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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 25, 2014
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Cavalary: About that letter, sent a message to support when the announcement first appeared and just got a reply 40 minutes ago saying Guillaume is (still) working on it. But still to hopefully address most of our concerns and explain why they decided that it was necessary. So no hopes for turning around.
Good to know. Can't blame him for wanting to get it exactly right.
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Posted February 25, 2014
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Bloodygoodgames: I KNOW.....what IS that all about?

My parents and I left the UK 30 years ago, so when we used to live there there was no such thing as CCTV. Now there's a bloody camera everywhere you go. I read somewhere a study showed the average Brit is photographed over 300 times a day. And the rules and regulations the Brits live under are amazing to behold. Talk about Stalinist Russia. It's worse!!
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Sanjuro: Did it all, by some chance, begin in 1984? I'd love the irony.
LOL, nope.

It was actually on the day Great Britain went to war with Argentina over the Falklands - Friday 2 April 1982.

I remember sitting on the plane flying to the US reading a British newspaper, with the headlines screaming "It's WAR" :)

And no, we didn't plan it that way. It just happened to be that day :)
Posted February 25, 2014
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blotunga: I have voted against DLC just as I would've voted agains Pre-Orders. But probably the majority prefer it so.
I only have your word for it.
But nevertheless it dosnt change the fact that those issues is not gog to blame for.
Posted February 25, 2014
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Bloodygoodgames: I KNOW.....what IS that all about?

My parents and I left the UK 30 years ago, so when we used to live there there was no such thing as CCTV. Now there's a bloody camera everywhere you go. I read somewhere a study showed the average Brit is photographed over 300 times a day. And the rules and regulations the Brits live under are amazing to behold. Talk about Stalinist Russia. It's worse!!
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Sanjuro: Did it all, by some chance, begin in 1984? I'd love the irony.
I had tought the first sizeable experiment in the UK was in 1985.
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Posted February 25, 2014
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Sanjuro: Did it all, by some chance, begin in 1984? I'd love the irony.
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Phc7006: I think the first sizeable experiment in the UK was in 1985.
Close enough for government work.

:D
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Sanjuro: Did it all, by some chance, begin in 1984? I'd love the irony.
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Bloodygoodgames: LOL, nope.

It was actually on the day Great Britain went to war with Argentina over the Falklands - Friday 2 April 1982.

And no, we didn't plan it that way. It just happened to be that day :)
That's beautifully ironic.
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Posted February 25, 2014
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Cavalary: kept hoping the delay may somehow indicate they may be trying to give up on the idea (at worst, with the exception of said three games that the contracts have already been signed for)
Its not only 3 games, they signed a new publisher and the contract specifies more older games too that the publisher has rights for.
Posted February 25, 2014
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Reaper9988: Well now that this is pretty official i guess i'll only await the letter to see how they sugar coat it.

I'm really interested how the concerns will be addressed i'm not even sure how they can be addressed
if the policy is set in stone.

The more i think about it, there more i'm sure free stuff with the regional priced games won't cut it for me.
While i appreciate the effort but GOG fielding some of the extra cost just sends the wrong signal to the publishers.
Only from the customers' POV. GOG has embraced the industry standard, so they don't need/ want to send any sort of message to publishers, other than "we want a piece of the pie and we're ready to play by your rules". However, GOG wants to send a message to its customers and that is "we still care about you, but since there's no other way, here's some candy to sweeten the medicine".

One uses different PR talk when addressing different audiences.

And by this comment, I'm not trying to bash GOG or anything, I'm just being realistic.
Posted February 25, 2014
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Bloodygoodgames: LOL, nope.

It was actually on the day Great Britain went to war with Argentina over the Falklands - Friday 2 April 1982.

I remember sitting on the plane flying to the US reading a British newspaper, with the headlines screaming "It's WAR" :)

And no, we didn't plan it that way. It just happened to be that day :)
Hm. So it takes a war and some time to get to this state of business. Well, no Eastasia for us in the nearest future then. Not that I'm complaining, mind you.
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Phc7006: I think the first sizeable experiment in the UK was in 1985.
Akella...I mean Orwell missed! Orwell missed!
Posted February 25, 2014
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Phc7006: I think the first sizeable experiment in the UK was in 1985.
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HGiles: Close enough for government work.

:D
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Bloodygoodgames: LOL, nope.

It was actually on the day Great Britain went to war with Argentina over the Falklands - Friday 2 April 1982.

