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Just played through the first few levels of Syndicate and wallowing in nostalgia. I'd forgotten how much research etc was involved. I had to manually edit a file to alter the graphics (details on the GOG community forum), but I didn't buy it for its looks.
Thats Syndicate Wars.
Dear GOG what are you doing to me!?
Well first of all, **** Hitman. Apparently the series improved, but the first game was just a puzzle game in disguise.
As for Deus Ex...great game and all, but who doesn't own it by now? Surely anyone who missed it first time around isn't going to be that bothered now, are they? I reckon most of the sales will be to people who just want their copy available as a download.
As for Deus Ex...great game and all, but who doesn't own it by now? Surely anyone who missed it first time around isn't going to be that bothered now, are they? I reckon most of the sales will be to people who just want their copy available as a download.
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Dont really follow that, the first Hitman was amazing, original and brilliant, none of the others have captured what the original did and it remains the best of the series.
I was looking for GOG game reviews and ended up on a website with torrents for the entire game gog listing, in other words... piracy
Not impressed, Don't give a **** if it's ubisoft but not gog
Not surprising really. Plenty of people who will never pay for software regardless of how low price goes.
Interesting. If they want to re-release Thief so it works with nV cards under win7, I'd buy it again!
Well they did release Thief. On it's own, for $10.
I'm wondering if they aren't getting greedy. Thief has been available for years as a triple pack (1, 2 & Deadly Shadows), which I bought years ago for £5.
GoG largely release games as individual titles & often without expansion packs too. In short, I'm starting to think GoG is a bit of a rip-off.
Case in point: bought BG,BGX,BG2,BG2X,IWD,IWDX,IWD2,PST,TOEE in a pack from Impulse for £6. GoG want $56 dollars and you get to buy them individually.
I'm wondering if they aren't getting greedy. Thief has been available for years as a triple pack (1, 2 & Deadly Shadows), which I bought years ago for £5.
GoG largely release games as individual titles & often without expansion packs too. In short, I'm starting to think GoG is a bit of a rip-off.
Case in point: bought BG,BGX,BG2,BG2X,IWD,IWDX,IWD2,PST,TOEE in a pack from Impulse for £6. GoG want $56 dollars and you get to buy them individually.
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You have just described every single shop in the world. Some are cheaper then others and some are not. All depends what deals they have on. I like GoG as games just work out of the box with no messing about, but of course you would always look around first for cheaper options.
But they could still bundle Thief with Thief 2.
Same as they could have bundled SMACX with SMAC. They're nickel and dime'ing us with some games.
Besides, I couldn't give rats what the publishers "prefer". Over-priced is over-priced. Charge $10 for one *old* game and watch people turn their noses up at it. Or buy it elsewhere for much, much less.
I've seen people on here spend extra to have multiple copies of games (one reason given is that they like having everything on Steam), so it doesn't necessarily follow that there'll be no sales at the higher price.
Is Planescape Torment overpriced at $10? Or IL-2 1946?
It depends. If you are judging purely by the entertainment value/quality of the game, then arguably no.
If you start taking into account the other places where you can buy the game, and how much they are charging, then yes.