Not at all. Business is when a sale takes place. Your non-purchase is the opposite of business.

That was not the point I was trying to make :)

tl;dr version: Impulse to purchase went away after removing unwanted games. Too low minimum discount. Allow gifting part of the pack after the purchase.

Discount of "only" 20% is not very enticing (to me at least) when it comes to impulse purchases. My initial thought process was close to this:

1. Ooh, DnD sale. Baldur's Gate for 3.99! I'll buy it! Wait, whole package is over $34.
2. Let's remove the games I don't really want. Now price is up to 7.99? That doesn't seem very good deal. I think I'll pass, I have other games to play now and I can buy it later if I want to play it, it's not much more expensive without sale. This probably ends up in me forgetting to buy the game when I have time unless something makes me to remember it (new sale, discussion about the game somewhere etc).

When I started to remove the games the impulse to buy quickly went away and the final price with the small discount did not reduce the price enough to convince me to buy the games right now.

I obviously don't know if all future promos will have 20% for the lowest discount but that seems unlikely. For me the "magic number" is probably 30%, as with that discount 10 USD normal price translates to under 5 euros after currency conversion (least for time being).

Having bought few of the promo packs in the past taught me that I really don't want to buy games just to own them so I am not very eager to buy games I am not planning to play right away.

As I hinted in my original post I might have bought whole pack if I would be able to gift some of the games I don't want myself (preferrably with option not to gift or download them right away so I can decide later if I want to keep it myself or give as a gift to somebody).

Even when these were on sale over Christmas I think they were only 30% off or so. These are great titles, and honestly people bitched about the old sale structure too. Every time I go into one of these threads I boggle at people bitching about an already cheap price becoming even cheaper. There aren't many quality games available for 3-8 bucks, there are some, certainly, but not that many.

tempting...tempting...interested in Baldur's Gate 1 & the two icewind dale games. Already own Baldur's Gate 2(From Secret Santa) Hmmm...will have a think about this one then decide later.

Woot! I was eyeing off BG1+2 and Planescape ever since I lost my disc copies when moving house. I'll pick them up and try out Icewind Dale 1+2 while I bide my time till Skyrim!

Eh, screw it, even though I own half of the disk versions, I'll buy the whole thing.

I won't have time to play them for another decade or so, and my net connection sucks, so hopefully GOG will still be around for a while, and Atari remains as the publisher...

I usually avoid these kinds of sales because you have to buy all games to get the good discount. The problem is these happen to be games I want. I think I'll procrastinate a bit then buy them. It's too good to pass up.

maybe someone mentioned this...but...

Could the d&d sale be pre-emptive of another set of d&d games from another publsher? IE: SSI

I don't know the details of who owns those but the thought just crossed my mind

I don't think most of you realize that publishers often have a say in these kinds of sales so that the retailer doesn't have to eat all of the loss.

I had a few of these but went right ahead and got the ones I didn't already have. Some of the best wRPGs out there in this offer. Looking forward to revisiting the old classics without having to dust up the CDs and trying out the ones I haven't played (Temple of Elemental Evil, Demon Stone and Dragonshard).

Hahaha, you might as well wait until next year to play Skyrim, you'll be busy through Christmas with that list:)

Honestly I love the sale, I only had NWN Platinum and none of the others survived my many moves. To get them all for less than the cost that 1 cost when they were new is worth it just on its own. So what if you only play 3 or 4 out of them, it's still a heck of a bargain.

Best RPG's ever made but i'm not sure about Temple of Elemental Evil. I don't know what to say about that one. I cant say i liked it at all.
All 9 Gold Box Games in one Package, Baby. Lets make it happen

My funemployment just got a whole lot "funnier."

Really don't like the new discount structure, so as much as I'd like to grab a few of these I think I'll pass this one up. I usually buy just one or two games at a time anyway so this'll probably kill the discounts for me. Oh well