Posted July 27, 2010
We talk practically with all gaming companies, with some, for quuuite a long time. So it is easy to guess why some games are still missing;-)
So far we don't see serious reasons/threats to change our vision of GOG. We have lots of ideas how to grow it and keep it the way we love it.
One of the ideas is extending price points and probably some day it will happen. As the catalog grows and range of products being extended, from really old ones to pretty fresh ones, we see that two price points are not always enough. Some games should cost less than 5.99:-) and some games we can acquire could be a bit more expensive. Basically idea of extending price points is not to make games more expensive on GOG but to able set more accurate price to value ratio.
It is not easy to get them, but we'd love to see some days some more old school games for let say.. 3.99.. of course there are some other issues to solve, for example cost of transaction and technical infrastructure starts to have pretty big share in the revenue, but who knows, maybe some day...
If some day we extend the price points, for sure, we will prepare to this very well. There are certain threats/risks which are crucial to avoid. For example publishers may try to sell us games for higher prices than we think they deserve. That is one of the reasons we won’t rush towards new price points. As we build huge catalog and establish prices for many games, then we can think of acquiring games worth to pay a bit more than 9.99, but still, really little above 9.99;)