I mean, I would have paid at least twice the base price for all the Infinity Engine games if I could -when they were releases here-, and was annoyed that I had to wait until the 10% release sale was over to at least get to pay the base price.

Then someone released "Enhanced Editions" of them at twice the price and didn't let GOG sell the original ones on their own (but only bundled with the EEs), which pissed me off.

Yes, I would very likely purchase several gift copies of each of the original IE games if GOG managed to get he permission to sell them separate from the EEs again. Not that it'll happen.

I don't think those are realistic ideas for several reasons, but at least on itch.io, if you go to discount page you will see normal discounts in blue, but sometimes you see "discounts" in red. Those are extra price, for instance red 100 discount isn't completely free, it means paying double price to support the developer. So there are some stores who have implemented something like that.

As for GOGstarter, it would be a great idea as GOG's (in)famous curation could probably keep worst projects out, and there would never be a situation where the final product would not end up on GOG, as is the case with many Kickstarter projects.

The problem is, GOG can't guarantee that any project actually delivers on time, or delivers at all, and if they try to make some backer guarantees, that would only add to their financial issues. If they can't have the price compensation for normal purchases, they sure can't guarantee payback of thousands of dollars worth of backer money.

While I've not played it myself, I have read they have surprisingly enough managed to fix it quite a bit.

So, kinda like humble has the "this is the minimum you must spend to purchase this content; feel free to pay whatever you want above that amount" thing?

I'd go along with that. I wouldn't always be able to do it, but I'd appreciate the option.

That's not up to GOG. Beamdog owns the rights for the IE games.

If I were to voluntarily pay more for a game, that would be to support the developer, not the distribution platform.

GOG just need to get their crap together and maybe don't make us wait for months for simple fixes to their broken site. For example the reviews are still walls of text since the revamp 4 months ago, while fixing it is literally a 5-minute CSS fix.

They failed the shit test over some tweets before. GOG should learn that once it's on the shitlist, it's always on the shit list with that group of people. I'm sure if you sent them a check that didn't bounce, or mailed them some cash, they wouldn't raise a stink. Then people wouldn't donate when "too niche" came up.

Depends entirely on your expectations. It's something entirely different than the original Underworld games and it's something entirely different than what was pitched during the Kickstarter. But taken on its own terms, it's a pretty fun game. The Day 1 build was a disaster, but they've made some very impressive progress in the few months since then. Most notably, they patched in a save system and Update 2 made some pretty drastic overhauls to the level design. The earlier iterations were kinda-fun sandboxes with glitches galore, now it's starting to look like an actual game.

It was 75% off recently and I think it's well worth the $10.

Yes, thus "if GOG managed to get the permission" (ie. if Beamdog would permit them to sell them separately).

I mean, I'm happy that they got permission to include the originals at all (if Beamdog had wanted to sell them, they'd be available at Steam too).

I had not thought of that, its a good point