I -and no doubt countless others- have been unable to purchase games with Paypal, for what at first I thought was a glitch on their system, turned out to be them having put restrictions on GOG's account, thus not allowing any purchases being make through them.

Don't know what Paypal is playing at recently, but there's a trend of them putting restrictions on long established merchants, so customers either don't buy, or chose another method of payment they may well bulk out, and tough if they don't like it. Talk about penalizing both customers and merchants!

Unknown if and when those restrictions are going to be lifted, and if so in a timely manner, but what is known is that PayPal seems lately to really go out of its way to make people want to turn their back on them. Yes it's a convenient method of payment but the way it's being going downhill for a while, and is now restricted merchants who not doubt contributed towards PayPal's hefty profits is disgusting, to say the least!

Edit: Second discussion today with Paypal who indeed confirmed that it was a UK executive decision to restrict GOG's account and not accept payments.

After being served a huge plate of bollocking that would have given me a fatal indigestion by just taking a nibble, I pointed out to them that restricting in such a way all of a sudden made no sense at all, and that I'd love to see them try that one on say Steam, if they'd dare. Anyway, the guy I spoke with got the point and 'assured' me he'd raise those points with the board. Yeah right and pigs are flying overhead in a nice formation.

So I got my games anyway by just paying on GOG with my card, which I will do from now on anyway for PayPal can take a high jump, crash and burn.

Would it be too expansive for GOG to sell pre-paid cards internationally?

I am a bit surprised, as I have never experienced any trouble or restriction when paying with paypal here, and my last purchase was yesterday. I'd like to know if this is more general, country-related or somehow connected to payment quantities.

I literally JUST made a purchase 5 seconds ago... It's not GOG.

I know it isn't GOG since when I called them, Paypal said they've put restrictions on GOG's account and not allowing payments. Took the occasion to give them a piece of my mind about that, especially since it's the 3rd occasion this month this happened with 3 different companies, 2 UK based. Unsure as fertzus mentioned above if that was/is generalized or only country related and the result of an 'executive UK decision', so am gonna try again to either make a payment or transfer funds in wallet and see what happens.

Update: then it must be country related for I am still not able to make a payment through Paypal, and I see others from different countries can.

I am so beyond pissed off, no way to express and remain relatively polite. Way not to go Paypal!

That's what I meant. It's not a universal ban, but seems to be regional. My purchase was made through PayPal as well.

No problems here either. Maybe it's really a region restriction.

GOG should add a global payment method that's impossible to restrict and censor, like bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies. Problem solved. ^:)

FYI I've just made a PayPal purchase on gog from the UK and everything worked normally, so I don't think your location is the problem.

The thread below may or may not be of assistance to you (especially this post by mrkgnao):

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/paypal_preapproval_upon_purchase/post112

Well I was not able to make a payment in the UK, I called again PayPal practically just now (see my update in my original post), so I don't know what's going on really. I can only go from what happened with me and what I told and then again confirmed. That post you gave the link for could be useful to some people, am pretty savvy when it comes to stuff like and usually never get any problems, but since this was a country based restriction, short of using a VPN set in another country, but even then no guaranty that would work since they go with the country the Paypal account is tied with.... Actually I was able to pay directly on the site by entering cards details, so that's the way to go for me from now on, unless that too becomes broken.

Well, I guess this is a result of the Brexit.

Maybe it's related to another thing:

If I only allow scripts from gog.com on gog, I have the red mention "Selected payment method is curently unavailable, please choose a different one" when I try to pay with Paypal.

But then if I allow both:
-braintreegateway.com
-braintree-api.com,
Paypal is an available method.

So check Noscript, maybe.

If it's any use to anyone, I just made a purchase and all appears to be okay.

Short answer: yes.

Especially because Paysafecards already exist.