You are the ones being idiots claiming that I'm arguing games like Skyrim don't belong here by ridiculously stretching the truth and applying the best sale price available. And do this across the catalog, not cherry-picking a recent release and using it as an example that GoG's sale prices are not comparable.Īnd yes, both of you are guilty of strawmanning to an extreme. If you are to compare the price of Oblivion bundled, then you have to compare it to the next big sale bundle it will be in with Skyrim if it comes here, not full price. GoG is very likely to have a sale for those titles as well. Instead you are arguing for games which already are mostly worthless.Īnd frankly your argument comparing the best sale prices on Steam to GoG's future full retail price is grossly misleading. But hey, be dishonest and make it seem as though GoG is taking in a lot of bundled games when the reality is very few were bundled more than once or twice before they arrived here. Most of those titles on GoG you mention were also released here before they were later bundled, (or were part of GoG's Indie experiment 5 games for $1 which apparently failed since GoG did not repeat it) meaning GoG got to take advantage the same deals as were offered on Steam. Reasonable people can see that games bundled 11 times in the last 20 months would be a money loser for GoG like Betrayer or One Finger Death Punch. It's a severe lack of consistency plus the excuses that try to "explain" why some decent games get rejected for purely arbitrary reasons don't really seem to add up, either on sub $1 price sales competition or the old " rejected games must all be shovelware whilst everything GOG sells is all bug-free Golden Oldies" wishful thinking fallacy. The problem for many isn't really holding up any single game as examples of this or that. Eg, " where's the sales potential" in selling Morrowind for £14.99, whilst £9.50 gets you Morrowind and Oblivion and Skyrim combined in a sale elsewhere (or where the retail GOTY can be picked up for less than £5 on EBay)). And that's no different to dozens of other games GOG sells which are also generally cheaper elsewhere. If GOG acquired Betrayer for say £3.99 (Steam listed price), would I pay say £2-£2.67 in a 33-50% off sale despite it being previously listed for £1 (or "$0.25" using your maths) in a Humble Bundle? Yes I would. And the answer why GOG still sell them is the same - a lot of us are quite happy to pay a premium to own DRM-free games (vs merely acquiring an "open ended rental license" (Steam keys in a nutshell)). Include those and "why bother" selling Outlast, Steamworld Dig, Hammerwatch, Retro City Rampage, Never Alone, Hotline Miami, QUBE, Sir You Are Being Hunted, Goodbye Deponia, The Bard's Tale, Broken Sword Directors Cut, Pixel Piracy, Torchlight, To The Moon, Psychonauts, Amnesia Dark Descent, Mark Of The Ninja, Brutal Legend, Race The Sun, Dust An Elysian Tale, Fez, Bastion, FTL, VVVVVV, Beatbuddy, Samorost 2, Machinarium, World of Goo, Legend of Grimrock, The Swapper, etc, which have all been "bundled" for under $1 (and as little as $0.32 each using your "bundle maths"), yet are still priced on GOG at typically £4-7.ĭo we remove all these titles for the sake of consistency, or admit that rejection policy on the grounds of " but it's already less than $1 / €1 / £1 elsewhere" really isn't that consistent?. Or 99p Steam sale Thief Gold, Deus Ex, etc / 69p Steam sale Costume Quest, Syberia 1-2, System Shock 2, etc / 58p Steam sale Commandos Enemy Lines + expansion, etc. Eg, the cost of custom packaging and play-testing for $0 "Abandonware" freebies (Beneath A Steel Sky, FOTAQ, TeenAgent, etc). Just like GOG's £6.89 Penumbra Collection discounted by 75% means it'll cost me £1.72 to buy, and not "57p" if I only wanted one out of the three.Īnd whilst the bundling 'explanation' makes sense in general, you could equally apply the " it doesn't make sense for GOG to sell a game that's under $1 / £1 / €1 elsewhere" to an awful lot of stuff they do sell that fits exactly the same description. It doesn't mean you arbitrarily divide the price by the number of games and pretend that's the "real" individual price if you only want that one game because you simply can't buy Betrayer for $0.25. A bundle means games are only cheaper as a collective if you want all the other games and don't already own any of them. RWarehall: GoG just isn't dumb enough to try to sell a game that if one waits 2 months you can buy it for $0.25 elsewhere.
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