Posted October 01, 2016
*sigh* Being a completionist by nature, I have to exercise some discipline when browsing GOG sales. :-)
Even if only as a matter principle when the games are nearly free.
With 1404 and 1701 in the library, it's highly unlikely I'd ever boot up 1503.
Too little time and too many other gems waiting in the back log. Including the Indiana Jones games.
I think the Lucas Arts collection must have earlier been in one of those sales, where you had to tick the entire bundle to get the full discount.
I'll stop at the two Settlers. The rest of the games on sale either don't interest me enough, or I already have them.
1) The best amazing deals of the century (so to speak).
2) Games I'm much more likely to want to try to play sooner rather than later.
I grabbed some Interplay games mostly for reason #1, and Anno 1503, and the 2 Indiana Jones games are a balance of whimsy split between #1 and #2 that I'm on he fence about more or less. :)
Definitely happy to see that this promo doesn't require to purchase the full bundle though too, so that definitely adds to the weight of the decision making as a #3 condition I suppose. We don't know if GOG will do this again in the future, it's possible they just did it as an experiment to see how the overall sales compare doing it this way to the way they normally do it, so since I like it this way I wouldn't want to hold off from purchase and tilt their demographics in such a manner that they think "the buy-the-whole-bundle promos make us more money". A conundrum! :)
