I saw this deal and it pissed me off a fair bit too. I really want to stay loyal to gog, but that's a damn good price they've put there. Grr.

Actually, I don't think Ubi would be responsible for that. It was far more likely a tactic implemented by Valve/Steam. Vavle has mentioned that they are starting to see distributors like GOG as competition, so it is not really surprising that they would try to circumvent the GOG/Ubi goodness by holding a sale on Ubi products. In the end, it is the consumer that wins, since competition drives the prices down, as we are obviously seeing right now.

Ubisoft chooses the price and selects the deals on Steam. Valve has made it clear that weekend deals and general prices are the publisher's prerogative, not Valve's.

Well... I still prefer my games drm free =)
Also, I guess that these kind of Steam's deals mean GOG is doing a great job.

It shows that they are scared and that is a good thing. Besides, I can wait for GOG to get Dark Messiah and other Ubisoft games.
No DRM and a handy dandy installer package that I can take anywhere without hassle?? PRICELESS!

I was thinking this steam deal is too good to pass up, but lets wait and see what GOGs weekend deal is :).

Source?

lmao. I highly doubt the games present on GOG are the majority of Steam sales. Seriously why the hell would Valve see GOG as a competitor :/ They're maybe afraid so they're striking first.

It's almost as if they don't want their GOG venture to succeed. Oh well, conspiracy theories abound. There was also speculation, when they announced that they would start releasing games without DRM, that they'd turn around and use it as a pro-DRM argument afterwards, based on sales figures and/or piracy "statistics". That certainly hasn't happened yet, but this Steam deal does seem like a very curious course of action.

that was actually stated on this forum about sales for the witcher

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is not part of the deal though, otherwise I agree that it is a bit stinky towards GOG.

If you're willing to dig through a mega-thread, I believe it came up in here:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=671689
Gabe infers it in the Holiday sale interview on G4TV:
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/693342/Live-Blog-DICE-2009-Keynote---Gabe-Newell-Valve-Software.html#readmore
"From a business perspective, developers and publishers want piracy protection, keeping customers current with the latest version, direct communication to customers for marketing and promotion, instant sales and promotional performance data, and being able to take advantage of new business models like DLC, subscriptions, and micro-transactions."
http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/publishingservices.php
From my experience, there's no way in hell a publisher would not demand to set the initial price point for their games. They do it at brick-and-mortar shops, it follows they'd demand to do it with Steam.

BTW, just checked that offer. Actually I was interested in Dark Messiah.
And guess what... Yay to regional policy! I can get only 3 games out of 4 for the same price. And the one I can't get is Dark Messiah, which I was interested in the first place.

I really hate regional distribution restrictions.
I love my PSP and really like using the PSN store to buy games. But being in Canada it's near-empty, and according to wikipedia I'm missing something like half the games. Balls.