And no, we didn't plan it that way. It just happened to be that day :)
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HGiles: That's beautifully ironic.
What was even better was my grandmother did NOT want us to move to the US, so we heard over and over again "If there's ever another war it will be between the US and Russia, and you idiots will be right in the middle of it" (Had a lovely way with words did my grandma :)

We howled laughing about that as we sat on the plane reading the headlines about "WAR".
Posted February 25, 2014
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Reaper9988: Well now that this is pretty official i guess i'll only await the letter to see how they sugar coat it.

I'm really interested how the concerns will be addressed i'm not even sure how they can be addressed
if the policy is set in stone.

The more i think about it, there more i'm sure free stuff with the regional priced games won't cut it for me.
While i appreciate the effort but GOG fielding some of the extra cost just sends the wrong signal to the publishers.
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HypersomniacLive: Only from the customers' POV. GOG has embraced the industry standard, so they don't need/ want to send any sort of message to publishers, other than "we want a piece of the pie and we're ready to play by your rules". However, GOG wants to send a message to its customers and that is "we still care about you, but since there's no other way, here's some candy to sweeten the medicine".

One uses different PR talk when addressing different audiences.

And by this comment, I'm not trying to bash GOG or anything, I'm just being realistic.
Yeah of course it's a bad message from my point of view.
But if they're officially adopting industry standards, i think it'll be only a matter of time before they adopt some kind of DRM.
Once you drop one of your principles there's not much you can say to convince me you keep your other.

I also don't like medicine so maybe after all for me personally it will be time to move on, but i will still wait for the letter to be fair.
Posted February 25, 2014
Okay, seriously what the fuck is going on now? First we get told that today there's gonna be an amazing open letter from Guillaume Rambourg that's completely gonna change our perspective on everything, and now there is nothing?
TET, care to explain?
Posted February 25, 2014
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Bloodygoodgames: Natamysza, what you're missing though is I don't have to be 'professional'. I'm a customer, it's not my business. :)

The company, however, has to be professional -- if they want to keep most of their customer base, that is. And so far, GOG has done an incredibly piss poor job of it and it's getting worse by the day.

1) They've angered a huge percentage of their customer base

2) They've promised a letter today that, so far, hasn't arrived and it's now the close of business

3) They've announced a decision that will cause them to go back on one of their core values - a reason why a huge percentage of their customers buy here

4) They've made a decision that has created a ton of negative press for them on gaming sites all over the internet - negative press that is likely to increase as time goes on and as it becomes obvious their customers are not happy.

Honestly, it doesn't get much worse than this :)
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Natamysza: That depends. If you want to fling shit at them just for fun (and apparently you do) then obviously you are right - you don't have to be professional at all. If you, however, want to influence them to change their mind then I'm afraid you should be at least slightly professional ;) But as far as I understand it you think that the case is already lost so you are just taking your chances to have some fun with it. Well, for me bashing somebody (even if he rightfully deserves it) is not funny at all but hey, that's just me ;) Thanks for your answer and I hope I didn't bother you too much. I'm outta here

PS I know I'm repeating myself but I agree with you've written there (this list I mean). Very nicely worded
Fling shit? Considering that it's the people supporting the change that are mostly the ones being uncivil, perhaps yous should get your house in order before griping at us.

The fact of the matter is that they should have seen this coming, the fact that the French Monk is still working on the letter is a pretty clear indication that they didn't think this through when they were making the policy change decision. If they had, the would have had some sort of a letter days ago. The longer it takes them to come up with some thing that we'll accept, the harder it's going to be to achieve.
Posted February 25, 2014
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Fesin: Okay, seriously what the fuck is going on now? First we get told that today there's gonna be an amazing open letter from Guillaume Rambourg that's completely gonna change our perspective on everything, and now there is nothing?
TET, care to explain?
I suppose they are stuck at the 1st line : we have read your 3632 comments with great attention. Correction : 3633, correction 3634....
Posted February 25, 2014
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Reaper9988: But if they're officially adopting industry standards, i think it'll be only a matter of time before they adopt some kind of DRM.
I strongly doubt they will. They're dropping worldwide pricing in the name of promoting and encouraging DRM-free releases. Why would they drop their DRM-free policy (which is their main selling point and what makes them unique... and a major justification behind just about every other big policy change they've made so far)?

The moment they start allowing any DRM they'll immediately have lost to Steam.
Post edited February 25, 2014 by adamhm
Posted February 25, 2014
My bet would be that the delay can be fully explained in one word.

Lawyers
Post edited February 25, 2014 by donsanderson
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