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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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xxxIndyxxx: they think we are suckers...
Well, they just introduced regional pricing and presented it as good news :P.
Posted February 25, 2014
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HGiles: GOG has released hundreds of games in the past 18 months. We've has SS2, I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream (among countless other classics) as well as a flood of indies. New publishers and new developers have appeared frequently. The long tail strategy has been surprisingly successful, and GOG has grown tremendously using it.
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mangamuscle: Small indie developers/publishers will NOT bring the catalogs of good old games that are not in gog, pleasse do not forget:

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

We haven't had AAA games often. That's OK. We never really expected to. We have had good indie and smaller studio games, including many famous classics, released.
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mangamuscle: OK, repeat after me "I do not speak for the majority of the buyers at gog.com". Unless of course, you have such a position and I failed to notice.
You don't speak for the majority either, my friend. We are both single voices in a crowd.

SS2 and I Have No Mouth were some of the top requested games on the wishlist. I think you need to review https://secure.gog.com/games##sort=added and check the last 18 months because you seem to be under the impression that GOG didn't release anything but indies during that time.

Doing what GOG was doing brought them amazing YoY growth in market share, revenue and profit. I'm not sure why they wanted to change that.
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Posted February 25, 2014
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mangamuscle: Small indie developers/publishers will NOT bring the catalogs of good old games that are not in gog, pleasse do not forget:

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

OK, repeat after me "I do not speak for the majority of the buyers at gog.com". Unless of course, you have such a position and I failed to notice.
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HGiles: You don't speak for the majority either, my friend. We are both single voices in a crowd.
I am well aware of the fact, gog knows the truth since they will see the cold number$ of their strategy in the months to come.

SS2 and I Have No Mouth were some of the top requested games on the wishlist. I think you need to review https://secure.gog.com/games##sort=added and check the last 18 months because you seem to be under the impression that GOG didn't release anything but indies during that time.
I check this site daily and buy on a regular basis (I am an addict, I know), so I am well aware there has been a mix of indies and oldies, but gog will NEVER get most of the most wanted games unless they do regional pricing.

TBT i am not too pleased, I expected to be put in the same economical zone as Russia (we have a 10 to 1 relation with the USA economy, as in, when someone has a 1000 dolars salary we will get 1000 pesos for the same job, or less), but hell, you can't please everybody.
Doing what GOG was doing brought them amazing YoY growth in market share, revenue and profit. I'm not sure why they wanted to change that.
That is in the past, if you do not work with the future in mind your business will suffer, as simple as that.
Post edited February 25, 2014 by mangamuscle
Posted February 25, 2014
good news everybody! now we suck.
Posted February 25, 2014
Thanks to the user Djungelurban we have a almost complete list of the regional prices for AoW3:

http://www.gog.com/forum/age_of_wonders_series/post_your_regional_price_for_aow3/page1
Posted February 25, 2014
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HGiles: You don't speak for the majority either, my friend. We are both single voices in a crowd.
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mangamuscle: I am well aware of the fact, gog knows the truth since they will see the cold number$ of their strategy in the months to come.

SS2 and I Have No Mouth were some of the top requested games on the wishlist. I think you need to review https://secure.gog.com/games##sort=added and check the last 18 months because you seem to be under the impression that GOG didn't release anything but indies during that time.
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mangamuscle: I check this site daily and buy on a regular basis (I am an addict, I know), so I am well aware there has been a mix of indies and oldies, but gog will NEVER get most of the most wanted games unless they do regional pricing.

TBT i am not too pleased, I expected to be put in the same economical zone as Russia (we have a 10 to 1 relation with the USA economy, as in, when someone has a 1000 dolars salary we will get 1000 pesos for the same job, or less), but hell, you can't please everybody.

