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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 21, 2014
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blotunga: So what will stop people to use a proxy or VPN to buy the games from another region (where it's the cheapest)?
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TheEnigmaticT: What stops people from going to pirate bay and getting everything for free forever?
What stops people from going to pirate bay?

Because we want to support the devs , we like to actualy own our things , we dont like dealing with torents and all the utter crud thats on pb , we dont like having this label of being a "pirate" slaped on us but mostly we just dont like to be shafted by a postcode.
Posted February 21, 2014
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Darvond: IE: A very small minority that wasn't even that vocal? A minor minority that is massively outweighed?

Slippery slope principle.
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BKGaming: So because many people want old games to still be released on a site that was originally for old games automatically means people that want newer games is a minority. Ever think people may want both... or has this logic failed you?
No things change and evolve, that is what scares him *sniggers.
Posted February 21, 2014
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blotunga: So what will stop people to use a proxy or VPN to buy the games from another region (where it's the cheapest)?
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TheEnigmaticT: What stops people from going to pirate bay and getting everything for free forever?
Very little, presumably, after this turn of events.
Posted February 21, 2014
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blotunga: So what will stop people to use a proxy or VPN to buy the games from another region (where it's the cheapest)?
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TheEnigmaticT: What stops people from going to pirate bay and getting everything for free forever?
I will never use a VPN to get a better price nor pirate a game - unless you forbid me to buy a certain game I want or force me to buy a crippled version. That is common decency in my eyes.
Posted February 21, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: At some point, doesn't the fact that we've been fighting the good fight for 5 years give us any earned trust on the part of our community?
Apparently not because everyone's losing their shit. You guys may want to prepare yourselves for some media coverage on this, namely in the form of gaming websites.
Posted February 21, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: You're conflating two different things. DRM and regional pricing aren't exactly related.
But it seems that they are - isn't this announcement (and your response to wpeg) doing exactly this, relating flat pricing, regional pricing, DRM and DRM-free?
Posted February 21, 2014
Sorry if this has been asked as I just got home and saw this topic, but...

Does this mean GOG will be locking gift codes to regions also?

I don't really like this move even though it will likely effect me less being a US customer. I would say take a wait and see approach, but look at what happened with Humble Bundles. They "experimented" with the THQ bundle, and in less than a year most of the bundles they sold between mains and weeklies were steam key only. Now they have introduced regional pricing as well.

If this will end up leading to more negative changes down the road, I'd say its not worth it just to get a few AAA games here.
Posted February 21, 2014
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BKGaming: So because many people want old games to still be released on a site that was originally for old games automatically means people that want newer games is a minority. Ever think people may want both... or has this logic failed you?
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Darvond: I'm sure I would have noticed on the community wishlist if that were so.
The only reason that thread even came up was fear GOG would focus only on newer games... when they announced newer games would sold. Don't fool yourself into thinking the wishlist and the amount people on this forum is anywhere close to the amount of people coming to GOG to buy games. It's not... not even close.
Posted February 21, 2014
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Fictionvision: Sorry if this has been asked as I just got home and saw this topic, but...

Does this mean GOG will be locking gift codes to regions also?
Been asked a few times - no answer. Yet.
Posted February 21, 2014
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blotunga: So what will stop people to use a proxy or VPN to buy the games from another region (where it's the cheapest)?
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TheEnigmaticT: What stops people from going to pirate bay and getting everything for free forever?
Eh it's different - here you're providing people with an incentive to VPN and get legal copies. Further people from a lot of euro zone countries with lower purchasing power get rolled up with the richer countries - or countries with high import fees. Basically regional pricing as it exists today incentivizes both piracy and VPN cheating in countries that get their prices unfairly jacked up. So you'd have to be introducing something radically more fair.
Posted February 21, 2014
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Fictionvision: Sorry if this has been asked as I just got home and saw this topic, but...

Does this mean GOG will be locking gift codes to regions also?
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Niggles: Been asked a few times - no answer. Yet.
Mr. T stated in this thread before that there will be no changes in gifting for the moment.
Posted February 21, 2014
I can assure you I won't be buying any game here that has this unfair regional pricing imposed on it. In fact I doubt I'll buy any games here at all until and unless GOG reverses this deplorable decision.
Posted February 21, 2014
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This is so bad decision GoG, you betrayed your core principles, alongside games I wanted, I was buying many old classic games from you I won't ever play probably just to support your renaissance of digital distribution gaming, but not anymore. Im not buying any game that has regional pricing, its bullshit jewish artifficial raising of price.

You let us down big time! :/
And these pathetic excuses:
"regional pricing is the industry standard"
"it allows us to bring more games to our users"
So much lame. It's only a matter of time when we see
"DRM is industry standart and allows us to bring more games to our users"

Publishers should have followed YOUR rules if they wanted to sell on this glorious platform, which was BASED ON PRINCIPLES that attracted so many loyal customers!!

And we thought you guys are different... :,(
Maybe you've won few publishers, but you have LOST many users...
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Posted February 21, 2014
Whatever happened to simple the "Don't like it, don't buy it principle"?

Jeez TET, I hope you got hazard pay, or at least a good bottle of something strong to have to do this. ;/

Folks, the way to approve/disapprove of a companies offerings is with your wallet.
Not by having a fricking riot!
Posted February 21, 2014
I, for one, am glad to see new games on GoG that I can't buy DRM-Free anywhere else.

So I totally support regional pricing if if lets me get newer games without DRM.

Sorry for the people who have to pay more, but for me it will be worth it.
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