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Posted February 21, 2014
The DRM-Free Revolution Continues with Big Pre-Orders and Launch Day Releases!

Good news! GOG.com is going to bring you more fantastic launch day releases, preorders, and other exciting new content from some of our favorite developers. We've lined up 3 big titles that we will be bringing to GOG.com in the next couple of months for sale or preorder that we think will be hits with all of our gamers; and we have more equally exciting games coming up soon.

If you've been a member of the site for a long time, you may recall that when we launched sales of The Witcher 2 on GOG.com, we had to add in regional pricing. The game cost different amounts in in the US, the UK, the European Union, and Australia. We're doing something like that once again in order to bring you new titles from fantastic bigger studios. Since we don't accept currencies other than USD on GOG.com right now, we'll be charging the equivalent of the local price in USD for these titles. We wish that we could offer these games at flat prices everywhere in the world, but the decision on pricing is always in our partners' hands, and regional pricing is becoming the standard around the globe. We're doing this because we believe that there's no better way to accomplish our overall goals for DRM-Free gaming and GOG.com. We need more games, devs, and publishers on board to make DRM-Free gaming something that's standard for all of the gaming world!

That brings with it more good news, though! As mentioned, we have three games we're launching soon with regional pricing--two RPGs and a strategy game--and while we can't tell you what they are yet because breaking an NDA has more severe penalties than just getting a noogie, we're confident that you'll be as excited about these games as we are. For a limited time, we will be offering anyone who pre-orders or buys one of them a free game from a selection as a gift from GOG.com, just like we did for The Witcher 2.

If you have any questions, hit us up in the comments below and we'll be happy to answer (to the best of our ability).

EDIT: Since we've answered a lot of the common questions already here (and lest you think that we've ignored you), it may be handy for you to check out the forum thread about this and search for staff answers by clicking this link here. (hat tip to user Eli who reminded us that the feature even exists. :)
Posted February 22, 2014
The two things i really loved goog for...

DRM-free

fair pricings

now the first ideal will be sacrificed but the important question is...for what?

If it is survival...everybody should be able to understand it

If it is only for higher assets...:(

If it is for keeping the products on offer uptodate..i can life with it

Anyway...i only bought PC-games via GOG the last year and i will stay but with regional pricing it's
unlikly that i buy games just to support Gog.
Post edited February 22, 2014 by DF1871
Posted February 22, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: To my knowledge, there's no plans currently underweigh to change how gifting works.
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Piranjade:
From the other postings he made it shows that right know they don't know anything what they will and need to change, so I highly recommend not to believe that the gifting system is safe. Right now they only know they want to give up regional pricing to offer more games, because the publishers want it so. Whatelse the publishers want gog don't know yet.
Post edited February 22, 2014 by DukeNukemForever
Posted February 22, 2014
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My girlfriend is English and living in London right now. She's extremely upset by this whole regional pricing thing. She's a right bint, though. I miss that slapper.
Posted February 22, 2014
Add bitcoin payments, thats region free :)
Posted February 22, 2014
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CarrionCrow: My advice to anyone who's going to be shortchanged by this move, ...
When this ultimately leads to regional restrictions, how do those of us blocked from buying the games show we don't agree? We can't exactly vote with our wallets, seeing as GOG will have voted not to accept our money. >___>
Posted February 22, 2014
Good news! eh?

Doesn't sound that good to me.I wonder whether this regional pricing is supposed to be limited to these upcoming "big" titles or whether this will pave the way for regional pricing for every game here?
Posted February 22, 2014
While regional pricing is unfortunate, the news of several mysterious big releases coming to gog drm-free is an accomplishment.

Edit: I do hold out hope that any regional pricing is a temporary affair, like the Witcher 2. Gog.com sticks to its principles fairly regularly in spite of licensing and legal hurdles, I hope this will be the case as well.
Post edited February 22, 2014 by lostintime
Posted February 22, 2014
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sajber: Add bitcoin payments, thats region free :)
It's only a matter of time, hopefully. :)

