Crazy promo!
I was awaiting for this.
Now I have them all.
Thanks!

Other reasons why you're here, besides DRM-free and extras.

Well, I already asked the same question earlier. If Steam has everything over GOG, then why are you here? Why aren't you spending all of your time at Steam? I'm not trying to offend here. I'm truly curious.

There's a lot of bitching about the promo working, however, thinking about their usual promo structure, I'm thinking people are seeing it the wrong way around. GOG usually have 'all games for 60%', so instead of reading '20% +5% per game added' think of it as '60% -5% per game removed.'

(Yes, assuming 5% change), for a promo with only 5 games, that's all for 60%, 4 for 55%... 1 for 40%. Which is better than their usual promo of 5 for 60%, 1-4 for 40%. And if there are only 3 games, then 1 for 50%!

We'll just have to see how next week looks before we can fully understand it (unless they have the same number of games), but this week could be a problem of too many games on promo, not the promo itself.

(As for me, I have none, and was waiting for a good sale before getting some of them, so... yoink!)

Who said Steam has everything over GOG? Extras and DRM free are not the only two things GOG has.

I understand that myself; however, I was curious for that particular user's perspective.

I'm primarily asking about this bit. This isn't "curious." This is a loaded question. Assuming facts not in evidence. Your question is contingent upon an assumption with no basis.

Who made this claim for it to be the presupposition of your question?

This.

I come here for digital versions of oldtime classics. Stuff Steam doesn't have.

It seems quite straight-forward to me.

Buy in bulk.

Too bad I'm not going to spring for abunch of games I dont know about or care for the few that I do. Point in case: I'd like to buy planescape torment, but seeing as I own only one other game on that list and dont care that much about the rest, I'd only get a %25 discount. For that little I see no reason it shouldn't just remain on my wishlist.

As a person that usually picks up one or two games from these sales, GOG has lost me as a frequent customer.

+1

I really hate that kind of mentality ("I deserve ...").

I look at it as a sale. The games are cheaper than normal, even if it's only by a little bit. I don't understand the problem.

The problem is that it's only a good sale if you want to buy in bulk.

"even if it's only by a little bit" doesn't constitute a good sale, in my case 7.50 out of 10 dollars is not enough to make me pull the trigger on the sole game I want this time.

My problem with this offer (and I use the word in the loosest possible sense) is that there's not a single game on this listing that I can categorically state I don't want. This means that I'm going to buy the lot, and when I'll get around to playing them who knows?

Still though, the way I see it is that I'm getting a bunch of classics for a decent price. Some will get played a LOT, and some may not. Those that don't will be because it was at the expense of other games I enjoyed more (likely to be games from this deal too, as it happens).

Thanx GOG from Germany... my First BIG Promo Weekend....

I was suprised when I saw the Bonus for the two Games already in my shelf :-))))

Thumps UP !!!!

and now: Waiting for Ultima 7, 8 ..... ;-)

I think that the new promo style is a very good fit to my approach of buying these games.

Basically, I'm a collector. There are some games that I definitely want, but even beyond those, I have some basic general interest in any game there is, to enrich my collection. Price is a factor of course, there are many games for which I wouldn't pay more than a dollar or two.

The new promo mode is a very good fit to this approach. In a promo, I can now select the "definitely want" games, and then I'll have a couple of other games which I don't necessarily want, but which I can get on top of the sale for a very low price, due to the increasing promo bonus. Furthermore: Without the new promo style, I'd be reluctant to buy "definitely want" type games outside of promos, because usually I'm better off waiting for a promo to get them - when an promo like the recent "Tex Murphy" one comes around, I have no advantage if I already own one of the games. With the new promo system, I can buy a "definitely want" game now, and when it ever becomes part a promo, having made this purchase will help me get the other games in the promo cheaper.

After reading some of the posts (special thanks to Leroux), I understand why people with different approaches may be less fond of the new promo style specifically those who already own some games in a promo, and want to buy only some of the other games in the promo. But for me, the new promo style seems like a natural fit to my approach to buy games here.

Perhaps the best lesson to be learned from this thread is that it's good to have several promo styles and to mix those, because different people with different approaches to buying games will prefer different promo styles.