Video games having some of the lowest $/hr entertainment value among many other leisurely activities. Most people would consider it fairly reasonable given the 60 hours playtime you can expect out of the main story. That's $1 USD/hr, which is much more reasonable than a $6/hr 2-hour best picture nominee movie in the theatre with both works being at the top of their game in their respective storytelling mediums.

This is also a good chance for users to make a market statement of supporting a mostly DRM-free game by voting with their wallets. That is to prove to all those incompetent and greedy AAA studio business managers that AA games can release a much better and quality game than them with fewer resources. Even if most devs would consider BG3 a super successful outlier.

Of course, if you don't care, that's your prerogative too. Just noting that there are absolutely valid and legitimate reasons to purchase this "overpriced" game. And noting that it cannot compete fairly with older games on value since they've depreciated in so much perceived value by the market since their release.

Mafwek, the quality of an object, a product are not subjective. Basic physics that applies to any object.

Whatever floats your boat, I have no intention of being the Collecting Police. I'm just saying, for me it's not unless it's something physical it's not really a collection. I, personally, don't think of my GOG library as a collection any more than I think of jpgs of Mona Lisa and The Last Supper as an art collection. Unused CPUs - sure, that's a collection. Some of those might conceivably become rare collector's items.

But, again - that's me. I'm not trying to prove anyone wrong.

Considering all those special promos, sales, and events, one might conclude otherwise. GOG isn't more expensive; they are generous, and the difference is only noticeable when a game is discounted.

I do see your point - a very good one, actually - and I must admit that I never thought about it in this way. I got spoiled rotten thanks to sales events going on practically all year round and very attractive discounts. So why would I pay full price for a game instead of asking for a discount and waiting until it eventually happens?

There's another understated advantage for buying games that people don't play immediately aside from collecting and making a statement with your wallet. They're paying for the privilege of more options to choose from. This also includes any immediate benefit owning that item gives them. There are plenty of real world cases for stuff like this - eg: extra clothes or blankets in your car in case you need to sleep in there or you're underdressed, duplicates of items that can break very soon without having to worry about its lifespan, etc.

In most cases though, this will just be another possible game to play after school/work. And to some people, that's worth it enough for them.

Then get a better glasses, because I have Grim Dawn installed and not Diablo 4.
I don't think Arkham Knight was ever worthy of 70$ price tag. My point is that really fucking good game is a worthy of high price regardless of how old they, for me VtM: Bloodlines is one of such games, but it has a misfortune to be tied with Activision, one of the worst gaming companies, so even then they aren't worthy of full price.

Yeah, because basic physics has Newton's law of good game design; Planck unit of great art and Einstein's theory of creativity. Because English language among many other has that the misfortune of the term "quality" referring to both *quantifiable* physical qualities and subject's ethical value of something doesn't mean you should confuse the two.

I spent more than 800 hours and still want more! This game deserves every dollar - without any discounts.

That's the spirit!
After all, the average player can't play newer games than 5-10 years after release because of the hardware-requirements anyway.
I also stack to my ideals: it was advertised as 60$ game, I waited until now so it is sold for 60$ or less.

Because of the shift to the price tag: what is the project budget? Found https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/ol26u9/what_do_you_estimate_to_be_the_total_budget_for/ suggesting ~ $10M to $400M.
Likely never to go public ...

I'm not usually a contrarian, but for some reason the more effusive praise this game gets, the more skeptical I am. Probably doesn't help that I couldn't get into Original Sin 1 or 2 really, and everyone thought they were the bee's knees too.

I'll still probably end up trying it too at some point, once the hype settles, the massive patches are done, and it has an Enhanced Edition.

Besides, we all know Jack Keane is the best game of all time.

Sure, back when stores had to get rid of older games in order to free shelf-space for newer games, but with digital releases it is actually a small wonder that going the other way by periodically adjusting the base prices of old games to offset the inflation isn't already a common thing among publishers.

Glad I can be proven wrong then.

When I brought up this issue of Terminator: Resistance not being on sale in this Winter Sale, nor in any other GOG sale, and asked if GOG is aware of it and if GOG has or will tried to do anything about it, I was told by another GOG customer something like, "there is no issue, and if you don't like it at the price that it is offered, then don't buy it."

Well, I disagree with that assessment. Clearly, IMO, as proven by Mori_Yuki's point as quoted above, this is an issue, in at least two major ways:

1) It is an issue for GOG's customers, who are being treated unfairly, and like second-class citizens, by way of how they are being expected to pay a +60% increased cost for an old game, as compared to the price at which that same game is being sold on sale for elsewhere during the same period of time. That is absolutely ridiculous, and also very insulting IMO. If GOG customers received the same discount a few weeks later, or something like that, then that would not be a big deal...but for GOG customers never to get the same discount, that's just absurd.

2) It is also an issue for GOG, because for all of the many years for which this type of price disparity second-class citizen shenanigans have been going on versus GOG customers, GOG is losing money by way of how it is not selling very many copies of this game.

Terminator: Resistance is a very popular game...and instead of GOG receiving its reasonable fair share of the pie for the sales of that game, GOG is instead getting almost nothing.

The quotation I've quoted from Mori_Yuki at the top of this post is no doubt highly representative of how many/most GOG customers who are interested in this game feel about this matter. No doubt they too will give their money for this game to other stores instead of to GOG, for how ever long GOG continues to do nothing about this issue (which will probably/apparently be forever).

So, GOG doing nothing is a lose/lose situation. It's a loss for GOG customers, and it's also a loss for GOG too. The smart thing for GOG to do would be to make efforts to resolve this issue, and convert the situation from a lose/lose to a win/win. Not that I expect that will ever happen, which it probably won't, unfortunately.