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Posted October 10, 2012
Pay what you want, grab up to 3 excellent RPGs, support Larian Studios!

Quick summary:
1. Set your own fair price.
2. Get up to 3 Divinity Games, including Divinity II: Developer's Cut.
3. Own some of the games? No problem--you'll get the gift codes to give to friends.
4. Bonus for you:
* enjoy exclusive access to Divinity II: Developer's Cut one day before the release
* tons of goodies for all the games
* unlock special videos from Larian Studios

RPG fans, promo hunters, dev supporters! For the next 7 days GOG.com gives you a chance to put three wonderful role-playing games on your shelf, puts you in control over their price, and offers you an opportunity to support the games' hard working and talented developers: Larian Games. Proudly introducing: [url=http://www.gog.com/divinity]GOG Pay What You Want: Divinity Anthology! The "Pay What You Want" can be purchased from GOG.com starting now until 01:00 AM GMT on the 18th of October, 2012.

Set your own fair price for the classic Divine Divinity, where you become the chosen one, destined to fulfil an ancient prophecy and save the Seven Races of Rivellon. In this extensive, challenging, and very addictive game you will encounter many different enemies and a great variety of items, NPCs, and quests.

Beat the average price and receive your copy of Beyond Divinity, the creative continuation of the series, featuring an immersive story of the divine and the daemonic, challenging gameplay with two characters to control at the same time and a huge universe to explore and exploit.

The top 10% of our most generous users will also grant themselves an early access to the upcoming Divinity 2: Developer's Cut.The Developer's Cut, which is the ultimate edition of the game, comes with Divinity II and the expansion Divinity II: Flames of Vengeance, as well as a special developer's mode and extra goodies, will be available on PC on the 18th of October, 2012, but if you buy it here you will get to play it a day earlier than everyone else! The "Director's Cut" subtitle also means, that you'll have the unique opportunity to experience the game just as the developers did: with optional access to developer console you'll feel like the god of the realm.

But that's not all! All of the games come with an extensive amount of goodies--especially Divinity 2: Developer's Cut features a crazy amount of bonus materials (all of which you can access as soon as you finalize your purchase). To make things even more interesting, Larian Games told us that as the sales progress, they will be releasing some very special announcements and interesting videos. Heard enough? Go to the GOG Pay What You Want: Divinity Anthology page!
Post edited October 10, 2012 by G-Doc
Posted October 11, 2012
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puviani: In a couple of dozen bundles, I've never seen one start at a high price that's almost cut in half overnight, penalizing early buyers (usually, early buyers are rewarded, not punished).
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Azilut: From what I've been hearing, the bundle actually started at a much lower price ($10), but was cranked up almost immediately by some truly extravagant payments by a few hardcore fans wanting to support the devs. (I've heard that one person chose to pay $1000.00.) So to most of us who turned up a few hours later, it "looked" like the bundle started at $20+. I don't know how much of that is rumour, but if true, then the wonky price behaviour of this bundle can hardly be blamed on GOG.
Well, you can see the $1,000 payment on the "leaderboard", so I'd say that's pretty accurate. Supposedly, that name isn't even the users real name. Someone with that username posted and said that they normally have a different username but didn't want to use it and also didn't want to do it anonymously either, so they created a separate user. If messed with the average payment that much early on in a community this small, I probably wouldn't use my real username either.
Posted October 11, 2012
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Azilut: From what I've been hearing, the bundle actually started at a much lower price ($10), but was cranked up almost immediately by some truly extravagant payments by a few hardcore fans wanting to support the devs. (I've heard that one person chose to pay $1000.00.) So to most of us who turned up a few hours later, it "looked" like the bundle started at $20+. I don't know how much of that is rumour, but if true, then the wonky price behaviour of this bundle can hardly be blamed on GOG.
Yeah, it's right up there on the leaderboards, as to who are the top contributors.

The only thing that gives me pause on the bundle is that I don't want "Beyond Divinity". I'm only interested in "Divine Divinity" and "Divinity 2". Wish there was some way to cancel the second game out of the purchase.
Posted October 11, 2012
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Nicole28: The only thing that gives me pause on the bundle is that I don't want "Beyond Divinity". I'm only interested in "Divine Divinity" and "Divinity 2". Wish there was some way to cancel the second game out of the purchase.
Well, I'm mildly interested in Beyond Divnity and have no interest in Divinity 2, so if you like, I'd happily trade you for BD's gift code in exchange for, say, a $2.39 price-point game of your choice in an upcoming weekend sale.

I realize I don't have a lot of rep on these forums, so if you're not comfortable with that, I quite understand. (And feel free to hold onto the gift code until the exchange is made; I'm not going to get around to playing it any time soon anyway.)
Posted October 11, 2012
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ISC: Gifting a code which cost a buck now makes me fell a bit low.
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muffblaster: theres nothing low about that :)
its good of you. it can be tricky for some to buy games even at that price.
If someone can not make a purchase now then there is nothing wrong with giving a gift code. If they can, though, a gift during the promotion could be a lost sale, which could potentially make a difference in the milestone rewards. Probably not, but every little bit helps (I at least want the LMK tech demo, but at the top milestone Larian will announce and develop a new RPG).
Posted October 11, 2012
I have an extra divine divinity

