Okay, sure... yet it is not forbidden doing so. If it works for them... i will be happy because it will help GOG too.

I never said I was for illegal action nor advocating for it, read again I said basically '' Too high of prices cause piracy'' Which is a proven fact across varies countries time and time again. So this price situation will drive people who otherwise wouldn't to doing it

No, it’s just a horrible and scummy tactic, and only fools would want to reward it. The end result is short-term gain at the cost of long-term loss, and it also ruins customer relations and reputation. There’s a reason so few publishers do this.

Again - just don't buy these games
No, you didn’t say, or even imply, that higher prices cause piracy; you said there was 'no other option.' There’s a mountain of difference between those two statements. You presented a clear (but false) dichotomy and told people which option they should take. Words have meaning.

I would not see it that critical because i do understand their "evil" motivation: They want to increase visibility of their games, and the best way of doing it is by having a high discount on a sale. Now... if they would put a 80% cut on a 10 USD game... it would result into 2 USD... GOG will only get a few cents out of it and maybe even become bankrupt at some point. I assume... even the donations GOG is getting is only sufficient for buying coffee and cookie for all of them... not much more; at least they get some snacks now.

However, if the price is at 25 coins then there is still between 5 and 10 coins left in term of a huge discount. Most likely this was their intention and most people only buy those games at a sale anyway... so the final "result" is simply a higher visibility on sales.

I can not say for sure if this is evil... it is rather a desperate attempt on getting better sales in some way, but the final price may not change a lot, for most of us (those who almost only buy games on sales).

Poor wording on my part then, but 1 if you took in all I was saying should have been obvious what I was saying and 2 my phrasing on the matter of what I later clarified in my last message is common especially in terms of prices leading to the piracy situation .

Maybe not in your bubble or part of the world but in my part of the world and many discussions and video essays on why [piracy is so bad in parts of the world it sure is quite common in my first few messages on this topic

This should make sense until you see Interplay current sale with discounts around 20-30%. Toonstruck for around 15 bucks.

I assume they will make a stronger price cut, yet i can not see the future... we have to see.

They mainly made such a low cut because their price was already rather low (10 USD). Now, this "issue" is not anymore haunting them.

Just remember people: The price got a certain "industry expectation" which is mainly driven by the one with a big influence. Still... reality is... there is no such thing such as a "fix price for a certain game class". They can set the price they enjoy and even if they instantly decide "our game was underrated and now we will rate it way higher", it is their freedom to do so. Although, the success is rather low as long as they do not make a solid price cut on the next sale... so this is probably their strategy.

Sigh... I have missed Lionheart few times in the past... now the price is higher, than was the price of my physical copy 20 years ago...

Lmao, I get your point but Interplay won´t even resort to such a tactic..I´m sure they will just offer the same old 20% off...I mean if they offer each and every game at 80% off after their price increase, I guess all of them will still be cheaper than these ever were under their ownership.

Those games went from "maybe one day" to never in a manner of seconds.

Excuse me for being so blunt, my guess is that Interplay does not care if someone does not want to buy it anymore as soon as a price is "above a certain line". In fact, even the "good price" was already to high for the ones being "price sensitive", so it had a "maybe-evaluation"... at a tag below 10 USD on sales. My honest guess is... interplay simply does value their games to much for this, so they simply do not want to "trash" it. It may sound unfair or greedy toward people who barely can afford games at all... but i can understand both (or all) sides in some way; so for me this is a difficult matter in which i can not verify any ultimate truth; in fact the truth is very relative and volatile.

To me it is like this: Freespace 2 is a legendary game to me... so i got it almost instantly almost at my first days when i was "meeting GOG", so obviously i got it already. The other games such as "Sacrifice" and "Giants Citizen Kabuto" are interesting games but simply not a legendary one... so i was delaying their purchase for years. I always had other priorities, so i never was actually buying them. Of course... now this is kinda biting me in the very back now, but i am not upset or even angry at anyone... i was simply to late or not able to set the priorities right. I kinda am able to understand all sides to a certain extend, it is simply how it is: Sometimes i am lucky and sometimes not so lucky. I still hope i might have a chance in the future at a more affordable price because 28 CHF (above 30 USD) full price is now truly a serious truck, even for me (i am not wealthy at all... just in a high income country).

I do not expect a 80% price cut because this is not the way Interplay is handling it, but a 50% cut is probably possible.

I even got another game already: Descent 3. This is another legendary game "in my book", but not really my genre, so i was delaying it many years,... yet i got it for 3 USD only (yeah, crazy low... compared to the 25 USD today) before the price was going up like a rocket.

Do people think games will always stay at 3 USD or something? If very lucky maybe... but there is a high risk this will not stay forever; in a world where prices in average only know one direction: The one toward the moon.

There are many publishers, they make it a bit differently: In the past they had a very high price cut... 75% on Anno 1404, or even 80% on Tokyo Xanadu... and now it is only 50% or even just 30%... but at least the price was not rising, so it is less offending. Fact is... a lot of games got a price increase, either in a direct way or because the price cut on sales is now way lower. Ultimately, it can be said that in average those classic prices will increase now and i consider it wise "getting them on time because the risk of a bad price in the future is very real".

Interplay is not the only one, just someone with a high visibility.

It is not a good advise to wait and wait and wait,... because many publishers will not care anymore. They just set the price which is right to them and if less buyers, they simply do not feel bothered anymore. Because the income is already way lower than what they are feeling satisfied with... GOG is barely a "economical matter" anymore to them. So, they either want to set "their truth" or thats it for them... as offensive as it sounds.

I know we are living in a economically very challenging time in which the gape between rich and poor is on a new record level. Still... economically many companies just do not seem to feel the "sense" in dropping prices if the costs everywhere are increasing... while still being as social as humanly possible, so they try to put some sense into it.

They are not blind, they clearly see that humans... if they are addicted... are putting billions of coins into certain things with almost no value... even if it is destroying their life such as drugs, sex (perhaps bad women, who knows) or bad skin-investments. So technically... the majority still seem to have some juice somewhere in their pockets but they are usually not willing on spending it on classics because they simply rate it to low. Yes thats offensive but i just am telling some hard truth, the numbers are not lying.

Well, Gabe Newell is probably making some Yacht-maintenance now for a million or something, because he surely knows exactly "how a addicted gamer is able to pay their bills...".

This is not the perception of the majority... else the physical prices would be 100 and the digital prices still 1.

If you got a sealed copy of Star Ocean the second Story... it could probably sell for several hundreds USD. Rarity matters... and condition.

Not for a "08/15 title" in a "used condition" like MDK 2. JRPGs was always expensive in many cases.

Ultimately: Depends on games but for JRPG lovers, they may have "bad luck" = high prices.

I'm sorry but older digital games doubling in price from $20 to $40 is ridiculous.