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Posted August 27, 2014
We'll be removing a number of games from the GOG.com catalog - here's your last call to get them with a special discount!

Today, we're here to honor the promise we gave you to announce ahead of time whenever we're taking a game down from sales. We wanted to give you one last chance to get the titles we're delisting with a considerable discount, and the partners involved agreed. There are 35 games on that list and you can get them all for up to 80% off until Tuesday, September 2, at 3:59AM GMT. Any title you buy will remain in your collection even after it's removed from our catalog, so you can always download and re-download the installers and bonus content. Check out the promo page to see which games this concerns.

We're still ironing out a few details. For now, the promo pages, like the one for the Last Chance Special, list all the game prices only in US dollars. But don't freak out: if you chose to use your local currency you will see the prices in local currency in checkout, and you can still finalize the transaction in local currency. We hope to have this issue fixed within the next weeks.
Posted August 28, 2014
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eiii: That happens when someone else is about to redeem a code?
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undeadcow: Temporary lock occurs when another user has recently "viewed" the code, when the code is input it gets temporarily de-activated for about 15 minutes if not entirely redeemed.
Ah, so it was already gone.
Ok.. .. damn ninjas! XD
Posted August 28, 2014
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Zoidberg: Haven't checked all the news yet but this one.

That's really sucky to see so many games leave the catalog. But if this is indeed due to publishers/devs not willing to stick to any kind of fair pricing, I say the hell with them!

I'm just really dissapointed at Frictional Games (Amnesia, Penumbra) and I'll gladly boycott their upcoming games. I'm just wondering why Machine for Pigs is still there, another publisher and dev, right?

I'm proud you stick to what you've said, gog. This isn't easy as the push to regional pricing seems quite insistent but know I'll remember to help any way I can in your endaevour.

Let the revolution begin!
I don't know if this has anything to do with the fair price request by customers, but if that's the case, i competely agree with every single word. Kudos to you, GOG. And thanks for the warning.
Posted August 28, 2014
Is anyone here wanting a copy of Torchlight?
Posted August 28, 2014
So I guess this means Nordic Games has gotten scared and jumped ship? Oh well, sod them.
Posted August 28, 2014
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djdarko: Is anyone here wanting a copy of Torchlight?
only if you offer it to us without regional prizing :)
Posted August 28, 2014
45 pages. How many about games in the promo?
Posted August 28, 2014
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djdarko: Is anyone here wanting a copy of Torchlight?
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apehater: only if you offer it to us without regional prizing :)
ha, seriously though. if anyone actually wants it, let me know.
Posted August 28, 2014
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Niggles: 45 pages. How many about games in the promo?
Like 7 posts lol
Posted August 28, 2014
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djdarko: Is anyone here wanting a copy of Torchlight?
Sure, why not?
Posted August 28, 2014
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PixelBoy: Well, it's a damned if you don't and damned if you do thing.

If there's no regional pricing, then some games never enter catalog.

If there's regional pricing, half of the customers gets screwed by every purchase.

I still prefer to suffer from a weaker catalog, with fair pricing.
Publishers who play this game really shoot themselves in the leg with this policy. At least, they lose my money, regional or not, entirely.
Luckily, the world is full of games, including indies and freeware and all, so with a backlog that is almost literally larger than life, there's no immediate need to be buying any new titles from unfair publishers.
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Gan_HOPE326: ^ This.

Honestly, I wasn't amongst the ones who opposed regional pricing the most, but if GOG decided to stick by it because some took issue with it, all the better. I think a company showing this level of integrity and respect for the wishes of their customers is a rare thing and worthy of praise. They took the 'hard' route - in fact the new currency options make things even BETTER as for example I would have to pay 1 £ of conversion fee to my bank every time I bought in $. In this world, I think it deserves recognition.
The stupid, harmful ones are the publishers who pull out because they can't have their way with DRM or regional pricing or other bullshit. Guess what guys: YOU WANNA MAKE MONEY, YOU MAKE GOOD GAMES. Not pull this kind of crap to spill us a few dollars more. If GOG can push DRM free AND fair priced games, all the better. I say in the long run this point of view will be the one to win, and whoever jumped off this wagon will actually regret it. Too bad. Then we'll look down on them from our wagon we stayed on and go all "tee-hee, this is OUR wagon and you can't get on it and your mother smells of eldeberries!" and show our tongues and make funny faces at them.
Or something.
Dunno.
But basically that, yeah.
Well written.
Posted August 28, 2014
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Niggles: 45 pages. How many about games in the promo?
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haleisback: Like 7 posts lol
Nothing surprising I'd say.. long threads usually go quite OT after the NNNth post.
Post edited August 28, 2014 by phaolo
Posted August 28, 2014
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Azgrel: Thank you! Like Wurzelkraft, I've redeemed some of the available games.
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DampSquib: Most welcome, and here is a few more.
I checked this code and didn't redeem anything (thank you so much for doing this DampSquib!)

BUT I did find a cool new feature (the first I like in the redesign?)

You can now "pick and choose" which games to redeem. I think in the past it was redeem all or none. Or redeem partial codes but only if you already own games in the code (I think I've only redeemed one "multi code" and that was one I purchased as a gift for myself, so I don't totally know how it went). Now you can click a box to only take the ones you want! Neat!
Posted August 28, 2014
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djdarko: Is anyone here wanting a copy of Torchlight?
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DaveGolini: Sure, why not?
Sent, have fun.
Posted August 28, 2014
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DaveGolini: Sure, why not?
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djdarko: Sent, have fun.
Thank you
Posted August 28, 2014
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DampSquib: Most welcome, and here is a few
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Ixamyakxim: You can now "pick and choose" which games to redeem. I think in the past it was redeem all or none. Or redeem partial codes but only if you already own games in the code (I think I've only redeemed one "multi code" and that was one I purchased as a gift for myself, so I don't totally know how it went). Now you can click a box to only take the ones you want! Neat!
Cool, I redeemed only Summoner from that!
Many thanks to DampSquib for the gift and Ixamyakxim for the info : )
Post edited August 28, 2014 by phaolo
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