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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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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.
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Phc7006: 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.
What's with the Humble Store?
Posted February 25, 2014
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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.
The Witcher 2 had regional pricing right from the very start, because of the distribution agreement CDPR had made with Namco Bandai and in turn arrangements that Namco Bandai had made with local distributors. The lawsuit came about because of GOG's decision to not use geo-ip to determine each user's region, instead just trusting whatever they had set in their profile (the lawsuit was also about CDPR's decision to remove the DRM from retail copies of TW2 but CDPR won on that issue).
Posted February 25, 2014
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RafaelLopez: What's with the Humble Store?
Switched to regional pricing too.
Posted February 25, 2014
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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.
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AngryAlien: 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?
Because they had entered a distribution agreement with Namco Bandai. Namco simply complained that the separate distribution at a different price was breaching its distribution rights.
Posted February 25, 2014
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hedwards: Keep in mind that whatever you see here represents only a small fraction of the people that but games here. But, that silliness only started after GOG gave up on focusing on older games. Now they have not just new indie games, but new games in general, which makes it harder to refuse to bring more AAA games here even if it means dolling the French Monk up like a hooker and selling out all the original values..
Yah, as I say, I have no idea what GOG collates internally in their customer desire survey. Though as a relative newcomer I've only known GOG in its newer incarnation, and am fine with the new game offerings. AAA games I don't care about, I get those on the Xbox if I really want them. But the new indie stuff has been interesting to me by and large, and hasn't diminished their output of classic games, so it's all good to me.
Posted February 25, 2014
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RafaelLopez: What's with the Humble Store?
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Cavalary: Switched to regional pricing too.
Exactly. You would almost suspect that there is a corrupting force at play, some Mephistopheles busy buying all the souls that still escaped its malevolent influence
Posted February 25, 2014
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hedwards: Perhaps, but do Polish dogs eat apology letters?
Hmm, never had one... perhaps?

Oh wait, you expect it to be an apology letter? As a whole or only on some level?
Posted February 25, 2014
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RafaelLopez: What's with the Humble Store?
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Cavalary: Switched to regional pricing too.
Shit.
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)
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IAmSinistar: 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.
Net profit woudnt that be after the cost have been paid?
Post edited February 25, 2014 by Lodium
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)
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IAmSinistar: 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.
Net profit is after all expanses(Salary/Taxes/etc.) are payed, if I'm not mistaken.
Posted February 25, 2014
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IAmSinistar: 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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Lodium: Net profit woudnt that be after the cost have been paid?
Profit is after costs. Net profit is profit left over after taxes.
Posted February 25, 2014
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Lodium: Net profit woudnt that be after the cost have been paid?
Could be, financial bookkeeping is a somewhat inscrutable subject to me. So if that's what they bank after paying staff and office rental and maintenance and acquiring new product, then it's a pretty tidy sum.

Wonder where it goes? Volcano secret base? Orbital laser satellite?
Posted February 25, 2014
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IAmSinistar: 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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Lodium: Net profit woudnt that be after the cost have been paid?
Not necessarily. It's typically after some costs but doesn't include others. Depends on how things are taxed and regulated where the business operates. Businesses also choose how to account for costs and profits, so there's some variation even in legal systems.

For an international business, net profit of $900,000 is not great. With that kind of situation, it's not surprising at all that GOG is trying hard to expand.
Posted February 25, 2014
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IAmSinistar: Could be, financial bookkeeping is a somewhat inscrutable subject to me. So if that's what they bank after paying staff and office rental and maintenance and acquiring new product, then it's a pretty tidy sum.

Wonder where it goes? Volcano secret base? Orbital laser satellite?
Nah, just some good old sharks.
Posted February 25, 2014
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IAmSinistar: 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.
In fact that's exactly the same origin as the Florin (EN) or
the Guilder (Dutch) : It refers to the gold coin that was used when trade resumed accross Europe ( Florence's Florin )
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