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mrkgnao:
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Cavalary: Now with even more single country "regions" in that listing, may the terms be somewhat changed to reflect which cover only single countries? Not sure how, but may clarify some things for those who don't actively follow this, to know regXX means a group of countries out of which XX is the largest, and something else means it's literally just the country listed.
How about just the two letters if single country? e.g. PE for single country, regAR for region?
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Cavalary: Now with even more single country "regions" in that listing, may the terms be somewhat changed to reflect which cover only single countries? Not sure how, but may clarify some things for those who don't actively follow this, to know regXX means a group of countries out of which XX is the largest, and something else means it's literally just the country listed.
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mrkgnao: How about just the two letters if single country? e.g. PE for single country, regAR for region?
Thought the reason why you added that reg was because forum search won't take 2-letter search terms, so you'd be back there in that case.
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mrkgnao: How about just the two letters if single country? e.g. PE for single country, regAR for region?
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Cavalary: Thought the reason why you added that reg was because forum search won't take 2-letter search terms, so you'd be back there in that case.
Yes, but now we have Adalia Fundamentals. What reason is there to use the GOG forum search?
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I hate it. Nearly every single release of the last few weeks was regionally priced (with higher price points than the base price). I think the only items that I could've bought were the new expansion for Tales of Maj'Eyal (which I bought the second I saw it) and Eradicator (in which I have completely no interest).

I wish there would at least be a rule that regional priced games would turn to flat priced games after a certain time span (e.g. two or three years), but I guess once they arrive here regionally priced, they stay that way forever. Guess I'll have to wait for the next mystery sale to spend some money again.
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JudasIscariot: We already explained that the regional locking for MoO is temporary.
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Cavalary: But the option exists and is made use of. First a few games in Germany, now one "temporarily" in South Korea, then...
I remember something else that started with supposedly just a few games and now covers just about the entire catalog...
We gave an exact reason for the temporary region lock.
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Cavalary: Thought the reason why you added that reg was because forum search won't take 2-letter search terms, so you'd be back there in that case.
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mrkgnao: Yes, but now we have Adalia Fundamentals. What reason is there to use the GOG forum search?
Your call, was just pointing out a potential complaint :)

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PaterAlf: I hate it. Nearly every single release of the last few weeks was regionally priced (with higher price points than the base price). I think the only items that I could've bought were the new expansion for Tales of Maj'Eyal (which I bought the second I saw it) and Eradicator (in which I have completely no interest).

I wish there would at least be a rule that regional priced games would turn to flat priced games after a certain time span (e.g. two or three years).
QFT...


*shrug* You gave reasons for other things as well, doesn't change what I said. Wouldn't change it even if it'd be unlocked tomorrow.
Post edited February 29, 2016 by Cavalary
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PaterAlf: I hate it. Nearly every single release of the last few weeks was regionally priced (with higher price points than the base price). I think the only items that I could've bought were the new expansion for Tales of Maj'Eyal (which I bought the second I saw it) and Eradicator (in which I have completely no interest).

I wish there would at least be a rule that regional priced games would turn to flat priced games after a certain time span (e.g. two or three years), but I guess once they arrive here regionally priced, they stay that way forever. Guess I'll have to wait for the next mystery sale to spend some money again.
While there is no hard rule about this, I believe we've had games go from regionally priced games to flat-priced with only Russian/CIS prices being the exception but I can't recall any offhand atm.
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mrkgnao: Yes, but now we have Adalia Fundamentals. What reason is there to use the GOG forum search?
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Cavalary: Your call, was just pointing out a potential complaint :)

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PaterAlf: I hate it. Nearly every single release of the last few weeks was regionally priced (with higher price points than the base price). I think the only items that I could've bought were the new expansion for Tales of Maj'Eyal (which I bought the second I saw it) and Eradicator (in which I have completely no interest).

I wish there would at least be a rule that regional priced games would turn to flat priced games after a certain time span (e.g. two or three years).
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Cavalary: QFT...

