The first rule of GOG sales is: You don't talk about GOG's next sale.
The second rule of GOG sales is: You don't talk about GOG's next sale.
The third rule of GOG sales is the same as the first rule of GOG sales.
The fourth rule of GOG sales is the fourth rule of GOG sales.
The Fifth rule of GOG sales takes the Fifth.
The sixth rule of GOG sales is: There is no sixth rule of GOG sales.
The seventh rule of GOG sales is secretly the sixth rule of GOG sales.
The last rule of GOG sales is: Hooray for Boobies!

You lost me at the fourth one...

Yeah, and that's likely how most people are starting to view games (as commodities). Much of it is probably due to the effect of constant and deep discount sales, too, so... point taken.

Agreed, but it's very subjective. The Mount and Blade game is a good example. I was only mildly interested in it and would never have bought it at full price. However, along came a sale and I said "What the hell, I'll grab it and try it out down the road". So there's an example of some cash put towards a game that would not have occurred without a sale price.

The only things I hold out for now when it comes to new games are titles that are tied to a client or that are planned to have a bunch of DLC. That's more the principal of the thing than any other factor though: I refuse to pay full price for client-tied games, and (with very, very few exceptions) will only buy DLC-laden games when I can get it all in one GOTY/Ultimate/Uber Edition package.

But yeah, for the most part, if I'm really interested in a game, I don't wait for a sale to pull the trigger.

My concern is that it may not work very well for developers, over the long haul. It works fine for the stores, else they wouldn't do the big discounts so quickly. And it's fine - for now - for the consumer since they get stuff cheap. Maybe developers see it as working out fine, or maybe they just go along because that's what the marketplace looks like these days. But I wonder if, at some point, a bubble bursts on the development side, caused in part by giant discounts and practically giving away games.

We'll see.

Keep in mind that my perspective comes from getting into gaming when the choices were a lot fewer, but the percentage of really quality games was (or at least seemed) higher. You paid more, sure, but you weren't sorting through throw-away games like you may find in the bundle du jour.

Anyway, it's not a huge deal. There will always be games, there will always be sales. Just a bit of a concern I have, wondering if this change is for the better.

And yeah, collectors. /raises hand

You think that was rude? Crikey, standards have lowered. Here's the thing, most GOG games are reasonably priced and quite cheap considering the price of new AAA games. Constantly waiting for the sale does nothing but cheapen the value of a game. There is nothing wrong with waiting for a sale when you're skint but that is NOT the reason a lot of gamers do it. You just need to look at the average game forum to see that.

Eh, saying that sales "intrinsically diminish the value of the media" or whatever is going too far. It's no different from old books and music records going to the bargain bin. Plus new games usually take quite a while to have a sale where the price drops noticeably unless it simply fails at launch (lolol Deux Ex MD, good job on shitty DLC practices and horrible optimization). If anything GOG sales make it even more likely that people will buy the games instead of pirating, if they were going to hoard excessive amounts of games in the first place they'd just pirate anyway.

Furthermore you can't just diss people who take a more "generalist" approach to gaming instead of growing attached to just one or a few titles, they just different ways to enjoy your games. I've had games that kept me glued to the screen playing them daily for long periods (Unreal Tournament, Warcraft 3, S4 League, Dirty Bomb, Age of Empires to name some) but right now I've been playing several different games sporadically, kinda hopping in between for the sake of variety and it's also fun.

I guess that depends where you come from. Ironically, being form the same country as GOG themselves, it's not rare to see games costing just as much on GOG now as 10+ years ago when many of them were sold as already old games in budget release series. Hell, pretty sure I saw a few that are more expensive here.