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Not me! :P I've already got enough people in here looking for a reason to get my ass booted. :P

GOG had a choice:Either bend on their pricing policy or not sell quite a few games.They chose the first.,,which,IMHO, was the right decision.

And imho, wasn't. But I'm referring to the flat pricing one (which you're not affected by, by the way, so not sure how much you thinking it was right counts), as giving a base price of $9.99 to these could have been done just as well with the old pricing policy.

Default price, or the discounted price?

If you mean the default price, should those older games worth of a few bucks ever be discounted? What would be the "correct" discounted price for them then?

It is interesting indeed how times and expectations have changed. Back when retail PC games were still a thing, I recall thinking that paying only 10€ for a 5-10 year old game is a steal. 5€ per game would be peanuts, practically like getting the game(s) for free.

Price at which they'd be worth buying. So depends whether they want them bought whenever or only during sales.
And my pricing limits have been pretty much the same since I started looking into legally purchasing games, just that in recent years games started getting there and under.

Personally, it'd be very very hard for someone to get me to spend more than the equivalent of about 10 EUR on a digital copy of a game. About twice that for a retail one with some included goodies, not just a case or box and a disk, I guess, but wouldn't normally look at that anymore, since digital exists. But I'm in absolutely no rush, rarely played games less than 5 years after release, so I care far more for how price drops in time than what it is and what sales it gets closer to release.

And, you know, I got there from maybe 1-2 / pirated CD with however much could be fit on it back in the day before broadband and widespread file sharing and zero between that time and (with just a few exceptions, bought retail) GOG, basically. So went up for me.

At the same time, seem to recall reading that $5 games were a pretty standard thing in the '80s. So maybe just going back there?

You joined in 2011. They've been doing a 50% sale every week since the end of the beta (September 20, 2010). I remember because I'd joined two days before and kept buying everything on every sale since. This is also when they hired TET, who later talked about game depreciation. So while it's true that GOG as a store was anti-sale, it was before my time and before your time, and even their PR man started out bluffing.

Today is 2016; they've been doing deep discounts for a thrice longer time than they weren't, and they've made vastly more sales during the deep discount era.

You have a point about how deep discounts have changed the business. (I am perfectly okay with small devs profiting off impulse buys, if that's indeed the case.) I've seen articles claiming that blockbusters allegedly ruined the movie industry, as people only go to the movies a couple times per year, and that to see the most-advertized blockbusters. I wouldn't wish that on the gaming industry. However, good or bad, GOG hasn't betrayed anyone recently by implementing deep discounts. Those have been here for quite some time.

Joined in 2011, but been following them since 2009. No way to actually purchase till late 2013 when they added PSC (and then just a few months later messed it all up) so little reason to join before then, joined when I did for a freebie. Had been pestering them with e-mails about payment methods since 2010 though.
And this wasn't really about discounts. Was just answering some things that were said. Was about the base price of 22-23 y/o games.

While any other goods may have gone up in price over the years, most video game prices have actually done the opposite.

Video games, especially on PC, are the epitome of cheap luxury goods these days. Just because someone "feels" something is overpriced doesn't make it so.

I do agree that many PC titles are cheaper today than back in the day.

1)There are many more PC games in the marketplace then there used to be, so the principle of supply and demand says the prices should go down.
2)(imo) The quality, as a whole, was much better back in the day. The devs had to at least attempt to put out a game that didn't have any major bugs because most people couldn't just jump on the internet for a patch. So if they put out a buggy game people would quit buying any games that they made. Now days I've seen major patches come out six months or more after the game has been released.
3) Back in the day DLC's were extremely rare, you got everything the dev had at the time of release. Now it almost seems that a quarter of the game is withheld for DLC's, which many devs charge (imo) too much for.
4) Many of the games here on GOG already "made" their money (ie. the Disney games they want $10 for). I used to be able to pick up a 2-3 year old game in the "bargain bin" for a couple of dollars at local stores.
5)Lastly, for most games, there's no longer the expense of burning CD/DVD's, printing cases, and shipping.
For those reasons we should be getting cheaper games. I didn't mean to rattle on.

it seems quite high for me as well, considering the fact i would buy disney games at the most just for collection. i would hardly play them and have no children (if children play such games today in general, without touch display.. you know :)

Nah, like the Genesis Version. SNES output was far more colorful.

I must of had the TV colour down too much then LOL!

Most platformers these days suck anyway!

Not so sure, after reading this topic. Will cover that later...

Nah, I just did not bother spending time on forum/discussion board here.

Not so sure how should I feel about comment that they don't really care about what opinions we voice here... Should I read that they really don't give a f*ck??

Now, back to topic - overpriced games - I probably did not do good job explaining why I feel that price here is not only wrong, but probably intentionally too high to rise price of old games.

Let's compare this pricing with games from that time - for example games from Sega Genesis/MegaDrive - which on steam are priced $2.99 - much fairer FULL price for a game from the period - while you can get pack of 10 for $7.50. Games in Sega Genesis packs are just as well playable (if not even more then bad ports here) and they are priced so well that anyone buying those 9.99 even at discount might feel as idiot once comparing prices.

For those believing that they did not have any input in pricing - think again... they are one doing recommendations and investigating retro gaming market - thus most likely they are one who got 9.99 per game price. Add to this that company has not to pay extra service to protect their IP - gog.com robot will search and contact all abandoware sites as soon as they add the game to the list. To be honest, admin/mod input would help here to know, but not so sure if they like to talk about this.

Just for info, above mentioned Sega packs were on sale last summer for $2.49 each... for 12.45 you get 50 games. Compare that with ANY sales here on GOG.com.

Another thing is - why they don't approach humblebundle - which I don't remember ever selling anything from GOG.com. (They did sell steam, uplay and origin games)

Thank you all for comments,

Velid