I dunno. Before when they had 15% off sales it was a bigger mental barrier - to go from $5.99 to $5.10 was still $5 to the casual glance. Now they've made big enough jumps - $5.99-$4.19 is a full dollar off to that same casual glance, and if you look closer you'll see it's almost $2... the deal gets better yet.
I know it's a much better psychological trick, because I bought a couple games from it which have remained unplayed as of yet!

No, its absolute fact. Steam requires you to have an active account to download and play your games, and so does GOG. I have confirmation STRAIGHT from GOG staff that they reserve the right to block users, which would result in you not being able to play games you don't have installed already.

Correction: Steam requires you to have an active account to download and play your games. GOG requires an active account to download your games. Blocking users would result in one not being able to play games you don't have downloaded already. From a consumer standpoint, the most that GOG can do is remove the ability to re-download games, if you download games at time of purchase.

Why are people still feeding the troll? You're just giving him license to continue spouting the lies, opinions as facts and FUD he has been posting all along. Just give him the negative rep he deserves and ignore him.

Semantics. If a service sells you re-downloadable games, and they reserve the right to remove half of that service, then they are practically the same as Steam.
And Cogadh, I only ever speak the truth. To do otherwise would be illogical.

And excuse me? What exactly dictates that I deserve negative rep? My facts are vallid, as are my conclusions. *YOU* might not like them, but they *are* the truth. You are allowed to erroneously believe falsehoods, but that doens't change them into truth.

Why is he a troll? He's not being a dick like most of them do!

"my facts are valid as are my conclusions " hahaha whoo that's a good one

I buy from Steam when it's cheaper. Sure I'll support GOG whenever possible, but ultimately a better deal prevails upon anything else.
There's no way that Valve could get away with just disabling everyone's games and withdrawing from Steam. Just imagine the public outcry, it would be the biggest one in videogame history. The government will intervene at some point, and laws will be voted to help with the perennity of online purchases.

GOG - Potential to remove 50% of service. (The less important 50%, in my opinion...)
Steam - Potential to remove 100% of service.
On the topic of semantics, I wouldn't say "GOG is practically the same as Steam." That's a really poor conclusion. The practicality of GOG product is exactly why many of us will buy here rather than use other storefronts.

Just read his posts for a while and it becomes fairly clear. Of course, I'm still not decided on whether it's (extremely good) intentional trolling or whether he's simply sophomoric to such an extent that he often comes across like a troll.

Cave fever. It's like Cabin fever, but for trolls.
Even though gog would go down and even ban your account for some (good) reasons, that won't prevent you from playing the games you already purchased, anyway.

Exactly. The games will always remain mine. I personally regret ever having bought any old games on Steam because they have no added value. Steam doesn't even update the DOSBox version! It's still 0.70 I believe while 0.74 is around the corner. They put DOSBox in a Steam shell as well, meaning that if you overwrite DOSBox with the new version, you don't need Steam anymore. It fixes the problems but it's just silly.

Oh, btw, I don't think Anjohl deserves negative rep every times he opens his loud mouth. That's a bit excessive in my opinion. Sarcasms would be more appropriate.