Aw... I missed King's Quest. I wish they had some sort of wishlist sale notification.
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I would have bought two of the Might & Magic for the 90% off they promised me in the email. Or even if it was 75% off a $5.99 price.
But for more than the Groupees or Humble Bundle, why bother? Especially since the devs are long gone, and get no money. At least with the indie bundles the developer can buy a slice of cheese or something with the pittance they get from me. :o
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Over the past 30 years, I have regularly seen/heard phrases such as "the devs don't get a penny from this" and "the devs are long gone." Statements like those are used to rationalize software piracy and don't hold up under scrutiny or research. While I support your freedom of choice as to how and where you spend your money, I feel you do yourself a disservice by repeating propaganda.
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Um...
I didn't say I was going to pirate it. I just said I won't buy it. While I can agree the "devs don't get the money" line is pretty cliché, I think my statement was reasonably accurate.
Since New World went out of business over 10 years ago, do you think anyone involved in the development or publishing of this particular set of games sees any royalties from a sale on GOG? I don't. Second, does each sale of games in a Groupees or Humble (assuming default sliders) generate revenue for the publisher and/or developer? I think it does.
That's all. Maybe I came across self-entitled in my post. If so, um, I dunno, I don't think I need to apologize or anything. I just feel like it's a weird disconnect when it's on sale for $2.50, and Hitman: Absolution is on sale for the same $2.50, or BioShock Infinite for five bucks.
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You don't come off as self-entitled. I don't understand why this guy is so butthurt at you not wanting to spend so much on a game.
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Fair enough. The part of your original statement that I would say that is inaccurate though and I would take issue with is that they (GOG) promised you 90% off on a particular game(s). The promo e-mail I got them says up to 90% off but it doesn't say specifically on what the 90% off will be offered on.
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No they dont. Many games don't work in Win7 or Win8
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These GOG guys are certainly creative!
I just feel like adding 1 second to all sales, for no reason, just so I feel I participated somehow with MY SPECIAL ONE SECOND...
(Yep, my one second is certainly more important than yours'.)
Edit: these seem to last only about 90 minutes each... plus or minus many seconds... plus MY second.
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tbh, im surprised they're trying to sell these games at the sale price, let alone the original price.
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Because they're 20-30 years old. There's really no excuse to charge the same for these games as for a new indie title. My personal opinion is all, I know most wont agree
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While it's true that for some games the improvement is only making them run in dosbox by default you have to take into account that for many others they actually optimize the game to run on win xp/vista/7/8, make the game actually be playable on high resolution not to mention that they go to the trouble of getting all the original extra stuff like copies of the manuals, maps, wallapapers, etc which for quite a few of their releases are really hard to find. Not to mention that they also give you the soundtracks for all your games.
I would agree with your complaint when it comes to the steam releases for some old titles(which consists only of making them run in dosbox from what i'v seen) but for GOG i disagree. But you are of course entitled to your opinion.
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I don't disagree, but these games don't need to be sold at high prices and I believe that if they were to sell them at $3 rather than 10, they would make more money in the long run as $3 is an amount you can just throw away. I don't consider $10 to be the same.
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Thats one way to think of it :p
Do you feel the same way about other forms of entertainment though? Would you not pay the same amount for a 'A streetcar named desire' or a 'Gone with the wind' as you did for 'Abraham lincoln: Vampire hunter'? For a 'Stairway to heaven' priced same as a 'This is why I'm hot'?
Not to discredit your opinion, just to understand ;)
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Yes, I feel the same way. I'd never spend £10 on a blu-ray/dvd of an old movie, I may pay that for a brand new release however.
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I missed '95 and '96 while I slept anyone know what they were?
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Thanks, I would have probably picked up Crusader: No Remorse too. So far the two I don't have on gog or steam that I would have gotten so far have been Zork Anthology and now Crusader: No Remorse. Well at least I have the original cd for Zork Anthology. Hopefully one of the upcoming deals will be something I'm wanting and don't yet have.
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