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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 21, 2014
When you see the new batch of games show up, just remember: THOSE are the ones to blame for the regional pricing shift. Prediction with that point in mind: they won't sell well.
Posted February 21, 2014
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Novotnus: What about third world countries within EU? :)
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mangamuscle: You are welcome to visit any time you like and FEEL what a third world country is like.
I don't think there's a big difference between Mexico and European countries like Romania or Bulgaria (especially if you are a member of Romany people). There's too much misery in all of them. I have to admit that it's a big grace to be born in Germany.
Posted February 21, 2014
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vicklemos: I didn't know Moldova was an EU country!
Kiddin', Moldovans! :P
Molvania? :)
Posted February 21, 2014
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theslitherydeee: Its probably Risen 1 and 2 those are supposed to show up here soon.
Since Deep Silver themselves broke the news about that, I kinda doubt it.
Post edited February 21, 2014 by Nergal01
Posted February 21, 2014
Well, "good news" indeed. Thanks for some PR sarcasm there.

Anyway, what's GOG.com policy against using proxies going to be then? Are you going to let it slip by, or are you going to actively police this and punish people with banning accounts, deleting games or whatever?
Posted February 21, 2014
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RS1978: There's too much misery in all of them. I have to admit that it's a big grace to be born in Germany.
Yeah, all post-soviet countries still have a lot to do about themselves... Some (like Czech Republic and Slovakia) are doing pretty well, some... not so much.
Posted February 21, 2014
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Here's a hypothetical... What if by some strange occurrence every game publisher decided that they would bring every single one of their games to GOG.com completely DRM free from now on, releasing new games on release day - but - the only caveat is that they'd only do this if there was regional pricing. We would all have access to every game DRM-free but we might pay a different price depending on where we live, but the pricing wouldn't be any different than what pretty much every other existing current retailer charges with regional pricing.

Ask yourself if you prefer:

1) To get every game here as possible as soon as it comes out from now on, and don't care as much about regional pricing.

or

2) You prefer one in 100 new games coming out (or whatever the number might be) to come to GOG.com and retain fixed global pricing universally as that is much more important than actually getting more games DRM-free.


At least think about your answer to yourself if you don't post one here. I'm sure there will be people who go either way on this with those 2 choices, but I'm willing to bet that the majority will choose choice #1 even if they also add some grumbling about the pricing discrepancy. Sometimes we have to make minor concessions to get what we want in life.

Also, people who dislike this to the point they want to make a stand about it can just have their GOG the way it always was by simply not buying any games that have regional pricing because you wouldn't be able to buy them here anyway if they didn't allow it. Basically pretend they don't exist. IMHO this is really an issue that is something that should be taken up with the game developer/publisher as they are the ones who decide it ultimately.
Posted February 21, 2014
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As a US citizen who doesn't get affected by regional pricing, I have to say it's a bullshit trend that needs to go the fuck away. I'm excited to see what these new games are, but I question the cost it took to get them here.
Posted February 21, 2014
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mangamuscle: You are welcome to visit any time you like and FEEL what a third world country is like.
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RS1978: I don't think there's a big difference between Mexico and European countries like Romania or Bulgaria (especially if you are a member of Romany people). There's too much misery in all of them. I have to admit that it's a big grace to be born in Germany.
No doubt there is different levels of poverty inside the EU, but come visit us anytime you like, you will notice the floor is not the lowest you can go.
Posted February 21, 2014
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Nergal01: Deep Silver
Regional priced Ride to Hell: Retribution confirmed :)
Posted February 21, 2014
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IAmSinistar: So does this mean we have a core breach?
You might say Geordi ejected the core value.
Posted February 21, 2014
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gibbeynator: On one hand, another GOG policy bites the dust, and with limited DRM on the horizon, it's a matter of "when" and not "if" that last policy goes down. On the other hand, now you don't have wait an extra month for Daedalic's next game.
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HGiles: Wait, limited DRM? This is the first time I've heard of that.
Some games here already have limited DRM. Any required serial Number can be considered DRM by my standards. It may not be a copy protection, but it *is* DRM in it's most literal form.
Posted February 21, 2014
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Novotnus: Regional priced Ride to Hell: Retribution confirmed :)
I'd rather have regional-priced but DRM-free Metro 2033 + Last Light or Dead Island, myself.
Posted February 21, 2014
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skeletonbow: Here's a hypothetical... What if by some strange occurrence every game publisher decided that they would bring every single one of their games to GOG.com completely DRM free from now on, releasing new games on release day - but - the only caveat is that they'd only do this if there was regional pricing. We would all have access to every game DRM-free but we might pay a different price depending on where we live, but the pricing wouldn't be any different than what pretty much every other existing current retailer charges with regional pricing.

Ask yourself if you prefer:

1) To get every game here as possible as soon as it comes out from now on, and don't care as much about regional pricing.

or

2) You prefer one in 100 new games coming out (or whatever the number might be) to come to GOG.com and retain fixed global pricing universally as that is much more important than actually getting more games DRM-free.

At least think about your answer to yourself if you don't post one here. I'm sure there will be people who go either way on this with those 2 choices, but I'm willing to bet that the majority will choose choice #1 even if they also add some grumbling about the pricing discrepancy. Sometimes we have to make minor concessions to get what we want in life.

Also, people who dislike this to the point they want to make a stand about it can just have their GOG the way it always was by simply not buying any games that have regional pricing because you wouldn't be able to buy them here anyway if they didn't allow it. Basically pretend they don't exist. IMHO this is really an issue that is something that should be taken up with the game developer/publisher as they are the ones who decide it ultimately.
With the same logic, what if every single publisher promise to give free BJs for every game you buy? Won't that be great?
Posted February 21, 2014
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Novotnus: Regional priced Ride to Hell: Retribution confirmed :)
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Nergal01: I'd rather have regional-priced but DRM-free Metro 2033 + Last Light or Dead Island, myself.
Me too, but you know what you get if you search on German Steam store for "Dead Island"?
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