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Posted September 22, 2011
We're launching the weekend early this week as good things should last longer. You've been waiting for this promo for a while, and it's finally here!

You knew this day will finally come, and at last you can grab the great Dungeons & Dragons classics, including Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment or Neverwinter Nights, for prices so crazy you have to figure that we're Chaotic Neutral. With this deal we're also testing a totally new promo system that gives you a bigger discount the more games you buy in one order. We're starting with a 20% discount if you buy one game from the offer. Every another game from the promo that you add to the order increases your discount with another 5%, so 2 games get you 25% off, 3 games get you 30% off and so on, until you get a 60% discount on your order of the whole D&D collection. Of course if you already own some of the games from the promo they will count towards your final discount!

The promo ends on Monday, September 26 at 11:59 p.m. EDT, so there's no time to lose, and you'll never know when a similar occasion will happen again.
Posted September 22, 2011
BOOOM!! 8 "New" games adding to my currently owned Balders Gate :D
Posted September 22, 2011
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Zabinatrix: I'm usually so bad at avoiding good GOG-promos. Really should try to skip this one though, I need new glasses. I hate it when rare expenses come right when there's some nice sales going on at a place I like :)
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TheEnigmaticT: I will simplify your decision-making tree: go to Google and look up "zenni optical". Boom . You just saved a hundred bucks in your glasses. Buy our games with the money you save! ;)
Haha, wow, those are really cheap. Problem is, I still need to take an eye exam because I need a new prescription. And an eye exam (at least with any of the opticians around where I live) costs quite a bit - unless you buy a pair of glasses from them at the same time, then it's free. So I can save a lot of money on glasses from zenni optical, sure, but only after I've already bought a pair from an optician here. So while I appreciate the tip, it doesn't really do much for my current situation :)
Posted September 22, 2011
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rihkama: I agree 100% with this. I was initially excited by Baldur's Gate being on promo which I had been waiting for but this new promo system is annoying. For while I was thinking "buy nothing" or "buy everything". I decided on "buy nothing" mostly because there was quite many games I was not interested on and one game I already own as a physical version (NWN1).

Being able to gift some of the games from the pack might help a bit. Eg. I buy whole pack but gift NWN1 and Icewind Dales away before I download them. I have no idea if this is already possible as I don't know if the gift codes are per purchase or per games (eg. do I get gift code for every game in the purchase or single code which covers all).
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tomdelada: Why not select only the ones you want for yourself, buy them, then come back and buy the others as gifts? Or am I misunderstanding how this works?
You are misunderstanding. You won't get a retroactive discount on the ones you've already purchased.

E.g. you buy the whole pack at once, you get 60% off.
You buy 2 games to give away as gifts, you get only 35% off those two games. Then you buy the rest of the pack and get 60% off all those games, but you don't get any money credited back on the first two games you bought.
Posted September 22, 2011
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Dragobr: Sorry GOG, but I can't support you on this. 60% on these games is a pretty good discount, but I'm not interested in all of them, and if I pick all of those I'm interested in, the price is too high for me to pay. Then, if I pick few games, as I usually do, the discount is unattractive.
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rihkama: I agree 100% with this. I was initially excited by Baldur's Gate being in the promo as I had been waiting for it but this new promo system is annoying. For while I was thinking "buy nothing" or "buy everything". I decided on "buy nothing" mostly because there are many games I am not interested on and one game I already own as a physical version (NWN1).

Being able to gift some of the games from the pack might help a bit. Eg. I buy whole pack and gift NWN1 and Icewind Dales away before I download them. I have no idea if this is already possible as I don't know if the gift codes are per purchase or per games (eg. do I get gift code for every game in the purchase or single code which covers all).

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I also completely agree. I probably would have bought 1 or maybe 2 of these games. but at 20%-25%, it is no longer a "good" deal for me. I will sit this one out. GOG please bring back the old promo system.
Posted September 22, 2011
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tomdelada: I already own BG 1 & 2, Planescape and NWN. Of these, I for some reason can't get into the BG games (I think it's because I can't fathom the D&D ruleset) but loved the story and atmosphere of Planescape. NWN for some reason refuses to play nice with this lappy.

