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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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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?
He called in sick today; unfortunately he didn't finish writing the letter yesterday :-P
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?
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HypersomniacLive: He called in sick today; unfortunately he didn't finish writing the letter yesterday :-P
Perhaps, but do Polish dogs eat apology letters?
Posted February 25, 2014
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Ghorpm: But over the two years I'm here, GOG itself convinced me that regional pricing is unfair and trusted them. So It's really shocking for me to see they are about to introduce regional pricing on their site and I'm eagerly waiting for more explanations that should come here soon.
Whoa-whoa, wait. This isn't the first time there's regional pricing on GOG, so everyone can stop the drama about it already. By the way, it happened with Witcher 2, which is from the same company GOG hails from.

You should really point fingers at the AAA game devs anyway. You should ask yourselves why don't indie devs do the same, and why don't old games have that kind of treatment?

Finally, I'm more or less expecting GOG to do its people justice with extra stuff for people who pay more -- that's what happen when they sold Witcher 2.
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?
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Phc7006: I suppose they are stuck at the 1st line : we have read your 3632 comments with great attention. Correction : 3633, correction 3634....
ROTFL ---- okay, that's really funny :)
Posted February 25, 2014
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AngryAlien: While the UK is a member of the European Union [EU], it always had and still has a... special status. They don´t use the Euro, for instance, and overall they are one of the least integration-friendly countries in the EU. They always went their own ways and they keep doing so today. They have their very own ideas how society and economy should work and they act accordingly. In a strange way the UK is partly a part of the EU and partly not.
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Bloodygoodgames: And Germany, which tends to follow the EU rules much more than the UK ever does is a MUCH better country to live in than the UK. No matter that our idiot politicians think having the UK 'go it alone' is a better strategy.

If I suddenly had to leave Thailand (and we may end up with a civil war in the next few months, so I very well might have to), Germany is one of the places I would definitely consider living. Have loved it every time I've visited it as it's a country that is far more concerned about what benefits society as a whole than the 'me me me' attitude of much of the UK.

Yes, I'm proud to be British, but would I want to live there again? Nope, probably not :)
Don't stroke our ego too much ;)
Posted February 25, 2014
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RafaelLopez: Whoa-whoa, wait. This isn't the first time there's regional pricing on GOG, so everyone can stop the drama about it already. By the way, it happened with Witcher 2, which is from the same company GOG hails from.
In that case they were sued and only had the option to accept regional pricing or remove the game from the store. This time they willingly gave the publishers the right for regional pricing. That's a huge difference.
Post edited February 25, 2014 by silentbob1138
Posted February 25, 2014
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Ghorpm: But over the two years I'm here, GOG itself convinced me that regional pricing is unfair and trusted them. So It's really shocking for me to see they are about to introduce regional pricing on their site and I'm eagerly waiting for more explanations that should come here soon.
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RafaelLopez: Whoa-whoa, wait. This isn't the first time there's regional pricing on GOG, so everyone can stop the drama about it already. By the way, it happened with Witcher 2, which is from the same company GOG hails from.

You should really point fingers at the AAA game devs anyway. You should ask yourselves why don't indie devs do the same, and why don't old games have that kind of treatment?

Finally, I'm more or less expecting GOG to do its people justice with extra stuff for people who pay more -- that's what happen when they sold Witcher 2.
Witcher 2 happened because of a court ruling.
There is nothing they coud have done about that.
However in this case it was because they themself did it.
Posted February 25, 2014
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Ghorpm: But over the two years I'm here, GOG itself convinced me that regional pricing is unfair and trusted them. So It's really shocking for me to see they are about to introduce regional pricing on their site and I'm eagerly waiting for more explanations that should come here soon.
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RafaelLopez: Whoa-whoa, wait. This isn't the first time there's regional pricing on GOG, so everyone can stop the drama about it already. By the way, it happened with Witcher 2, which is from the same company GOG hails from.

You should really point fingers at the AAA game devs anyway. You should ask yourselves why don't indie devs do the same, and why don't old games have that kind of treatment?

Finally, I'm more or less expecting GOG to do its people justice with extra stuff for people who pay more -- that's what happen when they sold Witcher 2.
They made a one time exception for TW2 and they threw in goodies to make up the difference. This is a longer standing arrangement and there's only a guarantee that they'll have goodies for the first 3 games. But, having set the precedence with TW2 people will refer back to that as some sort of justification.

