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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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Turjake: It's the slippery slope thing that makes me worried about all this (well, as worried as one can be over such relatively insignificant things as computer games).

Regional pricing today - what tomorrow?
GOG will turn into an acronym for Good Old Genocide.
Posted February 22, 2014
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Asturaetus: How about a little badge to mark regional-priced games - as a warning? Something simple like:
http://media2.giga.de/2012/11/WR_Rip-off_debt_consolidation_Sashafatcat.jpg
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MichiGen: Good idea :), nice, clean, and unfortunately true.
There already is one such suggestion on the community wishlist. Less pejorative at that:
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/fair_price_regional_price_badge
Posted February 22, 2014
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TheOperaGhost: Fair enough.

How does regional pricing mean no choices in the future?
Think for a second. If gog keeps forgetting their promises, who tells you they won't be adding DRM just to get a game next ?
Then they will have drm for all games...and it'll be the end of gog.
Posted February 22, 2014
Hm, it didn't even occur to me that regional pricing was an issue until reading this. I think this is a good move--it's unfortunate that GOG has to choose the lesser of two evils but Steam's budding monopoly concerns me greatly and anything that leads to better DRM-free game availability can only be a good thing for consumers.

Region-priced games should be labeled as such, though.
Posted February 22, 2014
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Future_Suture: Has anybody else noticed that GOG made the regional pricing video from 2012 private?
I have already commented on this topic, but this post and the action described within is worthy of my additional attention. GOG, this is not good enough. I expected better from you; such censor is exactly what your customers despise. Can we assume that an open and honest discourse between the community and yourselves (though not a stated principle, is something that customers assume they have here) is now another principle that has been eliminated? This action would indicate that this is the case.

Censorship is an ugly thing, perhaps ideologically speaking worse than price differences, and if insulting the intelligence of your customers and community by censoring your own marketing material and effectively trying to create a revisionist's version of your company's history is the way your company is heading then I really hold little hope for GOG. The trust that has been requested by GOG is crumbling away and it's easy to see why.

*Edited for spelling
Post edited February 22, 2014 by Professor_Cake
Posted February 22, 2014
I've heard about Risen 1 and 2 hitting the GOG store. Now that I'm reading this news I'm even more confident :)
Posted February 22, 2014
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MichiGen: Some possible suggestions:
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Asturaetus: How about a little badge to mark regional-priced games - as a warning? Something simple like:
http://media2.giga.de/2012/11/WR_Rip-off_debt_consolidation_Sashafatcat.jpg
This is more in GOG style (just a quick color-edit, nothing fancy):
http://imagebin.ca/v/1DGUOSzdyITa
Posted February 22, 2014
All this evidence of GOG removing all traces of their former stance on no regional prices (mission statements, graphics, videos) just goes to say that they know they're not doing right by us. They're ashamed of what they're doing and for a good reason.
Posted February 22, 2014
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Filben: I've heard about Risen 1 and 2 hitting the GOG store. Now that I'm reading this news I'm even more confident :)
Yeah i heard that as well maybe we'll even get Risen 3.
Posted February 22, 2014
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Selderij: All this evidence of GOG removing all traces of their former stance on no regional prices (mission statements, graphics, videos) just goes to say that they know they're not doing right by us. They're ashamed of what they're doing and for a good reason.
So it's not just that one video on YouTube?
Posted February 22, 2014
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TheOperaGhost: ...
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.
I don't think it will mean more choices, mostly it will mean different choices. For some in the wrong regions it will mean more expensive choices. Maybe in total it will mean more expensive choices on average for all, with all the future fragmented markets. It might also mean the end of worldwide flat prices because of the give an inch but they take a yard effect which means this choice might just go away for good forever.

So not sure if this really means more choice.

The upcoming games probably can already be bought somewhere else. GOG itself is a choice but maybe GOG just becomes more and more like Steam. (Which would just mean that Steam was right about almost everything all the time long.)
Posted February 22, 2014
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Selderij: All this evidence of GOG removing all traces of their former stance on no regional prices (mission statements, graphics, videos) just goes to say that they know they're not doing right by us. They're ashamed of what they're doing and for a good reason.
If they left it, that would be false advertising. No good way out of this situation.
Posted February 22, 2014
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Selderij: All this evidence of GOG removing all traces of their former stance on no regional prices (mission statements, graphics, videos) just goes to say that they know they're not doing right by us. They're ashamed of what they're doing and for a good reason.
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Novotnus: If they left it, that would be false advertising. No good way out of this situation.
Well there's one...forgetting about regional pricing altogether and going back to the future... (whoops sorry, just watched the movie :D ).
Posted February 22, 2014
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Selderij: All this evidence of GOG removing all traces of their former stance on no regional prices (mission statements, graphics, videos) just goes to say that they know they're not doing right by us. They're ashamed of what they're doing and for a good reason.
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Future_Suture: So it's not just that one video on YouTube?
They modified the site texts and graphics to reflect the smaller list of unique features. I wouldn't be surprised if some specific news posts and other videos did a disappearing act along with that one video before they, too, could be pointed out.
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.
Watching that video makes the decision to allow regional pricing even more insane. Less than a year ago they explained why it is wrong and now they do it anyway. Have the guys in the video left Gog recently?
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