This is why people shouldn't automatically discard something because it's based upon fallacious reasoning. Gog has slid quite a bit over the last couple years, and yeah, it was technically a slippery slope to assume that it wouldn't go all the way to DRM being added, but truthfully, I don't see anything stopping them. They've broken their word enough times that they don't have much credibility left.

That is correct, now there are no regional prices on gog. Indeed.
It is only a matter of time until this will come here with those 3 new titles and then slower spreading to almost the entire catalog. Not if but when.

Obviously that has to be the next step. But simply not buying them is not enough. When the titles get announced we need to comment that we are not buying them because of regional pricing.

Voting with the wallet is what I do. The consumers hold the cards, they just have to play them.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
- Warren Buffet
Giving up stuff touted about a year ago as "core principles" pretty much sums it up.
Thinking about boycotting the comments page are you? :)
My first GOGmix might be "Unfairly priced games" :)
That takes a long time. I wonder though what would happen if GOG wouldn't sell even a copy of those three games.

No idea. I found that site a while back and the release dates are fairly accurate LOL..i didnt think Warlock 2 would be AAA even if its Paradox...

That is a brilliant idea.

Yes it probably is; until you consider it's very hard to determine a REAL value based on either effort &/or material for something that is infinitely reproduceable.

At the end of the day it's 'worth' is dependent on it's value to you as a customer.

Like any product it can be sold for 'however much' the producer wants to sell it for and if the market does not bare that price then the producer does not recieve the profits of those sales.
If the market 'does' bare that price it means that price is what the producer can expect as a reflection of his/her products 'value' in the market. naturally a producer will aim to maximise this, as you yourself would if you weren't so proletariate (only able to offer your labor instead of being an actual producer).

(this is important because a bloke can spend years working on a picasso like masterpeice that despite his efforts and developing skill can be complete rubbish; he would like compensation for his efforts, but the market will flatly show he shouldn't of ever become a painter [ensuring quality & proof of concept of risk in business]).

I understand the premise of fear that regional pricing is essentially price fixing, but price fixing is between a range of companies to create a monopoly that forces consumer adoption of a price as a fixed entity.
Such as Australia's petrol scheme where companies either got in bed with woolworth or coles or be bled out as a competitor to those that did (all so consumers were 'locked' into services that were then manipulated to unfairly increase prices by anticompetitive behaviour).

IT IS NOT THE SAME THING.

regional pricing even between distributors IS the original producer asking for more money for his/her product.
it is direct, & does not create or abuse a monopoly other then the monopoly they have the 'right to' by owning intellectual property (they made something how dare they ask what they believe you'll pay).
If you consider that bad, then you consider the fact that you owning anything physical and hogging it all to yourself, as well as determining wether you even sell it or not bad.

The premise seems horrendous when you apply it to something like food.
Your country sells all their food internationally because it's worth more;
The wealth it creates is held by the producers of it in the country, but the value of your money doesn't change;
Anouther country exports to you the basic necessity of food for a price you can't afford, causing starvation in the country.
Your choices:
-Aid the country to increase the global value of it's currency
-Become a producer of food yourself
-Starve
You can't let yourself starve so you pay the exhorbitant price.
The producer sees that you had the money and you were willing to part for it and so the price remains exhorbitant.
His choice were:
-Offer a product for 1% of the amount of profit he could of made
-Offer a product for 100% of the amount of profit
-Do not offer the product
He does not need to offer the product, it is on his terms how much profit he/she makes and in this extreme example yes that means global economical policy of multinational corporations could in fact commit what would be essentially genocide (they won't because their focus is on wealth & power as an entity).

The worst you will get in this deal is to have no product to buy and it certainly doesn't mean you have to accept the exhorbitant price; but just that the result of your decision not to give 100% profit has only 2 outcomes.

Either the price will lower or the product will be pulled as not being financial enough as an investment (que next product).
Thankfully the powers that be generally aren't specifically malicious just ultimately careless in their drive for wealth, but it still shows that regional pricing is not some hidden deamon waiting to steal the soul of the gaming community.
It's just straight up in your face economics between a consumer and a producer once all the chaff has been removed.

Are you referring to the post I quoted, grass roots? That does take a while, and lot of work and dedication from others I would think too. They would probably hold a soul searching pow wow if that were to happen, but I think the game sales figures for those 3 will be determined more by the games themselves than anything else. Just my 2 cents.

They certainly are a bigger company than Triumph. And I don't see any upcoming big strategy release aside the aforementioned.

And this is why I've never bought a game in a retail store in my life. Too damn expensive in my country. It seems that the publishers don't care about selling, just setting a price and then it's my way or the highway. Well screw them. I don't take this shit on steam and I won't here either. Offer me the same price as everyone else, then I'm ok, else take your game and sell it to some other fool.
Honestly I feel like walking into a store and before me someone buys a car for 20000 USD. I want to buy the same type of car, but because I'm from a different place, I have to pay 30000. Does this seem fair to you?

Yep this was A REAL GAME! I remember playing it back in 1992 although on the cabinet it had Rainbow colours (colors)

It came up Polybius with this big circle thing and weird line things inside it and flashed all sorts of weird colours really fast! on screen I also Had the Cartridge version for my atari 2600!

I also had atari's 52 in 1 Cartridge you know the one with the bowling one where you could on a certain level control the Bowling ball! and that aweful cannonball game where you fired a guy out a cannon and he would hit things and say Ou-Ch! hehehe those were the days and it had this awesome cowboy shootout game on the 52 in 1 game cartridge but I loved Polybius! that game was the best!

Disappointing. I can see Gogs position is difficult. The 1 price thing has always been one of the stand out aspect of gog.com and no one felt ripped off having to pay more than others.
Hopefully wont see future real gog games start be pressured into this model too and only affects big new games.

Will also be frustrating if end up with similar problems that steam seems to be being forced to tackle now where traders are buying the games cheep internationally and selling on. Regional restrictions and additional checks on payment methods to be sure your not using proxy ect to get game at lower price than your region..
The 1 price thing is just so much cleaner, clearer and simpler. Think I'd rather not see these aaa titles until later when they're willing to not mess gog and customers around.

Oh great! Regional Pricing. Something else I will have to watch out for when buying games.

Just have a backbone and not stock anything from anyone who requires it.

[EDIT] Also, when did Witcher 2 get a regional price? It was the same when I bought it.

This summs it up pretty well for me.