Just like possible torrents to download games (and help seed back to the community).
Posted February 22, 2014
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lostintime: While regional pricing is unfortunate, the news of several mysterious big releases coming to gog drm-free is an accomplishment.
It's easy to not be bothered by regional pricing when it's no disadvantage for you. For me it's a huge turn-off as I feel screwed. It's not enough that in my country medium wage per month is less then what one makes in the us for turning burgers for a week, but also everything is more expensive. Including games.
Posted February 22, 2014
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rrr8891: I cant wait for gog to bring in DRM so that all the girls here can cry about it.
I can't wait till you get banned for good you whiny little bitch.
Posted February 22, 2014
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lostintime: While regional pricing is unfortunate, the news of several mysterious big releases coming to gog drm-free is an accomplishment.
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blotunga: It's easy to not be bothered by regional pricing when it's no disadvantage for you. For me it's a huge turn-off as I feel screwed. It's not enough that in my country medium wage per month is less then what one makes in the us for turning burgers for a week, but also everything is more expensive. Including games.
Idem for me, big disappointment this time.
Posted February 22, 2014
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Wishbone: Translation: Every game in the catalog will eventually be regionally priced, as and when the contracts come up for renegotiation. Since it is now an option, every publisher will insist on it in the future.
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TheEnigmaticT: Well, no. That's not what I'm trying to say. What I'm trying to say is what I actually said there.

But let's suppose that when a contract comes up for offer, someone asks about a $5.99 game on GOG. It's been selling well, but they wanna know what we're doing about localizing our prices. While they make up their own minds about pricing, we can give them advice and make recommendations based upon our experience as experts in the field of "selling games online." There's, what, 3 stores on the 'Net that have 700 or more games in their catalog? 4? Our advice does carry with it some weight. Don't you think that, given what we've already said about our goals for keeping regional prices fair that it might not be a reasonable to believe that we're gonna push for that game to be 4.49 EUR or something like that instead of 5.99 EUR? That's indubitably regional pricing and regional currencies, but I think it's manifestly fair and probably even better for local users than what we have now.

Is that what's going to happen? Heck, Wishbone, I dunno. As I've made clear elsewhere in the thread, this is early days for this particular news. We're telling you guys about this now because we have some regionally-priced games lined up soon and needed to tell you guys about this before their releases, but this is also something that's developing as we speak. I realize that thinking of regional pricing as something other than "you're about to get screwed over" can be tough to conceive, given how other stores have approached this, but let's see what's possible before lighting a pitchfork,* okay?
That's all very well and good, but what you said was "It's out of our hands, we're going to leave those decisions entirely up to the publishers", or words to that effect. You know they say that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it? Well, you certainly make it sound like you're about to repeat it. Every time publishers have been given the choice to implement regional pricing, it has resulted in Europeans being screwed over, and Australians and New Zealanders being royally screwed over.

What you are saying is that you don't think the absolute worst case scenario will come to pass, while admitting that you have just made it possible for that to occur, and don't really have any way of preventing it if it seems to be going in that direction.
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TheEnigmaticT: *if you're lighting a pitchfork on fire, you've done something terribly wrong. Please consult your instruction manual or call technical support.
I gotta hand it to you TeT. Even in the midst of a shit storm like this, you still hang on to your sense of humor. Regardless of all my bickering and criticism of GOG, I still think you are an eminently cool guy :-D
Posted February 22, 2014
I don't consider regional prices unfair as long as they have a reason to charge more like higher taxes or any other regional cost. But since everything is distributed online and we buy everything in the US (no matter where we live) and the costs are just higher in order to squeeze out a bit more... well this SUCKS!!!
Posted February 22, 2014
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lostintime: While regional pricing is unfortunate, the news of several mysterious big releases coming to gog drm-free is an accomplishment.
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blotunga: It's easy to not be bothered by regional pricing when it's no disadvantage for you. For me it's a huge turn-off as I feel screwed. It's not enough that in my country medium wage per month is less then what one makes in the us for turning burgers for a week, but also everything is more expensive. Including games.
Actually, that´s kind of ironic. The countries were the medium salary are lower are the ones which suffer from worse prices in games too. I don´t know how bad is on your country, but I always remember a game from PS2/GC which released at 30-40$ in USA. That same game, of course, was 30-40€ on Europe. But then it released on Spain on the GC version for 60€. So that was more than twice the price for not actual reason. Of course, I ended importing the game from somewhere else.

Here we rarely see discounts on retail stores, so most people end up importing games from other countries rather than buying them here. Here if a game doesn´t sell, the retailer stops selling it instead of trying to lower the price, it´s stupid. I´ve literally seen many games permanently unavailable without any discount from release date.
Posted February 22, 2014
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NetAndy: Ok, thanks, that means that they are buying for their price? :)
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marcoolio_lv: Yes, they will pay "their" price and send you the code.

I'm wondering, however, is there a place that does things differently? I'd like to know where your concerns are coming from.
Thanks, I do not know about games, but I remember region restriction on DVDs... It is not fun to get gift just to find out that it is not working (stupid DRMs) :)

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TheEnigmaticT: To my knowledge, there's no plans currently underweigh to change how gifting works.
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Piranjade:
Thank you.
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