Wow. Lots of bundles. Only bundle i have everything of is the Ultima one. Mmmmm.Of the rest only tempted to buy the whole Santa in Space bundle.Hmmmmmmmm

This is madness! I think best promo on GOG so far and hope meet you again after 21th.

Don't fear. Why should you buy more games than you can play. Every dollar you spent here goes almost completely towards the profit of the publishers and GOG and maybe also the developers. So you should feel good about buying during sales. GOG makes profit from them.

The only bundle I am interested in is the Cyberpunk and Steampunk bundle. Six of the greatest games ever made for $14--how can I resist? Prayerfully, we will all live long enough to enjoy our new games.

I swear, when I first read that GOG blurb about this possibly being the last time ever for us to buy these games, the first thought that crossed my mind wasn't Mayan superstition but rather an allusion to that stunt GOG pulled a couple of years ago where the site was down for several days and everyone (including me) seemed to think that it had gone out of business.

Every bundle with games I'm interested in also has too many games either I am not interested or I already have somewhere else.
Tough choice, tough tough choice..........

I'm grabbing the Ultima bundle plus a couple of stragglers that have been hanging out on my wishlist (Legend of Grimrock, Zeus +Poseidon, Pharaoh + Cleopatra). 50% off isn't bad. Unfortunately, I can't grab all the games I want. (I still have some Christmas shopping left to do.)

I noticed some of the promos were new and some are repeats. Wife is getting angry with me. Will some of these come back again after payday (ie after Friday)? Halloween bundle is a for sure but what about the heroes bundle?

I would really like to get Defender's Quest for 75% off, but don't want most of the other games in the bundle. So I'm willing to trade with someone for any one of the following games:

- Anything in the Might and Magic Madness bundle, except Heroes V
- Anything in the Ultima Series
- Anything in the Assorted Indie Adventures
- Anything in the Indie Action Bundle
- Anything in the Cyberpunk & Steampunk Bundle
- Anything in the Scandinavian Games, except Alan Wake
- Any other game that is currently $3.74 or less

PM me if you are interested. Remember, when you already have all the games in a bundle, you can gift any of the games for the 75% off.

Oh my. What was that about?

I admit, I compared the prices to what you'd had to pay for a physical copy in a store, that wasn't very thought-out. Point to you on that they are mostly not cheaper.
But the same goes for the comparison with Steam, as here you get the game DRM-free (and often with fancy boni), while on Steam you buy something of a "Licence" to play it. Of course it's cheaper there as they have much more control over the game (and your ability to play it). Also, of course if the developers/publishers sale the game themselfes you won't get the very same thing here for a lower price, hardly any dev would agree on that (excluding charity stuff like Humble Bundle etc.).

The reason Steam is cheaper is explained above, my point is that compared to the regular price you already save up to 75%. I don't know what you are used to, but that's a decent discount in my opinion.

Yes, I was in a hot temper there about it, and kind of still am. However, this was not an attack against the content of the argument. I personally would surely not reject it if the price would drop even lower, can't argue with that. Also, they have every right to think that the price is too high, and/or to refuse to buy anything. Fine with me. Like you said, GOG.com is not entitled to our money.
Now, they also have the right to post their opinion, but in this situation I see it as nagging. And if somebody nags about how there is not enough discount for something (especially if it's at least 50%), then this is an aspect of what makes somebody a cheapskate, a scrooge, a miser. And I consider this behaviour to be a bad one, which is why I decided to make that post in the first place. It would probably be more understandable if we would talk about larger sums of money, but many of the games only cost something over $2 or $3.

I was talking about how the price for the whole bundle is still lower than if you remove up to half of the "value" (games in respect to their part of the total price) from the bundle. And that people won't pay less for more because they don't want additional games in their library.

And again the comparison with Steam: Here you get an installer and are from then on trusted to refrain from copying, distribution etc. That trust costs something, a price I personally am willing to pay.
On Steam, it's a bit like passports: You pay for them, but it's not really your property, as they can take it away from you anytime without the right on a refund or any compensation. One way to secure this is the constant need of an internet connection, and I can tell you what a pain that can be.
In this perspective, and by simply regarding the size of the communities (e.g. number of clients), it's really no wonder that games on steam are cheaper. So there is not only the difference in how much you pay, but also what you pay for. There's a reason people buy games here instead of on Steam.

Again, I'm not against bargaining, I'm against being tight with money, expecially during sales.

Off topic: is there a bug when trying to reply to someone and that post would start a new page in the thread?

Hello, Andanzas, I'm also from Spain (Barcelona Cataluña). About 2 and a half years ago, GOG was finally getting out of its beta stage (in which it spent over a year) and wanted to generate some publicity with a shoestring budget. Its site was shut down for several days with nothing but a cryptic message that implied it was going out of business on its home page. This generated quite a lot of buzz, but when it was revealed to have been a hoax in order to get word out about its unique service, a lot of people (but not most, I hope) were offended, with some swearing never to patronize the business again or ever.
[url=]http://www.joystiq.com/2010/09/19/digital-distribution-retailer-good-old-games-shuts-down/[/url] has one of the many reports from that time about it, with updates included as new information of note was revealed. Google "GOG Good Old Games shut down 2010" and you'll see many relevant links.
Also, it shut down the day after it had a bundle sale on Codemaster games, and on that same day did it start selling Age of Wonder. I was pretty mad that first day, since I'd amassed a considerable library of GOG games that I hadn't yet downloaded, and thought that my money was wasted until GOG a few days later, before the site was back up, that the business was in fact just getting a makeover, some badly needed publicity, and the Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dales/Planescape Torment franchises and titles.

Hey, thanks for the explanation. That was a weird move indeed. I didn't know anything about it. I am glad I wasn't around because I think I would have been annoyed.

By the way, where do you live in the US? I lived for a time in California and the best friends I made were from Barcelona. Actually, most Spaniards I met were from Barcelona. I don't know if that was a coincidence or if there is really a large community of Catalans in the Bay Area.

Cheers!

San Antonio, Tejas. Don't care much for España these days, and I like California even less. Are you an immigrant from the United Kingdom?

This is a strange opinion. Steam sells games cheaper because they have the control over the game and only selling a license to play? Same for GOG - yes you get an installer here, you can make a copy for yourself and install this without internet connection but to be honest, but in the end everything you buy from GOG is "something of a "Licence" to play it"... Your games are tied to your account and you are not allowed to sell your games and you are unable to unbind them from your account to give them to an other person. So - whats the difference from Steam, Gamersgate and others?