Hey GOG,

Thanks for another excellent DRM free Summer Sale. Just a quick question/suggestion: in future sales, could you please include an "Add to cart" option for bundles as opposed to solely having a "Buy now" button? This would make it much more convenient to buy multiple items in a single transaction.

Cheers,
Steve

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Wait - over four years old and zero rep?

Heheh - mostly playing games, I guess - haven't been on the boards except to read them generally speaking. But today is the day I take a stand! Or something.

You know, I brought that up yesterday in a chat with one of the GOG blues. The inability to buy more than one bundle at a time is apparently a design choice. So, you know... "it's not a bug, it's a feature!"

Another case of Working-as-Designed, I see! It isn't really more than a minor inconvenience, but I feel bad with those with per-transaction fees on their cards that don't know the workarounds. (Granted, per-transaction fee cards are a dying breed.)

Well I hate the "Feature" of having to buy each bundle as a separate transaction because my bank calls me for every 5 transactions I make to verify them for fraud protection... Imagine trying to buy more than 5 things (and I do this regularly) it's quite annoying really.

Yes. A removal of this 'feature' would be very welcome indeed. It would be nice to be able to buy several bundles or a bundle and some additional separate games in one go.



Ozymandis: DASF

With "design choice" meaning it was easier to program this way and it's less costly to leave things as they are now? ;) And while we're at it, how about buying games both for redeeming and for gifting in the same transaction, or several separate gift codes at once? I know that's been requested quite often, too, by generous community members who buy a lot of gifts. (Not just because of the fees and problems with the banks, but also because of the work and time involved in repeating the process for each single gift, if you intend to make a huge giveaway.)

It's not "inability to buy more than one bundle at a time" (you can, by adding each game individually to the cart), it's just not as convenient as it could have been. Nor is it immediately obvious that it is, in fact, possible.

Wow, that's a hassle. I guess it's nice that your bank takes safety seriously, but that's got to be both inconvenient and occasionally embarrassing, depending on the situation it happens in.

For the bundles, there is a workaround, but it takes more time. If you click on the "Buy now" button for the bundle, you can then click on each individual game, click "Add to Cart", and then go back and repeat for each title. When all of the titles from a bundle are entered (those titles from the bundle that you don't already own), the prices will drop across the board in your cart to reflect that you are, in fact, buying a bundle. You can do this for as many games as you want, but if you're buying four or five bundles, it will take some time.

Regardless of possible changes to the GOG checkout process: Change your bank or tell them to stop being more paranoid than your government.

Or at least call them every 5 transactions to "verify that they sent the money to the right place".

It goes faster if you first middle-click on the unowned games in the bundle to open each game page in their own tabs, then ctrl-tab through the pages and click "add to cart" on each. Once you've added the last game, you can head to the cart and close all other tabs.

But by no means dead, especially for international transactions.

Is there a wishlist entry for this?

Not that I could see, but I'll take another look before transferring it over.


Edit: Here's one that's been up for a few days, but only has a few votes so far:
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/add_promo_bundle_to_cart_button

As it happens, a whole bunch of merchant account providers do the same thing: charge the retailer (merchant account holder) a small set fee for each transaction. Gonna make the guess that gOg (and similar small-ticket merchants) has an account with a different card-processing pricing structure since that would really tear into their net income.