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I just watched this weeks update and heard that GoG will have to raise prices on Interplays catalogue at he publishers request. What kind of increase will we be seeing? Sure hope this is not a trend. GoG has done such a tremendous job of bringing us the oldies and some great Indies at affordable prices..I'd hate to see that go away due to publishers linning their pocket books due to GoG's sucsess in marketing them.
Don't look at GOG, this has Herve Caen written all over it.
Look at Interplay titles on DotEmu and Steam. Most of them are $10.

Interplay is barely staying afloat so this isn't very surprising.
They have a marketing strategy of Polish finance ministry:

"we make only 100 on that game. If we double the price, we will get 200!"
Oh, how big their surprise will be...
I heard a rumour that VR Soccer may increase in price to $1000 (yes 1 thousand dollars) but that is just a rumour
Gotta make what you can before you die.
I've had their entire catalog here on GOG for over a year now. No regrets.

Between last year's sale, the "pay what you want" promo, and this 50% off sale, I'd expect everybody to have whatever Interplay games they want by now. Good time to finish whatever business you have left with Interplay this weekend. The future does not look bright.
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Skunk: I've had their entire catalog here on GOG for over a year now. No regrets.

Between last year's sale, the "pay what you want" promo, and this 50% off sale, I'd expect everybody to have whatever Interplay games they want by now. Good time to finish whatever business you have left with Interplay this weekend. The future does not look bright.
Yep, your right..good advice. I finally picked up Fallout 2, the only one of the series I did not have yet. "No time like the present" as they say.
With so many game purchases being made during >50% sales, I'm not sure if raising the non-sale price will help Interplay bring in more profits.
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mondo84: With so many game purchases being made during >50% sales, I'm not sure if raising the non-sale price will help Interplay bring in more profits.
I think their logic is that if so many people are buying during sales, they can double the prices and then get the original full price during sales periods. Of course, if they had priced it at $10 to begin with - which, if I'm honest, games like Fallout are easily worth - it would have come across less as a cheap cash-grab.

Gun, meet foot. Foot, meet gun.
What Interplay should do is publish more games here on GOG, not raise the prices on those already here. If Interplay publishes Blackthorne, The Lost Vikings , Atomic Bomberman , Dragon Wars and Blood and Magic next week, for 6$ each, the income from that will easily bring them a few hundred thousand dollars in the next couple of months.
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Licurg: What Interplay should do is publish more games here on GOG, not raise the prices on those already here. If Interplay publishes Blackthorne, The Lost Vikings , Atomic Bomberman , Dragon Wars and Blood and Magic next week, for 6$ each, the income from that will easily bring them a few hundred thousand dollars in the next couple of months.
Last I checked Blizzard owns the rights to Lost Vikings though Interplay published it so I doubt we will see it on GOG anytime soon and Atomic Bomberman was owned by Hudson soft who are now defunct so I doubt that will ever crop up again.
Time for me to pick up the Freespace and Fallout games i guess.
I already have everything I want from Interplay so I can see only one drawback of price increase: most likely those 4 incoming Interplay classics will be $9.99.
But if those new releases will be classics I’m interested in – I’m cool with higher price point.
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Licurg: What Interplay should do is publish more games here on GOG, not raise the prices on those already here. If Interplay publishes Blackthorne, The Lost Vikings , Atomic Bomberman , Dragon Wars and Blood and Magic next week, for 6$ each, the income from that will easily bring them a few hundred thousand dollars in the next couple of months.
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DCT: Last I checked Blizzard owns the rights to Lost Vikings though Interplay published it so I doubt we will see it on GOG anytime soon and Atomic Bomberman was owned by Hudson soft who are now defunct so I doubt that will ever crop up again.
Last I checked, AB was owned by Interplay, tho I could be wrong. Still, even if they just release the other 3 (which are available nowhere else from my knowledge) they'd bring in tons of cash.