Luisfius: Has any bundle given out gog keys? I know indiegamestand has, since I got Real Texas AND Cat Lady from them, but any bundle?

Azrael360: From Groupees, the bundle with the collection of Sherlock Holmes games...

triock: And Topware bundle and Undead bundle

triock: And Topware bundle and Undead bundle

Andanzas: Undead bundle? I bet you have a link right at hand. :p

triock: http://groupees.com/undead

Andanzas: I knew I could trust you. :)

Zafehouse: Diaries looks the most interesting one.

Bluddy: The reason that these indie devs put their games in bundles right away is that the competition is really fierce. If a game isn't doing well in its initial sales, the most important thing is to get people trying it out and talking about it, and one very good way to do that is to have it be part of a bundle. Exposure is the name of the game.

From this perspective, is it worth it for gog to give out keys with these games? So long as the same person who bought the game registers it on gog, I think the answer is yes. In this way, gog advertises itself and makes itself an important asset to the owner of the bundle (the more games one has on a platform, the more one is attached to said platform). The chance of somebody actually re-buying the game on gog after they have the same game from the bundle is miniscule, so there's no loss involved at this point.

The danger is that people will NOT activate the gog key for themselves, but will rather give it away. In this case, gog is actively hurt, since it will have lost potential sales. It's up to gog to decide if it's worth the extra advertising.

spoderman: I'm not surprised GOG isn't providing Groupees with keys. Many of these games are very new. Ittle Dew is only a month old, while Ring Runner is less than 2 months old. GOG would be devaluing the games here if they did provide keys, and would probably get less sales due to that.

It's crazy enough that the devs are bundling their games so quickly, GOG doesn't have to share that same craziness ;)

IAmSinistar: And Be Mine 9 goes screaming past Meridian 4 without a backwards glance. Guess there IS a limit to how many times you can reheat leftovers.

nijuu: Anyone count how many times those Meridian games have been bundled?.

IAmSinistar: I don't have numbers, but some folks were posting that this current deal was basically chunks of two previous deals mushed together, with a sprinkling of new titles to make it look fresh.

All I can say definitively is that the sales rate looks damned sad for a huge bundle of games, so something is keeping the punters from biting.

Fictionvision: Eador and ittle Dew both in this bundle with DRM Free versions?

*goes to get wallet*