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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 23, 2014
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JohnnyDollar: If you highly value your backups, then why would there be a good chance that you would repurchase them? Or did you just state that incorrectly?

Edit: By digital backup you mean the game files are in your account on a server somewhere?
I meant digital backups yeah, after a few decades of having mountains of cassette's, 5 1/4, 3 1/2, CD's, DVD's, Zip drives... I lost the desire to bother backing up stuff long ago. I consider the digital backup part of the reason I purchase a digital game. If I lost that, I'd want a replacement (naturally for cheap, on a sale)

This may cost me a little extra in the long run, particularly if I have to replace some or a lot of games, but I figure by the time that need ever arises, those games will be cheap to repurchase anyway, and I get them cheap on sales as it is. In the meantime though, I enjoy the convenience that comes with not having to worry about that stuff at all :)
Post edited February 23, 2014 by Pheace
Posted February 23, 2014
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Trilarion: Don't understand. IP based detection doesn't seem to be the most accurate detection of origin and once I downloaded a DRM free game it's mine forever. At least that's what I thought?
Actually there is also the possibility to identify your location based on the transactions - not that many people have bank accounts or credit cards of different regions. And as far as I know even paypal tracks it based on these.

The only non-trackable payment-option are the paysafe cards.
Posted February 23, 2014
Can anyone list the AAA Rpg + Strategy games that might be released over the next few months? (Kickstarter games arent AAA as much as im keen waiting on Wasteland2, Pillars of Eternity, Grim Dawn (lost interest in DOS once i saw they were doing the regional pricing dance..........)
Posted February 23, 2014
As ET told us, one of the games with regional pricing is Larian's Divitnity: Original Sin and if you check their prices on GOG and Steam you will find out that we already have European prices or even worse:

Dragon Commander Imperial Edition: GOG: 45$ Steam: 35€
Divinity 2: Director's Cut: GOG 20$ Steam: 10€

So regional prices can be actually good in that case.

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Niggles: Can anyone list the AAA Rpg + Strategy games that might be released over the next few months? (Kickstarter games arent AAA as much as im keen waiting on Wasteland2, Pillars of Eternity, Grim Dawn (lost interest in DOS once i saw they were doing the regional pricing dance..........)
ET said that one of them is Divinity: OS. Other one will be Age of Wonders 3 because it's only big strategy game that will be released soon. 3rd one might be South Park. Other big RPG that will be released soon will be Dark Souls 2, I but doubt that it could be released here.
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Posted February 23, 2014
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Trilarion: According to the theory of regional pricing it has to do with the willingness to pay a certain amount for a certain product. This would mean that Australians are just too eager handing over the money.
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CharlesGrey: That might be part of it -- but then, that's always the main issue, it seems. The majority of customers don't seem to care about DRM, forced online clients, overpriced items and so on. As long as their customer base accepts it and keeps handing over their cash, the industry will keep pulling these shenanigans. Why not, if they clearly get away with it? If no one was buying their products, obviously they'd have to adapt.
my personal side on what the problem is, well were gamers to its not exactly like we want to wait an additional six months (for the price to come down) after a game comes out before we get to play it games are just as much of a passion for us as they are for other people around the world so in the end as much as we dont want to pay for the treat dangling over our heads we end up doing it anyway.

Allso an example of what happens when a game is delayed, they just dont give a F%^@ yes i am looking at you looking at you ghostbusters game which cost $110 at EB games onlaunch day... in Australia .... the year after it was released in other nations.
Post edited February 23, 2014 by RedBackDragon
Posted February 23, 2014
It's only been a few days since this announcement surfaced am I'm already going crazy waiting! Guess I should build a campfire and some pig houses to pass the time.
Posted February 23, 2014
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Aver: As ET told us, one of the games with regional pricing is Larian's Divitnity: Original Sin and if you check their prices on GOG and Steam you will find out that we already have European prices or even worse:

Dragon Commander Imperial Edition: GOG: 45$ Steam: 35€
Divinity 2: Director's Cut: GOG 20$ Steam: 10€

So regional prices can be actually good in that case.
Yeah but it aint likely to be one of the 3 AAA games they have a NDA on though....
Posted February 23, 2014
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Niggles: Can anyone list the AAA Rpg + Strategy games that might be released over the next few months? (Kickstarter games arent AAA as much as im keen waiting on Wasteland2, Pillars of Eternity, Grim Dawn (lost interest in DOS once i saw they were doing the regional pricing dance..........)
Some that come to mind:

1. South Park: Stick of Truth
2. Men of War: Assault Squad 2
3. Warlock 2
4. Child of Light
5. Dark Souls II
Posted February 23, 2014
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/ban_all_regional_pricing_from_gog_stick_with_your_principles

Reposting this for those interested....
Posted February 23, 2014
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Asturaetus: The only non-trackable payment-option are the paysafe cards.
Well, there is Bitcoin, but that's more or less 'ponzi scheme: the currency'.
Posted February 23, 2014
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Aver: As ET told us, one of the games with regional pricing is Larian's Divitnity: Original Sin and if you check their prices on GOG and Steam you will find out that we already have European prices or even worse:

Dragon Commander Imperial Edition: GOG: 45$ Steam: 35€
Divinity 2: Director's Cut: GOG 20$ Steam: 10€
Are you sure about those? Steam lists them to me for 45€ and 20€ respectively.
Posted February 23, 2014
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Trilarion: Don't understand. IP based detection doesn't seem to be the most accurate detection of origin and once I downloaded a DRM free game it's mine forever. At least that's what I thought?
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Asturaetus: Actually there is also the possibility to identify your location based on the transactions - not that many people have bank accounts or credit cards of different regions. And as far as I know even paypal tracks it based on these.

The only non-trackable payment-option are the paysafe cards.
What worries me is why Steam has region locking in some cases, despite these obvious and mostly reliable ways to determine the customer's location. Some publishers (2K, for example) just don't seem to have enough.

As a result, DRM and regional pricing are unrelated in principle, but quite a bit related in practice.
Posted February 23, 2014
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Aver: As ET told us, one of the games with regional pricing is Larian's Divitnity: Original Sin and if you check their prices on GOG and Steam you will find out that we already have European prices or even worse:

Dragon Commander Imperial Edition: GOG: 45$ Steam: 35€
Divinity 2: Director's Cut: GOG 20$ Steam: 10€
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Grargar: Are you sure about those? Steam lists them to me for 45€ and 20€ respectively.
Heh, regional prices strikes again. It seems that they have different prices in EU1 and EU2 regions which is very rare, most of the games have the same prices in those regions. My bad.
Posted February 23, 2014
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Aver: Heh, regional prices strikes again. It seems that they have different prices in EU1 and EU2 regions which is very rare, most of the games have the same prices in those regions. My bad.
Strange. I thought that both Poland and Greece belonged in the EU2 region.
Posted February 23, 2014
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Grargar: Are you sure about those? Steam lists them to me for 45€ and 20€ respectively.
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Aver: Heh, regional prices strikes again. It seems that they have different prices in EU1 and EU2 regions which is very rare, most of the games have the same prices in those regions. My bad.
What? Why do you have lower prices, you are my neighbour... 45€ and 20€ for me as well :(
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