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With 700+ games discounted up to 90% off, daily special Bundle Deals, a constant stream of exciting Flash Sales, and some fantastic surprise giveaways, we launch into the season of gaming joy!

The biggest celebration of DRM-Free gaming this season is right now, right here on GOG.com! It's warm and nice outside, the summer draws ever closer, so let's make sure it's full of fantastic games. There's no one good way to spend your summer, but we know well that gaming can make every single one of them better. So, whether you plan to stay inside, hike into the wilderness, or take a boat into the calm sea, we'll make sure your laptop is filled with great DRM-Free games you can enjoy anytime, anywhere. To that end, we're holding our [url=http://www.gog.com]2014 DRM-Free Summer Sale!

Each day we'll present you with at least two special Bundle Deals with a selection of of great classics and indies available up to 90% off! As usual, you'll be able to buy just selected titles out of the bundle with a slightly lower discount, or complete your collection with just the ones you're missing, retaining the higher discount rate. Let's take a look at our offers for today, shall we?

Today, we seriously mix things up to bring you both lighthearted comedy as well as dark and morbid horror. The Legacy of Kain Saga is the Full House of gaming with its family themes and colorful presentation. Across four episodes ironically titled Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver 2, Blood Omen 2, and Defiance the series explores the relation between Kain, a authoritative father with obvious god complex, and Raziel, his rebellious son with questionable fashion sense. The story also includes many of their relatives from extended family, that cannot help but to make a mess in their imaginary homeland called Nosgoth. Hilarity ensues! All this cheerful moments for only $5.96 (that's 75% off!). The other of our offers today, is bound to chill the blood in your veins with its terrifying setting alone. The Deponia Complete Trilogy takes place on a distant planet. A planet, that long ago must have been not so different from our own Earth. Yet now, it is a grim and dark place that suffered a tragic environmental disaster. The surface of the planet is now completely covered with waste. Toxic rain flushes the pollution deep into the ground, poisoning it and making the land barren. Way above, there's the remaining enclave of civilization, housing the remnant of the human race. Now imagine one of them, a defenseless girl, falls down to the toxic junkyard below. Even though she doesn't die instantly poisoned with every imaginable toxin, her future looks grim. The wasteland is filled with danger, and soon she'll find out that she is not alone among the towering piles of garbage. What strange mutated monsters could have survived in such conditions? And what do they eat? The horror! All the thrills for just $11.97 (that's 80% off!). There you have it, a mix of laughter and cries of despair to fill your weekend with gripping gaming. Or did we overdo the mixing?

On top of that, almost all of our catalog has been discounted by up to 50%. On top of that, our front page is overflowing with excellent Flash Sales on single games. You can grab them up to 90% as well, but don't take to long, as they come and go pretty fast! Why don't you head out to GOG.com front page, and see what's happening right NOW!
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skeletonbow: It may seem strange but it's not really. Digital distributed games have no real overhead costs so it's more about how much money can be coaxed from someone with different incentives.
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Branais: Nope, you're still missing the point. Of course the idea of bundles is to get people to buy more. That's really a "well, duhh".

But the way the prices are set up, GOG got *less* money from me for more than twice as many games. Defeats the purpose of encouraging volume sales.

Look, it doesn't mattter; I was just expressing surprise and making conversation. I'm a bit puzzled why people want to "explain" the situation to me, and especially when they haven't understoof what I said in the first place.

Mo matter.
What I'm saying is that they might get less money from you, or any other one single person individually, but that if the number of people buying the whole bundle of games generates more revenue overall than what is lost by people who only want one or two or three of the games but decide to not purchase it at all because they want the full 80% off and consider only 60% off individual titles to be not good enough, then the promo as is makes them more money over the entire 10000 or whatever users. Whether they make more money or less money on any one specific user's purchase is just line noise compared to the big picture of the overall revenue of the promo for the entire day from all users.

They have been doing this for a very very long time and if they did not make more money doing it this way than doing it the way you're suggesting then they would have tonnes of statistics to support changing it. It is my opinion though that they keep very accurate detailed records of how each sale promo method works out for them and how successful each one is at generating and maximizing revenue for the hour/day/week etc. They'd then be more inclined to repeatedly use the promotional mechanics that they've used in the past that have proven to give them the highest levels of revenue. What I'm suggesting is that what we see offered to us the most is what they've determined for themselves generates them the most revenue, and that they're going to continue to use such promos in the future because they find it a successful way of doing it.

It may not appear to make sense to a single person calculating how much money they alone would give GOG for what they alone want to have. One would need to have the data on the purchasing habits of tens if not hundreds of thousands of users responding to the sales to determine the overall effect. I'm willing to bet that they know what they're doing and the promos are indeed optimized to generate them more revenue the way they are right now even if it seems counterintuitive from the outside.
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Matruchus: If anyboy is interested in Eador: Masters of the Broken World - its now available in a Humblebundle with a gog.com key available for minimum payment of 6$. I think this is the first time that Humblebundle offers a gog key with a game. Very nice.

