I think 5.99 is a fair price personally. I think it is important to remember that a deal here on GOG does not only incorporate the main product itself. Firstly it is guaranteed to work on both Vista and XP, and you get access to technichal service if any problems appear. Secondly there is the bonus material.
I own HoMM 2 but it constantly crashed on my older XP computer, and I would definitely pay to get a compatible version without having to fiddle around the internet for solution for several hours. Personally I think the addition of HoMM is priceless. 6 $ is fine, and a good price.

While that would be sweet and already kinda has some parallels to it here IIRC, I think it'd be "enough" for each title to be a separate release----so long as each one has all relative expansions/patches/etc available to it. Do each release like that for 5.99 and it is a given...even at 9.99 it is still very likely just a bit irksome on Ubi's part. Main thing is for the absolute best version of each game to be represented in full working order.

As far as my wallet is concerned, 9.99 isn't that much if you compare what you get for that 9.99. Great service, almost no hassle on modern systems (unless you have hardware from the Future!) and no DRM. Granted, it may seem a bit much for an old game, but I like to think it's the intangible benefits that count as well.

Very good point. Frankly, there are all kinds of ways to get games, but GOG makes games play okay on Vista and XP, and without any serious research and tinkering and wanting to punch yourself in the face, and that is pretty huge. That along with their anti-DRM stance makes me a very loyal customer who tells everybody about GOG whenever he can.
Regarding pricing, to be honest, I don't care about the difference between $5.99 and $9.99. If I can afford one, I can afford the other. If I'm so tight that I can't afford $9.99, I can't really afford $5.99 either.
Then again, I'm mostly buying games I have already played and know I love. If I were just taking a flyer on unknown games just to see what they're like, I might feel differently.
edit: I do feel that expansions that aren't the most OMG fantastic ones should be sold for either $5.99 or bundled in to any game that goes for $9.99 though. A great many expansions don't really do a lot, and some are just glorified patches or have maybe one tiny benefit or add nothing of note.

Can't wait until the release day
sheepdragon: Might and Magic you say? +1

I don't know how it was in other countries, but in Spain Ubisoft sold all of them separately for 10€ each. Good thing is every game came with it expansions.

The reason I'm interested in this is not so much that I plan to play it to death, but that I really loved HOMM 2 and would like to see how the original compares. Maybe I'd get addicted to it, but I'm not counting on that. So for me it would be more like a fun history lesson.
For that purpose, $5.99 is a pretty good price. I wouldn't feel bad if I paid $5.99 for it and only played it for an hour. But $9.99 is kind of steep.
Not saying it should cost less because of my personal reasoning, I'm just saying I'll probably buy it at $5.99, but not at $9.99.

I played HoMM 2 to death (including epic +five hours hot-seat games), and when I tried HoMM 1for the same sake you're saying... well... it was pretty much like the second one, but slower and with slightly worse graphics.

Aye, and after reading around a bit, I know that Ubisoft the full rights for the Might & Magic franchise. so I wouldn't see it as a far fetched thing to have it here. The only ones I got myself are M&M VII & IX, and I'm waiting for a collection I bought on eBay, which have World of Xeen as part of it(for all who don't know, when you combine M&M IV and V, they merge into a single enormous game, known as World of Xeen).

9,99$ for HoM&M1 is a joke IMO. It's a good game, but not worth that price today. On the other hand - I'll pay ten bucks for HoM&M3 Complete gladly when it will become available.

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 is pretty much the same thing, only improved in every possible way. So yeah, 10$ for the 1st one is a bit too much. For the second or third one, however...

Oh boy! I'm too much of a young 'un to have played anything before HOMM III, but that game devoured my life for a month. From what I hear it sounds like that was the best of the series, did HOMM take a while to mature or were the first two games gems as well?

My brother and I always argue about this. I say Heroes 2 was the best (also best turned based strategy game ever) and that Heroes 3 is basically broken strategically. Those freakin archangels are so powerful and available so early I just spam them and always win! My brother argues Heroes 3 is better in every way because of the improved RPG elements and graphics (and he loves spamming archangels and winning easily). Heroes 2 is just so balanced and strategic and I like the story more. Heroes 1 is third place but still in my top 20 games list (I will not speak about the buggy mess that was 4).

Heroes 2 is very well balanced except for ghosts, which are a really unfunny joke. Also, I think Heroes 3 is pretty balanced as well.

i keep reading the title as wololo