thylior

Everyone, who demands that should first read about the story from the company named J.C. Penny. It is not a joke to put a price at .99. It makes you feel better, so you like to buy stuff. Just watch this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/the-jc-pennys-effect

graspee

I agree with rounding prices rather than having .99s, but don't think it's too much of a big deal.


deathmachinept You have a FREAKIN' CHEEK admitting to pirating games on here.

TheIRS

Saving that extra penny sure sucks, right?

Eroen

+1 This would make the gog store look and feel more respectable!

deathmachinept

What If I like to be tricked by this human psychology exploit?
I pirate games, I buy them when they are really good but this trick helps me support the industry since it's more easy for me to buy just good or average games.

And BTW .98 works better! :D .99 is now too cliche.

Davdaretbb

It would make life easier when converting $ to £

tmisiu

I'm against. That change can make people want to buy games less, which would just result in loss for GOG and publishers, and current situation is not dishonest - you can easily round prices in your mind to get around subconsciousness.

singbird

It's quite strange that people are actually *against* this idea. "99-pricing" is basically taking advantage of human psychology. Or in other words: screwing you over. So from a customer's point of view it really should be supported. Of course, from GOG's point of view it might not be such a good idea. Basically, 99-pricing is about making you think you pay only 5 dollars instead of 6 dollars.

As for changing the prices... It probably takes at maximum 5 minutes.

DShiller

Three things: 1- the idea of pricing at .99 is to make the customer think something at 5.99 is actually 5€ and not 6€. 2- GOG is already doing great work in terms of digital distribution.. if you really can't be bothered to pay an extra CENT to the great team behind the website you probably don't buy video games that often anyway. 3- As far as conversion rates are concerned, I too see all prices in american dollars and have them automatically converted into my currency. So what? Again, it's a single cent. It doesn't make conversion any more difficult, and the difference to us customers is meaningless... except GOG appears more upfront about their pricing.

alvorsam

And pay .01 more??? NEVER!!

pseudonarne

I'd rather save my pennies. but i get what you mean. still I'd prefer 5.99 to 6 just to make the numbers rounder

Envite

It is not a question of that single cent (less than an euro cent for me) but, as said below, a matter of being clear and honest. Anyway I agree everybody out there does this and we're accustomed to that.

tammerwhisk

I'd rather save my pennies. It's a pointless request, and goes against standard pricing for pretty much everything. Even if they were to implement this I'd rather it be the last thing on the list of stuff to do since it isn't remotely important.

Robo4900

Okay, my old argument wasn't a very strong one, but I do agree with ShaolinsKunk. Seriously, this isn't a good idea. Also, it would require every single game that costs anything on GOG.com to go up in price, which would take ages for the people who work on GOG to do(They'd have to go into various things and change a bunch of numbers, probably one at a time, so it would be very tedious), so that's another reason not to do it.

Tychoxi

yeah, this is something that bugs me too!

Shaolin_sKunk

This request is just stupid. GOG does business with more countries and currencies than just the U.S., rounding out the prices here does virtually nothing for everyone else who does not buy games using the US dollar; one of the features of GOG is that the price is the same everywhere because $1 does not equal £1. Example: $5.99 is £3.71, $6 is £3.72, so for the average Englishman it doesn't change anything in regards to rounded prices. Not only that, I'm quite sure that the Englishman would consider GOG all the more honest for charging him £3.71 instead of £5.99 like other retailers would gladly do. So you're telling me a "problem" which only affects a very small group of people (if the votes are any indication) should be changed simply because this small group's intelligence was "insulted" (even though literally every big retailer out there lists their prices this way, so, you should really be used to this by now) then the fact is, yes, you should get over your own inflated sense of self-importance. Honestly, the last place you heard a phrase doesn't change its applicability to you.

Eli

"Get over yourselves" is the kind of thing I used to hear 15-year-olds say when I was in High School in 1997 - about anyone who acted with confidence, usually. But I can't say I've heard any intelligent adults say it in the last decade.

Shaolin_sKunk

I honestly could not care less but I think it's funny that it is apparently such an affront to some people. Get over yourselves.

Eli

Yeah, this really needs to be done, and I fully agree with the comment before me. I CAN'T BELIEVE this wasn't one of the very first things requested here. MEGA +1. This is my absolute top Requested Site Feature on GOG. Way to go Shadi.

albatros75

$10 speak to our reason as a human being. $9.99 speak to our subconscious. I know this techniques works on many people, but these are really disrespectful and insulting. It says the seller is not interested in our intelligence or our needs to sell stuff, but prefer to hit us in a lower, subconscious level. I hate it, and everybody should hate it. (I know gog is awesome, but what I said above stays true)

Shades29A

for US users, i'd agree. but $1 is €0.76 for me... which is even more ridiculous that .99 :)

BlackThorny

Not only nuts but rediculus - to reach 10$ he would have to buy 1000 games. Someone buying that many would probably don't care much about price anyway.

CoronaBunny

Seconded. As for the comment that someone would complain that they paid more after having bought a ton on games... come on, that's just nuts.

Robo4900

I don't think that's a good idea, because it would mean that if someone joins GOG after this change is made, and they buy a ton of games, they'll end up discovering that they could have saved $10 if they'd have bought them before the change, and that would just annoy people. So, unfortunately, it's too late to change it.