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Artistry of Assassination

Assassin’s Creed™: Director’s Cut Edition, a game that took the action-platforming genre to another level, is available now on GOG.com for a limited time!--buy one, get one free with the Heroes of Might & Magic V Bundle for a total of $19.99.

This is one of the two new “Premium Edition” games that GOG.com is offering; they are a slightly higher price--but they come packed with value and we’re encouraging you to try them out with this buy one, get one free promotion that’s running until 12 April at 4.59 PM GMT.

Desmond Miles is a bartender, a simple lad who is abducted by a mysterious organization and attached to the Animus, a strange machine that allows him to access his ancestor’s memories. Now he--and you--can see the events that happened in the year 1191, the time of the third crusade in the Holy Land vividly, and Desmond find himself assuming the role of Altaïr ibn La-Ahad, a merciless killer that carries out assassinations ordered by the most mysterious and deadliest clan of assassins.

Assassin’s Creed: Director’s Cut Edition is a game that redefined the action genre with open gameplay, intuitive controls, incredibly fluid combat mechanics, and realistic interactions with the world surrounding you. Every architectural detail like window ledges, carvings in the stone or wooden bars can be used to as environmental props for fluid, acrobatic movement. Depending on your choices, the crowd will allow you to blend in or expose you to the guards. There are many ways to reach your goals, but the result must be always lethal. Stunning graphics and crisp sound effects complete the perfect gaming experience Assassin’s Creed has to offer.

The Director’s Cut Edition features improved artificial intelligence, more detailed graphics, some smaller additions and improvements, and most noticeably, four new missions, including the Roof Chase, Kill the Archers, Destroy the Market Stands, and Escort.

You can expect immersing and unique gameplay experience dressed to kill now on GOG.com. Bundled into a Premium Edition with more than 250 minutes of soundtracks, an official artbook, wallpapers, avatars, design sketches, and more, its full price is $19.99, but you pick it up for a limited time together with our Heroes of Might and Magic V Bundle on a special introductory buy one, get one free sale!
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photoleia: And those sites don't even have all the soundtracks included either. The OST alone (Amazon) costs $8.99. When you add in the extras, the GOG price is more than worth it.
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spinefarm: Yep but people say: OST is an extra...why to pay a slightly more... :D
Heh. Well if you add up the monetary value of everything in that pack, you still are saving money :p I mean it comes with a freaking artbook. Considering the current practice of selling digital books for the same price of their physical counterparts, assuming that the other incl. soundtrack would also cost the same as the OST, assuming that all the other extras are cost-free, and using Amazon's game price (it being the lowest at $15.55), the itemization of this package would be as follows. $15.99 (game)+$40.00 (normal edition art book, out of print and only available used. Generally sells for more than $40) + $8.99 (OST), $8.99 (other soundtrack) = $73.97. Even if the artbook was still in print (and assuming it would sell the same price digitally as it does physically) then it would sell for about $20 if other art books on the market are used as a guide. Under that pricing, the final price would still be $53.97 for everything. *sigh* I guess there are just some people you will never be able to please.

Edit - Amazon is $15.99 and not $15.55
Post edited April 11, 2012 by photoleia
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spinefarm: Yep but people say: OST is an extra...why to pay a slightly more... :D
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photoleia: Heh. Well if you add up the monetary value of everything in that pack, you still are saving money :p I mean it comes with a freaking artbook. Considering the current practice of selling digital books for the same price of their physical counterparts, assuming that the other incl. soundtrack would also cost the same as the OST, assuming that all the other extras are cost-free, and using Amazon's game price (it being the lowest at $15.55), the itemization of this package would be as follows. $15.99 (game)+$40.00 (normal edition art book, out of print and only available used. Generally sells for more than $40) + $8.99 (OST), $8.99 (other soundtrack) = $73.97. Even if the artbook was still in print (and assuming it would sell the same price digitally as it does physically) then it would sell for about $20 if other art books on the market are used as a guide. Under that pricing, the final price would still be $53.97 for everything. *sigh* I guess there are just some people you will never be able to please.
There are plus and minuses from bigger sales.... this are the minuses... people just don't value the extras anymore... ffs they are selling an mmo like Guild Wars 2 Digital Deluxe for 80$ so yeah... it is insane ;)
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spinefarm: There are plus and minuses from bigger sales.... this are the minuses... people just don't value the extras anymore... ffs they are selling an mmo like Guild Wars 2 Digital Deluxe for 80$ so yeah... it is insane ;)
That's pretty much about the size of it.
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spinefarm: There are plus and minuses from bigger sales.... this are the minuses... people just don't value the extras anymore... ffs they are selling an mmo like Guild Wars 2 Digital Deluxe for 80$ so yeah... it is insane ;)
Why are you blaming bigger sales for the loss of value in extra's? Shouldn't you blame GOG? They're offering it for free with all of their games after all. What worse way is there to devalue them?