Doing what GOG was doing brought them amazing YoY growth in market share, revenue and profit. I'm not sure why they wanted to change that.
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mangamuscle: That is in the past, if you do not work with the future in mind your business will suffer, as simple as that.
GOG marketed themselves as the anti-Steam. Buy games without needing to worry about regional prices, digging up an old copy of the manual, technical problems or DRM. It was the No BS marketing that brought me here, and many other people. A deliberate strategic choice that gathered a different target market than Steam.

GOG chipped away at that until only the DRM-free remains. I can buy DRM-free many other places, including Amazon, GMG, Desura, GamersGate. Even some Steam games are DRM free, if you can tolerate the malware that is the Steam client. There's little reason to prioritize GOG over other stores now.

GOG's business model didn't seem to have any problems. The published numbers showed excellent growth, and that matched my experience as a customer here. If anything, I would have said GOG's biggest problem was growing pains. They should slow down and fix long-standing technical issues. There seems to be no reason to make such a huge change, which makes me wonder what major problems GOG is hiding from users.

Change for change's sake is foolish. So far, it seems like GOG has sacrificed a unique selling point and significant part of their business model for a game that only a small part of their customers are interested in. The possibilities for the other 2 games we know of are equally unexciting. It seems like a very poor decision to toss a business model that works quite well for the uncertainty of 'maybe we'll get more games'.

If they had major studios lined up, that would be one thing. But TeT's comments in this thread make it clear that they aren't even in talks with major studios. That's bad business decision-making. At least have groundwork before fundamentally changing your business model.

TL;DR I think this was an ill-considered decision that sacrificed unique selling points for mediocre games. Not all change is good.
Post edited February 25, 2014 by HGiles
Posted February 25, 2014
I think they haven't released the promised letter because they thought the announcement of AoW3 would be welcomed by at least a part of us (I mean, TET's statement about the awesomeness of the three games proves that they thought AoW3 is a top game and we would be jumping in excitement :rolleyes). Now that they're realizing the anger overpasses the excitement by much, they are probably pondering how to proceed. They now know the "explaining" and "reassuring" nature of the letter will only cause more upset and anger. It probably sucks to be in their shoes right now.
Posted February 25, 2014
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Fakum12: Thanks to the user Djungelurban we have a almost complete list of the regional prices for AoW3:

http://www.gog.com/forum/age_of_wonders_series/post_your_regional_price_for_aow3/page1
They even charge the European rip-off prices in Africa and South America? They are even bigger bastards than I thought.
Posted February 25, 2014
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haradan7: It probably sucks to be in their shoes right now.
They put themselves in this position
Posted February 25, 2014
Where can I find TET's statement?
Posted February 25, 2014
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Fakum12: Thanks to the user Djungelurban we have a almost complete list of the regional prices for AoW3:

http://www.gog.com/forum/age_of_wonders_series/post_your_regional_price_for_aow3/page1
Purchasing parity in Africa? Can I laugh at that explanation now?
Posted February 25, 2014
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haradan7: I think they haven't released the promised letter because they thought the announcement of AoW3 would be welcomed by at least a part of us (I mean, TET's statement about the awesomeness of the three games proves that they thought AoW3 is a top game and we would be jumping in excitement :rolleyes). Now that they're realizing the anger overpasses the excitement by much, they are probably pondering how to proceed. They now know the "explaining" and "reassuring" nature of the letter will only cause more upset and anger. It probably sucks to be in their shoes right now.
Judas is out there answering some questions in the AoW3 thread. So they are paying attention. Other than that, I think you're right.
Posted February 25, 2014
letter is live
http://www.gog.com/news/letter_from_the_md_about_regional_pricing
Posted February 25, 2014
Letter - http://www.gog.com/news/letter_from_the_md_about_regional_pricing

EDIT: Too late :-)
Post edited February 25, 2014 by Lilim
Posted February 25, 2014
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Senteria: Where can I find TET's statement?
Read the announcement:

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. :)

www.gog.com/forum/general/announcement_big_preorders_launch_day_releases_coming/?staff=yes
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