Sadly, I have seen Sam and Max - Beyond Time and Space in my local Gamestop selling first for $20 then later for $15. To me, the $30 price for these game seems a bit odd .

Telltale games have ads like that?

Oh, yeah, that was me posting on their forums. To be fair I have to add, I only have these issues on my Win7 Starter netbook, not the Vista desktop PC. Still disappointing since the games themselves would work on the netbook if the launcher issues wouldn't prevent me from running them. And IMO games like Puzzle Agent are meant to be played while traveling; I don't sit down in front of my desktop PC to pass the time with solving a few simple riddles when I could immerse myself into e.g. VTM Bloodlines instead. ;)

In any case, Telltale needs to improve their customer support; it's the second time I had an issue that I contacted them with and both times it took two weeks before anyone got back to me. And in the case you linked to above, all they did suggest was to try and run the games in administrator mode or re-install them, both of which did nothing to solve the issue.

And I agree that it would be the right move to reward their direct customers by patching the DRM out of their games, instead of charging extra for DRM-free versions on GOG.


. In this case, only the launchers, not the games themselves. The same goes for the Sam & Max games (and probably ToMI, too). Dunno if the GOG versions even use their episode launchers, they're probably completely ad-free. Strong Bad has in-game previews of the next episodes, but that's a bit different than actual ads and I don't mind it that much. In the case of Law & Order Legacies there are announcements and ads even on the in-game starting screen, but the game's nothing to write home about anyway.

And I would argue better. While Sam & Max Season 1 was fun (and worth the 3€ I gave for it), it did not make me feel like I had to go out & buy the next season. Blackwell, Penumbra & Scratches all left an impression on me though, and made me wish for more.

Sorry, I think I caused a bit of confusion in what I was trying to say by using a technical term while intending a non-technical meaning. I was using "efficiency" to refer to how close a market is to the free market ideal (perfect information, lots of competition, lack of barriers to entry, lack of costs imposed by regulation or asymmetries caused by regulatory capture, etc). Sorry about the confusion my impreciseness caused.

I brought up collectors editions in part to point out that the fact they sell well shows that people aren't just looking to snap up the absolutely cheapest game (or even version of a given game) they can get, but rather are willing to pay more for what they consider to be added value.

Yes! And I look at a lot of older games this way too. They look good to me and bring back the good old days.

I bought a download/DVD bundle of Tales of Monkey Island from Telltale. The downloadable episodes require online activation. The (otherwise) same episodes on the DVD are DRM-free.

Yes, but they don't offer DVDs for all of their games, plus the shipping to Europe is costly. And personally I don't really see any good reason why they can offer DRM-free copies burnt to DVD but not DRM-free downloads. Doesn't make any sense to me.

I want the old gog back with two oldgames release every week and dirty cheap prices :(
Why don't they use another site for other release?

These games are episodic remember, some are standalone and some are contiguous... so it's not 1 game for that price in some respects. HOWEVER I do agree they're overpriced. I can pick them up retail a hell of a lot cheaper.


Me too but they're just using the brand and the identity the site's built up. It's a real bitch move by GOG.

The simple fact that you can buy the entire Sam & Max collection, right of the TTG site, for just over the price of one season here is an indication that they're too expensive on GOG. You can pay a couple extra dollars and get physical copies without DRM (and they still come with all the extras). I think I ended up paying around $50 for the collection + the three discs. That's STILL cheaper than buying the two seasons off of GOG.

Likewise, I bought the Monkey Island series when it was relatively new for about $20 and got the disc and everything, totally DRM free. I have seen them have it at a lower price without the disc on their site, as well.

Also, to the person who wondered why we keep having this argument about the price of GOG's games.. its because some of the games coming out seem rather inflated in price and don't have good sales, if they have them at all. I mean, and I hate to use it as an example.. Steam has sales damn near daily on numerous titles, where as GOG offers, at best, 50% off on most of their weekend sales.

I love GOG, but it's stuff like this that make me not wanna buy from here as often as I used to. Well, that and I've got like 100+ titles off of here. :p

While i agree about the sam and max titles being too expensive, i have to point out that Riddick was already a decent $14.99 price, but with 60% off ($5.99) thats a great deal.