Personnally, I think they should go for anything good that they can get their hands on. From time to time, other competitors will have better prices. However, they will not necessarily have a better product.
GOG needs as much variation in its games as possible, to attract as many people as possible. For them, this means plenty of cash, for us, it means a large collection of cheap DRM free games with added extras.

My thoughts as well. As I noted in an earlier post in this thread, I find it highly unlikely that this Steam weekend deal wasn't already determined for this weekend long before this. And GoG closing the deal with Ubisoft this week is likely just an unfortunate coincidence.
Again, I feel the same. The more games the better. Doesn't matter if they're old discontinued titles or new titles still available on the shelf. The bigger the catalog, the more customers they'll potentially attract. And this can only mean good things for all us gamers.

Heh, well, I can understand that in a way. Just a warning, I played through Far Cry some years ago, and it's extremely hard once you near the ending. I've seen on other forums that people have given up on it at points because of the somewhat extreme level of difficulty. I finished it though, and I really want to do it again.

Well, it's just that these games can be found in pretty much every regular game store you can think of (often in bargain bins), and pretty much every digital distribution site as well. So there's a lot of competition here, including the biggest players in the distribution industry.
Fair enough - they are classics and they are good to have on this service - especially considering the bonus stuff and DRM-policy. But GOG's real strength lies in offering games that you just can't get anywhere else. Unique content.
Basically, I think that while the addition of these games are great news for most of us who are already fans of GOG, it's not going to be that big of a deal to the rest of the gaming population, because they can already buy them wherever they want. And I suspect they'll - for the most part - get them wherever they're cheapest.

The question is - will they sell enough? I say they wont. My beloved games that i would like to see here (the Logic Factory ones) are 10-20 votes on the wishlist. No wonder they dont want to take this kind of risk (read: fanservice :) so soon after opening the store.

Stop nagging about the price.
It was fine when this service launched and its fine now.
GOG is still GOG and Steam is still adaware/bloatware/drm.
Keep up the support. still loads of more games we need here!
Hehe...

On the first point, finding older games in retail stores is tough for me, I usually would have to buy over the internet, and even then, I hate using the UK postal system for packages, I've had three packages lost in the past two years, very annoying.
Out of interest, what other digital download stores are available in Europe? I know Steam covers most of the world most of the time, but I wasn't aware that there were other big players, I have avoided this sort of thing until GOG came along.
On the second point, you kind of back up my original idea, that the increased variety and extras will retain customers for repeat purchases. They are still going to offer the older more niche titles, but have the bigger ones as well. The best of both worlds.

No matter what this sale does for the sales figures of these titles on GOG, the fact that a major publisher like Ubisoft has joined GOG is still a great sign that this website is going to succeed and be a long-lasting digital distributor.
As far as Steam, I use the service... I like buying games through digital distributors and for new games it is by far the best of the bunch. DRM does have its drawbacks, but Steam's is relatively non-invasive.

Check out GamersGate (operated by Paradox Interactive). They sell a wide variety of games, including many recent releases and all Paradox-published titles. I haven't used it myself, however, so I'm not sure what sort of DRM it implements or how things like patches work.

While the timing of all this is unfortunate and will almost certainly make a negative impact in GOG's sales (although will also hit Steam's sales as well), I don't think it will hit GOG's sales nearly as hard as one would expect just looking at the price difference. This is because while there are those who see the situation as the same product being offered at two different prices (and will thus be more likely to buy from Steam), there is also a significant group (myself included) who sees two different products unsurprisingly offered at two different prices, due to the lack of DRM on the GOG release to say nothing of the extras. Hopefully it turns out that quality service and the lack of DRM prove to add quite a bit of value in the eyes of a large number of people.
As for myself, I purchased PoP yesterday and will be purchasing BGE later this weekend, both from GOG, as the lack of DRM and other bonuses of buying from GOG are well worth the price difference between GOG's and Steam's offerings to me.

Here's a terribly misinformed comment on Kotaku about the GoG/Steam turf war.
"I trust Steam more than GoG.com, and hell it's cheap."
You trust a company that could shut down any minute and you wouldn't be able to play it? Just because GOG is based in Eastern Europe does not mean they're money grabbing thieves.

Did anyone else notice that the Oddworld games also went on sale on Steam around the same time GoG got it on here?

Money-grabbing thieves would charge more than $5 or $10. ;)

Its not LIKELY to shut down suddenly but the effects woul be massive if it did. In risk management we'd describe that as likelihood 1 but impact 10