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GOG is having a "Last Chance" sale on 35 games that will be delisted from the service as of Tuesday, 2 September. Get 'em while you can! The list of soon-to-disappear games includes:

Gothic 2 Gold Edition - $2.49
Gothic 3 - $2.49
Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods Enhanced Edition - $2.49
Amnesia: The Dark Descent - $3.99
Penumbra Collection, The - $1.99
Spellforce Platinum - $2.49
Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars - $2.49
Spellforce 2: Dragon Storm - $2.49
Spellforce 2: Demons Of The Past - $4.99
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive - $1.49
Desperados 2: Cooper\'s Revenge - $2.49
Guild Gold Edition, The - $2.49
Guild 2, The - $2.49
Guild 2: Pirates of the European Seas, The - $2.49
Guild 2 Renaissance, The - $2.49
Painkiller Black Edition - $2.49
Red Faction - $1.99
Red Faction 2 - $1.99
Summoner - $1.49
Silver - $1.49
The Black Mirror - $2.49
Black Mirror 2 - $2.49
Full Spectrum Warrior - $1.99
Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers - $1.99
Jack Keane 2: The Fire Within - $7.49
Dark Fall: The Journal - $1.49
Dark Fall 2: Lights Out - $1.49
AquaNox - $1.49
AquaNox 2: Revelation - $1.49
Freedom Force vs. the 3rd Reich - $1.49
Nations Gold Edition, The - $1.49
Neighbours From Hell Compilation - $2.49
Panzer Elite Special Edition - $1.49
Chaser - $1.49
Alien Nations - $1.49

Why are these games being de-listed?

Maybe problems with the new pricing method? But there's nothing on the list for me anyway. The only two ready for Mac games, I already got on Steam.

TheGreatNads wrote:Why are these games being de-listed?

There's a lot of wild speculation about this, but there are a couple official statements out there that (somewhat surprisingly) agree on the reason: Apparently it's because of GOG's policy of offering games in local currencies instead of at set amounts. Nordic Games claims that keeping up with exchange rates is too much work. Frictional Games claims the dynamic/local pricing model doesn't take into account "purchasing power" of different regions—stating that games should be more expensive in e.g. Sweden.

The only games in the list that I like (and already bought) are Freedom Force vs the Third Reich and Desperados (got Amnesia on Steam).
Frankly, I won't miss most of the games and played several of them while they were 'new' and yet underwhelming.
I kinda had the urge to pick up Gothic 2 though. I never played it before, only its predecessor and that one was a mess. However it was an ambitious mess with good ideas, atrocious controls and ridiculously bad balancing. Since a lot of people used to tell me how Gothic 2 was better, with slightly less terrible controls and balancing, I may give it a shot at some point.

I kind of feel like I shouldn't support these developers by buying these games—even at a discount—for pulling their games from the GOG service for such a silly reason.

GOG is having a 6th birthday celebration, with games marked down by as much as 80%, and a rotation of different games each day.

Kiwi just mentioned that King of Dragon Pass is on sale for $1.49 until Sunday. I haven't played it before, but it does look terrific, so I just bought it.

GOG started their Autumn sale.
The usual setup of daily bundles, flash deals at a 40 min interval.

Also you can claim a free copy of Mount & Blade http://www.gog.com/game/mount_blade
..and you can get Witcher 2 and The Gamers: Director’s Cut (a movie) for free if you check the main page daily for the coming seven days.
http://www.gog.com/

Kiwi the Tortoise wrote: Also you can claim a free copy of Mount & Blade http://www.gog.com/game/mount_blade

M&B is a fantastic game, although M&B:Warband is a vastly improved version of the same. I've spent at least several hundred hours on them (likely in the low thousands).

Even better than M&B on its own, there is a fantastic modding community (again, mostly better for Warband) and the best mod I've played for any game, The Last Days, is for the original M&B ( http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-last-days ).

The Last Days is a Lord of the Rings themed mod and has you playing as an anonymous soldier on the side of Gondor, Rohan, Isengard, Mordor, or any of the factions in the North (goblins, dwarves, rivendell, mirkwood, probably others). It's the most incredible action-rpg-wargame I've played, and back in the day many of its features inspired those added in Warband.