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It's day number six of our extravagant [url=http://www.gog.com/NoDRMSummer]2013 #NoDRM Summer Sale, and we've prepared for you another pair of bundle deals that will appeal to retro-gamers and indie fans alike. Today's themes: great indie RPGs you could have missed that we think really deserve your attention and classic strategies of the ever-popular city builder sub-genre. Take a look at all the fun and challenge that can make your Sunday evening full of #NoDRM gaming joy!

In the RPG Rarities Bundle, we offer you a selection of five recent notable indie role-playing titles for only $14.95. Each and single one of them is unique and special in its very own way. Evoland is as much of a console-style action-RPG, as it is a nostalgic retrospective of this genre presenting its evolution from the early 8-bit era to modern times. Anodyne also draws inspiration from Zelda-like titles, but uses these time-proven gameplay ideas to tell a allegoric story of an inner trip into one's own subconsciousness. Sword of The Stars: The Pit is a fun and addictive modern roguelike game delivering a great level of challenge and replayability in a colorful, yet ominous, hard-SciFi setting.The Real Texas provides unexpectedly deep and refined gameplay mechanics paired with a zany, yet at times thought-provoking story and colorful and silly art-style. Finally, there's Costume Quest taking us on a Halloween-themed trip into the land of kids' imagination executed with Double Fine's signature charm and creative gameplay mechanics. All of these games truly deserve to become a part of your collection, but we know they get often overlooked in the company of larger and more celebrated RPG titles that are aplenty on GOG.com. You can see what you've probably been missing out on for 75% less than usually.

There are few genres available in our catalog that can be compared in their popularity to the RPGs. Managerial strategy, especially of the city-building and managing kind, is one of them. Today, with 70% discount, you can grab the Builder's Boon Bundle, a whole pack of such games. The phenomenal Hellenic Acropolis (Zeus+Poseidon) and its Egyptian counterpart Pharaoh + Cleopatra will allow you to raise the legendary empires to their full ancient glory. Children of The Nile will allow you to stay even longer in the amazing setting of ancient Egypt and rule the people from generation to generation, thus forming a dynasty destined for immortal memory. Caesar 3 will let you witness, protect, and build even further the glory of Rome. In Lords of Magic you'll get to run your very own fantastic kingdom, taking car of its military, resources, and even diplomacy. Finally, Lords of the Realm: Royal Edition (1+2) and Lords of the Realm 3 will take you back to the medieval times, where your rule can turn the tide of historical events. All that multi-layered and deep strategic goodness can be yours for only $16.13!

That's it from us today. Have fun, enjoy our #NoDRM Summer Sale, and remember to drop by tomorrow for a new set of special deals!
I'm thinking that what we saw Friday is what the rest of the sale is. There's a lot of games in the catalog that haven't been deep discounted in bundles. I was hoping it would be more varied. We're still in the first week though, so maybe I'll be surprised.

As far as deep discounts on individual games go, maybe we'll see that more when the catalog is a lot larger, I don't know. 50% off of a 9.99 or 5.99 game isn't too bad. I would like to see the deep discounts on the 10.00 and up range more so than the ones on the lower end. There aren't that many games in the catalog in the higher end compared to the others, though, at least not yet.

GOG is noticeably larger now then back whenever I first signed on, but they're still relatively small compared to other popular distributors. Perhaps we'll see some really good sales from them in the future (including deep discounts on individual games) once they've expanded enough. If I'm not mistaken, last Christmas was the first sale that they bundled a bunch of titles together with deep discounts, like the formula that we see now, except I think more games were bundled then. They had bundles prior to Christmas, but not nearly as large in scope.
Post edited June 23, 2013 by JohnnyDollar
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SLP2000: It may be not working for people who are picky about their purchases, but it's well working for those who tend to buy everything that is 75% off. There are tons of people who will buy almost everything with that discount.
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SirPrimalform: Not wanting to buy a game twice is picky?
These people you speak of rebuy things they already own just because "OMG 75% OFF!"?
I don't believe you.
No rational thinking person buys something simply because of the number in front of the "% off" -- they buy something because they believe the actual price they have to pay (e.g., $) is worth the value obtained. I've bought quite a few games that I already owned (e.g., Warlords Battlecry series, Imperialism series) because the price was so low that it was worth it just to avoid dealing with losing/finding/breaking CDs, avoid putting DRM on my latest PC, be able to have backups/redownloads should anything happen, and get GOG enhancements to boot (e.g., WBC running properly on systems with more than 2GB).

(That said, there are probably some "hoarders" here, and they probably aren't making rational decisions. And while the economics I outline below may be sound, my apparent premise that scientific break-throughs will allow me to live for eternity, thus giving me enough time to try out all of the games I have purchased, just might be on slightly shakier ground.)

So far I haven't seen anyone with the "right" frame of mind about these bundles. Here's how I see it: Say for example there are 10 games in a bundle, normal price for each game is $10, they are 50% off individually, 75% if you get the full bundle. Now let's make it a "really bad" bundle -- i.e., there's 4 games in that bundle you don't like (even at 75% off), but (even at 50% off) you'd like the rest. What's the math:

Buy the 6 games you like individually: 10 $/game * 6 games * (1-.50) = $30 total
Get all 10 games: 10 $/game * 10 games * (1-.75) = $25 total

And this is only a conservative valuation of the value ($30) and the delta ($5). If the games were worth it at 50% off, they were probably worth it at 49% (or less) off. And even if the 4 games were not worth the 75%-off price, some of them may still be worth something. You'd have to plug in the perceived values of all of the games to get the full amount the games were actually worth to the given purchaser (which will be above $30, unless some of the games are valued quite negatively, in which case therapy is advised) to then figure out the purchaser's total benefit from the transaction (i.e., value received minus value spent). In any event, the delta is at least $5, and possibly more if the 4 games have have any value at all. (And of course, at a certain point the potential "profit/loss" is so small as to not even be worth the time spent doing all of this valuing and calculating, at which point I just hit the "buy" button and be done with it.)

