I wouldn't mind if a couple (or a dozen) of new games come with regional price, since I'm mainly interested in "old games". I simply wouldn't buy them. But that sets a precedent, and the rest of publishers will want that "extra money". Business is business.

It's almost confirmed that the two RPGs will be Risen 1 + 2 and the strategy game I dunno.
http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23479

The only thing I surely know is that the current owners (Deep Silver) of these two games demanded - like Daedalic - for their German game version regional pricing and this publisher forced GOG to its knees for it.

Sorry if I wasn't clear. It was said that in my country (Canada) it would be 37-60%, which is what I found hard to believe. These numbers are once again for other countries.

It, apparently, doesn't use CEG on Steam, but it uses Tages on GamersGate.

LOL, seriously?

All of this mess for Risen 1 and Risen 2?

If that's true, then GOG management is even more clueless than I thought. Opening the door for regional pricing and a huge damage to their business, for two incredibly mediocre games?

Surely GOG can't be that stupid?

Not necessarily true. The announcement says: "Big Preorders & Launch Day Releases Coming!" Risen 1+2 are hardly Launch Day or Preorder material. Risen 3 might be one, though.

Can GOG please tell us the names of these publishers who are responisble for this situation?

GOG is pushed by fans to bring more games. To reach that, they have to bend for the publishers conditions. They get the games under those conditions and we are angry. We are dissatisfied for the right thing, but only against GOG is unfair.

I highly doubt that, but I wouldn't rule out Deep Silver being involved, due to their past business practices and the "coincidence" of them joining GOG at this point in time. Apparantly Sacred 3 will come to GOG as a new AAA release though, so it's possible that this is one of the RPGs they're talking about?

We dont know that yet, there is a possibility that maybe those games are released elsewhere drmfree too.

You would be better off using a median income. The US has a disproportionately high number of wealthy people compared to Greece, so the average US worker does not make that much more than you. Also, GDP/capita is not a measure of income at all really, since GDP is not a closed loop (*many* leakages). It's a mediocre look at a nation's prosperity, but it is not really descriptive about any particular demographic.

Your position is still justified, but you might need to correct a little bit on the numbers is all :)

I understand your thinking and even if I hate regional pricing, it's not the biggest deal. In my opinion, the biggest deal is that in the past you asked us this kind of things and that GOG seems to be slowly drifting away its original course.

What really disappoints me (and some other people too, I think) is that this time you said nothing. Maybe I am being a little näive, but I really (want to) think that you really care about your costumers. This is what, in my opinion, makes you better than steam and other online sellers, the excellent costumer service and the feeling that even if your goal is earning money, you do this caring about your costumers and not only thinking about our wallet. But you must admit that even if your intentions are truly good, you are stepping aside from one of the main principles GOG is loved for. Sure, the DRM-Free is the main objective and you don't live on caring customers. You need new games to sell. But I think that you really must ask yourselves if some new games really are worth changing your way. Because small changes (improvements, I would call them), like selling newer games are very acceptable (even if someone will always complain that only games before 19XX should be sold here or whatever similar bullshit [I know this is a very subjective issue, but even if you have expanded your catalog, you never betrayed your founding principle of bringing good old games]). But this change really is extreme and I think the least thing you could have done (since we all think that your main desire is making money through making customers actually happy) is making a poll asking: hey guys, are you willing to this big change? Because maybe those fantastic 3 games are shit to us. Or maybe, even if we like them and would love to see them on our GOG shelves, we think we must sacrifice that so you can keep to your original principles. Sure there might be some of us who would be willing to accept some very desired games (Lucasarts, Blood rights and those improbable things for example), but you can see that most of us are not happy with it.

I understand that you cannot explain the whole picture to us, but you must understand that if this keeps going, you would have failed your well known video (I can watch it, but some people complain about it having been "censored". If true, that is a horrible move too) and you would lose costumers. Some people have already stated that they won't buy anything from you anymore and even if I think it is a little bit to drastic, I think it really shows you must give this a lot of more thought.

Of course we all know that DRM-Free is the "greater good" and we all (should) know that business is a lot more complicated than sitting in front of a computer buying and playing games from a cool website. But please, you should really think this over. Because if you make a lot of little tiny changes, no matter they are so small they are imperceptible among each other, when you sum them up, you end with a different thing. I think that GOG is the 2nd most popular online shop for 3 reasons:

+ The old games running without problems on nowadays machines.
+ DRM-Free Revolution (no clients and no shit. Just games).
+ The good support, and loving attitude towards costumers.

Nowadays, the 2nd point is without a doubt the most important, to the point that I'm 95% secure that if you betray that point, you will kill yourselves business-ally (I like inventing new words, in case you dind't notice before xD). But there are 2 more points, keep that in mind.

If you change your ways, I think a massive loss of costumers is not a very crazy thought. And even if I have wasted my life studying Chemistry and therefore know nothing about business, I think that loss would be more negative for you income than the money you would earn with selling some newer games which might not be complete because of the DRM-Free policies. Also keep in mind that a lot of small developers must focus on the steam release, thus giving GOG copies a "inferior" feeling. (The new ROTT is a good example). I prepurchased it here knowing that, but I didn't buy it on steam because I preferred the total DRM-Free version you sold for 15 $ instead the client-bundled version I could aquire for 13 € (if memory serves right) on steam.

I think most of your costumers are open to new ideas. But my advise would be:

+ Never betray the core principles that made you popular
+ We don't bite when you ask for our opinion (and we understand that you will not choose a path of action just because it was a popular vote).

Or at least, that is how I see it. I really like this site. Even if my purchasing power isn't very good, with savings and your fantastic promos I managed to be the proud owner (a feeling not shared with my steam library which only feeds of exclusives and bundles since I discovered you) of over 110 games (I know it's not THAT much, but I think it's a respectable amount), some of then gifted by you or this community (I hate social crap, so people like me showing over here to drop a key or trying to help in the game subforums proves how awesome you are). I think that even if most of your games are very easy to get from abandonware/torrenting sites, we buy them because of the good work you do and because of the respect you have earned through your ways. So the main reason (this time for real) I have written this long-plagued with spelling, coherence and grammatical errors (I really should be studying something xD) when I usually don't give a peanut about someone reading what I think is because I need it must be pointed out that the main reason this new policy is hated is not only because paying more, but for the fear and feeling that GOG heading the wrong direction.

The games and publishers are under NDA at the moment.

GOG hasn't told us what the 3 games are, just that they are first day release titles. People are just tossing about what's probably going to be on here. Risen 1 and 2 was confirmed by the devs before this announcement.

No, they don't have to bend.

Nobody has EVER said "Get these games and we'll accept regional pricing" or any other change that would go against GOG's core values.

Besides, no matter what these three games are, they're just three more games out of hundreds of other games that GOG could get instead Games which likely will be a huge disappointment for the vast majority of GOG's customers once they are announced. Games, I might add, that GOG has put their whole business future at jeopardy for.

And if they are Risen 1 and 2, or Witcher 3 or pretty much any of the others that have been mentioned already, I would laugh and then go away thinking someone at GOG has a screw loose if they would seriously chance destroying their business just to get three 'average games' (as, frankly, none mentioned so far are that spectacular).

Personally, I think this announcement has a lot more to do with just these 3 games. I think it has to do with scrapping the whole 'regional pricing' stance, so they can make more money out of future games they sell, and they're using these three games as an excuse to do it.

That's the only thing that makes any sense out of all of this. Greed.