Seriously, 9,99 for Heroes of Might and Magic I? Even Homm2 at that price is ridiculous (even though Homm 2was awesome).
Recombine Homm 1&2 and put it at 4,99 and you have a sale. And Homm 3 at 4,99 would mean another. And I don't think I'm the only one...
(I got 1 and 2 on disc, but for that price I'd get them all on gog).
As for Homm 4, it should drop too of course but I already bought that one (I loved that game too much).

Considering the sheer amount of replayability and tons of user made maps, I'd rather pay $10 for Heroes 2 or 3 (I agree on price drop for Heroes 1, though. Heroes 2 is superior in every way), than shell out sixty bucks for Call of Duty 24: Just Another Bunch Of Minor Skirmishes On Western Front with pathethically short singleplayer.

The standard response is: if you don't like the price, don't buy. Regardless of the price, people are willing to pay for an expense which can technically provide an unlimited source of entertainment. Think about it - if you play for ten hours, that's $1/hour. Play for twenty (and with HOMM, that's easy), and it's $.50/hour. The longer you play, the better the value - and the less a reduced cost matters. Already at twenty hours, the difference between the price as-is and a 50% discount is $.25 - a quarter every hour. Eventually, measured in that manner, any difference in price becomes meaningless; the question is only how long you play the games.

At any rate, if you think $10 is too much for a game that retailed at five times that price, you don't have to buy it. You can do what I do with all of my GOG purchases - put them on my wishlist, and wait until they go on sale. The price of a game, as klaymen points out, is not a measure of its quality; it's merely the number at which GOG has established that they can make a profit, given a certain volume of sales. I would suspect that all of the Heroes of Might and Magic games retailed at roughly the same amount when they were first published; if price were a measure of quality, each would have had a sharply-escalating cost, and a number of (often very popular) games today would be either much cheaper or much better.

And besides all of that, consider this: does $10 really affect your life that much? I'm a professional musician, so, generally, yes, but for a lot of people, it would make very little difference to their lives if they spent $10 on a game. If you really want the first game, and it won't affect your life, buy it - or wait for a sale - and don't worry about it. If you think that it's not worth it, don't buy it, and don't worry about it.

I've bought 26 GOG games and I purchased all of them whilst they were on sale.
I do the same with Steam and any others I buy. I reckon my average price for a game has dropped to around £2 in the last two years - and that includes recent titles too.

All you need is a little patience and an eye for a bargain.

organmike's £1 per hour way of thinking is how I've always treated omputer games. I used to think I was doing well if I could get under £1pph - I'm down to a few pennies these days.

You have more spare time than I, obviously!
Nonetheless, you'll find that most GOG games have high replay value, and thus are a bargain at twice the price. Of course, that doesn't stop me from waiting until they're half the price, but still...

For the original HOMM $10 is definitely on the high side, although I'd say HOMM2 and 3 are good enough to command that price. But ultimately I believe it was Ubisoft's call on what the price point was, and they seem to be of the mind that every one of their games here should be sold for $10.

Erm, OK, lets be a little more accurate then. I don't actually start counting until I start playing a game - so the cost of my backlog doesn't count towards the average.

But don't tell my wife!

2 and 3 are more than worth the ten bucks each. They have immense charm and character, a distinct play style, and their replayability might as well be infinite. I got these games when they first came out and I just played again last week. Twice.

These are the kinds of games so good you don't get around to playing the new ones you buy. Worth ten bucks? With the hours I've played them, I suppose that's a few cents an hour. Yeah, I can afford that mighty cost. I probably spend more running a light bulb.

I do NOT contend that quality-wise they are not worth the price. Quality-wise I'd have to buy half the games here at full store-price. But that's not the point. There's still a lot of brilliant games on here at 5 dollars that I'll buy first, even though I really want to try Homm 3 and replay Homm 2.
I already have them on disc. (all except Homm 3 which I never played). I would re-buy them for the simple convenience of not having to dig out a disc. Like about half of my purchases here. The 5 dollar price point is simple so much more worth it, for me at least.

And one more point, for at least 90% of the games on here, the developers won't see dime. This will only fill the pockets of the copyright-holders. Every cent of the development has long been paid or deducted. Only a few do actually have options giving them a percentage of the profit of IP, but that's very rare. Asking 10 dollars is just plain corporate greed (of Ubisoft apparently).

I love gog for bringing these games back into the market, so I can buy the games I always wanted to buy but didn't have the money for... And I'm willing to bet the games at 5 dollars sell an order of a magnitude more than those at 10.

It's not just HOMM

Ubisoft games in general need a price drop

Nah, HOMM II should stay at 9,99. For the amount of gameplay, the quality of it and the wonderful graphics and sound 5,99 is not enough. Maybe HOMM one should get a pricedrop since HOMM II feels like has made it obsolete in some ways. (Its still a cool game I play sometimes)

If HOMM V came here, 5,99 would be enough for it.

Well, what can you do? It's how much it is. Sometimes you'll find the exact same game here being sold on other sites, but it's cheaper and better patched on the other sites. Sometimes you'll find games more expensive on other sites than here with less stuff.

It's just how it is...


Now I personally think the prices for all the games are fine. Even if they are olde, they have better gameplay than new games that come out for a 60 dollar price tag. Some even look better, from an art perspective, not shiny perspective.

Actually, no. GOG should pay me 9,99 instead of 5,99 for Heroes 5.

I think you're right about HoMM1. But you're being too stingy with Heroes 3 for sure. That game is worth all of the virtual gold contained within. Speaking of which, has that negative gold bug ever been fixed? :P

HoMM 1&2 together for 4,99 might be a little too far, however I surely agree that the prices are a bit off.
Regardless of content/replayability/bla bla, having HoMM 1 cost the same as HoMM 3+expansions just does not makes sense.