Link to the Humblebundle bundle with the game: https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly?utm_source=Humble+Bundle+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9d6ccdf98f-Humble_Weekly_Bundle_Strategy&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_990b1b6399-9d6ccdf98f-94898569
I would have gotten this primarily because it's a great price for Space Hulk - if I hadn't already bought it in the last Humble store sale. (And then I would have bonus games!):(
Anyone know if Don't Stave or Spelunky were part of the flash sales so far?

I ask as i just got paid and want to know if I missed out or if I could still hope.
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Necross: Anyone know if Don't Stave or Spelunky were part of the flash sales so far?
Yep, they both are:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-VD-iAhDf-nBcCS2unQF96Q0wYxUgVaqQWEVXvkJ-X8/edit?pli=1#gid=0

They'll probably show up again.
Post edited June 19, 2014 by Lemon_Curry
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Necross: Anyone know if Don't Stave or Spelunky were part of the flash sales so far?

I ask as i just got paid and want to know if I missed out or if I could still hope.
Edit: Ninja'd
Post edited June 19, 2014 by Matruchus
Thanks for the spread sheet. No on spelunky according to it, but saw it going at a "normal" discount
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Matruchus: If anyboy is interested in Eador: Masters of the Broken World - its now available in a Humblebundle with a gog.com key available for minimum payment of 6$. I think this is the first time that Humblebundle offers a gog key with a game. Very nice.

Link to the Humblebundle bundle with the game: https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly?utm_source=Humble+Bundle+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9d6ccdf98f-Humble_Weekly_Bundle_Strategy&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_990b1b6399-9d6ccdf98f-94898569
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Getcomposted: I would have gotten this primarily because it's a great price for Space Hulk - if I hadn't already bought it in the last Humble store sale. (And then I would have bonus games!):(
Yeah I have most of the games from that bundle - no Space Hulk though.
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Necross: Thanks for the spread sheet. No on spelunky according to it...
It's there all right. Have a closer look. :)
Post edited June 19, 2014 by Lemon_Curry
Hi, did anyone see Slave Zero, Redline or Shogo in the flash sale? I consider buying them at a regular discount.
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majkel21: Hi, did anyone see Slave Zero, Redline or Shogo in the flash sale? I consider buying them at a regular discount.
Im sorry to say that not one of those games was in flash sales and it won't be.

Here you can see which games are in flash sales: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-VD-iAhDf-nBcCS2unQF96Q0wYxUgVaqQWEVXvkJ-X8/edit?pli=1#gid=0
Post edited June 19, 2014 by Matruchus
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majkel21: Hi, did anyone see Slave Zero, Redline or Shogo in the flash sale? I consider buying them at a regular discount.
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Matruchus: Im sorry to say that not one of those games was in flash sales and it won't be.

Here you can see which games are in flash sales: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-VD-iAhDf-nBcCS2unQF96Q0wYxUgVaqQWEVXvkJ-X8/edit?pli=1#gid=0
Thanks a lot.
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majkel21: Hi, did anyone see Slave Zero, Redline or Shogo in the flash sale? I consider buying them at a regular discount.
Nope, those 3 games are not in the flash sale afaik.
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Matruchus: Im sorry to say that not one of those games was in flash sales and it won't be.

Here you can see which games are in flash sales: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-VD-iAhDf-nBcCS2unQF96Q0wYxUgVaqQWEVXvkJ-X8/edit?pli=1#gid=0
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majkel21: Thanks a lot.
No problem. Those games you mentioned are all regularly discounted at 50% though and cost 2.99$ at the moment.
Post edited June 19, 2014 by Matruchus
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skeletonbow: It may seem strange but it's not really. Digital distributed games have no real overhead costs so it's more about how much money can be coaxed from someone with different incentives.
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Branais: Nope, you're still missing the point. Of course the idea of bundles is to get people to buy more. That's really a "well, duhh".

But the way the prices are set up, GOG got *less* money from me for more than twice as many games. Defeats the purpose of encouraging volume sales.

Look, it doesn't mattter; I was just expressing surprise and making conversation. I'm a bit puzzled why people want to "explain" the situation to me, and especially when they haven't understoof what I said in the first place.

Mo matter.
Perhaps, but there are others whom might be more like me?
No time to play most of the games they already own, still want more - even though I haven't played even 1/4 of what I've bought in the last year+ since I got back into gaming again.
Since it will take years to play through my back-catalogue and more games are constantly released, along with more old games being added to GOG's available library --- the amount I'm willing to pay to increase what I "own" be it a license or a drm-free game is significantly less than it's MSRP.

Thus, I have only paid full-price for one game directly from the Dev-Team's site. The rest - I'm willing to pay up to maybe $5 or so, and don't much care about most all current day AAA titles.

Given EA and especially UbiSoft's shenanigans (see WatchDogs, or insane DRM) I'm also highly uninclined to give them any money at all for anything. Ubisoft claimed over a year ago now, they would be easing their DRM -- and maybe they have on newer titles, I wouldn't know --- they certainly have not removed shit TAGES from their older library that's still available.
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skeletonbow:
I liked that post. I like many of your posts, but the reason I'm responding here is because I don't want to go looking for the Robin Hood mentions from yesterday. :)

I was indeed mistaken. Robin Hood was NOT in Insomnia. It showed up about a week later in the Adventures with Anuman 70% off Weekend Promo, which began May 23...

(Just happened to see the promo email and clearing up for the record.)