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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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Future_Suture: Has anybody else noticed that GOG made the regional pricing video from 2012 private?
Hm, appearantly GOG discovered its love for restrictions nowadays. :D
Posted February 22, 2014
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Future_Suture: Has anybody else noticed that GOG made the regional pricing video from 2012 private?
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amok: good lord....
now that´s a bad move =_= (that´s what I mean about censoring...not a really cool decission)
Posted February 22, 2014
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Future_Suture: Has anybody else noticed that GOG made the regional pricing video from 2012 private?
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scampywiak: Bad move, they should have just rolled with it. Man their PR dept. fucked this up big time.
Perhaps TET is a little bit enraged due he lost his poker game last night.
Posted February 22, 2014
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Future_Suture: Has anybody else noticed that GOG made the regional pricing video from 2012 private?
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Gonchi: That's dumb, if they're trying to do damage control that'll only manage to fan the flames. Someone will just upload it somewhere else.
Not really dumb. At this point the video was misleading.
Still, it's badly handled.
Post edited February 22, 2014 by Novotnus
Posted February 22, 2014
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Darvond: Has anyone noticed that GOG is currently being rotated on a spit over a fire?
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LosT_SouL_VL: If they are being roasted they did it onto themselves with their regional pricing lunacy.

What will be the next thing? Releases with DRM?

One fair world wide pricing was the best PR for GOG. Without it, it wil just drive customers away...
Now now children, it isn't GOG's fault, its the publisher's fault. I'm saying that GOG is getting roasted because they hid the policy video.
Posted February 22, 2014
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Fenixp: Well... Let's hope GOG does regional pricing right. Because if they don't, that's another reason for me to not buy here - as much as I like concept of regional prices, I've mostly seen it abused so far
I have no problem with regional pricing, but I do find it very unprofessional that for the time being you will still be charged in dollars, not in the currency of the country you are in. (http://www.gog.com/forum/general/announcement_big_preorders_launch_day_releases_coming/post285)
This means that for those who do not pay in US$, will have a more expensive game here. First it the up-pricing of the game to match the location equivalent, then it is the additional conversion fee from bank/PayPal...


Granted it is temporarly, (http://www.gog.com/forum/general/announcement_big_preorders_launch_day_releases_coming/post563/), but if you want to do something, do it right and proffesionaly. At least Humble and GMG managed to do it from day 1.
Posted February 22, 2014
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Darvond: Mainly because we don't know who the publishers in question are. Otherwise, it'd be them.
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Drerhu: After remember the "no-answer" of Steam $= euro policy,and the small explanation of Humble store, I think we are even fortunated of have this thread (and get some info from Gog guys) to share our thoughts.

Internet it´s more and more censored as we speak =_=
I don't have Steam, so what was the excuse of humble, especially seeing as accept a non currency? (bitcoin)
Posted February 22, 2014
I've been buying from GOG for many years now. I'm so irritated by this latest development that I'm making my first post.

The plethora of new games that are mainly rubbish has already put me off buying from GOG. Now, with the release of regional pricing, I doubt I will ever purchase another game here that was released after 2000.

GOG, you're turning into any other online gaming shop where the purpose is to exploit customers by squeezing them for every last dollar. A far cry from how you started out with bringing Good OLD Games to consumers that were otherwise legally unobtainable.
Posted February 22, 2014
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LosT_SouL_VL: If they are being roasted they did it onto themselves with their regional pricing lunacy.

What will be the next thing? Releases with DRM?

One fair world wide pricing was the best PR for GOG. Without it, it wil just drive customers away...
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Darvond: Now now children, it isn't GOG's fault, its the publisher's fault. I'm saying that GOG is getting roasted because they hid the policy video.
GoG is partly to blaim going on it knees for some publishers.
Posted February 22, 2014
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I managed to save the video at his link for posterity, video AND audio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6P3yOTR2Vc&t=1194
This video is lengthier, but it goes into much more detail as to why regional pricing is a bad idea.
Post edited February 22, 2014 by jorlin
Posted February 22, 2014
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jorlin: I managed to save the video at his link for posterity, video AND audio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6P3yOTR2Vc&t=1194
What a joke this is now.
Posted February 22, 2014
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Future_Suture: Has anybody else noticed that GOG made the regional pricing video from 2012 private?
As they sometimes say in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (local chapter, donations accepted from all over the world with no regional restrictions):
"There are copies, there is ineffective PR damage control and there are archived copies."
Posted February 22, 2014
Haven't the people at GOG heard that it is IMPOSSIBLE to hide something online once it has come out?
Tsk tsk tsk.
Posted February 22, 2014
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Future_Suture: Has anybody else noticed that GOG made the regional pricing video from 2012 private?
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RS1978: Hm, appearantly GOG discovered its love for restrictions nowadays. :D
Nah, GOG has always been against one worldwide price, all indications to the contrary are false evidence planted by doubleplusungood thoughtcriminals.

In unrelated news:

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
One worldwide price is unfair.
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Posted February 22, 2014
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jorlin: I managed to save the video at his link for posterity, video AND audio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6P3yOTR2Vc&t=1194
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Future_Suture: What a joke this is now.
Remember the deadly joke from Monty Python, hmm?
All right people, tell them what you think of this:
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/ban_all_regional_pricing_from_gog_stick_with_your_principles
Post edited February 22, 2014 by jorlin
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