Hey guys,

I discovered the page Isthereanydeal and according to it, the GoG version of the Collector´s Edition of DOS1 is constantly discounted by 80% on Steam, but on GoG only by 65% which is a pretty steep difference in the total amount of money. I looked up the pricing history and it was discounted by 80% twice on GoG prior to the release of DOS2, but never since then.Does anyone know why that is? Surely not because of the DRM Freedom. Especially not for a rather dated game like this, I hope. I for the life of me can´t get over myself and buy over the historical low. XD Maybe someone from Larian can shine some light on it?

I'm not from Larian, but I think that I may have an idea of why this might be:

Looking at the store pages, it looks like the GOG version might come with more goodies. While the main text on the store-page only lists the same additional items as the Steam version, when I select the "Collector's Edition" near the "Add to cart" button I see quite a lot more. (e.g. A novella.)

I don't know for certain that the Steam version doesn't have these things, but I don't see them mentioned in a casual look, so perhaps that accounts for the difference in markdown.

Thanks for the reply, but I found out, that it is somewhat misleading...the goodies like the novella and the comic come with the added keys of Divinie Divinity and Beyond Divinity, which are included in the Collector´s Edition. Since I have both of them, I also already have these goodies. To me the only added benefit would be A second key of DOS1 EE, the design documents, artworks and the soundtrack. I think I can live without them, although the completionist in me would really love to have them and is kinda hurting, but since I am not willing to get it on Steam, but also neither to pay that much more compared to the Steam version I just bought the normal EE edition for 80% off (on Steam its even dicounted for 90% *Grumble* * Grumble*, so I think we are upsold for the DRM freedom or internally higher comission on GoG´s side, which still pisses me off, but I can live with an 80% discount rather than only 65%.). What irks me a little bit is that this is coming from Larian the Messiases of the game industry. I would think they would uplift a platform like GoG over Steam. But whatever. I guess I will have to live with it. Thanks for the response again.

Well, I'm glad that you discovered as far as you did, and that you came to an answer that you seem to be at least mostly happy with! ^^;

Otherwise, another thought toward the discrepancy is that perhaps GOG sees more sales on the title than does Steam (at least by percentage), or Steam simply has so huge a library that sales of this one game just don't impact is as much, and so Steam is more willing to sell it for a song.