Xeshra: It is a paradox, neither you nor any AI can handle a paradox well, thats their true weakness.
I am fully capable of understanding what a paradox is thank you very much.
You also use a straw man fallacy to represent what I said about some gamers in the GOG community and their willingness to pay a few euros more, to be applicable to ALL GOG gamers. I never said that.
Maybe I should clarify my points, so that they are more easily understood?
Hypothesis (notice how I use the word hypothesis, not stated facts, but likelihoods)):
1. GOG is struggling and needs more revenue/profits.
- this is highly plausible and probably accurate.
2. GOG has a static cut from sales, and its costs fluctuate only a little.
- The first one is probably the standard 30%, and whilst server costs increase with demand, employee costs are more significant for GOG's expenses likely and they don't seem to be changing much.
3. Due to infinite supply of digital goods, price is the dominant determinant for demand, and is not influenced by any supply issues.
4. Therefore, all else being fairly equal based on the previous points, profit-maximising happens mostly with the best price determination to get the most sales.
5. If price determination is off in other words, profits are being lost due to customers paying a lot less than what they would have without seeing these ridiculously low prices, and that few customers would be lost with a slightly higher sales price, then it stands to reason that prices should be corrected.
My point: Even though we know sales prices and times are dictated by the publisher (very likely), it is my wish, my hope that GOG would receive more profits by the publisher(GOG?) not setting too low a sales price. This way we keep GOG operating, healthy to acquire more games, and let us download new updates and get new games from their servers.
The hypothesis has many shortcomings - critically if by raising the sales price from 3 euros to 9 euros causes more than 3 times the customers to decide not to buy at all, the price is again off and GOG suffers in profits. But I, and some others probably, do not think this is the case on GOG. There would be plenty of people willing to pay 9 euros, had they not been given the opportunity to buy at 3 euros.
So you see, what I or other some few individuals do during the sale, has no bearing to my *wish* that the original sales price would have been higher on GOG. As a singular consumer, I'm a drop in the ocean. By setting the sales price higher however, you affect each sale. Money is limited these days for most people, so if the game is being sold at 3 euros, then I will buy it at 3 euros. If the game was 9 euros with no probability of it ever getting as low as 3 euros, then I would have to be content with 9 euros and just pull the trigger, possibly tripling GOG's revenue at its best.
That is all ;)