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Cavalary: *shrug* You gave reasons for other things as well, doesn't change what I said. Wouldn't change it even if it'd be unlocked tomorrow.
We avoid region locking unless we have to which is why you don't see too much region locking in the first place but feel free to hold on to whatever viewpoint you desire.
Post edited February 29, 2016 by JudasIscariot
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JudasIscariot: While there is no hard rule about this, I believe we've had games go from regionally priced games to flat-priced with only Russian/CIS prices being the exception but I can't recall any offhand atm.
The point was to have a hard rule.
[url=http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=716&scp=gdsp&dsp=ipgfsorch&ord=&flt=pra~aunzarclcomxpebrcadeitchnosemcczplrorsgbcn~rnl~28022013~&opt=nf]Games released over 3 years ago regionally priced outside RU/UZ/UA[/url]
[url=http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=716&scp=gdsp&dsp=ipgfsorch&ord=&flt=pra~aunzarclcomxpebrcadeitchnosemcczplrorsgbcn~jnl~28022014~&opt=nf]Games added on GOG over 2 years ago (so actually before the "good news") regionally priced outside RU/UZ/UA[/url]
[url=http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=716&scp=gdsp&dsp=ipgfsorch&ord=&flt=pra~aunzarclcomxpebrcadeitchnosemcczplrorsgbcn~rnl~28022013~jnl~28022014~&opt=nf]Games released over 3 years ago and added on GOG over 2 years ago (so actually before the "good news") regionally priced outside RU/UZ/UA[/url]
And something tells me those lists will only grow with time.

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JudasIscariot: We avoid region locking unless we have to which is why you don't see too much region locking in the first place but feel free to hold on to whatever viewpoint you desire.
Oh, don't worry about that, GOG's trust rating since the "good news" is darn low from where I'm standing.
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JudasIscariot: While there is no hard rule about this, I believe we've had games go from regionally priced games to flat-priced with only Russian/CIS prices being the exception but I can't recall any offhand atm.
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Cavalary: The point was to have a hard rule.
[url=http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=716&scp=gdsp&dsp=ipgfsorch&ord=&flt=pra~aunzarclcomxpebrcadeitchnosemcczplrorsgbcn~rnl~28022013~&opt=nf]Games released over 3 years ago regionally priced outside RU/UZ/UA[/url]
[url=http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=716&scp=gdsp&dsp=ipgfsorch&ord=&flt=pra~aunzarclcomxpebrcadeitchnosemcczplrorsgbcn~jnl~28022014~&opt=nf]Games added on GOG over 2 years ago (so actually before the "good news") regionally priced outside RU/UZ/UA[/url]
[url=http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=716&scp=gdsp&dsp=ipgfsorch&ord=&flt=pra~aunzarclcomxpebrcadeitchnosemcczplrorsgbcn~rnl~28022013~jnl~28022014~&opt=nf]Games released over 3 years ago and added on GOG over 2 years ago (so actually before the "good news") regionally priced outside RU/UZ/UA[/url]
And something tells me those lists will only grow with time.

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JudasIscariot: We avoid region locking unless we have to which is why you don't see too much region locking in the first place but feel free to hold on to whatever viewpoint you desire.
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Cavalary: Oh, don't worry about that, GOG's trust rating since the "good news" is darn low from where I'm standing.
But there is no way to have a "hard rule". There are a lot of developers and you'll never get them all to agree. Frankly Cavalary, you seem to be going around to every thread you can to bash GoG. I see your posts all over the threads with people complaining about GoG not accepting some very marginal games. Here you are bashing some more. If you don't like it here, there are other stores...
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JudasIscariot: While there is no hard rule about this, I believe we've had games go from regionally priced games to flat-priced with only Russian/CIS prices being the exception but I can't recall any offhand atm.
I remember the Amnesia games and Penumbra. They were once flat priced, became regionally priced and are now flat priced (except for RU/UZ region) again. But besides that, I can't think of any other games.

Maybe mrkgnao and the almighty MaGog knows more?
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JudasIscariot: While there is no hard rule about this, I believe we've had games go from regionally priced games to flat-priced with only Russian/CIS prices being the exception but I can't recall any offhand atm.
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PaterAlf: I remember the Amnesia games and Penumbra. They were once flat priced, became regionally priced and are now flat priced (except for RU/UZ region) again. But besides that, I can't think of any other games.

