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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?
Yeah, selling out is just like that. You have to sweep stuff under the rug and pretend it never happened.
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
This video is lengthier, but it goes into much more detail as to why regional pricing is a bad idea.
"their principles" ; yeah right they ditched them like they ditched this video...

Now it's regional pricing what will it be next? GoGPlay (like steam, origin, Uplay)?
Post edited February 22, 2014 by LosT_SouL_VL
Posted February 22, 2014
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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 =_=
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Darvond: I don't have Steam, so what was the excuse of humble, especially seeing as accept a non currency? (bitcoin)
"The new currencies will allow us to offer more great games to all Humble Bundle customers while supporting awesome charities."

At least, they are trying to get the same price for mostly games (for example, 14.99$ = 10.99 euros,that´s a good change of price)

But some games, like Starbound..14.99$= 13.99 euros =_=

Anyway, Humble bundles will stick with $flat price, and I must confess their customer service and Gog´s customer service are really good at least (both Gog and HB have helped me in the past, being Gog the faster-caring so far)

Hell...Steam doesn´t give a fuck in that field (and I´m a steam user since 2005 =_=)
Posted February 22, 2014
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Future_Suture: Has anybody else noticed that GOG made the regional pricing video from 2012 private?
Who the hell made the decision to lock this out? THIS is far more worrisome than "we're releasing big games with regional pricing". O.o
Posted February 22, 2014
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hedwards: It's not. If regional pricing were keeping a game like that out of here, they would have led with that at the same time as announcing the change.
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GaminggUy45: Well it's not like we could know that for sure with NDA's all over the place. We rarely if at all hear about the business side of GOG's dealings aside from we've been talking or we're close to signing so and so.
If it were the case, then they would have had to have been daft to release this information before the pre-release announcement for the game as ti would have greatly reduced the anger at them.
Posted February 22, 2014
I'm just going to go ahead and voice my discontent for this again. I sincerely hope this won't become the norm, and won't affect anything but brand new titles.

Not very cool to see you moving away from what was one of your founding tenets. It's fairly disheartening actually...
Posted February 22, 2014
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GOG.com: That brings with it more good news, though!
No good news in your post at all.
Regional pricing sucks and usually 1$ = 1€ (which means europeans get screwed over for no reason).
Fuck that. Stay true to what made the site succesful and just say "no" to those companies that REQUIRE regional pricing. The fact that you're becoming big enough to compete with other (particularly steam) means you have the weight to tell them to fuck off.
Thinking about money and short term goals is only going to kill you.
Posted February 22, 2014
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xyzzy007: 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.
GOG's had some great new releases and sales of old games.
Posted February 22, 2014
1. What payment methods do you accept?
Currently we can accept payments using Visa, MasterCard and American Express cards, Paysafecard and PayPal.
All our prices are in USD.
Please be aware that PayPal's services for sending and receiving funds may vary, depending on your country. For more information click here.

Straight out of the Payments, pricing and promos section of the FAQ.
Posted February 22, 2014
I feel really sorry for GOG now, they are awesome fellas. I guess that choosing a lesser evil in this decision would be hard even for a master Geralt of Rivia. I really wouldn't like to be in their situation now.
People should moderate their reactions and rage. I believe that GOG will find some compromise for this.

Some possible suggestions:

- Allow publishers regional pricing only when there will be legal issues, otherwise always require fair price.
- Give people who will have to pay more because of regional pricing some store credit, or free games as with Witcher 2.
- Do not convert the complete platform and all games to regional system, instead mark each game as regional / global, or allow us to easily filter games according to their pricing system

or
- (very wild suggestion) Make another domain where you'll be selling DRM-Free games with regional pricing only, while you'll leave the GOG fair price model intact.
Post edited February 22, 2014 by MichiGen
Posted February 22, 2014
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MichiGen: I feel really sorry for GOG now, they are awesome fellas. I guess that choosing a lesser evil in this decision would be hard even for a master Geralt of Rivia. I really wouldn't like to be in their situation now.

People should moderate their reactions and rage. I believe that GOG will find some compromise for this.

Some possible suggestions:

- Allow publishers regional pricing only when there will be legal issues, otherwise always require fair price.
- Give people who will have to pay more store credit, or free games as with Witcher 2.
- Do not convert the complete platform and all games to regional system, instead mark each game as regional / global, or allow us to easily filter games according to their pricing system

or
- (very wild suggestion) Make another domain where you'll be selling DRM-Free games with regional pricing only, while you'll leave the GOG fair price model intact.
I trusted GOG up until they decided to make the 2012 promo video inaccessible. Just an example of the lockouts that will follow.
Post edited February 22, 2014 by jorlin
Posted February 22, 2014
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I feel like it's not too soon to repost this about sticking to your principles and treating your customers like human beings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6P3yOTR2Vc&t=1194
Posted February 22, 2014
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Hampster: 1. What payment methods do you accept?
Currently we can accept payments using Visa, MasterCard and American Express cards, Paysafecard and PayPal.
All our prices are in USD.
Please be aware that PayPal's services for sending and receiving funds may vary, depending on your country. For more information click here.

Straight out of the Payments, pricing and promos section of the FAQ.
They might keep everything in USD, just raise or lower the price as required like they did with Witcher 2. And if they do start accepting other currencies I am sure they will update the FAQ at that time. No need for it to be updated today.
Posted February 22, 2014
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GOG.com: That brings with it more good news, though!
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Faenrir: No good news in your post at all.
Regional pricing sucks and usually 1$ = 1€ (which means europeans get screwed over for no reason).
Fuck that. Stay true to what made the site succesful and just say "no" to those companies that REQUIRE regional pricing. The fact that you're becoming big enough to compete with other (particularly steam) means you have the weight to tell them to fuck off.
Thinking about money and short term goals is only going to kill you.
Your suggestion requires GOG to choose between selling a particular game everywhere (even if they lose some sales to customers upset about the regional pricing) or to forgo all sales of that game, period.

I would prefer more choices rather than fewer.

If you don't like the price disparity for a particular game, then don't buy it.
Post edited February 22, 2014 by TheOperaGhost
Posted February 22, 2014
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Darvond: I don't have Steam, so what was the excuse of humble, especially seeing as accept a non currency? (bitcoin)
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Drerhu: "The new currencies will allow us to offer more great games to all Humble Bundle customers while supporting awesome charities."

At least, they are trying to get the same price for mostly games (for example, 14.99$ = 10.99 euros,that´s a good change of price)

But some games, like Starbound..14.99$= 13.99 euros =_=

Anyway, Humble bundles will stick with $flat price, and I must confess their customer service and Gog´s customer service are really good at least (both Gog and HB have helped me in the past, being Gog the faster-caring so far)

Hell...Steam doesn´t give a fuck in that field (and I´m a steam user since 2005 =_=)
So Humble bundle lied, considering the giant asterisk of 'Requires steam in many cases'. (And to a lesser extent, (great games).
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