serpantino: Wow that was RUBBISH O_O I wasn't going to watch it but I was sat here with my dindins. No mention of new classics... just Mac which is irrelevant to the majority of users, a bunch of new/indie games that are irrelevant to some of us. Remember when they said they weren't going to break away from their roots? Also Theme Hospital on Mac? Does that mean they've fixed the memory error which leads to the game running 5fps on later levels? Greatest Classics of All Time should read > When we actually get round to putting them on.
Well, they released Bioforge today and while I never got around to playing it PC Gamer certainly raved about it at the time. They also did do the Interplay promo and while I won't be biting for the same reason as everyone else they're at least trying.
I suspect it's hard to announce upcoming classic games because they need to secure rights and get the game working. If it's a new game you have something that works now and that the studio/publisher wants to get out into stores so you can do a pre-sale easily to drum up support.
Still, that Interplay promo really smarts. Perhaps they should also be keeping in mind that when you're selling classic games a lot of your audience already owns many of them and are more interested in picking up the stuff they missed, not buying everything. I know it's not worth it compared to just buying the two or three games I'm actually interested in (all in the top tier of course).
It feels like lately GOG haven't been doing the best of promos, especially compared to Steam. Lots of bundling where to get a couple of games you want, you need to buy a bunch of also-rans. Right now it's "pay what you want" bundles where the actual "what you want" portion is very limited, but before it was things like the cumulative discounts (like the recent D&D promo) where if you wanted a good discount you needed to buy a huge bundle of games you didn't really want. and possibly already owned. I realize they want to make money, but as Steam has shown you make more money by cutting costs heavily and selling more volume than you do by trying to milk a higher price and selling fewer units.