This is the same kind of thinking that's likely to result in some portion of the games already here becoming region priced when the contracts come up for renegotiation, which happens fairly often.
Posted February 25, 2014
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nansounet: That will be funny where all those angry people, gonna be happy of the coming of the lucasarts game on GoG thanks to regional price....
Not all the "angry people".
Posted February 25, 2014
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RafaelLopez: Whoa-whoa, wait. This isn't the first time there's regional pricing on GOG, so everyone can stop the drama about it already. By the way, it happened with Witcher 2, which is from the same company GOG hails from.
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silentbob1138: In that case they were sued and only had the option to accept regional pricing or remove the game from the store. This time they willingly gave the publishers the right for regional pricing. That's a huge difference.
It's the exact same thing. They could remove the game from the store then and chose to keep it, they could choose not to accept these new releases, and chose to keep them.
Posted February 25, 2014
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silentbob1138: In that case they were sued and only had the option to accept regional pricing or remove the game from the store. This time they willingly gave the publishers the right for regional pricing. That's a huge difference.
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RafaelLopez: It's the exact same thing. They could remove the game from the store then and chose to keep it, they could choose not to accept these new releases, and chose to keep them.
A bit different- Witcher 2 is "their" game.
Posted February 25, 2014
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Ghorpm: But over the two years I'm here, GOG itself convinced me that regional pricing is unfair and trusted them. So It's really shocking for me to see they are about to introduce regional pricing on their site and I'm eagerly waiting for more explanations that should come here soon.
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RafaelLopez: Whoa-whoa, wait. This isn't the first time there's regional pricing on GOG, so everyone can stop the drama about it already. By the way, it happened with Witcher 2, which is from the same company GOG hails from.

You should really point fingers at the AAA game devs anyway. You should ask yourselves why don't indie devs do the same, and why don't old games have that kind of treatment?

Finally, I'm more or less expecting GOG to do its people justice with extra stuff for people who pay more -- that's what happen when they sold Witcher 2.
The Witcher 2 change in pricing was something they were obliged ( as in sued ) to do, if not by the use of brute force, by a court ruling. I suppose many , including me, expected The Witcher 3 to have regional pricing as well. And a few exceptions would have been expectable as well... but removing altogether all references to "one world price", changing the ToB, hiding the youtube video, presenting it as "good news" for "3 games" then adding "for a starter" and "we don't know yet but when other contracts get renegociated..." and eventually admitting that region locking was in the pipleine as well ... that's a bit too much. Especially as this comes , what, 6 days after humble store.
Posted February 25, 2014
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silentbob1138: In that case they were sued and only had the option to accept regional pricing or remove the game from the store. This time they willingly gave the publishers the right for regional pricing. That's a huge difference.
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Lodium: Witcher 2 happened because of a court ruling.
There is nothing they coud have done about that.
However in this case it was because they themself did it.
Would you care to elaborate, please? I kinda missed the whole thing, since I ´ve bought the retail version of TW 2 (which was a great example why I still like to buy retail, btw. Got to love the goodies in that box.)

What happened? I mean, how comes that CD Project could have been sued over a game that comes from their sister company?
Posted February 25, 2014
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silentbob1138: In that case they were sued and only had the option to accept regional pricing or remove the game from the store. This time they willingly gave the publishers the right for regional pricing. That's a huge difference.
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RafaelLopez: It's the exact same thing. They could remove the game from the store then and chose to keep it, they could choose not to accept these new releases, and chose to keep them.
The Witcher 2 was released by their parent company, it'd have been rather difficult not to distribute it. And they did their best to fight against the regional pricing, only added it when a court forced them to and even then there was a time when they "accidentally" broke the GeoIP. They fought that tooth and nail, and it was for a single game developed and published by their parent company. Definitely worth repeating.
Now, on the other hand, they specifically chose to give up on the flat price principle in order to attract another company. It's entirely different.
Posted February 25, 2014
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Lilim: https://www.cdprojekt.com/Press_Room/Informacje_prasowe,news_id,1905

I'm not the original poster, but as you've mentioned it was in Polish, finding it became quite easy :-)

In a nutshell - GoG finances for the 1st quarter of 2013
- 13 260 000 PLN revenue (compared to 6 250 000 PLN in 1st quarter of 2012)
- 2 720 000 PLN net profit (compared to 890 000 PLN in 1st quarter of 2012)
So $4,393,926.42 revenue in current Yankee Dollars, and $901,318.24 in net profit. That's decent, though I don't know what the cost of living in Poland pegs this at. Nor do I know the operating expenses of GOG. Personally I know I could retire with four quarters of $900,000 profits, but once this is spread out across the GOG org and staff, I don't know what it becomes.

That's what so damned tricky about situations like this - you only ever have selected pieces of the picture. And thus you can only guess at what is happening behind the curtain, and the reasons therefore.

And can I just add that the Zloty is one of the greatest currency names ever? It sounds like what aliens would use for money in a bad sci-fi film.
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