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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 24, 2014
I have to say, though, regional pricing is some kind of bullshit- how do publishers/devs justify pricing the same digital good differently based on the region? Worst case scenario, this trend started because someone, somewhere was too lazy to convert the origin currency to its equivalent price in other places. What a mess, ffs.

Personally, I was always looking for GOG to offer DRM-free AAA games, so I am looking forward to what happens here.

I really want to keep buying DRM-free games so here's hoping GOG never lets go of that policy; there's no reason to assume that they would because it's the one thing which makes them unique, more or less, at the moment.

Oh, and some unsolicited advice to anyone affected by regional pricing- it always helps to wait, sometimes even years, to buy a game if you don't like the price/don't think the dev is worth the effort to support; chances are you'll get it for peanuts at some point.
Posted February 24, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: We do, actually, have some games that I'm pretty sure will have people giddy with glee once they show up on GOG that will be available thanks to this change. But for the most part we're probably best off awaiting TheFrenchMonk's letter to you guys that's to be published tomorrow.
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tfishell: Without going into specifics, can you confirm that GOG do have some highly-requested classics in the works?
LUCASARTS CONFIRMED
Posted February 24, 2014
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Dreadz: This thread, and the forum in general, needs a way to show only blue posts. I feel that a lot of questions have already been answered/evaded but people keep asking them again and again because they haven't see the earlier blue posts.[..]
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Grargar: Were you looking for this?
Magic! (*-*)
Post edited February 24, 2014 by phaolo
Posted February 24, 2014
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JudasIscariot: You know... I was going to make a quip here as I usually do when talking to some of the veteran members here but I am afraid my words will be used against me soooo <insert quip here> I guess :/
You have nothing to worry from me :)
Well, I can (jokingly) use your own quip against you, but that's fair, isn't it? :)
Posted February 24, 2014
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JudasIscariot: You know... I was going to make a quip here as I usually do when talking to some of the veteran members here but I am afraid my words will be used against me soooo <insert quip here> I guess :/
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Novotnus: You have nothing to worry from me :)
Well, I can (jokingly) use your own quip against you, but that's fair, isn't it? :)
Well, fair's fair I suppose :)
Posted February 24, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: We do, actually, have some games that I'm pretty sure will have people giddy with glee once they show up on GOG
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Vainamoinen: Errr... bring 'em on then?? I mean, how many pages should this topic still generate?
They are under NDA and can't legally announce the games.
It was a very stupid decision to announce regional pricing with some unknown games, though. If the games are truly so great that we won't dislike regional pricing (which I doubt), it would have been better to announce the policy change when the first game gets released.
Posted February 24, 2014
Well what's done is done. I too am disappointed by this decision but I guess we can a.) still buy games here, or b.) buy them elsewhere.

The question that remains is, what will you do? Can you coexist on GOG with this decision?

What hurts the most is that we had our trust put into GOG about their core values. But I know I will buy here as long as games are DRM free, and as long as I believe GOG is (despite some bad decisions) just trying to make gaming world better. Which, after all, I still do.

I certanly do not believe there is some plot going on about deciving gamers to take money from them. Sure the money part is a part of buisness, but without it they couldn't keep things going at all. So again, losing trust in highly praised core values is what hurts the most.

That beeing said, there is no descision that could make every one of us happy. Bad thing for GOG is that many of us are unhappy with this one.

And GOG, now you should really try to bring us Linux versions of games as bonus. All that talk about GOG way of things, and how you could not support every linux distro in your GOG way is not creditable any more. So why not give us something to keep us going?
Posted February 24, 2014
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Cavalary: Er, woops, was a page behind. Nvm.

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CarrionCrow: Excuses, excuses. I thought having a magic wand came standard with GOG employment.

Edit - On a serious note, it is definitely appreciated that staff has been taking the time to address the current state of affairs. Pretty sure a number of companies would have began and ended the conversation with "IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, TOUGH SHIT".
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Cavalary: If the end result will be the same, I see little practical difference between "if you don't like it, tough shit" and "if you don't like it, here are a couple of our employees that we're giving one hell of a shit job of persuading you otherwise. if they fail, then tough shit."
To me there's a pretty massive difference. One entails hard choices, pros and cons, give and take. The other only requires indifference and a certain level of contempt.

Additional - to Judas:Considering that I can screw up a stick figure, even a rudimentary knowledge of Photoshop is godlike by comparison. (Trying for double responses without double posting.)
Post edited February 24, 2014 by CarrionCrow
Posted February 24, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Well, fair's fair I suppose :)
[joke]So, where's the offer, hm?[/joke]
:)
Posted February 24, 2014
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011284mm: Lets say : Number of books people read - 100 + 8 + 16 + 5 + 2 = 131
131 / 26.2 = average number of books 26.2
This is a disproportionate way of doing things, but it always make the numbers look good
Median is the proven solution against such distribution anomalies: 8.
Posted February 24, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Well, fair's fair I suppose :)
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Novotnus: [joke]So, where's the offer, hm?[/joke]
:)
Right here, buddy.
Posted February 24, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: we have rights holders for great games--the kind of games that would do fantastically on GOG.com, and that would be hugely enjoyed by our gamers--who cannot play ball with a company that prices things non-competitively.
Wow, I just saw this and did a serious double take. Is that phrase "non-competitively" the phrase used by those companies??? I'm guessing it is, because the assholes apparently have no clue what "competition" means.

Offering the games cheaper than other sellers is the very definition of competition. Ensuring all sellersrs have the same pricing schemes is the biggest kind of anti-competitive act that companies always try to take.

I'd bet a small amount of my money that this was language chosen by those other companies, and not by TeT. It's possible he chose that language, everyone makes mistakes, but this sounds exactly like the kind of shit they try to sell as candy all the time.

Non-competitively my ass.
Post edited February 24, 2014 by OldFatGuy
Posted February 24, 2014
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Cavalary: Er, woops, was a page behind. Nvm.

If the end result will be the same, I see little practical difference between "if you don't like it, tough shit" and "if you don't like it, here are a couple of our employees that we're giving one hell of a shit job of persuading you otherwise. if they fail, then tough shit."
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CarrionCrow: To me there's a pretty massive difference. One entails hard choices, pros and cons, give and take. The other only requires indifference and a certain level of contempt.

Additional - to Judas:Considering that I can screw up a stick figure, even a rudimentary knowledge of Photoshop is godlike by comparison. (Trying for double responses without double posting.)
To be honest, when I managed to clean up the strategy guide (donated to us by Iain!) without looking like I did something, I was damn proud of myself :D
Posted February 24, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Right here, buddy.
All right. I never thought it'll come to this, but I'm sold.
Now excuse me, I'm going to kick my own ass for making this wish :)
Posted February 24, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Right here, buddy.
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Novotnus: All right. I never thought it'll come to this, but I'm sold.
Now excuse me, I'm going to kick my own ass for making this wish :)
For me, it's the gift that keeps on giving :D :D :D
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