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Posted May 19, 2012
Honestly I think if you come to GOG just for the low prices then you're likely not their primary target audience. Discount gaming isn't their market, they might make use of that market, but its not the one that they are servicing. The markets they are aiming for is the DRM free and old games markets.


Of course they'll always try to keep the price to the consumer down, but honestly if its a case of having a title present on GOG at a higher price or not having it I'll choose the former option every time.

Game "worth" is always going to vary player to player - heck there are some who will consider any charge on a game to be "criminal" and "not worth it".
Posted May 19, 2012
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spinefarm: And we have 1 game over that price points and everybody is going nuts on it :0
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Navagon: Well there's that and Heroes of Might and Magic V, along with Assassin's Creed which is 2007 and therefore not exactly new. Plus I think that it's more down to these games being a sign of where things might be heading. What if System Shock 2 was released at a higher price? Or Bloodlines?
Bloodlines will be 15$ and no less... if GOG manage to drop it to 9.99$ it will be great. About System Shock.... I don't think we will see it anytime soon. At 500-600 released games on GOG ...maybe :)
I don't think Black Ops deserves 40 euro but yet.. the price is that... For some games they just can't drop the price that much. If you look at the catalogue quite good amount of games are cheaper for us(europeans) than on Steam/GamersGate... so if they keep up with the good work... I don't mind releasing 1-2 games like RCT3 Platinum.
Posted May 19, 2012
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overread: ...
If that's aimed at me then that's not my point. Just that those games would have been considered 'old' by GOG's standards when they only released 'old' games.
Posted May 19, 2012
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overread: Of course they'll always try to keep the price to the consumer down, but honestly if its a case of having a title present on GOG at a higher price or not having it I'll choose the former option every time.
This was my point exactly.. RCT3 is part of a series... so I consider it as a good addition to the catalogue. I prefer to see all the AC games here too...over that Tages drm.
Posted May 19, 2012
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spinefarm: I don't mind releasing 1-2 games like RCT3 Platinum.
Nor do I. My only point is that there's no sense in defending it by saying that it's not old. Defend it by saying it's good value. Defend it by saying it's the same price, or lower than elsewhere. But even by GOG's own standards, those games really aren't spring chickens anymore.
Posted May 19, 2012
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FraterPerdurabo: So if you released a game in 2000, made an expansion for it in 2010 and bundled the two, the game is released in 2010? ;)
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spinefarm: The bundled product that you can buy here is released 2006 so yes 2006 count as a release date. What is that hard to understand?
fail
Posted May 19, 2012
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spinefarm: The bundled product that you can buy here is released 2006 so yes 2006 count as a release date. What is that hard to understand?
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htown1980: fail
What is written here: http://www.gog.com/gamecard/rollercoaster_tycoon_3
November 7, 2006
Posted May 19, 2012
Personally the only problem I have with the GOG service is the rate of new additions. I do hope that adding newer titles to the service will increase their earning potential (I've honestly no idea how big a cut they take per sale, or if higher prices mean more for them or just more to the rights holder). I'd really like to see them expand beyond the average of 2 games per week - and if they add more newer titles I feel it would be expected of them to boost this number. Otherwise they are playing a losing battle as the number of games is pretty darn large and adding only 104 a year (it is more that's just the bare bones base) is a bit limited - esp when one considers the massive number of old games
Posted May 19, 2012
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htown1980: fail
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spinefarm: What is written here: http://www.gog.com/gamecard/rollercoaster_tycoon_3
November 7, 2006
i don't care what gog state the release date is. if a game released in 1978 and a game released in 1982 are released as a bundle in 2008, and then gog start to sell that bundle, it's not a release of a 2008 bundle. its a release of a 1978 game and a 1982 game.

not that it matters. gnight.
Posted May 19, 2012
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spinefarm: I don't mind releasing 1-2 games like RCT3 Platinum.
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Navagon: Nor do I. My only point is that there's no sense in defending it by saying that it's not old. Defend it by saying it's good value. Defend it by saying it's the same price, or lower than elsewhere. But even by GOG's own standards, those games really aren't spring chickens anymore.
Yes they aren't 2010-2012 titles... With digital sales the pricing is strange....cause you can actually do hard sales like steam and still don't loose money. It is better priced than most of the digital sellers and people still don't try to understand it...

