If only developers didn't need money in order to feed their families and suchlike. I don't mind subsidizing folks like you. I guess I'm a true fan!

Mmmm I guess I see it as a matter of fair pricing, and not a grab at short term profit. I am not responsible for the current pricing behavior, and don't believe in it ... the short term thinking.

When I buy the game eventually, the developers should still make money from me, if they did business properly. Some though, just sell their souls, and I can't be held accountable for foolishness or desperation or greed.

What comes around goes around.

As GOG is continually proving, you should look at your game as a long term investment.

Far better, for instance, to sell your game to 1,000 customers for $50, rather than 500 customers for $100. You get free promotion if you sell it cheap enough, and that means you can make profit on DLC and future games, by building a fanbase ... providing your product is worthy of course.

So I don't buy the 'feed their family' argument at all. It's all about quick return and maximizing profit ... which they can do with someone else's money, not my hard earnt earnings.

Patience is the name of the game. You make a quality game and it will keep selling for a very long time.

P.S. And look at me, fool that I am. I have a spare room with a ton of games in boxes and CD/DVD cases. All of which could probably go to the scrapheap now, as I have re-bought most of them at GOG. So idiot that I am, I paid twice ... sometimes thrice ... a true fan indeed. Most of them cost me much more than I have ever spent at GOG ... but as they say, a fool and their money are easily parted ... I've grown wiser ... and have more things to spend my money on now. Life might be one big game, but life isn't games ... even to us diehard old gamers. Oh to be young and foolish again.