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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
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kpz: don't forget to vote ;)

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/ban_all_regional_pricing_from_gog_stick_with_your_principles
Voted yes.
Posted February 22, 2014
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Drerhu: Maybe I could bring so many "down thumbs" for what I´m going to say.

But I think most people complaining about the price region and "principles" are just greedy people than only want to spend the less money=more content.

It´s like say "I totally support Gog, but I don´t really expend much money and I wait for sales".
What makes you think that? I have no idea what most people think. I know that I wait for sales on some titles I'm only slightly interested in. But if I want a game I have no problem buying it at full price. I supported quite a few games on Kickstarter and payed much more than full price.
This is not about price, it's about Gog giving up on its promise to be fair to its customers.
Posted February 22, 2014
Now, I hate this as much as any (most?) of you, but I remember someone make quite a few good points about regional pricing (it's more fair, when regarding purchasing power or something). My problem is, that mostly it's just misused and especially people in the Euro regions have to pay a freaking lot for a game. Fair pricing okay, but don't take advantage of it.

As far as the compromising goes, you all have to remember DRM is GOG's thing. So trading in regional pricing for DRM is maybe warranted in this case. The day they'll say "well, DRM is a thing now, sorry guys" it's the day GOG is no more.

And I'll be waiting for a promo anyway, regional pricing or not :D
Posted February 22, 2014
On one hand, I really don't like the principle of regional pricing. On the other hand, if every other distributor out there has regional prices, it's almost impossible to get big publisher releases on GOG at flat prices.

Since DRM-Free is a lot more important to me than universal prices, I'm not completely against this, but it's still a bitter pill to swallow.
Posted February 22, 2014
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MoP: Was it ever disclosed (not in specifics obviously) how involved was GOG in pulling it out of the quagmire though? Wasn't it Night Dive that came with the game on a silver platter (snip)
I'm just genuinely curious how much of GOGs resources and attention is truly going into tracking and pulling the oldies out of limbo these days, now that their focus has shifted quite significantly. Realize this is kinda off-topic, but I also think it's in-line with some of the questions about brand-loyalty, abandoning the "side policies" and all that.
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jorlin: I'm not sure about how much GOG has contributed to this to be honest. I do know that I was over the moon when I saw it and it arrived on GOG first and after that it arrived on Steam and HB (The key for the Steam version).
I suspect that Night Dive have a deal with GOG that only GOG can carry the DRM free Windows version, but I might be wrong about that, Probably part of a NDA.
Well the version on Steam is apparently DRM-free also. Personally I can't really praise GOG for releasing a game, that (or rather, "if") someone else did the actual leg-work on. Hence why I'm so curious about this aspect, and why I'm more inclined to cheer on the guys that do (seem to put more) focus on fighting the quagmires and the limbos.
Post edited February 22, 2014 by MoP
Posted February 22, 2014
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BillyMaysFan59: Exactly. I'm excited to see what's coming.
Nice that someone feels the same:)
My thinking is that the more DRM free games GOG has the better for all.
Post edited February 22, 2014 by Moonbeam
Posted February 22, 2014
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StingingVelvet: I don't agree with "one world, one price" and never have. It's ridiculous to expect Russians to pay the same price as me for video games. The trick is not to overcharge people in certain regions, to price fairly everywhere. If a game is not priced fairly for your region then ignore it, and tell GOG why.
What's ridiculous is to expect a practice that is generally unfair in its execution to suddenly become the fair ideal that it should be. Publishers rarely (if ever) offer fair regional pricing (and the way you call it a trick says as much); there is little reason to expect that will change, especially when GOG has far less clout than Valve (which does not offer fair regional pricing). "One world, one price" may not be fair, but it's better than this.

Publishers aren't going to care if people from other countries pass on regionally priced games as long as Americans take up the slack. Given that regional pricing doesn't overcharge Americans at all compared to people from other countries like Australia, that is exactly what will happen.
Posted February 22, 2014
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Reever: Now, I hate this as much as any (most?) of you, but I remember someone make quite a few good points about regional pricing (it's more fair, when regarding purchasing power or something). My problem is, that mostly it's just misused and especially people in the Euro regions have to pay a freaking lot for a game. Fair pricing okay, but don't take advantage of it.
How is ti more fair that I need to pay the same game 30% more than someone in US yet my salary is 30% of the salary that same guy makes?
Posted February 22, 2014
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jorlin: I'm not sure about how much GOG has contributed to this to be honest. I do know that I was over the moon when I saw it and it arrived on GOG first and after that it arrived on Steam and HB (The key for the Steam version).
I suspect that Night Dive have a deal with GOG that only GOG can carry the DRM free Windows version, but I might be wrong about that, Probably part of a NDA.
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Grargar: Not really. GamersGate also has a DRM-Free version.
Didn't see that one yet, after going almost all-Linux (about linux: 97%/1% Windows/ 1%Mac/ 1% Various other Operating Systems) I tend to avoid bundle sites that focus only on Windows and Mac. GOG is an exception to that rule, because of their active DRM-free stance, customer-friendly stance and cool community. Still, I tend to avoid buying newer games on GOG if they also have a Linux version.
Posted February 22, 2014
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Gersen: I hope that at least those three games are AAA big names games and that it won't ends up being three indies or three Kickstarter games that would have been released DRM-free anyway.
There are NO AAA Kickstarter games. None of them have the budget. Larian,Inxile,Obsidian etc are doing them as indie games (and funded goals were set as such).
Posted February 22, 2014
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silentbob1138: This is not about price, it's about Gog giving up on its promise to be fair to its customers.
And what is "fair"? That right now I can buy most newer cheaper in every retail (and digital) store than in Poland compared to GOG, because here I have to pay US price? Maybe ton of people could actually buy DRM-free games cheaper on GOG if it actually supported local currencies?

I'm sorry but your argument is as selfish as mine... although no, not really, because if GOG is regional you pay the same price on GOG as in any other store in your region (sounds fair to me), while right now I have to pay *more* than in any other store in my region.
Posted February 22, 2014
Well, I suspect reciprocal gifting between residents of NA and other regions to become more prevalent.
Posted February 22, 2014
My real doubt is if they let in some games to have regional pricing what's stopping other publishers on gog to change their game prices instead of the current fixed price of 5.99 or 9.99 we had ?

all they have to say is "look you have allowed some games to change prices we want to do too "

you have to fair to every publisher here on gog with pricing not just a few , this will change a lot of stuff
Posted February 22, 2014
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Drerhu: Principles should be respected in every possible way in every possible market...but sadly, sometimes that won´t help to mantain a company.

I´m totally with you, but if respecting their principles Gog would dissapear someday, I would be fine if they renounce some principles to stay alive.
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Leroux: And what if someday they'd disappear for not respecting their principles? ;)
Well, I don´t believe they would be so suicida: )

I just say (like we said in Spain) "We are selling the skin of the bear, before hunt it."
Posted February 22, 2014
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RS1978: There's no censorship and high pricing in US, so the Americans will not be affected from the disadvantes of this decision.
There are censored US versions, just have a look at Gothic 1 here on GOG. Even the german GOG version is censored AFAIK although the german retail version wasn't. This can be fixed with a patch but it still sucks IMO.
The GOG versions of Fallout 1+2 were also censored.
So we already have censored versions here on GOG which makes it quite likely that we'll get more censored games in the future.
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