Great promo, thanks.

Is Mutant Mudds really worth it ???
I mean it's a port from a 3DS game...

Any thoughs about the game ??

I love you too!

Honestly, both of you :o (is that a kiss, I don't know).

Anyway, while I don't argue that I'm implying certain factors of GOG here, I do so knowingly and willingly because that is what I was trained to do. Hardly ever anybody says the truth, and in my profession you learn to evaluate peoples behaviour on previous actions, circumstance and motives.

And my criticism on GOG here (which is not the sale, but their bad marketing beforehand), is based around objective factors. Size, timing and circumstances of their sales.

Maybe TET really thinks that those sales hurt the industry in the long run. But that is his opinion. Whatever is coming out of the blue is GOG policy. And every indication shows that GOG doesn't give two shits about those concerns. What makes it even worse is, that GOG is trying to whitewash themselves on the backs of their customers. "We don't want to earn all the money made by those deals, but the greedy customers force us".

Also interestingly (but I would need to look that up), everytime on of GOGs rather unfortunate statements is made, it isn't TET (or any other marketing guy) but someone higher up. TET usually has to clean up afterwards.

GOGs is simply extremely opportunistic. Which isn't bad, they are a company after all. It would be bad if they weren't. What I dislike is the fact that they think we so stupid that we won't notice if they sucker us up.

Yes; well, I like it anyway. I was skeptical at first too. Anyway, it's good if you like challenging platformers, some of the later levels are particularly good.

I was debating whether to buy the Geneforge series or wait and hope for a sale.

As Geneforge is normally 14.99 this promo is a no brainer for me.

But I still need some advice....

That means four more to choose. I already have Torchlight. I'm not really into puzzle games.

Do any of the other games in the promo' have any 're playability '?

Thanks in advance

Especially them, but even in the flat discount promos, you don't normally end up buying again games you already have. So you never have to ponder "Gee, I have these games from this promo already, so is it still a good value?".

I don't recall seeing them say that, but maybe so. I mostly remember some users being very vocally against them because they were interested in buying only one or two games from the promo, and didn't get the full discount with them.

I recall GOG has had some such increasing discount promos quite lately too, or could be that you got a bigger discount when you selected (or already had) certain amount of the games. So it seemed to be they haven't fully buried that model.

I don't quite understand the point about "devoted buyers". After all, other digital stores have used mega bundles before where the price per item is much lower than buying only some of the games (in smaller bundles), or even single games. E.g. Steam seems to have many of those during their summer and Christmas sales, and I don't see people condemning them for it. They are basically rewarding those who buy more games in one swoop, somewhat like GOG with the increasing discount bundles.

Not to mention, those mega bundles don't take into account if you have some of the games from the same service already, so in practise you end up buying many of the games several times, unless you are a totally new user. Unfortunately these new GOG promo types have that same feature, even if they give you a gift code for the overlapping games.

Anyways, I hope GOG keeps experimenting with different kinds of promos, and not cling to only certain promo type that rewards only certain type of users.

but the controls are a bit iffy, which is important in a platformer. I have died many times because of them, and not of a fault of my own

You've got that right.

Just watch this video, which shows how people act in a group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2hapwnFwaE

In terms of replayability, your best bets would be any of the Introversion games (Darwinia, Multiwinia, Defcon, Uplink).

The beauty of this kind of promo is that it makes me try games I wouldn't otherwise have bought, like the Wadjet Eye Games series. And the deal is so good that I went back for a second set of 5 and bought games that I had already bought elsewhere just to have them without the DRM (and in the case of Machinarium, because they deserve it!)

Long live GOG!

Close, only that my priority would be Unmechanical. ;)

But I'm only mildly interested in any of these three, and I'm afraid that my 2.1GHz duocore and onboard graphic card from 2007 would struggle with all of them. Something that IMO could really help promote indie games on GOG - at least the ones that haven't been in bundles yet - would be the inclusion of demos. Not as a bonus for pre-orders, but for customers who haven't decided on buying the game yet, partly because they fear it might not work. I understand that it doesn't make much sense to offer demos for the old games, but I'd really appreciate it if more indie developers let you test their game before buying. I don't care where such a demo would be hosted, on GOG, the dev's website or another server, but I usually won't spend $15 dollars or more on something that I might not even be able to play.

Good deal, but I got all WadjetEye stuff from WadjetEye and all Amanita stuff on disc (and most of the other stuff I'd want from bundles), so that doesn't leave too much to pick from.

Hmm seems like we can pick 5, pay, then pick 5 others ... Not sure this is intended

I believe it is intended ^^ .

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