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Simple honest rounded prices (not .99)
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shadi.lahham Simplify game prices getting rid of the .99 gimmick, using $6 instead of $5.99 and $10 instead of $9.99 We all pay 1 cent more per game, but GOG transmits transparency, the site has less of a "marketing ploy" feeling and gamers never feel 'used'.
JakobFel See, the reason for the .99 convention is that, subliminally-speaking, our brains tend to view $9.99 as a better deal than $10. It's a weird thing but it's true. I'm not against this per-se, but all of us are more than used to this pricing convention so I don't really see a reason to do this.
gamefood Personally I'm a bit undecided in that point. But I've read some comments here and there are some very good reasons PRO that wish, so: voted!
imranf1 I couldn't find a relevant topic and this is the closest one. I actually don't overly mind the deceptive .99 pricing because I'm not an impulse purchaser; cheap psychological tricks like these don't work if you actually track your spending.
That said, my actual gripe is with the currencies offered. I live in southeast asia, and iirc the only options I have are USD or EURO. Aren't there closer options? Worse, Steam actually supports my country's currency, making their prices for the same games AT LEAST a third less.
I detest the people who complain about $5 v $4 prices, but in my case I'm talking literally $100 vs $80. If Hollywood can sell movie tickets at the local equivalent of $12, surely you can see why people here balk at games hitting us for $100. Unlike you guys games aren't simply twice or three times as expensive - they're often TEN TIMES more.
So yeah... more regional currency support, please.
donuc Nice idea, I've quickly baked a script that seems to work just fine, but I'm not sure I'm allowed by ToS to share it on GOG, but I will share it if anyone PMs me. Tested it with greasemonkey
Quirinus42 Yeah, it's annoying. I might write an userscript for myself just so it will display rounded prices.
Ovocean The dumbassness of the comments here is astounding O_O
These people thinking they are saving money... are you for real? You think the .99 prices are there to make you save money? You think they'd keep doing that if they ploy wasn't effective? You think you're not tricked? And even if you were not, so what, you're "saving" $1 for 100 games bought. 1 fucking $ for 100 games bought?! With an average price of $3 if you buy everything on sale, that's an astounding discount of 0.3%! Well you certainly deserve a medal for your miserliness, uncle Scrooge would be proud!
> sideshowman "That's stupid. The whole world does that, but you don't want it in GOG? Grow up and live with it. "
The whole world does DRM but GOG for *some reason* does not, hello?
ZMacZ And give up the pennies ? HELL NO !!..those pennies bought me at least 3 more games..(since I have 600+ now)
wabbitgog I've always trusted a business more who rounds the price tag to an even bill instead of this .99 crap.
It speaks of clarity amid a sea of deception that we must wade through.
Barefoot_Monkey You know, I can probably add this idea to Barefoot Essentials
Smashthstate How old are you or how long have you been living on earth that your brain did not yet manage to adjust to rounding all prices up?
hanshan Picky picky. Doesnt matter. Also .99 is a proven tactic in marketing perception... why begrudge a penny that you yourself save?
Regals This is so stupid...
If listing the price of 4.99 instead of 5.00 gets GOG a sell... I am all for it.
You should not being video games if..
1) You are mentally capable of critical thought.
2) You don't have the money to spare.
sideshowman That's stupid. The whole world does that, but you don't want it in GOG? Grow up and live with it.
KnightW0lf The reason it's 4.99 instead of 5.00 is because it looks cheaper but not really
Pinball I understand the appeal. I wouldn't mind seeing this either. That said, many games it would still show cents when they go on sale, right?
gamesfreak64 using prepaid you have lots of cards left with cents on it, i usally keep these seperate till i have enough and then i buy a 20 or 30 cent game for it.
hollunder The .99 prices are also annoying for prepaid stuff. I bought a 9.99 game with a 10 € prepaid card, leaving 0.01 € on the card.
Vestin $5 instead of $5.99 - sounds like a good deal. $6 instead of $5.99 - why would I ever want that? If YOU want to, just script your browser to display "$6.00 - $0.01" instead... or, if you like lying to yourselves, just "$6".
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XyleDaylight Couldn't this be done with some sort of browser extension like with Enhanced Steam? Just make it round off the number whenever it detects .99 in the price box. 29.99 > 30.00, 9.99 > 10 etc.
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Staredown It's simple really. If you want us to pay more for our games to satisfy your OCD and sense of moral outrage at GoG's duplicity, you can pay the difference.
GoG lists nice round numbers for it's prices, I keep paying the same lesser cost for my games. Your get to look at prices that don't have a decimal point in them. Everyone wins.
You just gotta do your part.
omndra "Remember what happened to J.C. Penney for trying to be fair."
Yes, but JC Penny was successful mainly due to their evil manipulative nature. GOG is the opposite of that.
Movie theater box offices don't use the X.99 tactic, but that's mainly so that the cashiers don't have to worry about small change and keep the lines moving.
Ultimately, I have no idea a change like this would how this would effect the site for better or for worse.
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thiagovscoelho Remember what happened to J.C. Penney for trying to be fair.
Rixasha Honesty and transparency would totally be worth 0.01 more per game.
