those 4 languages apply to Switzerland in that case. But that really has nothing to do with the taxation issue.)

Cool! :) Stuff like this shuts (some of us) up.

I'm sure most well-known classics will sell better on Steam, but lesser-known ones (like the recent Retroism/ND ones) seem like they don't catch much attention because there are only a few reviews for many of those games and the forums seem rather dead.

It makes me wonder why *any dev/pub* would bother with GOG, then, if most games only get 1-2% of the sales of Steam. The logical conclusion seems to me, "Why bother?"

Augh! I want more mediocre Build era shooters! NAM and WWII GI! Can you imagine multiplayer on that? I NEED something to laugh at on occasion.

Someone get Cybermage!

Besides, for all the haters, I love Chaser, and that is not exactly Grade A classic. It really doesn't hurt to dig into the clones of yesteryear.

I would love Tekwar to be here. I just wasn't sure about the dates. I feel like Cybermage was around the same time as D3D, not sure about Tekwar. The point still stands.

I would really not be opposed to C grade older games brought back.

This. I've enjoyed Chaser as well and I absolutely love Dredd vs. Death. Of course it's good that GOG has some quality standards but some games that got panned at release are genuinely fun and deserve a second chance.

Both are 1995 if I recall right. They were reviewed something like two or three months apart in the magazine I read back then.

Dredd vs. Death is one of my favorite shooters. I get that it's campy, low budget, and not exactly a shining example of quality, but I can't help but love it to death. My biggest dislike of the game was how short it is. I felt like there were not enough of the extra challenge missions, and even then most of them were just survive wave after wave.

It would be great if Rebellion made more.

Edit: @Erich, my bad then. In my defense, D3D was at the beginning of 1996, so kind of similar. There were quite a few entertaining clone type games back then.

Here! Here!

I want more adventure games, especially the ones I remember the puzzles too so I can look smart to people who are struggling.

Again, that would mean that Russia has negative VAT. Otherwise it would be very hard to explain how some games can be more than 2 times cheaper in Russia than in the US.

Try checking some games on https://www.steamprices.com, especially in the Top Rip-offs category.

For example, this is the table I got for L.A. Noire (https://www.steamprices.com/eu/app/110800/l-a-noire):

US: $ 19.99
Europe (region 1): € 29.99 » $ 36.98 (+84.99%)
UK: £ 19.99 » $ 31.35 (+56.83%)
Australia: $ 49.99 » $ 49.99 (+150.08%)
Russia: ??? 349 » $ 6.58 (-67.08%)

Never mind the fantastic Russian negative VAT. Everyone knows Russians are crazy. But what about the spine-chilling Australian VAT of more than 100%? I can feel their pain...

My biggest concern was the anti-climactic ending. My problem wasn't as much that it's too short as it's lack of a satisfying ending, it ended kinda aruptly without a good build up for the finale. But yeah, an awesome game. It blows my mind that a game as fun as this one gets universally panned by critics while the ultimate punishment for a completely un-fun AAA game is like 80/100.

Speaking of "medicore" shooters that are more fun than many critically acclaimed AAA games: Counter-Terrorist Special Forces: Fire For Effect. Maybe not as good as Rogue Trooper but still, a really fun third person shooter nobody's heard about and one of the earliest cover-based shooters I've played (much older than Gears of War, btw).

And I just discovered that it's actually available on Steam. God dammit! This one needs to come here!

If it appears in one of those cheap type bundles I will definitely pick it up. The graphics remind me of Project Snowblind for some reason.

Amen!

I would love to have them here. They might not be exactly masterpieces but still fun to play.