That's what I do.

i thought thats the cheese spot?

Okay, now I'm hungry!

You have to take into account two things.

First, I believe prices for both new and old games, in all stores, are set with the assumption that most people will not buy them until some deep discounts (like 50% or more). So in that sense, maybe Disney nor GOG don't really expect most to pay 9€ per game, or 20€ for all three, but pay that "few bucks per game" later, like you suggested. That may make the default prices seem higher than what they "should" be.

So if you think the current prices are too high, then simply wait until there are deeper discounts, ok? I think it is a bit silly from you to compare GOG prices of those three "new" releases to some Humble Bundle deal, which is usually a deep discount bundle for games which are not selling much anymore, an ultra-deep discount for shovelware. I think Humble Bundle pricing has seriously distorted some people's assumptions what games "should" cost, but I guess that is the problem of publishers really...


Second, when you complain that the default prices should have been lower... Maybe the publisher felt they will not go through all the trouble and costs of re-releasing these games, unless certain price level is met. So it could well be that if the default prices were not set as they were, Disney would have decided NOT to release these games. Not sure if you would have been happy with that either.

Thought this might help.

But if I used those I wouldn't have anything to pay for the games with.

GOG did start off with an idea that games should be cheap enough that people won't need to wait for discounts. And what happened? People didn't buy the games because they weren't discounted, even if they were cheaper than elsewhere. I many remember wrongly, but I recall seeing discussions about people getting games at Steam because there was a sale there despite the same game on GOG being cheaper than Steam's sale price.

You don't really get many sales with low prices, you get them with deep discounts. This, I think, is because of two things that work together:
1. A sense of savings (if I get this $20 thing for $5, I save $15 which I can use for something else)
2. A sense of urgency (if I don't get this now, I'll have to pay more later)

For the first years GOG had a no-deep-sale policy actually, with them often saying in interviews they don't want to devalue games. They had the summer and winter sales (or was it just the winter one at first?) where nearly all the catalog was 50% off and a few games maybe a bit more and a midweek "gem" every other week, usually at 60% off, but sometimes could be just 40-50%. Then came the insomnia concept to answer Steam's discounts, with deeper discounts but limited quantities. Then weekend sales and big sales every season with many games at 75+% off and now weekday sales too, so there are always sales going on. Steam took the market there and they followed because nobody bought stuff except either on release or a deep sale anymore.
But the interesting thing is that this spreads out sales more. I mean, the very concept of backlog. How frequently did you heard of that several years ago? Now everybody has one to last them a few lifetimes it seems, and that's because instead of spending a certain amount of a few games they were going to play, now they spend a similar amount, or possibly a tad more, but at a few bucks a game that gets spread out, leaving them with loads of games they're not playing, letting stores keep the income level in spite of drastically dropping profit per sale, but also spreading out the revenue among developers and publishers more, as people are far far less selective. Which also means that instead of making one good game, now the idea is to have something out there and you'll probably get a few bucks from a bunch of people.

Still, I do think that for any game that's 10+ years old, and even 5+ for smaller/simpler ones or those no longer actively maintained and which didn't get significant expansions over the past 2-3 years, a few bucks is the only right price, so 10 for something over 20 years old is ridiculous. With new ones this "discount culture" is rather unsustainable though.

Yeah, that what I was referring to.

And, um... I would have paid quite a lot more than $10 each for Baldur's Gate and the other Infinity Engine games, had they allowed it (and I was quite annoyed when those games were -like many others are- launched at a reduced price, precisely because I thought it was much too low and I thus "had to" wait rather than purchase as soon as I saw it)... but I'm strange in that way.

Those damn decimals(*) btw.. I can't stand the 0.99 anymore.
I wish that all stores used only 0.2 or even 0.5 ranges -_-

(*) how do you call in english the different positions 0.1 and 0.01 and 0.001 ?

0.1 Tenths
0.01 Hundredths
0.001 Thousandths

Thanks.
So, no hundredths, yes tenths XD

You're welcome :)

Yes. Lol. You're pretty ignorant of GOG's policies for someone from 2009. Unless you post porn or torrent links you could literally get away with murder on these forums. They don't care in the slightest about what opinions you voice. :P

I'm pretty sure you can get away with posting porn sites.