aristotle61: You're making way too many assumptions and attributing them to me, and then responding to those. (Straw Man?)

I am very patient. My comment was based on many sales coming and going. I "hunt" for sales all of the time and I do not feel "entitled to" them.

I cannot even begin to understand how you could think GOG sale prices are better. I don't agree with the Steam comparison either. We will just have to agree to disagree.

cmclout: I've been a member of GOG for a little over a year, and their sales seem to be kind of off-the-wall with regard to consistency in sale prices. A game may be on sale for 75% off during one sale and then only 50% off the next time its on sale. For example, I believe I've seen games being sold in this Summer Sale at price points higher than what I paid during normal sales within the past year. I would expect these seasonal mega-sales to have the lowest price points of any sale, but that is not always the case. As another example, a base game (for example, Little Nightmares) may be on sale for 60% off, but the game's DLCs might be only 10% off.

Regarding the game you mentioned, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, GOG currently has it on sale at 50% ($9.99) and Steam has it on sale at 80% off ($3.99). The GOG version includes 2 HD wallpapers, 16 avatars, 104 artworks, Chris Avellone and Colin McComb book, and the unaltered original version of the game. I don't see any of those listed on the Steam product page. Many older games on GOG have those types of goodies bundled with the game, whereas Steam usually does not include them. Some people would see those goodies as a reason to pay a higher price on GOG. Whether or not you feel that way is, of course, your personal opinion and personal preference.

Regarding Jazz Jackrabbit, while that is an old game, Epic finally decided to release it on GOG last year, so it's still a relatively new release (of an old game). I wasn't happy about the price when they released it, but I still bought it upon release because I remember having fun with it back in the day (1994). I made the decision that, to me, it was worth the asking price, so I purchased it. I'm sure many other people did not think it was worth such a high price and did not purchase it.

One thing we don't know (or, at least, I don't know) is what is involved in determining the price (for example, who sets the price -- GOG, developers, or a mutual agreement). We also don't know who decides when a game goes on sale or who determines what the sale price will be. If the developer has significant input regarding price, which I suspect they do (since that's their income as well as GOG's), then the blame for higher-than-expected sale prices does not lie exclusively with GOG.

Darvond: The sales are not as good because you've probably bought all the games you want already. For example, I only took out 3 games this sale.

AB2012: I agree though the biggest problem with "BeamDog" games at the moment is the completely pointless remakes that exist primarily for the sake of tripling prices of 10-20 year old games by taking free modding community content (widescreen patches, Tutu, etc) and passing them off as if it's 100% recent work of the developer... For a real laugh, see newer games like NWN:EE where the new version is actually more buggy than the originals, still hasn't fixed the few bugs that were in the originals, doesn't add widescreen (because it was already there), introduced new Depth of Field shaders (making everything look uglier), and for which you pay double on top of losing the soundtrack (that came free in the original version priced $2 in every sale...)

It's not just a GOG or even Beamdog problem though. Steam has its fair share of this cr*p too. Bioshock 1-2 "Remaster" and Age of Empires 2 "Enhanced" also leapt up in price on their re-release. The former UE3 based games are massively downvoted due to being abandoned with new newly introduced game-breaking bugs / save-game corruption that weren't in the UE2 originals, whilst half the improvements of the latter can be had for free via the modding community patch. Likewise AoE1:Definitive now locked to W10 / MS Store only is also laughably over-priced considering most of the improvements (W10 compatibility, widescreen, etc) again come from the free modding community created "upatch" and especially compared to the GOTY retail disc where you could buy AoE1 & 2 combined for less than half the price of either game on its own...

Steam vs GOG pricing has its issues, but ultimately if BeamDog had never made PT:EE, I don't doubt you would have still been able to buy the original here for typically $2.00-$2.50 in -80% off sales. But then that's why ripoff remakes exist - aside from doubling base pricing, because PT:EE, NWN:EE, etc, are clearly all "brand new 2016-2018 games", you'll also only get -50% off of $20 sale discount instead of typical -75-80% of $10, effectively quadrupling / quintupling it during sales...

nightcraw1er.488: Then it problem is that there is always sales going on. Daily sale, weekly, special, quarterly, anniversary. Not a day goes by without one. The games that get released, their prices are skyrocketing so that later on with a "sale" it looks like your getting a good deal. Just look at the mafia set for instance. With the "sale" they are the price they should have been at release. Still the dipshits from steam who have taken over here don't seem to care so nor should anyone else, just don't bother buying anything.

supplementscene: GOG has changed the max discounts it used to offer on games of 75-90% to 30-50% on the same games. Some will become 75-90% discounted again but much of the time they aren't. For me it's not a real sale unless it hits near the all time low.

A game like Jazz Jackrabbit is effectively a new digital release, so that's understandable. What isn't understandable is games been 2-3 times as much as they were in other sales when I skipped them because I didn't want them yet.

I suppose plenty of customers aren't as price sensitive as me but anyone who is won't shop on GOG anymore.

aristotle61: Even the goodies have changed. They are now asking you to pay for soundtracks.

MadalinStroe: What were my assumptions, that they were apparently so many? Planescape Torment Enhanced Edition was released barely a year ago, and just now, it's for the first time 80% off on STEAM. That's why I said you should be patient. This is the only "assumption" I can make out from my post, and from that, my initial inference, which I found plausible considering the time frame, I continued my train of thought. That's why I ended up with the hunting for sale, and not being entitled to sales.

PixelBoy: I kind of agree, there aren't that many interesting things, especially the bundles that they have are mostly disappointing this time.

Now having said that, if we compare this sale with Steam, GOG did give us free games, bunch of GOG connect games, and even some extra games if you spend any money buying games.

So while it's not the most memorable sale per se, it has many elements that you never see on Steam.

I also kind of don't understand the problem here... You say: "I am glad I bought so many games on GOG when they were much cheaper." Did you actually clear all of your backlog and need some new games? If not, why is it so important to have something to buy just during this sale? There is some kind of sale or promotion going on every day of the week, and every week of the year. Often you may even find bigger discounts during some random weekend sales than big holiday sales.

So keep playing what you have and wait for a better sale? That's how it goes?

Ancient-Red-Dragon: Planescape Torment is definitely a ripoff. The standard full price should be at max $9.99 USD, and the sale price $2.99 USD.

And yes, some of the other discounts are barely noticeable and therefore not worthy of a being considered a sale price.

aristotle61: Assumption 1: I am not patient enough.

Assumption 2: "you expect all the titles to have perfect parity with steam, whenever steam decides to put them on sale"

Assumption 3: "Sales are something that should be hunted for, not something that you are entitled to."

Assumption 4: Also, my post was not just about Planescape Torment, which is evident from the title.

MadalinStroe: The title of anything is just that, a title. The content is what matters. Just look at your title, I would call it click-baiting when in fact your complaint is about Planescape Torment, a game that is a little over a year old since release, and Jazz Jackrabbit that has just been released just three months ago. Oh, but that was just "one of many examples". You must be right then, my inference/"assumption" must have been out of line.

Also, I love how you ignored everything I explained after my question. And then made a comment that is accounted for by my explanation. I guess further posts are needless as they would be more about how you are still right. OK then...