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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
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EPurpl3: Lets be honest, Steam sucks, we will all continue to support GOG even after this and it is obvious that the prices will increase, but not for you. As long as we will all continue to support GOG and we have no choice regarding the pricing system than you should be happy that you wont have to pay more.
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Cavalary: Continuing to support them after this is the reason why the prices will increase. Need a united front against it, those of us who do see these things and care, here of all places, otherwise of course the silent mindless apathetic zombie crowd will always win out. And that's what "they" (not necessarily GOG now, but those publishers) count on. Those who're either easily fooled or just don't think they can achieve anything by going against the stream will always be far more, so those of us who aren't in that category (though I'm sorry to say you seem to be, at least in this second one if not the first) need to make enough of a ruckus to cover their silence. Sometimes it may even work. If it doesn't, at least we tried, and at least we didn't soil ourselves by going along with something that's wrong.

Sure, this tends to apply to more important things than a games shop, but ideals are ideals, can't claim to stand for the bigger ones if you wave away the smaller ones. (Which should go for GOG as well, with this.)
Cavalary, I'm always thankful my parents brought me up to be one of those people who WILL fight against it, even if it doesn't have much of a result (surprisingly, though, sometimes it does!).

I've just added GOG to the list of companies I will never shop at again. That list is getting longer by the day, but so is the list of ethical companies that treat their customers right and stick by their principles, even if it means they make less profit as a result.
Posted February 24, 2014
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JohnnyDollar: So many state their hatred for EA, yet I see "Battlefield" mentioned everywhere I go, it seems. Whether it be on forums or hardware reviews at an online retailer. Due to its success, evidently there must be plenty of gamers out there that don't hate them enough to not buy their games, and they pay premium release day prices for them too.

Same thing goes for micro DLC. A lot hate the concept, or so it seems, but they must be selling ok because they continue to do it. With some of these games the publishers have released a ridiculous amount of micro DLC.
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Digital_CHE: The ONLY Battlefield title that I like is Bad Company 2, because is DRMFREE since the R11 patch.
I was unaware of that. Is it worth playing for the single player only? I'm assuming not. I might be interested in picking up a cheap copy if it is, because I don't have any interest in the multiplayer.
Posted February 24, 2014
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tfishell: Without going into specifics, can you confirm that GOG do have some highly-requested classics in the works?
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rampancy: I for one would be intrigued to see how the community, in all of its current anger right now over regional pricing, would react if we got Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, or Day of the Tentacle on GOG thanks to this move. It also makes me wonder what game(s) it would take for GOG to relent on being DRM-free.
I would be super-torn.
Posted February 24, 2014
Wow. Over 3,200 posts so far. It looks like we might have a movement here. This kinda makes me want to break out the old guitar and start up a rousing chorus of the "Alice's Restaurant Massacree." We can all sing it in harmony, with feelin'. Arlo Guthrie would be so proud of us. :D
Posted February 24, 2014
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EPurpl3: I totally agree but we cant win this one and that is why i will never buy one of those mega-ultra-humangus-super-amazing-games that they are about to release. In fact, i have only bought and i will only ever buy Good Old Games, from them. But i dont try to convince anybody of anything, i have done that too many times, trying to support a principle or even a group of people, and everything turned against me, even those people that i was trying to help. So i take only whats good from GOG and f*** what i dont like. If some day i will consider that they dont offer enough i will just stop using GOG.
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Cavalary: Self-fulfilling prophecy, that, about "can't win". Me, I'll do what I can for as long as I can, not because I think I'll succeed if I do (generally very pessimistic, spares one from disappointment at least, that appears when you start having hopes and believing in others, see the current situation), but because I know I'll fail if I don't even try. And if for major causes I can somehow get myself to take part in street protests over here (assuming you actually are from here too, as it says) occasionally for the past 2 years and very earnestly now since September despite severe social anxiety and other such issues, for fair gaming industry policies I can at least boycott a site and try to persuade more people to do the same than I may have persuaded to give it a try over the years so far.
Well, i have to agree again, but you also must have a plan for when you dont succeed. Now that GOG introduces this new billing system the DRM free will be the only thing left on their site, the only reason to still use GOG. People tried to boycott the introduction of new games, than the DLC and so on, guess what, they did not cared at all and they have continued to dumb down GOG even more. Even if a group of people whould decide to boycott GOG, those people who read this thread are less than 5% of all the GOG users and from those 5% more than 50% would forget about boycott in the second they saw a cool new mega-super-game on sale.
Posted February 24, 2014
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mangamuscle: If you think it is immoral that your government allows price gouging then take it to the government, they are the ones who can clean this mess, that GOG did not offered AAA games at regional prices in the past DOES NOT CHANGE the fact the it is normal for software companies to do so and it will continue until you make your government stop them..
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_Bruce_: The government has NOTHING to do with this. The purchase is international from an international store. The government HAS performed a study into this issue, and grilled MS/Adobe/Apple and others over the issue. Their conclusion was there was nothing they could do, particularly in cases like this where GOG does not operate in Australia so they have no control at all.

How do you think government can fix it? Apeal to the UN?
Ban those products from your country. It is simple. Those companies need money, getting banned from AUS is a serious issue. They aren't willing to talk, then show the damn power to them.

