I prefer the older system because I pretty much never have any interest in all the games that on sale (usually only one or two). Therefore the older system saves me more money because I want to cherry pick the couple games I'm interested in.

I hope this continues. It's very rare that I don't buy at least two games during a sale if I want to buy something so this works for me. Might not be as good for people who often only buy a single game during a sale as they lose a 5% discount.

Most sales I remember were 40% for individual titles, 60% for everything, or just plain 50% off everything regardless of how much you get, so I'd be losing a lot more than 5%.

If you're cherrypicking a single game you're losing 20% of a 5.99 or 9.99 game, 2 dollars at most. Yeah I don't think 2 dollars is worthless by any means but it's not exactly make or break for entertainment of game length (though I might reconsider a movie ticket over 2 bucks, but I generally find theaters annoying).

It's normally 30 and 50.

60% off sales like the D&D today and 75% off for Nordic from last week don't happen often, except for the hidden gems.

With the current selection it's not too bad as most of them are the same kinda D&D game (with the exception of the strategy/Diablo-esque games.) But when they do it with publisher catalogues & mixes etc where there's only one game you're interested in (i.e one gem amongst a load of turds) then it falls apart, just as it did with their old "up to" deals. Plus you're going to get more of a mixed variety of games and some people are only interested in specifics, for instance I'm not really into ye olde racing games and sports games. Then finally you have the people who don't want their shelf being defiled by games they've little to no intention of playing, just to save some money.

I'd actually just prefer it if GOG stuck with the weekly gems and didn't bother with weekend promos. I know that's a controversial statement to make but I'm more likely to buy one game at a better discount (50% for example) than these kind of scaling deals or "up to" deals.

In general, I prefer their normal sales. I think this sale makes sense for its intended purpose as an anniversary sale and there're a few people that probably have one or several of the games and they get a bit more of a discount. And I'm sure there's a few folks that want only half of them.

But, unless there's a lot of games in a promo, I don't see this new method being better than the old one. Typically with 30% off unless you buy all the games in the promo you're better than if you only bought one in the new system. Plus, you often times find that it's cheaper to buy that last game anyways, particularly if you already own one or two of the games.

Actually, 50% compared to 20% is a 30% (absolute) difference, which equals roughly 3 dollar, or in terms of 'monetary importance', gifting a 40/50% (previously normal) discounted $5.99 or not, at which point I'd argue that it makes a difference.
At least I enjoy(ed) competing for and handing out gifts, but at only 20% discount I'm not sure how many of these I'm going to feature in the future.

I do not like this new system. The minimum discount is too small and since I never bought many games of a promo (well except interplay with 6 I think) the older system was better for me.

And by older system I mean 30/50, 40/60 or 50, I don't know where people got 25/60.

I think people who like this system either have quite a few games from this promo or are simply judging it by the actual games in this promo. Don't forget a lot of weekend deals have been publisher deals and that generally means different types of games. Take the last Nordic Games sale. They have RPG, FPS, Strategy, Adventure and frankly because of it there are only a few games that would interest me. I only bought The Guild, since I already got Gothic 2 with The Witcher 2 and Painkiller I have on CD. To get a nice discount on such promos with this system you'd have to buy quite a few games that pose no interest to you.

I think it is a good third type of sale to add, but like that GOG ran both tiered sales and flat sales in the past, it makes sense that they could run continuum sales as a third type; it doesn't need to replace a sale-type, but does add something new. After all it rewards long term members who have a couple of the games already and rewards people people who want buy a middling number of games better than the tiered model and buying the whole pack the same as the tiered model. So having three sale types (flat, tiered, and continuum) seems fine to me. Personally I prefer flat and tiered for myself, but I see the advantages of the continuum system for some buyers too.

Another user dissapointed with the new promo system.

I'm a "small buyer": I can't spend too much money on over-the-internet-things without bothering any friends, and the highest amount of titles I've bought in a promo are 4-5 titles in a punctual promotion, my average amount its 1 title per promotion.

I don't really care about percentages and complex stuff, I only know that, if I want to buy ONE game of this promo, I have to pay the double I would have paid for it in the old promo system. If I would like to purchase both Icewind Dales and Planescape, I have to pay 2 extra euros per game over the full discount price. Just because I don't have enough money to pay for the whole pack and get the whole discount, I have to pay more money for each game.

And that's a money I currently don't have. Plus, I find a bit dissapointing and punishing having to pay 1 extra euro per game if I want to buy the whole pack just because I already own boxed versions of both Baldur's Gates.

I can understand that, for big buyers (i.e. users who buy the whole pack) there ain't any difference, but for small buyers like me, that new system means skip the promo.
And yeah, a 2-3 euro difference is a small difference, but it still being a difference, and I don't think that everyone can simply ignore it.

*Gives Two Asprins
I wish you happy post reading Mr. T. ;-D

Are you also looking at suggestions?

What happens if the discount difference goes down the more games you add? Higher discount on the lower end (compared to currently) but large purchases still get more off?

e.g.

1: 40%
2: 50%
3: 55%
4: 60%
5: 63%
6: 66%

Is this better or worse?