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Dowlphin MAN! YEAH! This is the ONE thing that bothers me right away when looking at GOG. It's really just a psychological deception that is very commonplace in marketing, almost like a virus because even non-businesspeople start doing it without even realizing why. Making prices like that is like a message of insincerity. And while asking for it to be stopped is not as good as not seeing it in the first place, if GOG stopped doing it, that would still be exceptionally 'brave' for a business.
The sad fact is that when this is not done in countries like the Netherlands, in shops there, it's not because they realize it's deceptive, but merely because employees have to deal with less coin money, thus saving time ... and money. ... We really need to get this habitual crap out of society; become aware of what we're doing.
lemming07 Yeah, when all the stores around me in real life start phasing out the .99 or .95 cents pricing "gimmick" then we can pressure gog to follow suite. Otherwise you have no reasonable grounds to expect that gog will make a precedent on this insignificant aspect of commercialism.
ForbiddenSpell I'd also like to see this. I hate the &99 cents philosophy.
Griking I don't know about anyone else but when I see a price of $9.99 I basically feel that I'm paying $10 for the product.
HertogJan IMHO a stupid wish.
It's all marketing psychology. X.99 has a cheaper feeling to it than Y, so people are more like to (impulse) buy the item. Lots of stores use this for a good reason. It works. It's the same for electronica stores charging $/€ 999 instead of $/€ 1,000.
Wolfram_Wolf .99 prices do seem so 20th century... And prices converted in other currencies (for international customers) almost never end with .99, anyway. So, I voted Yes.
delax000 This transparency, of course only applies to the dollar.
If one doesn't use the dollar, you're paying more for several Americans to feel better...
lol, though absolutely no idea what $0.01 is worth globally, the point still stands.
Even more fun with regional pricing!
OWReaper Every cent counts. The person who posted this must like not having money.
Matrilwood You're asking me to SPEND MORE MONEY to satisfy your OCD? Get lost!
Andrachis76 Wow. Seems like a pretty minor gripe. Spend time gaming. Let it go.
TolHydra Yes, god yes! I'm so, sooo sick of it.
akcaye I'd gladly give $.01 per game for this. I don't know if it would hurt GOG's business though.
FlawlessCowboy *restaurant, sheesh!
FlawlessCowboy I detest $x.99 pricing. It's at best pointless (assuming everyone sees through it, which I hope that they do) and at worst outright manipulative (because some people don't see through it and never will, whther we're talking a few dollars or a few thousand).
When I walk into a testaurant and get a menu with whole-number pricing, my tip goes up 5% whether the meal or the service are any good or not. Whole-number pricing is a sign of a company that has respect for the customer.
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OWReaper Why is eveyone here begging to be charged more money?
##@@##@@ for US users, i'd agree. but $1 is €0.76 for me... which is even more ridiculous that .99 :) www.IMasap.com
jsjrodman Do the prices show as US dollars for most customers? I assumed there was a setting somewhere to show in various major currencies (which doesn't help if you don't operate in a major currency, of course.)
I'd certainly prefer 5$ to 4.99$ though.
Wild_Eep > I always have to check with my bank for exchange rates and calculate
> anyway, so rounding in $ is pretty moot.
For many people, USA dollars are foreign currency (myself included) and whether that USA$0.01 is less than a Euro cent or more than an Australian cent is, fiscally speaking, insignificant. But that's nothing to do with what this feature request is all about.
> GOG is already doing great work in terms of digital distribution..
> if you really can't be bothered to pay an extra CENT
If it needs clarification, those in support of this feature request WANT TO PAY the extra cent.
For us, doing business with a corporation that respects our intelligence is absolutely worth every cent. "Moron pricing" might make a few laugh on one side of the retail boundary, but it makes those on the other side bristle. I'm not saying "the customer is always right" but I am saying "the customer always deserves respect". You might find that supply and demand means your customers have to put up with transactions that insinuate, "we gloat that you're being naively lured by a spuriously discounted price" but they will express that that one specific aspect of the service provided is unsatisfactory.
> it would require every single game that costs anything on GOG.com to
> go up in price, which would take ages for the people who work on GOG
> to do
You don't give them much credit. If they can get old DOS games working reliably on NT-based, all-direct-X systems, I am sure it would take less than ten minutes for them to write a SQL script to apply the CEILING() function to the appropriate database field.
> if someone joins GOG after this change is made, and they buy a ton of
> games, they'll end up discovering that they could have saved $10 if
> they'd have bought them before
That already happens every time someone joins GoG and finds that (for example) Fallout collection was free a while ago and then went back to costing. They could have saved $10 if they had joined on a different date. Your objection is invalid.
emma.fusa But is honest,,, you dont pay that cent... totally innecesary wish
uchristensen I would say that I am against this request simply for monetary reasons. With some GOG discount percentages it is actually even more beneficial, because they tend to round prices in your favor. As a European I always have to check with my bank for exchange rates and calculate anyway, so rounding in $ is pretty moot.
StorymasterQ "Lots of people fall for these tricks. Lots. LOTS. You'd actually be surprised just how many people fall for XX.99 and other gimmicks."
Well, to me, this is the best way to weed out the stupids. I mean, if your brain is not advanced enough to differentiate between $4.99 and $5 then perhaps you don't deserve to propagate your genes. Besides, really, that reasoning is only relevant to people looking for "great value for price", while what we should be concentrating is on "great value regardless of price." This way, people (game makers, publishers) would strive for quality rather than cheap-ass stupid games.
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