Right now.

I'd prefer to avoid "children" examples as they add a bunch of other problems and wrong analogies (even the "government" example isn't ideal, but I couldn't come up with better ones).

Anyway, child benefits are surely not equal for singles, but they are resonable.
In Gog example, it's like if.. the government gave benefits to another nation families, instead of helping its own. Obviously those few who have families in both countries will still get them..

then it depends on the rational for doing so. If it is some sort of aid, then yes, or a scheme to increase immigration from this country. If it is a random act, then no.

Good thing, in the case of Connect, it is more of a case of the former, rather than later.

Here's another example:
A fraudulent caravan just arrived at your neighbourhood, claiming that, by cutting off your right index finger, you would gain unimaginable wealth. Some of your neighbours are interested because they're stupid. The caravan of course provides them with a cleaver, but they let them do it themselves. As soon as the deed had happened, the caravan zoomed off in the distance, never to be seen again, letting your stupid neighbours cry right next to their lost finger.
Hearing about that, the government decided to give money to your poor but stupid neighbours to help them reconstruct their lives. Would you also feel cheated and would you like to get some compensation money, even though you were the smart one in this story?

Now, replace the finger-chopping with using Steam, how do you feel in this case?

This thread is now about gog Connect. Carry on!

If someone's got a proposal for that second class mix, just shoot me a PM or something... ;P

YOU DID THIS!

:P

Unrelated, but now is as good a time as any to say it since we're off-topic anyway: For the longest time, I somehow misread your username as being Frozen Ezekiel Bum, but in all lowercase and without the spaces.

Except, I never said that it's bad for Gog, I said that it is unfair for me.
Also, as I stated before, the government example isn't perfect, because there's no "loyal customer" or "DRM-free" good equivalent.

and i still do not understand why it is unfair for you. What have you lost from this? What is the disadvantage? To be unfair there must be a disadvantage.

And if I had done it on purpose, I'd be damn proud of myself too.

You should've played more Space Quest 6 in your youth and this could have been prevented. ;)

Oh not again.

Steam users getting something (a lot) more from Gog than goggers is the disadvantage.
I would have preferred no Gog Connect with these conditions.

If this is "jealousy" for you ok, whatever.
If you have a Steam account, however, yours becomes egoism then..

Anyway, sorry, this discussion is going on for too long.
I fed up.
Bye

what do they get, which you do not?

I'll make somewhat of an attempt to get the thread back on track, not sure it actually qualifies for a couple of reasons, but I'll mention it all the same.

A post in the Regionally Locked Games thread got me wandering a bit on Steam, and I noticed that Disney is selling a LucasArts Adventure Pack. It includes four games, and costs almost 1/3 of the price one would pay if they bought the games separately.

Now, one of the games included is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade which isn't even here (yet?), but the pack got my attention as GOG does this "buy a series at a discount" thing, and has the two Indiana Jones games as a series, yet they come with no discount.


EDIT: There are other cases, like the Monkey Island: Special Edition Bundle, while the same series on GOG goes full price; the STAR WARS™ X-Wing Bundle while the same series is full price on GOG; and then there's the Lucasarts Jedi Knight Bundle which includes STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith (not on GOG), with no equivalent series here.

Actually, MotS IS on gog. It's part of Jedi Knight and unlike Steam, it's not seperately sold as DLC, which makes it one of those rare instances where goggers actually got a way better deal.

"Mysteries of the Sith" is on GOG, it is part of "STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II".