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spinefarm: Yep but people say: OST is an extra...why to pay a slightly more... :D
If the only edition you can buy is the edition with the OST, then it's not an optional extra anymore. You either say this is a different version sold from the other retailers, and thus you can't compare them, or you say it's the same game but you're forced to pay extra because they're forcing the OST in the package.

So either GOG doesn't sell AC1 without forcing extra's on you for more money, or they are selling AC1, with free extra's, yet the price is high.

Either way. If the OST is really going to be used as an argument that 'it's fine that the price is higher', then the complaint should be that the OST, and it's raised price, are forced on you, and they should sell a copy of AC1 without it.

I'd say the amount people who are actually interested in obtaining an OST of a game, especially if they haven't even played it yet, is rather small.

Edit: Sheesh I'm bad at getting a point across...

In summary. I'm not saying a game + OST shouldn't be worth some extra money. I'm saying that it shouldn't be forced on you for extra money. Make it optional to get that OST, don't force it as the only version you're selling, unless you *really* add it for free :)
Post edited April 11, 2012 by Pheace
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Pheace: Snip
Pheace you are getting anoying. On every shop except Amazon(15.30$) AC1 is 19.99$ what exactly you don't get so far? Nobody is forcing you anything. If you want it,you buy it ... If you want to buy AC1 for 5$ without anything you are free to do it...If you want to buy it from GOG ...you buy it from GOG
Post edited April 11, 2012 by spinefarm
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spinefarm: Pheace you are getting anoying. On every shop except Amazon(15.30$) AC1 is 19.99$ what exactly you don't get so far? Nobody is forcing you anything. If you want it,you buy it ... If you want to buy AC1 for 5$ without anything you are free to do it...If you want to buy it from GOG ...you buy it from GOG
I fully understand it must be annoying for you when you don't get my point.

You're the one arguing that extra's merit paying a little more. I'm saying not everyone is interested in that, so the best thing to do would be to offer options with and without it.
Post edited April 11, 2012 by Pheace
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spinefarm: Pheace you are getting anoying. On every shop except Amazon(15.30$) AC1 is 19.99$ what exactly you don't get so far? Nobody is forcing you anything. If you want it,you buy it ... If you want to buy AC1 for 5$ without anything you are free to do it...If you want to buy it from GOG ...you buy it from GOG
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Pheace: I fully understand it must be annoying when you don't get my point.
Your point is that when Steam make a sale everybody should jump :) You have your option - Buy on other DD or here...
Post edited April 11, 2012 by spinefarm
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spinefarm: Your point is that when Steam make a sale everybody should jump :)
Good good. Revert to somehow changing the topic into something about Steam when you can't make an argument. It makes you very apparent :)

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spinefarm: You have your option - Buy on other DD or here...
Yes, that's what consumers who are affected by this will do. And that's my point. If it's going to affect consumers purchasing behaviour, then it's better for retailers to split extra's, making them optional, rather than raising price and alienating people who aren't interested in those.
Post edited April 11, 2012 by Pheace
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spinefarm: Your point is that when Steam make a sale everybody should jump :)
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Pheace: Good good. Revert to somehow changing the topic into something about Steam when you can't make an argument. It makes you very apparent :)
Let me explain in your tone...
Mommy mommy I'm a spoiled kid that wants GOG to give me games for freeeeee....

You still don't get the point: IT IS A PREMIUM VERSION.
Nobody is forcing you to buy it this way. And yes the OST (even as an extra deserve the extra 4$ diff from Steam [EU price] /Amazon)
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Pheace: I fully understand it must be annoying when you don't get my point.
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spinefarm: Your point is that when Steam make a sale everybody should jump :) You have your option - Buy on other DD or here...
Honestly I always wondered why this wasn't the case. What I mean is if Steam drops the price for a sale on AC1 why wouldn't other DDs do the same thing? It seems like having parallel pricing would be a good thing for the company and for the customer. The customer can buy it from anywhere and the company doesn't have to worry about other companies "winning" the customer.

