Bonjour @gog can you explain why games that are over 10 years old are still priced at their original release price? I don’t understand this “sale” principle when a gradual price reduction over time would make pricing easier to understand.
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Pouvez-vous nous expliquer pourquoi des jeux de plus de 10 ans sont toujours au prix de sortie ? Je ne comprends pas ce principe de “soldes” alors qu’une baisse de tarifs au fur et à mesure du temps permettrait une meilleure compréhension des prix.
Because fuck you, that’s why.
Mostly it’s because we buy them at those prices. 🤷
Capitalism and greed.
Yes, but what logic might be behind the price decrease of the software? Not like it has some “shelf time” that might influence price…
Used car salesman: “write that down! WRITE THAT DOWN!”
So, capitalism
No, greed - capitalism is the mechanism used to feed the insatiable greed.
Well technically inflation does that for you, taking $ here, but $10 was worth more than 10 years ago than now. I understand where you are coming from and it makes sense, so also I might be wrong but hopefully there aren’t too many games increasing their price as time goes on to account for inflation.
So the sales look better and the subscription services seem better value.
@Blackmist I don’t understand what you mean, nor how it relates to GOG. Also, for me, a promotion on a game that’s over 10 years old and costs the same as when it was released doesn’t seem like a bargain. On the contrary, I see scam.
Well it relates to all stores, because the publisher sets the prices, not the store.
It used to be a thing that you set the price high before a sale, then advertise it as “80% off” or whatever.
But since GamePass and PSPlus Premium became a thing, the price is high all the time. I’m sure they’ve been told to do that to make £10 a month to play all those 3 year old games seem better value, when you can’t buy them for a good price outside the designated sales. Maybe they’re paid more if it’s a full price game, no matter how old it is.
Do you have an example of such a game? No reduction after 10 years sounds really weird.
@Dariusmiles2123 stellaris ?
I was going to put Civilization IV, but it’s gone down to €20 (for a 20-year-old game…).@Dariusmiles2123 I don’t understand. Even if it’s automated, this promotion must add work, whereas an automatic price reduction based on the year of creation with a minimum threshold for maintenance seems so simple and respectful of customers to me.
Well I’m not sure GOG is deciding about the price of a game. Maybe GOG is just taking a commission but the game developer or publisher is still the one deciding about what price to sell the game for…
@Dariusmiles2123 but they accept promotions, maybe.
Yeah they probably have a bigger input on this.
But have a promotion on a game while still having the same anount of money going to the devs/publisher, would mean GOG is taking the hit.
I guess it’s difficult to judge as we don’t know how the industry works…
@Dariusmiles2123 In my opinion It’s not right that developers expect us to pay the same amount for a recent game as for an older one. Which is why I made that comment. I imagine that Gog doesn’t have the leverage to bring prices down permanently. But maybe we, the players, can give them the tools to do so.
Oh I fully agree with you that older games should be cheaper.
Although I can also understand that it’s a question of supply and demand.
As players what we can do is vote with our wallets.