The problem is your government. It's too weak to decide this matter swiftly. The longer it drags, the longer you're getting abused by regional pricing.
Posted February 24, 2014
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011284mm: Many members here admit - like myself - that they will tell a corporation, distributor, producer, individual that they want to play their games, but the DRM is the problem, now maybe some of these big corporations have taken this on board and when GOG next turned up on their door step to beg for games they agreed that there was a market for their games there as people keep pleading for the DRM-free but no-one ever goes GOG both DRM-free and $ pricing throughout. So the corporations finally decide to meet half-way, GOG gives them the pricing they are use to (and the added profits too) and GOG get the games DRM-free.
This is what I suspect is going on. The gaming world at large really doesn't care abut GOG because it has no leverage, which they'll never get from the megapublishers' table scraps--especially now that most of them have an in-house DD system for their own back catalog. When Steam and Linux started out, nobody cared about them either. Both had to make some concessions to gain ground, at which point they could start pushing their vision. Slippery slope is a valid point, and maybe GOG five years from now will be just another lame Steam storefront, I don't know. But it's an equally valid point that in virtually every human endeavor in history, the idealists died poor and forgotten while their more pragmatic colleagues made the dream a reality.
Posted February 24, 2014
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EPurpl3: Lets be honest, Steam sucks, we will all continue to support GOG even after this and it is obvious that the prices will increase, but not for you. As long as we will all continue to support GOG and we have no choice regarding the pricing system than you should be happy that you wont have to pay more.
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Rusty_Gunn: Being honest, I'd rather pay more, as opposed to having some of the cost being piled up on someone in "Outoluckistan"
Dude, maybe you will be lucky and you will have to pay more than people from EU, just so you wont be labeled "Outoluckistanian", after all GOG is a EU company. :))
Posted February 24, 2014
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dirtyharry50: Wow. Over 3,200 posts so far. It looks like we might have a movement here. This kinda makes me want to break out the old guitar and start up a rousing chorus of the "Alice's Restaurant Massacree." We can all sing it in harmony, with feelin'. Arlo Guthrie would be so proud of us. :D
If we get Grim Fandango on GOG with regional pricing DRM-free this week, I get the feeling that our "movement" will be GOG's own version of the Steam Boycott Modern Warfare 2 group. :P
Posted February 24, 2014
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_Bruce_: The government has NOTHING to do with this. The purchase is international from an international store. The government HAS performed a study into this issue, and grilled MS/Adobe/Apple and others over the issue. Their conclusion was there was nothing they could do, particularly in cases like this where GOG does not operate in Australia so they have no control at all.

How do you think government can fix it? Apeal to the UN?
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zeroxxx: Ban those products from your country. It is simple. Those companies need money, getting banned from AUS is a serious issue. They aren't willing to talk, then show the damn power to them.

The problem is your government. It's too weak to decide this matter swiftly. The longer it drags, the longer you're getting abused by regional pricing.
So... your argument is that regional pricing is not OK, but governments stepping in and banning products/retailers that aren't even in that country is fine?I think we've just jumped out of the frying pan.
Posted February 24, 2014
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dirtyharry50: Wow. Over 3,200 posts so far. It looks like we might have a movement here. This kinda makes me want to break out the old guitar and start up a rousing chorus of the "Alice's Restaurant Massacree." We can all sing it in harmony, with feelin'. Arlo Guthrie would be so proud of us. :D
Swell, that'll be stuck in my head for about a week!
Just for that you get to take out the garbage! ;)
Posted February 24, 2014
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NovusBogus: When Steam and Linux started out, nobody cared about them either. Both had to make some concessions to gain ground, at which point they could start pushing their vision.
Which concessions are we talking about with Linux? Or Steam for that matter. Only thing I can think of is that GNU has conceeded with Linux rather than Hurd, but that certainly isn't Linux conceeding.
Post edited February 24, 2014 by _Bruce_
Posted February 24, 2014
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zeroxxx: Ban those products from your country. It is simple. Those companies need money, getting banned from AUS is a serious issue. They aren't willing to talk, then show the damn power to them.

The problem is your government. It's too weak to decide this matter swiftly. The longer it drags, the longer you're getting abused by regional pricing.
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_Bruce_: So... your argument is that regional pricing is not OK, but governments stepping in and banning products/retailers that aren't even in that country is fine?I think we've just jumped out of the frying pan.
If the product is shipped, digitally or physically, to your country, no matter where they were produced at, it IS in your country.

The origin of the goods doesn't matter.

Use the power necessary to protect the citizens, that's what AUS are failing at - for this particular digital joke anyway.
Posted February 24, 2014
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dirtyharry50: Wow. Over 3,200 posts so far. It looks like we might have a movement here. This kinda makes me want to break out the old guitar and start up a rousing chorus of the "Alice's Restaurant Massacree." We can all sing it in harmony, with feelin'. Arlo Guthrie would be so proud of us. :D
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rampancy: If we get Grim Fandango on GOG with regional pricing DRM-free this week, I get the feeling that our "movement" will be GOG's own version of the Steam Boycott Modern Warfare 2 group. :P
I don't know, I never got that game

I don't think we should hold any company to ideals we don't hold ourselves.
Post edited February 24, 2014 by Rusty_Gunn
Posted February 24, 2014
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dirtyharry50: Wow. Over 3,200 posts so far. It looks like we might have a movement here. This kinda makes me want to break out the old guitar and start up a rousing chorus of the "Alice's Restaurant Massacree." We can all sing it in harmony, with feelin'. Arlo Guthrie would be so proud of us. :D
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rampancy: If we get Grim Fandango on GOG with regional pricing DRM-free this week, I get the feeling that our "movement" will be GOG's own version of the Steam Boycott Modern Warfare 2 group. :P
Bingo! LOL!
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General discussionAnnouncement: Big Preorders & Launch Day Releases Coming!(4041 posts)(4041 posts)
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