A discount two days after the released? And from my experience people who bought the game don't receive the discount for an item they bought. Strange movement.

The game was released with its current price, 70% off

Edit: Nevermind, i missed the newsletter thing.

...an email deal with a higher discount on a game just days after launch? Are you people high?

Don't you see why that's clever? They're trying to teach us never to buy games outside of newsletter discounts.

Well, although I agree with your thesis that dlc "cheats" are not a good thing (and possibly that dlc altogether is a bad thing)...

... I just don't see this as the game with which to fortify that argument.

Plus, this is one time i would look at the region in which this developer resides and the lengthy legal battle with Nacon. If anyone needs the money, I'd expect it's Frogwares... and I'm much more happy to pay them for fully conceptualized games than some entity like Whale Rock who keeps throwing out content that barely qualifies as proof of concept.

Anyway, just my 2 cents

I won't make this the hill I die on, I don't want to derail the thread if nothing else, so I'll just say this - Diablo Immortal didn't just spawn out of nowhere. It was a long, looong road that led to online games evolving into that final form. And a road like that will always start with innocuous things.

Fine, but it could have been just cosmetics. If this was just a case of "devs in need of money make a ton of cosmetic DLCs to facilitate fans helping them out" I wouldn't have anything bad to say.

Good point, :)

Their direct marketing will always be more valuable than visiting a forum. The vast majority of forum visitors do not buy games (or buy very few). It only makes sense that direct marketing will see incentives.

My only issue is to direct market a discount while the game currently has a release discount. That's weird.
And as a person who hates dlc...

... I would again say there are a million bigger offenders all the way back to Oblivion.

I would have expected this level of outrage on something like say...

... Order of Battle?

Personally, I'm just glad this game finally showed up. Now I'm wondering if Romero's Empire of Sin (which if I remember correctly released around the same time) will show up...?

This newsletter bullshit is flat out disrespectful to the paying customer.

Since i'm not going to bother with refunds and whatnot, lesson learned as far as new releases on gog are concerned i guess.

Its not even about the coin, it's actually about everything but.

A lot of people are over the hype of this game, given it's taken so long to release outside of Epic in a form that is not associated with Nacon.

I bought it three times to support them. They don't need me to buy it here, too. And yes, my copies were the "frogwares" copies.

It seems to be just a 5% difference. I'm sure the idea is to encourage people to subscribe, like in case they don't check regularly visit the GOG site but the newsletter reminds them that GOG exists :P and they end up buying through that.

I understand if people view this as maybe a "slippery slope" or bad precedent of some kind, but I'm just "meh" about it.

Theoretically people could just ask Support to apply the extra discount on top of what they already paid for and not rebuy or refund, but I get what you're saying as Support would still have to be bothered.

Maybe GOG could have an "apply newsletter discount" option in the dropdown menu under each order that opens a redeem text box so the process can be automatic / no Support involvement needed (theoretically). I did a quick mockup:

Edit: Or rather than the above, I guess it'd just make way more sense to have a link in the newsletter where clicking it automatically applies the discount. :P

It comes across to me as not so much encouragement to subscribe as it does punishment for not doing it. We already have threads tracking games that treat GOG buyers as second class, offline installers still lag behind the push for Galaxy, now are we going to see regular website users being treated like second class citizens too? It doesn't matter that it's 'just 5 percent', that's still money and the principle is more important, and given how spammy GOG's emails can get, I can see why a lot of people wouldn't want to deal with that, why should they be punished?

Of course an early adopter knows they're paying more than those who wait, but this is literally days after the game launched. You don't think doing this may actually give people pause before making impulse purchases going forward if they feel like there's a chance they're going to get ripped off? I'd definitely look at this as a potentially bad precedent.

This just highlights that GOG just does not know what it's doing anymore, they never seem to stop and think before doing anything.

Instabought! I wanted this game ever since it came out, but the Frogwares/Nacon lawsuit made me avoid buying it until the case was settled as I didn't want the wrong party getting my money and it wasn't absolutely clear who was in the wrong from news headlines and gut feelings. I almost bought it on Steam a couple of months ago but could not find a resolution to the lawsuit on Google so I decided to wait.

Now it seems Frogwares won the lawsuit and the game has come to GOG so I just had to splurge on it! Now I just have to free up some space to play it. :)

I always get this kind of issue when trying to redeem the discount code after refunding.
The easiest solution to get this optional discount is redeeming it through the *optional* galaxy client. It has worked for me.

I still haven't received this newsletter, so all I'm seeing is a reason not to buy the game at the discount I'm presently being offered...