You know what it is funny: People don't flame Steam or GamersGate or Amazon for selling something old for bigger price...but when it is about GOG they go extreme flame :D

For instance: Earthworm Jim is 20 euro per game on Steam,both MDK's are 9.99 euro,Sacrifice is 9.99 euro,Fallout collection is 20 euro & all the Unreal games are over 9.99 euro...

But people don't look at that at all...
Posted May 19, 2012
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overread: Personally the only problem I have with the GOG service is the rate of new additions. I do hope that adding newer titles to the service will increase their earning potential (I've honestly no idea how big a cut they take per sale, or if higher prices mean more for them or just more to the rights holder). I'd really like to see them expand beyond the average of 2 games per week - and if they add more newer titles I feel it would be expected of them to boost this number. Otherwise they are playing a losing battle as the number of games is pretty darn large and adding only 104 a year (it is more that's just the bare bones base) is a bit limited - esp when one considers the massive number of old games
Recent weeks they add 4 games a week... so it is ok I think...this way they keep the interest...if they drop 10 games a week... at least 4 of them will have low sales...so it's not worth it...
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spinefarm: What is written here: http://www.gog.com/gamecard/rollercoaster_tycoon_3
November 7, 2006
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htown1980: i don't care what gog state the release date is. if a game released in 1978 and a game released in 1982 are released as a bundle in 2008, and then gog start to sell that bundle, it's not a release of a 2008 bundle. its a release of a 1978 game and a 1982 game.

not that it matters. gnight.
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
Release date(s)
NA October 26, 2004
EU November 3, 2004

The expansions were released same time 2005 and early 2006... so your point is kinda weak don't you think :D

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spinefarm: For instance: Earthworm Jim is 20 euro per game on Steam
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gameon: :O
Oops my bad they bundle it for 20 euro yet here is 12$ in total :D
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Posted May 19, 2012
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spinefarm: For instance: Earthworm Jim is 20 euro per game on Steam
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gameon: :O
That's not true in fact. The three games are available in a bundle at 20€, you cannot purchase them separately.
It is just an oddity of Steam pricing, when a game is only available in a bundle, its displayed price is the price of the bundle.
Posted May 19, 2012
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spinefarm: You know what it is funny: People don't flame Steam or GamersGate or Amazon for selling something old for bigger price...but when it is about GOG they go extreme flame :D

For instance: Earthworm Jim is 20 euro per game on Steam,both MDK's are 9.99 euro,Sacrifice is 9.99 euro,Fallout collection is 20 euro & all the Unreal games are over 9.99 euro...

But people don't look at that at all...
Well they do. Especially when it comes to regional pricing for Europeans. That topic has been done to death in the forums and sites like http://www.steamprices.com/ have often been used in rants. But GOG's price point changes are new and naturally that's going to get a lot of attention right now.
Posted May 19, 2012
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gameon: :O
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999888: That's not true in fact. The three games are available in a bundle at 20€, you cannot purchase them separately.
It is just an oddity of Steam pricing, when a game is only available in a bundle, its displayed price is the price of the bundle.
Yes yes I've noticed that :D
Posted May 19, 2012
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spinefarm: You know what it is funny: People don't flame Steam or GamersGate or Amazon for selling something old for bigger price...but when it is about GOG they go extreme flame :D

For instance: Earthworm Jim is 20 euro per game on Steam,both MDK's are 9.99 euro,Sacrifice is 9.99 euro,Fallout collection is 20 euro & all the Unreal games are over 9.99 euro...

But people don't look at that at all...
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Navagon: Well they do. Especially when it comes to regional pricing for Europeans. That topic has been done to death in the forums and sites like http://www.steamprices.com/ have often been used in rants. But GOG's price point changes are new and naturally that's going to get a lot of attention right now.
As far as I am concern if they keep the prices to 20$ for games older than 2009... and 10$/5$ for the classics ...and bring my favourite games DRM-Free here... I have no issue with GOG :)
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