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Posted November 20, 2012
15,504 ways to play!

Decisions, decisions, decisions. Once the holiday season gets closer, you have to decide what gifts to buy, what wrapping to use, which phone numbers to accidentally delete. There are many decisions to make as you get ready for the holidays, but one decision that we’re making easy for you is, “Should I buy anything from GOG.com’s Black Friday sale?” (The answer is “yes”, by the way. ;) Not only are we launching the sale early--in case you spend Friday in a turkey-induced coma--but we’re also giving you the power to pick your own promo!

In our Pick 5 & Pay $10 sale you pick 5 out of twenty fantastic indie games and pay $10 for them regardless of the game’s regular full price. That's $2 per game, for such titles like Torchlight, Resonance, Alan Wake's American Nightmare, Botanicula, Geneforge 1-5, Uplink, To the Moon, and many others. Seven of these games are both PC and Mac compatible, so everyone can enjoy!

The games are fantastic--and there are so many of them! That's why we started this sale early: to give you time to pick your dream-set of 5 games out of 15,504 possible combinations. You could look at this as another decision you have to make this year, but unlike trying to figure out who you should sit next to your slightly crazy uncle at Thanksgiving dinner, this one’s fun!

Black Friday marks the start of the “shopping season” for the holidays, so don’t forget to buy the gift of GOG for a gamer you love--or even just kind of like. You can’t spread much more holiday joy than this for just $10.
Posted November 20, 2012
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Trilarion: I guess you heard from noone who likes the normal price. So you gonna lower that price too to meet the recent low promo prices? Steeper permanent discounts for normal sales are coming. Great. :)
It doesn't work that way.

Having big initial price + huge promo after is better than having a lower price and lower promo. Psychological effect of huge discounts.
Posted November 20, 2012
Awesome promo! I'm glad it goes for a week because I will finish my Christmas shopping this weekend and find out if I can afford this promo. XD
Posted November 20, 2012
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TheEnigmaticT: ...
You've not noticed all the weekend promos have recently been 60% off?
Yes, but I remember one 80% promo and this one is also around 80% effectively if I am not mistaken. Why not lowering the normal price so that this discount would also have been 60% off, so the discrepancy between sales and the time between the sales doesn't get too large. So if you lower a 10$ game to 6$ than instead of giving 80% discount to make it 2$ you only need 66% discount. Of course do it only for the games where you make the 80% discounts regularly.
Posted November 20, 2012
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SimonG: Looks like GOG is trying to be the master the devaluation of games...
Well... when they tried a different marketing approach (Encouraging gog customers to post videos of gog games and do the promotion for them) they got critisized ...

What can we expect them to do to survive ?

The way I see it, they really have their hands tied ... and it might tarnish their image in the short run, but will probably win them faithful customers in the long run.
I for once will never buy from steam WHATEVER their prices are, so I might as well buy from GOG when their prices are low...

The video game industry like the movie industry ARE greatly devaluated, GOG is still the only platform to give the games the true hommage they deserve... even with these ridiculously low prices... and buy them by the dozen marketing strategy.
Posted November 20, 2012
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SimonG: And I'm sure those increased profits are really hurting you.
I thought losing customers to competition does hurt. Huh, guess I don't understand how market works at all.
Posted November 20, 2012
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SimonG: But they didn't changed their stance in a way that counts (as usual for CDP).
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Fenixp: 'It doesn't count' argument? Hey, I know they say that when you get older, you get more childish, but I believe I've used that one for the last time when I was 5 :-P What do you know, maybe they still are against those discounts and just want to be competitive. You of all people should know that presuming is bad.
It is very simple, does a change of stance come from within or was it done due to an external factor. Here it was an external factor (more games on the catalogue). That does not count.

This is actually a legal term, btw. If you decide to not shot somebody, the fact if the gun is loaded or not does actually count ...
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Fenixp: Or they want to actually sell the indie games along with humble bundles and Steam. They are a digital retailer, you know.
I've always said GOG isn't competitive when it comes to indies. I see this promo as confirmation.
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Posted November 20, 2012
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Fenixp: 'It doesn't count' argument? Hey, I know they say that when you get older, you get more childish, but I believe I've used that one for the last time when I was 5 :-P What do you know, maybe they still are against those discounts and just want to be competitive. You of all people should know that presuming is bad.
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SimonG: It is very simple, does a change of stance come from within or was it done due to an external factor. Here it was an external factor (more games on the catalogue). That does not count.
And when Bethesda "changed their mind" after major uproar about Doom 3 disappearing from steam you've said

"IN YO FACE BETHESDA CRITICS!"

Even though their change of heart was "forced" by community.
Posted November 20, 2012
Interesting promo, but most of these games have been in various indie bundles at one point or another...

Still, for those who don't yet have them, Space Chem and Trine are excellent games.
Posted November 20, 2012
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keeveek: Having big initial price + huge promo after is better than having a lower price and lower promo. Psychological effect of huge discounts.
true. but i'm perfectly alright with 50-60% discounts on titles in the $6-$10 range.
Posted November 20, 2012
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keeveek: ...
Having big initial price + huge promo after is better than having a lower price and lower promo. Psychological effect of huge discounts.
I know the psychological effect, but then there is another psychological effect that people seeing such volatile prices and not having the time to wait for a sale might avoid such services finally because they assume the normal level is not competitive or people become even less reluctant to buy outside of sales because when you can save 80% it's even better to wait for sales in general than if the discount is 60%.

GOG says they don't really like it but have to do it. I also think 80% discount is unhealthy, 50-60% is something like the maximum that's good. But we will see. Obviously the true value of an Indie game is much lower than the price tag it normally has.
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Posted November 20, 2012
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Trilarion: Yes, but I remember one 80% promo and this one is also around 80%
The 80% former promotion was for Telltale games, wich I can garantee is an exception. And Telltale sell their games expensively from the start without any say from GOG.
Furthermore, IF GOG had a say, they couldn't reduce the base price of TellTale games because telltale would be forced to lower their prices on their own website to keep up with gog and we all know how much telltale loves to overcharge their products.

This promotion isn't really 80% off.. It's get 5 games for 10 bucks... While they might add up to an 80% promotion, it isn't really this kind of promotion since you're practically "forced" to buy 5 games to get the overall 80% off, and you can't get a promotion on a single game.
Posted November 20, 2012
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N0x0ss: snip
Just for the record, I'm not criticizing GOG for doing this sale. I think this sale is probably the best shot they have at actually selling some of those games in profitable numbers.

What I'm calling GOG out on is their BS on how they think they are better than the other lowly retailers and us greedy customers.

They were trying to make up for their own shortcomings by talking bad about the competition. That's what I'm calling them out on. Especially as it is plain obvious that once their shortcomings were fixed, they gladly took part in the tactics they found so bad earlier.
Posted November 20, 2012
Does this only work once per account or multiple times?
Posted November 20, 2012
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SimonG: I've always said GOG isn't competitive when it comes to indies. I see this promo as confirmation.
And it wants to be competitive. You were right, they've had to change their sales. By external factors, like competition doing exactly that. And they're evil, because ... They said something a few years ago? Oook.
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keeveek: And when Bethesda "changed their mind" after major uproar about Doom 3 disappearing from steam you've said

"IN YO FACE BETHESDA CRITICS!"

Even though their change of heart was "forced" by community.
Did Bethesda ever said "we will no longer sell the original?". I don't know. AFAIK know they did never say that.
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