In your case I would rather buy the game on Steam. I mean that's a huge price difference for you right there.

I remember when GOG was responsive to the community. I have gone through all eight - so far - pages in this thread and no a freaking peep from GOG. Why? Come on GOG, you are supposed to be the good guys, remember?

Many of us want The Witcher 3, but, if THIS is going to be the norm for pricing, you will lose customers.

It's sad that the GOG we knew is turning into Blizzard, EA, and Activision.

Come on GOG, we would really like some response. If anyone from GOG is reading this, I am certain you remember the furor on the Diablo III forum when the devs were silent as a winter's night in Antarctica. The community was in an uproar and it damaged Blizzard considerably - to the benefit of Runic, GGG, and other developers/publishers.

I hope I am speaking for ALL here when I state that we would like a response to this; please provide your reasoning as to why a poor country like Lithuania has to pay more than obscenely wealthy Norway and Switzerland. What IS the MSRP for this game GOG?

This issue was raised on the main community page where more readers lurk. Please see this discussion for a full answer from GOG. They do listen and they do respond.

I'm sorry that you only looked in the AoW forum for an issue that is much bigger than AoW.

Reports now that russian price changed to 39.99$ instead of using russian currency.

Posts about it on the letter of m.d. about regional pricing thread.

It seems GOG changed the price for Russia if the reports on the above thread are true, probably because of several people threatening to use russian proxys from now on.

Unbelievable! Could anyone from Russia please confirm this?

If this turns out to be true, we should all threaten to use Polish proxys next. After all, Poland is the only country - aside from Russia - that would benefit from the change to regional pricing (the current price being $32.99/$39.99 - almost half of what almost all the rest of Europe has to pay).

The post where my conversion with the russian guy started when he mentioned price change: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/letter_from_the_md_about_regional_pricing/post4844

Continuing post:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/letter_from_the_md_about_regional_pricing/post4847

This is the screenshot from the russian guy that said he now only gets the price in dollars and it doesnt matter from where he connected: http://static.gog.com/upload/forum/2014/03/efaaf671e4188af0110cf2b781509da6f7040bc1.png

This is indesputible - effects off regional pricing changing at at whim. This is going to be really bad. The only thing that might be doing this is if the price has not been changed by gog for russia, then it is possibly a problem with gogs GEOIP database.

The price is still the same for Russian folk.

This sounds similar to the case I posted here, only that I should see the EUR prices (or the USD, because we're not in eurozone), but I still see it in RUB. So yeah, they have some problems with this geoip thing, but I shouldn't complain about it, because it's cheaper for me right now :) (even though it doesn't matter because it's against my principles to abuse this bug or preorder anything at all for that matter)

Curently the price varies depending on where on GOG I look. For the time being it would seem to be $39,99. I can only assume that the fact I'm also seeing $49.99 is either the regional price showing up, or just general shoddy work on GOGs part.

Either alternative seem equally viable given recent unfoldings.

Yeah, this. Living in Sweden (close to Norway) and not using any proxy/VPN services, I still randomly (well, there is a predictable pattern depending on which links I click when switching between game cards) get to see $61.99 and $44.99 prices for the deluxe edition (and similar differences for the regular version). I used to also get Russian prices on some links the first day or two, but not anymore. But whenever I add the game to my cart, I always get the highest price, even if the lower price is displayed on the game page. It is, at the very least, an extremely annoying bug. I checked my IP geolocation - it is correct and consistent, so why GOG can't show me just a single price is beyond me. And if the price difference between regions wasn't so high, this bug might not be so annoying, but showing the very reasonable $44.99 and giving a quote of $61.99 when actually wanting to buy the game, is just flipping off the customer.

I got billed $39.99 here in the Faroe Islands despite being in Europe.

$55 in Czech while $40 in US and even $33 in Poland? If this is the example of how we can expect this regional pricing to go, I am done with gog. I don't value DRM free high enough to pay this insane "DRM free premium".

Steam at least means I can get it cheaper from traders, with steam key, or wait for inevitable 75% off sale.

The most insulting thing is, how gog tried to twist this rip-off as "good news". That is just low.

Czech Republic here. Price tag says €39.99/$54.99 standard and €44.99/$61.99 deluxe
I am boycotting GOG now. There are still some games I'd really like to buy now but I am not giving them any more money until they stop this nonsense.

There's nothing wrong with regional pricing, per se. It makes sense that people in different parts of the world with different levels of spending power would have different online prices too. However, the €1 = $1 conversion is basically garbage.

This is not the sort of thing I'd even consider boycotting GOG for, there's too much good stuff here. What it does mean though is that this game is now firmly off my radar and will remain so until either GOG or Steam put it on a discounted sale at some point.