At the risk of sounding trite or simplistic, then don't buy it.

For a more in-depth discussion of this circumstance, you can check my postings in the Zork thread, but here's a redux:
The value of a thing, no matter what it is, is determined simply by what people are willing to pay for it. If people are willing to pay $10 for the original Heroes of Might and Magic, then that is its worth. More to the point, perhaps it's not Heroes I that's a bad deal; perhaps Heroes III is a great deal. Maybe given all this stink raised about HOMM and HOMM3 having the same price, GOG will reevaluate their pricing scheme to make it more "realistic" - and HOMM (originally retailing at, what, $50? In 1995? So actual retail value today is somewhere in the $120 range) will remain $10, with the third installment now costing $40. That would make more sense, now, wouldn't it?

The point is that if you think the price too high or otherwise unfair, you needn't buy in. In the meantime, regardless of the comparative value, $10 gets you hours of entertainment - or a single movie ticket. Or half a bag of popcorn at said movie. Your call, really. You can whine about how much the cost "does not make sense" as much as you like, but in the end, your options are buy or don't buy; it seems unlikely that GOG policy will change due to this thread.

That was fairly unnecessary. Which I guess is ironic, as you're calling complaints for a price change just that. The proposed or logical value of the game is irrelevant. It's the asserted norm that contains all the relevance and any theoretical value is really just a distraction. As it stands, you're right the similarity of the two products could simply signify that Heroes 3 is a great value buy. But that still makes the former stand out as being of comparable lesser value.

The point is not to simply complain or hope that the price of HoMM will bend to your will. It's that more people could justify spending the money on HoMM if they felt they didn't spend more on its value than a comparable better value of HoMM2 or 3. Your agreement that they're comparable and one is lesser is all that's necessary.

Believe it or not, but simply stating a disagreement does not equal to "whining"... yes, even on the Internet; shocking, isn't it?
Also, I already have the games; even at $1 or $100, it does not make any difference to me personally, so again i have no reason to whine at all.

Having said that, i still disagree and find your standard response really "trite and simplistic"; as the OP already clarified in his second post, the question here is not on the absolute value, or the quality of the games, the amount of gameplay hours or what are they worth in popcorn money... it is the exactly the comparative value that is OFF, and I still believe it doesn't make sense.

Ubisoft is selling 3 products of the same brand, that are one the direct evolution of the other, and every step came with increasing polish and game mechanics, increasing quality and compatibility with modern OS... not only that, but even more to the point, if you consider the base game only, the older and less rich in content is also the one which come with no extra expansions, while the newer and already richer one includes even more value with 2 expansions. What is the reasoning behind a unique price tag here, whatever the price is?

You can't really just dismiss this with "what is worth to the people"; this is just a lazy corporate approach, with really poor custumer appeal; to me it sounds more like "You know what? we don't really care what we sell, just give us 10 bucks or gtfo"

I agree that the first game should be 4.99 but 9.99 seems fair for the others. Really all the other games are light-years above the first; though I do have many fond memories of it.

Hear ye, someone who actually read my post instead of going straight for the vinegar :)

I'm NOT talking about the quality. Just a fair comparison between EVERY other game on here, are you saying that the HOMM games are ALL better than every other game at 4,99? Not to mention that all of the HOMM games are a LOT older than most of the games at 4,99 let alone at 9,99...
And it's not as if the developers are still making money of it, only UBISOFT is... They're laughing all the way to the bank. HOMM 4 was 7 years old and I still paid 9,99 for it because that was in my mind (barely) still worth it. Homm 3 is 12 years old! I cannot find a game sold separately that's that old on Gog and still 9,99, correct me if I'm wrong (except for the other Ubisoft games of course).

I don't agree on HoMM3 at all. You've not only got the original game, but all the expansions included, each with w/e monetary value could still be attached to them. HoMM1 came from an age before things like expansions were being put into widespread use. GOG doesn't have all that much control over price points, I'm sure, so to me, it seems kind of pointless to complain about it HERE, which is what the point is, imo. (I could be wrong about organmike's intentions, but I think I understood his point correctly.)

yea... this game doesnt' need to be any cheaper than it is

$10 for a GREAT game and the expansions is a great deal

edit: great great great great

Here we go again....more philosophical bickering.

Bottom line is that I LOVE ALL the HOMM and Might and Magic games and I will pay whatever GOG is charging. Especially the ones made by New World Computing. Fair or not.....I NEED TO HAVE THEM. And thank GOG for introducing these games to me because I never really knew about them before. It's an addiction worse than crack,,,when will I have time to play everything in my GOG-case?

So, this probably makes each HOMM worth 10 bucks.