No it's not cheaper, Amazon has the box for $18. And significantly less if you're willing to go used. And ultimately it does make a difference, I'd generally rather have a box set anyways than a digital download, digital downloads are about price and convenience, so it very much does matter if you can get a physical copy for less.

Anybody that's willing to pay $30 to Atari or Steam doesn't know that they can get the digital download from Amazon for like $22 or $23 so it's definitely not worth $30, at least in the US.

No official retail shop sells it for less than 20$. Atari is selling it for 30$ Retail ;)
And btw:
$17.95 is the price from a reseller ;)
the normal price provided by Amazon.com - $23.16

I don't exactly understand your rant Spinefarm. If you live out in the middle of know where its not like you can just buy it at a store for 15.99. Also at least in Canada every EB games i've seen has turned into a console store heaven (No or Hardly any computer games). Digital distribution is by far the cheapest solution for me. The steam version is also more expensive then the GOG version. GOG $19.99 vs. Steam at $30. Retail would probably be the most expensive for me considering gas prices haha, providing I could even find it, ordering a boxed version online would also be expensive for me.

The price isn't great, but whoever set it at $30 obviously doesn't give a toss about alternatives. The decision has been made - maybe they sell a few copies, maybe none. Maybe it sell like hotcakes during sales.

I'm not saying GOG has no options - what I'm suggesting is the IP holder may be able to nominate *some* of the games.

My rant is that nobody is crying over the "normal" overpicing of other older games on digital distributors. GOG are competing with other digital sellers and their price is better than all of them.


No ...it just looks bad for that price. A lot of the Indie games are developed for 2-3 years... and yet this guys are greedy than others.

If you are not a fan of X-Com series - will you give 25$ for this game? Or you will cry: GOG how could you release an indie game for 25$....

As I said, THE GAME WAS BARELY RELEASED THERE. Humble Bundle owners got it a week early. That's it. The same thing has happened with other games, like Scoregasm, Hack Slash Loot and Really Big Sky.

It's nice to get confirmation that GOG is indeed trying to convince developers and publishers to agree to reasonable prices.

Pity that the makers of Xenonauts didn't allow themselves to be convinced. It seems to me that GOG's prediction of which price the market will allow for a product like Xenonauts is much more realistic than that of the developers.

$25 is milking gamers? Do you even realize how much regular games cost?

That said, Xenonauts can be preordered $20 from Kickstarter. The regular non-Kickstarter prices of Grim Dawn, Shadowrun, Wasteland are all $20 at least. None of these games will be accepted by GOG due to their dumb policy, because they are all independently-developed games costing more than $15.

When was the last time that I bought a game for $25?
Fuck knows. Developers are welcome to offer games here for one million bazillion dollars, but I shall not be a part of the target audience.
I like the $5.99 and $9.99 pricing points on GOG and despite that, most of my purchases are from GOGs on sale, as well as from Steam sales.
So go ahead and pick your pricing point, because if it's under a tenner, I'm unlikely to buy it.

Like?

Why will I do that?

Developers have bills to pay too. Until the game is released it's hard to say how reasonable $25 is, but it's hardly as unreasonable as some prices are.

Refusing to charge more than $15 for a new game is hardly something that's going to convince publishers to release their games here until they've already been price cut everywhere else.

It may be that they would make more money by dropping the price down to $15, but $25 is hardly gouging for a new game, especially if it has the kind of scope that it appears to have.

Are you kidding? I want Xenonauts to be very much on GoG, and it doesn't look like a Facebook game. If you've played the original X-COM you'll know the differences. I'm not trying to be optimistic about Firaxis's remake of X-COM and if it fails, at least I have Xenonauts to fall back to. If it's good, 2 X-COM remakes is gonna be even more awesome.

Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner. These sorts of blanket policies really only make sense when they extend to everything. Having older games being sold for $20 that happen to have been produced by a major studio makes no sense and some indie games are genuinely worth more than $20. Especially new ones.

I don't know if I'll be buying a copy of the game any time soon, but this blanket policy if it proves to be the case is just wrongheaded. It should apply just as much to major studio releases as it does to indie releases if it's that important.

AC is another example, I bought it for $20 years ago, but it's here now for $20, which is 25% more than what they're apparently wiling to sell a new indie title for, whether or not it's worth the money.

I don't know what the big deal is, really. If it's available DRM-free elsewhere, why does it matter?