There were a few items I was looking at purchasing here. Specifically "Divinity Original Sin - The Source Saga" and the "Metro Franchise Bundle".

Why is it actually cheaper to buy the games included in these bundles seperately? Buying both Divinity: Original Sin 2, and Original Sin 1 sperately is over US$5 cheaper than buying the bundle.

Buying all the Metro games (Exodus gold edition, Last Light & 2033 Redux) seprately is like US$35 cheaper than buying the bundle.

You'd think that buying the bundle would be cheaper but that's not the case. I wonder if there's more examples, but this is stuff that was on my wishlist that I want to buy.

Can someone tell me what is going on with the pricing and if this is going to get fixed? It makes zero sense.

It actually happens with most bundles here. Very often, it is anywhere from a few cents to a $1+ cheaper to buy the base game and DLC/Season Pass/Deluxe upgrade separately rather than buying the complete pack.

I have no idea why that is the case but I do agree that it is completely illogical. It probably has some reasoning behind it but I bet it's gonna be some completely stupid reason so I'd go with "just because".

Yeah, I noticed it for Metro. It was much cheaper to buy it separately.

I made a ticket (Request #459206) to report something like this to GoG at one point last year. Developers offering games through GoG apparently largely set their own pricing, so GoG evidently can't unilaterally fix this when it happens. In the specific case I had reported, the price had apparently been lowered on both Steam and GoG for both the base game and the dlc, but only on Steam for the "Special Edition" with both. This suggests to me that when this sort of thing happens it's probably an oversight (apart from the cases where the difference is pennies, anyway) from not caring much about GoG users.

The specific case from my ticket was eventually corrected (that is, they lowered the "Special Edition" price to match what they had on Steam), so you might try contacting the developer about their pricing to see if they'll fix it, although I won't hazard a guess on how long that would take.

That's how it goes.

The same thing happens on Steam, in fact there can be sometimes three different prices!

One would be, let's say, a game and its soundtrack added to shopping cart separately, second would be a combo price that has them both included, while the third price would be some "complete series" discount.

You could assume that the system could calculate the same price for all of them, but apparently that's not possible because they have different product IDs or something like that.

Yeah, it happens on steam sometimes where during a sale, buying the base items are cheaper than buying the bundle.

From what I can tell, it doesn't look like GOG offers discounts if you own parts already, correct me if I'm wrong? This would make the price difference even more significant. For example, if you already own a few items, then the difference in price makes it far better of a deal to buy individually.

As an extra note though, for the Divinity Eternal Edition bundle, it is usually cheaper on Steam than GOG even when both are on sale at the same time or about the same time. Almost 5 USD of difference (45% off GOG, 50% off Steam). Unfortunately, while it would be potentially cheaper to buy the items individually, this bundle does have two items that are apparently unique to the bundle, though the fact that it is almost always cheaper to buy on steam makes it harder to justify buying it on GOG.

For Divinity 2, buying the divine bundle is more expensive than buying the base items. This is considering both on sale and not on sale as not on sale, it is cheaper by 1 cent to buy individually. On sale, the bundle is typically on a smaller sale than the individual items (for example, 45% off the bundle which is already more expensive than the individual items vs 60% off the individual items)..

The cheaper by 1 cent part isn't exclusive to the GOG version, but the bundle issue is definitely more noticeable due to the lack of discounting for owning part of the bundle.

I've posted about this issue here before.
It doesn't make much sense and may indeed just be an oversight, but pretty slack and dumb if so.

Perhaps it is something to do with a marketing exercise, or as every individual item has it's own ID and no doubt deal between GOG and Publisher, maybe it's extra work to change things.