Oh sorry, I thought Hungary would be one of the countrys that are considered to be poor and therefore getting lower prices.

Thank you!

I've overlooked that part. When it's intended that the sales overlap, which is a good idea, could you just let them overlap for a few hours more? The ending time of 16:00 UTC means that at least European people with a normal job cannot anymore buy games from the old sale on Mondays. Letting the old sale run until midnight European time (or maybe even until midnight American time so that people there also could benefit from it) would solve that problem.

I also miss the indentation of the quotes. It's harder and more error prone to remove irrelevant parts of the quotes, especially as you have 3 level of quotes now.

By the way, can we expect the "Add to Cart" button in the promos, but not exclusively "CHECKOUT NOW" (Buy) button?
Very uncomfortable, especially on big sales like the Summer, when you want to add to cart games from several promotions.

fables22 is most likely right -- someone's working on the forum software behind the scenes. I noticed the issues with the reply formatting last night, and it's the same thing that's happened in the past. Hopefully, it won't last more than a week, because it really is annoying, trying to parse the different levels of nested quotes without indentation as a visual aid.

This is simply my opinion based on what has been said about this format.

I was not that found of the week staff picks sales last year. I think this will further push sales in that same direction.

If the premise is now that the sale will be weekly and at the end of the week it gets "upgraded" what that seems like to me is a situation where if I check in on Monday and see a theme of all 15-30 year old games that in likelihood will mean the "upgrade:" will be the same type of OLD games, which personally I have virtually no interest in. This is just one example of a kind of theme + upgrade. However there would be many more.

That works against GOG as its discouraging customers from checking multiple times in a week to see if anything new is up.

That can even begin to hurt sales as sales are typically not pre announced (outside of the forums) and could result in a customer who buys from gog, checking maybe twice a week, missing out on say 1/4th of a big seasonal sale not expecting it would have begun yet.

I really see no advantage to increasing the number of days an item is for sale beyond the first 3 if customers generally know to check back every other day to see what is on sale.

Yet all this is, is speculation, that we wont really get to know for certain until we start to see how these upgrades play out. We shall see soon enough.

I recommend you, to go to Steam, HumbleBundle, G2A, Indiegala and other "stores", where you can see, that they have weekly sales all the times.

And i wouldn't suggest people to risk their money on this grey marketplace .

Do they [the three levels of quote] work, though? I don’t dare try it. :P

Oh, so it’s happened before? That reassures me, then. Let’s hope everything goes back to normal, soon.

Is there like a dedicated discussion board on the (regional) prices policy? - I'd like to check it out.

- I personally don't care if a price is regionally placed or not. I'd however prefer to be offered a reasonable(according to my wallet, but see caveat below) price. This is of course rather personal. If I'm not fine with the price, I don't buy, plain and simple. This is however a no-side-wins situation - the seller would love to sell me the product, I guess. Ideally, I'm given a feedback form and I specify my price theshold. Currently only the wishlists serves as a kind a feedback, if they are analyzed by the seller/publisher/developer at all.

- There are also certain (indie) games/developers that I'd love to support and I'd rather buy their games at a (full) price reasonable for them - above rationale doesn't matter.

Apologies. You have misconstrued what I was saying.

I am not saying weekly sales are bad. What I am saying is not beneficial is having one unified sale going 7 days, with the weekend sale simply "upgrading" the existing sale.

What this in effect produces is LESS sales, because it reduces what was a strategy of at least two distinct sales, it is now producing effectively only one. Because if you see thematically you have no interest in what the sale is Monday, this suggests that the Friday upgrade will still remain in that theme. Thus giving people less reason to check back daily. If you know the weekly theme is racing games, and you know GOG is a bit light on the racing game front and there's no racing game you want, why would you bother checking back during the weekend to see a few more racing games added to the sale?

I know when they changed it last year to Weekly staff picks, that ended up reducing my visits as well as reducing what I bought from GOG last year. In fact, now I only check GOG on Mondays and Fridays regularly. (Tuesdays if a seasonal sale is "due")

If this goes the way it sounds, This will result in me only checking on GOG on Mondays regularly, and then again on Fridays occasionally when the theme suggest there might be something worth looking at in its upgrade. This method, dependent on how its implemented will be more of the same and result in more of the same.

Personally I don't see this like that, especially as this doesn't seem to be themed anymore. Now they have stuff discounted from soccer to shooter titles, so unless this is an exception I wouldn't count the added games on Fridays to follow any formula that happened on Mondays. I could of course be wrong but the way I see it, is that the special themed sales, as they were, might not be the case anymore and this may actually give more variety to each sale.

As you said, though, we will see how this will work out.

And of course they do not work. :P At least not when 2 of the 3 quoting levels are from the same author. I've just tried it out by quoting one of your last posts. The first level of quotes has been dropped.

I don't get the 'out of tune' reference but I have gotten a bleeping blank amount of games at a fraction of their price (I understand that with most companies their whole "sale" thing is a bit of a gimmick).

I think we could use a break from at least some of the formulas. How often were we getting tired of the same Ubisoft sales for example? Or the DnD sales now that i think of it. I'm also hoping the new format might offer more variation.

Yes, I agree, that can happen.
But we will have to wait and see...