Nice ! :-)

After joining GOG I first didn't understand their concept.
And as such I was a little disappointed seeing a game I bought previously going on sale.
With their constant promos I hardly buy any game outside of it.
Why should I spend money if the chances are high that in the a few months i can get it
for halve the price (or less).
And if i look at their Top sellers i am not alone.

None at all, in fact most of those are Early Access games.

Go on sale:

Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

For sale here at GOG:

Blackguards
The Banner Saga

American McGee's Grimm

Top of my wishlist:

The Banner Saga

That's the only one I'm really looking forward to. Other than that

Space Colony HD
Aarklash Legacy
Port Royale
Iceland Dale 1&2
To The Moon
Shadowrun

Expeditions : Conquistador

But only because of the ol' backlog. I'd pay full price if I wanted to play it RIGHT NOW, but see the former.

Gothic 2
Disciples 2

I´ll buy Banner Saga and Broken Age as soon as possible and a Retail-Collectors for Blackguards!

Next game I´m waiting to go on sale???
Maybe the latest Omerta-DLC, would take it for five bucks ;)
And the same with Rayman Origins!

Not that I wouldn´t pay full price for it---but my Jump n´ Run-Backlog is soooo huge!

And no one can really blame you but, and I could be wrong, this is the reason it seems like indie games have been pricing themselves higher lately. I find it amusing when people bitch about the full price as if they weren't planning on buying it at 70+% off anyway.

edit: freakin' obsessed about minor grammatical shit sometimes.

Personally, I think he's full of shit and I believe most marketing gurus would feel the same about him. Hell, a number of devs have acknowledged that the Steam sales end up making them far more money than their games not being on sale at all.

From an anecdotal standpoint, I buy more games because of sales than I would otherwise have bought and end up spending more money overall than I would if there weren't sales. This is because I'm far more likely to buy a game I'm only marginally interested in if it's on sale - actually, scratch that: I'll only buy a game I'm marginally interested in if it's on sale. If it never goes on sale, I'll never buy it. If I end up liking the game a lot, I'm far more likely to buy the next one from that developer at full price. If I think the game is only okay but has potential, I might try another one of their games - but only if it's on sale. I figure most devs would far rather have me purchase their games on sale than not purchase them at all.

I've also actually re-bought a number of games, which would never have happened if they didn't appear on sale.

I was waiting for Tales of Monkey Island to come down in price, and was quite pleased to have picked it up last week for $5 and change (down from $35). Having played the first 2 or 3, I'm very satisfied with this newer one.

I would love to see more new indie games go on sale. The point-n-click adventure style. (Similar to the first Monkey Island games.)

Also, I think if someone's ready to wait for a 75% discount that probably means they'd also be ready to wait for the price to drop permanently after a few years. If they don't buy the game on release day it doesn't necessarily mean they're cheap, it means they aren't all that interested in this particular title because they already have lots of other, possibly more interesting games to play.

I think sales are not a problem per se, they only become one if developers offer them too early, like only a few weeks or months after release (or even on release day, as in the case of Botanicula), because that's what's creating this culture of disappointed fans waiting for sales,and not the general idea of sales itself. I have no idea how popular Castle Doctrine is going to be, but I think many games wouldn't even be able to compete in this oversaturated market, if they would never go on sale.

I dunno if I'd agree with that. Sales = more copies sold.

'In the old days' most people propably would buy games they really wanted to play. Now, with the sales madnes they buy games because they're cheap and they might be interested in playing them later. They buy more games than they actually play, hence the huge backlogs.

As to waiting for a sale - Blade of Darkness.
I loved Demons Souls, so having heard the comparisons of BoD to Dark Souls (which I havent played yet, propably will after I get a new PC, so in ~ 2 years, after CDP releases Cyberpunk) and checking out some vids, I know I must play it.