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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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Amaror: Goodbye, Gog.
Goodbye, Cruel World
Posted February 22, 2014
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JoseWisemang: this... is hilarious. It's like people are going to die if they have to pay $5 more than me for a videogame. "YOU ABANDONED YOUR PRINCIPLES!".... The great rustling of our time.
I agree...seems like a bit of overkill, but something to talk about on a weekend... I have so many games in my backlog, they could do what they want and I won't "HAVE" to buy a game for the next 20 years... :)
Posted February 22, 2014
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Amaror: Well then, goodbye Gog.
The reason i bought here were not that you offered world wide prizes or DRM - free games. The reason was, that you were one of the few companies that seemed to have principles. One of the few companies that i thought i could trust.
You just proved i can't. I will take a company without DRM - free practices, that treats it's customers right and stays true to it's course, like steam, over a company with many good principles, that abandons them as soon as they hit resistance any day of the week.

I know were i am with steam. Steam is conveniend, steam is easy and steam is cheap, most of the time.
You, however, have abandoned your principles and i cannot trust you to keep your other principles in the slighest. You proved that you are willing to abandon them and i won't support this.

Goodbye, Gog.
Being steam even more "not friendly with principles" I don´t totally understand your decission ^^U xD

Or your principles are different from mine, and I don´t flee asap even not knowing what could happen in the future : )
Posted February 22, 2014
Maybe it´s in a few months

Good Old Greed
Posted February 22, 2014
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silentbob1138: 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.
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Drerhu: I have seen much people using the "principle" sword for everything, but mostly regarding money. I´m not saying most people are like that, but I would totally believe some people (like some as said before) doesn´t give a shit of Gog, just look for the cheaper place (and Gog is sometimes that place)
I think you're misjudging the critics, even those who argue about money. Like I said above, there's a difference between paying more and feeling cheated for having to pay more without good reason, and I'd have been fine with paying more of my own accord to show support for the principles that have been reduced now instead. But I think the major concern here is that one of the last bastions on the net where you could still believe in the "one world" illusion is now crumbling. Customers will be treated differently according to their Geo IP, we will see different prices, different currencies, and it's only a matter of time until we might see different offers in the form of differing catalogues for each country.

Also, this isn't coming out of nowhere. As others have pointed out, GOG themselves fueled this notion of "unfair rip-offs" in the past as a marketing tactic, only to make U-turn on it now, sacrificing their credibility.
Post edited February 22, 2014 by Leroux
Posted February 22, 2014
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People like to complain (sometimes it is fun...hehe) . I've seen people moan about the high cost of a game bundle where each game works out to be less than 50 cents (US).. go figure..

edit - sorry this seemed to offend some....just keeping thinks light!
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Posted February 22, 2014
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MoP: Goodbye, Cruel World
It's a late goodbye, such a late goodbye
Posted February 22, 2014
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Niggles: 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).
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StickOfPlywood: The one exception to that rule thus far is Star Citizen. It only got a few million US$ during it's Kickstarter campaign, but factoring in extra goodies paid for through Paypal and such, the project is well on it's way to being a US$40 million project. That's heading towards the AA region; if it keeps growing, it may yet become a AAA project.
IMHO it is already AAA game, because their overheads are much lower than if they had publisher.

Another exception could be Kingdom Come, they have private investor to pay them for their development, Kickstarter was just to persuade him to continue supporting them despite no interest from publishers for this game.

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JoseWisemang: this... is hilarious. It's like people are going to die if they have to pay $5 more than me for a videogame. "YOU ABANDONED YOUR PRINCIPLES!".... The great rustling of our time.
Just pay $5 extra for every game you have, I want to see you try it;) And I do not even start about different incomes...
Post edited February 22, 2014 by NetAndy
Posted February 22, 2014
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JoseWisemang: this... is hilarious. It's like people are going to die if they have to pay $5 more than me for a videogame. "YOU ABANDONED YOUR PRINCIPLES!".... The great rustling of our time.
I would of thought that at least people in US should appreciate concepts of free marketplace.

If I want new running shoes I can go online and order a pair from wherever I want. When all the companies that sell the games are forced to adopt the regional model there is no market to regulate the prices. Once GOG adopts this model the only option that is open to me is if I want to download the game using Steam or Gog Downloader. Everything else is the same because of regional limitations.
Posted February 22, 2014
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Most of my peers pirate games. They think I'm an idiot for paying for them. I own thousands of games on steam, hundreds on gog and desura and elsewhere.

And how do I get rewarded for this loyalty and law-abiding nature by stores and publishers as a uk gamer? Higher prices, later release dates and sometimes DRM.

I personally don't think I would ever turn to piracy but these idiotic stores and publishers seem totally oblivious to how they are punishing the few people who never pirate anything, pushing them further and further with their restrictions and greed.

Gog in particularly are being stupid here. Their games are DRM-free: their last pillar. How do they think people are going to react to being charged a higher price than elsewhere in the world? "That price is unfair!" DRM-free download. "That price is unfair!" "hang on a minute..."

It mystifies me how gog can try to tell us that their regional pricing will be done fainly. The whole point of regional pricing is that it's unfair. It's charging people more if they live in certain countries. How can that ever be fair? It's greedy fucking gouging gog, so don't you dare try to tell us to trust you.
Posted February 22, 2014
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NetAndy: IMHO it is already AAA game, because their overheads are much lower than if they had publisher.

Another exception could be Kingdom Come, they have private investor to pay them for their development, Kickstarter was just to persuade him to continue supporting them despite no interest from publishers for this game.
Good point, I did not consider that... I only considered raw publicly revealed funding pool.

I would also consider one who uses Kickstarter to ensure their success elsewhere to be an exception.
Posted February 22, 2014
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If you don´t respect your customers, you won´t be respect GOG. Could you not asked the community what they think about it? It´s all about money now, which you frequently stated otherwise? I´m not feeling confident with the "DRM-free revolution" anymore, I´m no part on this. I´ll work on my backlog and forget the buyings, only keeping busy with it and bundles.
It´s not about solely about prices (I don´t even think this will change a thing for me, knowing that will make difference for lots of customers). It´s about respect and principles, but I was a fool thinking on forecasting my ideals and hopes for a nice gaming scenario on a store.
Posted February 22, 2014
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JoseWisemang: this... is hilarious. It's like people are going to die if they have to pay $5 more than me for a videogame. "YOU ABANDONED YOUR PRINCIPLES!".... The great rustling of our time.
Sigh... this right here is why so many people in the world hate us so much...

We're not talking about $5 more... we're talking about the equivalent of $10 - $100 more for a SINGLE GAME! Which could be extended to EVERY single game in the future!

This issue isn't about us, it's about other people. If you don't care, then keep it to yourself.

I realize I'm white knighting here, but few would want to ruin their reputation by raging at you in public.
Post edited February 22, 2014 by StickOfPlywood
Posted February 22, 2014
I can't believe how worked up people get over something that everyone else is doing. I genuinely believe you guys would be happier if these games never came to gog at all which is pretty odd.

Bottom line: A handful of AAA titles will have regional pricing. The colossal catalog, new classic releases and pretty much all indie titles continue to be one price for all here. The sky is not falling. Exceptions are occurring like they do everywhere.
Posted February 22, 2014
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JoseWisemang: this... is hilarious. It's like people are going to die if they have to pay $5 more than me for a videogame. "YOU ABANDONED YOUR PRINCIPLES!".... The great rustling of our time.
Now you know how the rest of the world feels about americans, bunch of hypocrites
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