Maybe mrkgnao and the almighty MaGog knows more?
MaGog doesn't maintain history of regional pricing changes, only changes in the base (US) price.

I remember cases of "accidental" fluctuation back and forth between full regional pricing and RU/UA/UZ regional pricing as a result of conversion rate changes, but otherwise I don't remember many changes of the type you mention.

If you're keen on knowing the answer, you'll need to manually examine the information yourself. All the data should be present in this thread, but I consider it a rather futile effort. If it happened at all, it was a very rare occasion.
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mrkgnao: MaGog doesn't maintain history of regional pricing changes, only changes in the base (US) price.

I remember cases of "accidental" fluctuation back and forth between full regional pricing and RU/UA/UZ regional pricing as a result of conversion rate changes, but otherwise I don't remember many changes of the type you mention.

If you're keen on knowing the answer, you'll need to manually examine the information yourself. All the data should be present in this thread, but I consider it a rather futile effort. If it happened at all, it was a very rare occasion.
Thank you for answering. And I think you are right. It's too much work for a little information. I'm pretty sure there wasn't much more stuff than the three games I've mentioned. Maybe one or two others slipped my memory, but that's probably it. In any case there were much more games that changed from flat priced to regional priced than the other way around.
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RWarehall: But there is no way to have a "hard rule". There are a lot of developers and you'll never get them all to agree. Frankly Cavalary, you seem to be going around to every thread you can to bash GoG. I see your posts all over the threads with people complaining about GoG not accepting some very marginal games. Here you are bashing some more. If you don't like it here, there are other stores...
Funny, there was a way to have an even harder rule before 2 years ago.
And you saw me in precisely one thread about not accepting a game, and hardly all over in general. Tend to just track a small number of threads, though yes, my activity since the "good news" is largely limited to bashing them about the way they went since then. And that's because the very fact that they were different in those ways were why I ended up here in the first place and why I was promoting them in every way I could.
But please, do tell me of another store that does DRM-free, flat prices, no regional restrictions, decent support (as in other than sending you over to the developer in case of trouble) and most preferably making a cause out of these things, wanting to change things, like they used to. For the other stores that never claimed those things I never cared and I still won't; can count the games legally purchased before GOG on my fingers (all retail copies) and then seeing them actually fight for something fair made me get off "pirating" for good... for the time being.
So I'm bashing because I want that again, somebody fighting to turn this industry into something good and fair for the end user who actually cares and thinks things through. So, again, if you have others making a dent in this area and standing firm, do point me their way. Otherwise, they're the ones I know used to, and can only hope to keep reminding them, and the others who may be inclined to care, of it now and then.
From MaGog's logs for 1 March:

* Regional price for Shardlight: Special Edition is $4.49 instead of $14.99 in RU, UA, regUZ



* Regional price for Undertale is $11.09 instead of $9.99 in regDE, regIT, regCH, NO, SE, MC, regCZ, PL
* Regional price for Undertale is $10.09 instead of $9.99 in GB
* Regional price for Undertale is $8.19 instead of $9.99 in AU, NZ
* Regional price for Undertale is $6.99 instead of $9.99 in UA, regUZ
* Regional price for Undertale is $4.99 instead of $9.99 in regAR, CL, CO, MX, PE, BR
* Regional price for Undertale is $3.19 instead of $9.99 in RU



[As you may have noticed, this post sees the introduction of a small change in report format (suggested by Cavalary), whereby if a region is composed of only one country, it is listed as the two-letter code only (e.g. RU), while if it is composed of multiple countries, the code is preceded by "reg", as before. Let me if you have any objections.]
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mrkgnao: From MaGog's logs for 1 March:

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[As you may have noticed, this post sees the introduction of a small change in report format (suggested by Cavalary), whereby if a region is composed of only one country, it is listed as the two-letter code only (e.g. RU), while if it is composed of multiple countries, the code is preceded by "reg", as before. Let me if you have any objections.]
I do, but not about the naming of regions.