HDKB-WXCF-C7N6-G36Y
Posted October 11, 2012
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was435: I have an extra divine divinity HDKB-WXCF-C7N6-G36Y
Thank you kind sir! ^ ^
Posted October 11, 2012
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puviani: With all this emphasis on a FAIR price, it's ironic that the game developers/publishers turned around 24 hours later and screwed over the ones who encouraged them. I paid $21 despite already owning the first two games on the assumption that the game developer was also playing fair. The day after, they sell the game for $10 on Steam. Fair my ass. This was a pay-what-you-want-as-long-as-we-get-to-fleece-you bundle. I'm willing to believe that GOG was deceived right along with its clients, but they should be offering a refund to those who want it. GOG have always been honest and they shouldn't tie their name to such deceptive marketing practices.
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Bloodygoodgames: And NO, you're not getting ripped off. It's now only $13.26 for THREE games, whereas Steam is charging 10 bucks for just one. It's hardly GOG's fault that you rushed off to buy a game the minute the deal went up. The rules of the promo are clearly explained, and anyone who has ever participated in buying a bundle knows they go up and then they go down. It's like bitching about playing the slots and losing a hundred bucks, then blaming the casino.
Ya, what were you thinking paying $21 for this deal!? You should have waited until all the people paying 0.01 cent for the first game brought the price down to $13!

Honestly i can't believe you were all getting angry and now that the price has gone down you're fine with it. At what cost? 100s of people buying the first game for a penny? That's just not fair to the developers.
Posted October 11, 2012
I dropped 20 bucks. For 3 games. I'm ok with it. Sorry if it raises the average for ya'll.
Posted October 11, 2012
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Bloodygoodgames: Steam will always undercut because they can and because they're damned and determined to be a monopoly, and gamers who should know better but don't will keep buying everything on Steam "because it's cheap" until there are no other choices left.
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MarioFanaticXV: This; it's the same strategy that J. D. Rockefeller used to establish his monopoly of the fuel industry. And if people keep buying into it, it'll likely be just as detrimental to gaming...
It's the exact same strategy Wal-Mart used. Sell as much cheap crap as possible and deliberately go after your competitors and shut them down. In Wal-Mart's case, most of their 'competitors' were mom and pop stores all over the US that ended up having to close down as there was no way they could ever compete with Wal-Mart selling a product they sold at 25 percent of the cost, JUST to shut them down.

As soon as all their competitors are wiped out, Wal-Mart then raises prices.

The problem is, most people are idiots. And no, I'm not joking or being facetious. It's true.

They'll go rushing after the "cheap price" with no thought as to why it's so cheap. Then, when they have no options left except for the mega-corporation that's the only place that sells the stuff they want, has raised prices and is treating its customers like the peons they are, then they're bitching.

My prediction is Steam will end up being the same. It will destroy the video game industry as it's goal is to completely cut off people's choices. But, most people are morons. So they'll let it.
Posted October 11, 2012
I will admit I only paid $1. U mad bro ?
Post edited October 11, 2012 by DeViLzzz2011
Posted October 11, 2012
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was435: I have an extra divine divinity HDKB-WXCF-C7N6-G36Y
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daemonjin: Thank you kind sir! ^ ^
It's an awesome game I hope you enjoy it
Posted October 11, 2012
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DeViLzzz2011: I will admit I only paid $1. U mad bro ?
I am not. You paid what you felt it was worth, or could, or whatever. I paid what I felt was fair.
Posted October 11, 2012
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DeViLzzz2011: I will admit I only paid $1. U mad bro ?
So did I, but mine was for a gift code and to support the developers. Besides, I've bought the game 3 times before already :)

My experience with game giveaways too is, in 90 percent of the cases, the people who enter the competition have no intention of buying the game any time soon or simply can't afford it, so by buying a copy to give away, no matter at what price, it does help the developers and isn't taking away from a purchase that might otherwise have been made.

DO remember though, if you're buying it for 1 cent, you're probably causing GOG to lose money, as I'm guessing they have to pay a PayPal or credit card charge for every purchase..

I would have paid more for it, but I literally had $1.33 in my bank account, and I needed the 33 cents to keep the account open :)
Posted October 11, 2012
Eh...I think I'll wait for the top supporter price to get to $12 or lower before buying.
Posted October 11, 2012
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Bloodygoodgames: The rules of the promo are clearly explained, and anyone who has ever participated in buying a bundle knows they go up and then they go down. It's like bitching about playing the slots and losing a hundred bucks, then blaming the casino.
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puviani: Nice try with the righteous lecturing, but I've bought almost every Humble Bundle, Indie Gala, Indie Royale, Facekick, Game Music bundle, and a few others that popped up randomly by various game distributors. I'm well used to how bundles work and it's nothing like this. In a couple of dozen bundles, I've never seen one start at a high price that's almost cut in half overnight, penalizing early buyers (usually, early buyers are rewarded, not punished). Neither have I ever seen a bundle get undercut by a commercial distributor. In fact, I've seen distributors BUY batches of bundles to resell them at a profit. So feel free to be happy with YOUR purchase, but I have every right to be disgruntled with the way this has been done.
Nope. I'm sorry, but BloodyGoodGames' statement was 100% correct.

- You knew, from previous experience, that prices in bundles go up and down
- The rules of this bundle are clearly spelled out.
- From reading the rules, you could clearly see that there is ample opportunity for price changes in this bundle, but that the rules are also quite different from those of other bundles.
- You therefore should have been aware that a bundle with a new set of rules is uncharted territory.

You _assumed_ that this bundle would work similarly to other bundles, despite knowing that those work on a different set of rules. This, I'm sorry, is your fault, not GOG's.

Finally, why the jealousy? The whole point of bundles (this one included) is to offer games for prices that the users deem fair. Obviously, you must have thought that the price you paid was appropriate, otherwise you wouldn't have made the purchase. The fact that others can get the game for cheaper (or more expensive) should not influence your assessment whether the bundle was worth the price you paid or not.
Post edited October 11, 2012 by Psyringe
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