I'm thinking of picking up TOEE. Based on what I've said above (granted it's not much...) would you guys recommend the other games in the promo? How easy would they be for a D&D virgin to understand?
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adamzs: TOEE is a pretty decent RPG, and the Icewind Dale games are kinda a traditional RPG/hanck-and-slash combo. They are not that hard to get into, but fighting and character planning is a major part of the gameplay. Demon Stone is a simple action-packed hack-and-slash (granted pretty good at that), and the D&D game system is pretty much non-existent in it.

On another note, if you couldn't get into Baldur's Gate 1 due to the difficulty at the neginning of the game, try BG2. It's much more forgiving on new players. (Although there's some spoilers for BG1 at the beginning of BG2, if that bothers you.)
You, Sir, have my deepest thanks. This is almost exactly what I wanted to know. The difficulty in BG1 is almost entirely what put me off. No matter what character I chose it seemed to get slaughtered on the very first screen enemies appear. Spoilers are a non-issue since I usually check Wikis for games if I like em anyway.

I'll take what you said into consideration. I'm not totally convinced yet, so perhaps I should hit up YouTube and some review sites to see what the other games are klike before throwing money down on em.
Posted September 22, 2011
Damn you GOG for making me spend £23 when I'm skint!
2-3 of the games I already owned too - funny though I was thinking about playing the entire of the 2 BGs with the same character but while I have Throne of Baal I don't have Sword coast so I was umming and arring about BG1 - but it looks like I've got the lot now!
Posted September 22, 2011
What a terrible deal system. I only want one of these games, and 20% off just doesn't make it worth it.

Pass.
Posted September 22, 2011
I'm tempted to get the two Baldur's Gates, Icewind Dales, Neverwinter Night, and The Temple of Elemental Evil.

They worth getting?
Are there demos for them anywhere?
Posted September 22, 2011
I really love the new deal system, it's awesome!

hopefully more promos will be like this!
Posted September 22, 2011
Why are people complaining about the scaling discount? It's much better than the previous system for bulk discounts (buy all for 70% off, but all minus one for 30% off). If the Nordic sale had had this system I probably wouldn't have bought all of those.

Unless you're just expecting 60% off for any amount of titles, which is unrealistic. Things are cheaper when purchased in bulk for a reason.
Posted September 22, 2011
I've been waiting for this for a long time now. Love the pack and the new promo system.
Posted September 22, 2011
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tomdelada: You, Sir, have my deepest thanks. This is almost exactly what I wanted to know. The difficulty in BG1 is almost entirely what put me off. No matter what character I chose it seemed to get slaughtered on the very first screen enemies appear. Spoilers are a non-issue since I usually check Wikis for games if I like em anyway.

I'll take what you said into consideration. I'm not totally convinced yet, so perhaps I should hit up YouTube and some review sites to see what the other games are klike before throwing money down on em.
I'm glad I could help. And yeah, I know BG1 is really hard at the start of the game, where even the common wolves you encounter do a pretty short job of your character. Of course back in the nineties new players were rarely spared by any game, and they were pretty much expected to reload repeatedly until they'd figure out how to proceed. (In this case, the easiest tactic I know is running away from most fights until you have a decent party, e.g. 4 characters or more with at least one healer.)
Posted September 22, 2011
I like the new promo deal better than the old. I like that I don't have to buy everything in the promo to get better than the minimum discount. Previously, it was either buy between 1 game and all BUT 1 game, and get a flat rate, low discount, OR buy ALL games to get a bigger discount. Now, I can get better than the minimum discount but don't have to buy every game.

That said, I've been waiting since I joined up 1 year ago for a D&D sale! This is what I've been wanting for the whole year, and it's finally here, so consider ALL Games in this promo BOUGHT! Oh yeah! Thank you, GOG!
Posted September 22, 2011
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Immoli: I'm tempted to get the two Baldur's Gates, Icewind Dales, Neverwinter Night, and The Temple of Elemental Evil.

They worth getting?
Are there demos for them anywhere?
All of them had demos, I think.

Get all the Infinity Engine games, every last of them is great.
Posted September 22, 2011
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kodeen: Why are people complaining about the scaling discount? It's much better than the previous system for bulk discounts (buy all for 70% off, but all minus one for 30% off)
And if I just want a single game it's 20% while the old system quite often had 50% discounts as well (even for a single game) from what I remember.
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