Please file a support ticket and the GOG Staff will do everything in their power to remedy this ASAP.

While I don't agree with his "GOG needs to release more games" statement ( more games are welcome, of course, but they've been doing great lately ), he does have a point about the price dumping, not just on GOG but in general.

Publishers can sell to a wider audience, make more sales, and thus can afford to sell at lower prices? Sure, but that doesn't come without consequences for us gamers. In order to sell more units of a game, game productions ( especially major, expensive AAA projects ) are being developed with the goal to appeal to as many people as possible. This leads to games being dumbed down and stream-lined, removal of any content which could be considered controversial, and less games with unique ideas and gameplay concepts, since that is too risky. In addition to that, publishers are relying more and more on alternate ways to make money -- sell the base game for cheap, then milk the players with in-app transactions, crappy DLC add-ons, monthly fees etc.

The way I see it, good work deserves to be rewarded. If I know and trust a specific developer, and I'm certain that I'll enjoy their latest release a great deal, then I'm not going to wait for the super-dumping discount price level before I buy a copy.

( That said, the goal for this particular promo is likely to attract new people to GOG, and to the Witcher series specifically. Never played the Witcher games before? Here, you can have all the old ones really cheap! Now buy a copy of the shiny new Witcher 3! :D )

I would guess that in the case of Witcher 1 & 2 all of the production costs have been recouped by now and every sale is almost pure profit, given that these are digital downloads. Thus they can afford the massive price dumps and maybe even pick up new fans who will purchase Witcher 3 at full or near to full price on the strength of the first two games.

If you have time, it would be interesting to tell the HR guys to write a kind of "expatriate guide" with relevant and useful infos to make the job offers page way more attractive to potential candidates....

For example, let's say I apply for QA tester part-time (do they even hire at the kitchen of your cafeteria? ^o^):

- What are the good real estate websites (in English) for low-mid rentals flats/houses?
- What are the possibilities to quickly learn Polish outside of work (like evening schools and conversation tables for foreigners)?
- What are the requisites to open a business (sole propietorship, etc.) in Poland? In English please? (to make money aside of GOG)
- And so on....

That's the kind of questions people have before considering applying to GOG and your (well, not yours ^o^) job page don't answer them in concise manner and searching for relevant answers like that is a deal breaker as GOG is not the only IT company in the world. Warsaw is maybe beautiful if we come as a tourist but it's another story to go live there ;)

BTW, if you see Guillaume at the office, call him "GuiGui", he's gonna appreciate ;o)

It's never enough. And unfortunately Poland doesn't appeals to me (I don't know the language + gf also would need a new job).

IMO , GOG as a platform would be more attractive if it had less games but of higher quality. It should be quality over quantity. Nothing more discouraging to me than seeing ever more mobile games being ported to PC and released here... I am well aware that there are people who might be interested in that. But to me, GOG should stick to big stuff - either of the past or present. I wouldn't like if it was cluttered with thousands of mediocre, petty games.

The Witcher 3 is £35 even after a 30% discount. Pathetic, it's still way too expensive. Does GOG/CD Projekt think everyone in the UK is made of money?

It would seem that way since you offered Russia/Ukraine The Witcher 3 pre-order to the equivalent of £10-15. Yet you had the game for pre-order here in the UK at £40. Your regional pricing ideology is nothing but a bunch of boll*cks.

Play this card again to UK customers GOG/CD Projekt and you've lost a customer for life.

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savygamer.co.uk/2015/04/16/gog-cd-projekt-embrace-regional-pricing-bollocks/

Not sure if you're joking or not, but I'm pretty sure he meant that GOG doesn't display Wild Hunt as owned for him in the store, despite the fact that it IS in his library.

I would love to join you guys. However, I am merely a handsome super genius, who is good at everything, and would therefore be of little use.

Oh no no no, no way you can pin dumbing down on price dumping. How come the most dumbed down games are the most expensive ones? How come games have started to be dumbed down long before the price dumping began? No way man, this connection makes no sense.
Also DLC milking...the are tons of DLCs for expensive games and cheap games, it is just a good way to milk more money, it has no connection to cheaper prices.

So? If anything, that makes my point, that you reward good games, no matter what work went into it.

Please stop doing this. I am becoming so spoiled. :D

Well, there may or may not be a direct connection there, but you're not going to deny that "dumbing down" and streamlining of games is all about mass market appeal, right?

And there's definitely a connection between the buying behavior of customers these days, and new payment models. If the majority of gamers refuses to buy games at base price, regardless of their quality, size or age, then the standard sales model loses importance, and publishers start looking at alternatives. Of course not all of them actually use them as a replacement -- some just dump the extra profit system on top of the traditional base price, if they feel they can get away with it.


Well, yes! I'm just saying that it's short-sighted to make huge discounts the highest priority. As gamers and customers, we all do our part in shaping the future of the industry, with each purchase we make. So if we really love certain genres, or the work of specific developers, then it's important to support them to the extent that we can afford to spare the money. Or we'll eventually end up with nothing but the generic annual AAA clones, sequels and remakes. ( You mentioned earlier that games are cheaper, because they are able to sell them in larger numbers, but for more obscure game concepts and niché genres that just doesn't work. They're dependent on a certain core audience who don't mind paying a higher price, since they just don't have the mass appeal required to sell huge numbers of copies. Without that support certain sub-genres will either die, or the developers will be forced to make their games more mainstream compatible -- in other words "dumbed down".)

More? I'd rather it was every release of Bethesda games...Instead we're locked to steam...But seeing that they already have three games not available until now, it's a good start.

You are being ignoant and selfish here not me. Good work needs to be payed properly like it or not. That is exactly the mentality that I mean. Thanks for showing it off. Maybe someone should tell you that these people have a life too that needs to be financed. This ignorance of yours makes the rich richer and keeps the poor poor.