So, if you get the bundle, is GOG "forcing" you to buy 4 games you don't want? That's not how I see it. How I see it is that GOG is paying me $5 to own those 4 games.

The cheapest case I ran into (the least GOG ever paid me to take a game) was with the ultima series. I wasn't exactly interested in Ultima9, but GOG paid me $0.01 to take it, so, oh well, sure GOG, I'll take your game and your money. (In that case I already owned all games in the bundle except two -- one I wanted and was totally willing to buy at the 50%-off price, and the other was Ultima9. Because of GOG rounding prices down, 50% to 75% changed the price of each game from $2.99 to $1.49 (rather than $1.495), so instead of one game for $2.99 I picked up both for $1.49 * 2 = $2.98.)

Some other impacts of the bundles are that GOG is rewarding loyalty (which I have no real opinion on at this time), and in some cases having the side-effect of punishing people who continue to support DRM by continuing to buy games from places that support DRM, which at this point is pretty much every other major distributor other than GOG (to which I say "Go GOG! Flog the heathens! Death to DRM! DEATH! DEATH! DEATH!" -- now for some reason I feel I should go install and play Inquisitor...).
Post edited June 23, 2013 by TheJadedOne
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TheJadedOne: ...
Your logic is sound, but my original point was quite simple:

The cost of the games I don't have at 75% off is something I am willing to pay for the value they represent to me.

The cost of the entire bundle at 75% off is above what I am willing to pay at the moment. It represents the same value to me as above but at a higher cost.

The cost of just the games I don't have at 50% is above what I am willing to pay. Again, the value to me is the same but the cost is higher.

This results in GOG getting less money that they otherwise would have done. I wouldn't object if it was games I simply didn't really want, but I refuse to repurchase games I bought from the developers at release.
Post edited June 23, 2013 by SirPrimalform
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TheJadedOne: ...
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SirPrimalform: Your logic is sound, but my original point was quite simple:

The cost of the games I don't have at 75% off is something I am willing to pay for the value they represent to me.

The cost of the entire bundle at 75% off is above what I am willing to pay at the moment. It represents the same value to me as above but at a higher cost.

The cost of just the games I don't have at 50% is above what I am willing to pay. Again, the value to me is the same but the cost is higher.

This results in GOG getting less money that they otherwise would have done. I wouldn't object if it was games I simply didn't really want, but I refuse to repurchase games I bought from the developers at release.
You expect too much I think. I would say that the games you "like" actually represent way to little value for you, or at least, less than for most people. Sure lowering absolutely every game to 75% off or more will encourage sells but maybe not that much, and with the discount it probably will not be a good business for them.
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SirPrimalform: Your logic is sound, but my original point was quite simple:

The cost of the games I don't have at 75% off is something I am willing to pay for the value they represent to me.

The cost of the entire bundle at 75% off is above what I am willing to pay at the moment. It represents the same value to me as above but at a higher cost.

The cost of just the games I don't have at 50% is above what I am willing to pay. Again, the value to me is the same but the cost is higher.

This results in GOG getting less money that they otherwise would have done. I wouldn't object if it was games I simply didn't really want, but I refuse to repurchase games I bought from the developers at release.
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TheScorpion: You expect too much I think. I would say that the games you "like" actually represent way to little value for you, or at least, less than for most people. Sure lowering absolutely every game to 75% off or more will encourage sells but maybe not that much, and with the discount it probably will not be a good business for them.
"Sure lowering absolutely every game to 75% off or more will encourage sells but maybe not that much, and with the discount it probably will not be a good business for them."

That's pretty much it for me. We all love GOG but at end of the day, they are a business and i want them to grow and make a profit providing the great service they always have.
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TheScorpion: You expect too much I think. I would say that the games you "like" actually represent way to little value for you, or at least, less than for most people. Sure lowering absolutely every game to 75% off or more will encourage sells but maybe not that much, and with the discount it probably will not be a good business for them.
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nijuu: "Sure lowering absolutely every game to 75% off or more will encourage sells but maybe not that much, and with the discount it probably will not be a good business for them."

That's pretty much it for me. We all love GOG but at end of the day, they are a business and i want them to grow and make a profit providing the great service they always have.
Exactly - sometimes it's better to pay extra for things - i.e. things Made in Australia (or in your country), things with good quality and most importantly good games from our beloved gog.com!!
I'd also like to point out that making a statement about how sales work shouldn't be based on your own opinion/situation.

SirPrimalform may be not interested in having another copy of a game, but many people interested in 3 games of 5 in a bundle will buy complete pack and consider 4th and 5th game as the free copies, especially if they have to pay less for 5 games (If all games for 10$ then it's 3x5$ (50%off) or 5x2,5$ (75% off)) It is the way to sell games which are not bestsellers.
Post edited June 24, 2013 by SLP2000
Could anyone please help me get Children of the Nile at the highest possible discount?


I can send you $2.99 via paypal, please PM me if you are willing to help.