I'm sure there are business reasons for this but seems like a no brainer to me.
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spinefarm: Your point is that when Steam make a sale everybody should jump :)
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Pheace: Good good. Revert to somehow changing the topic into something about Steam when you can't make an argument. It makes you very apparent :)

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spinefarm: You have your option - Buy on other DD or here...
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Pheace: Yes, that's what consumers who are affected by this will do. And that's my point. If it's going to affect consumers purchasing behaviour, then it's better for retailers to split extra's, making them optional, rather than raising price and alienating people who aren't interested in those.
And do you think that someone will actually give 15$ for the soundtrack on Itunes (It is an amazing soundtrack but yet...15$)
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spinefarm: Let me explain in your tone...
Mommy mommy I'm a spoiled kid that wants GOG to give me games for freeeeee....

You still don't get the point: IT IS A PREMIUM VERSION.
Nobody is forcing you to buy it this way. And yes the OST (even as an extra deserve the extra 4$ diff from Steam [EU price] /Amazon)
Ahh, now you're back to making up what other people are thinking again. It's really quite sad. For instance, nowhere did I mention anything about getting something free. Which simply highlights what I already said: You really just don't understand what I'm talking about, do you?

Indeed. It's a premium version. And my point is that that's the only version on Sale, which not everyone might be interested in. So that might drive customers somewhere else, which is a *bad* thing, for any retailers (including GOG). And my argument is simply that it's better for retailers to offer both a base version and a premium version (when other retailers do do that), or you might alienate some potential customers.

Strangely that always seems to come out as an attack to you and turns you into some childish troll, even though what I'm doing is actually discussing what would work better for GOG, in my opinion.

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spinefarm: And do you think that someone will actually give 15$ for the soundtrack on Itunes (It is an amazing soundtrack but yet...15$)
I'm sure there are. But there are also those who won't, and more relevant here, there's a whole lot of people who buy something, for the GAME, not for the OST at all. They don't care if it's $3 extra, or costs $15 somewhere else. All they care about is that the game costs $xx here, and there it costs $xx +5. So why not buy it at the cheaper place since they don't care about the OST.

Edit: This is not specifically about AC1 here. This is about your comment laughing at the matter that some people think it's silly to pay a little more because extra's are included.

I'm saying a lot of people don't do that. So making that the only option at your shop is a bad thing, since you alienate the people who only care about the game.
Post edited April 11, 2012 by Pheace
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spinefarm: Let me explain in your tone...
Mommy mommy I'm a spoiled kid that wants GOG to give me games for freeeeee....

You still don't get the point: IT IS A PREMIUM VERSION.
Nobody is forcing you to buy it this way. And yes the OST (even as an extra deserve the extra 4$ diff from Steam [EU price] /Amazon)
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Pheace: Ahh, now you're back to making up what other people are thinking again. It's really quite sad. For instance, nowhere did I mention anything about getting something free. Which simply highlights what I already said: You really just don't understand what I'm talking about, do you?

Indeed. It's a premium version. And my point is that that's the only version on Sale, which not everyone might be interested in. So that might drive customers somewhere else, which is a *bad* thing, for any retailers (including GOG). And my argument is simply that it's better for retailers to offer both a base version and a premium version (when other retailers do do that), or you might alienate some potential customers.

Strangely that always seems to come out as an attack to you and turns you into some childish troll, even though what I'm doing is actually discussing what would work better for GOG, in my opinion.
It's bad for sales if everybody is thinking like you :) It's good for sales if you sale something better then others...
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spinefarm: It's bad for sales if everybody is thinking like you :)
Back to being out of arguments again
It's good for sales if you sale something better then others...
True by default. But 'better' is not the case for those who don't care for extra's. If another shop sells the same game for less without extra's, you lose a sale for people like that. And extra's, really aren't that high on the list of wants for a lot of people.

If a game is equal priced on two services, and one includes the OST and is equal in every way, that is obviously the one to go for. I'm not arguing that. But you said it's worth paying extra. And that is not true for a lot of the customer base. Just those that actually care about extra's.
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spinefarm: It's bad for sales if everybody is thinking like you :)
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Pheace: Back to being out of arguments again
It's good for sales if you sale something better then others...
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Pheace: True by default. But 'better' is not the case for those who don't care for extra's. If another shop sells the same game for less without extra's, you lose a sale for people like that. And extra's, really aren't that high on the list of wants for a lot of people.

If a game is equal priced on two services, and one includes the OST and is equal in every way, that is obviously the one to go for. I'm not arguing that. But you said it's worth paying extra. And that is not true for a lot of the customer base. Just those that actually care about extra's.
And all your arguments are down from the moment that the price is 19.99$ on Steam/GamersGate/GreenManGaming/GOG