This comes to mind regarding GoG's "compensation" regarding the price difference.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRdfYwvGTos#t=0m38s

Yes, I'd also rather see a proper wallet and get a refund there. As a $9.99 game doesn't equals having $9.99 to spend.

Divinity - Original Sin. Its official release date is in exactly 2 weeks.

Seeing that the difference is again about 300% from region to region worldwide their commitment somehow doesn't has much effect, not even on themselves. The huge spread again is a bit disappointing.

I'm just happy that they haven't converted the entire catalog to regional pricing. Right now we have the choice of not buying the games which we don't think fairly priced..

That's the one, thanks!

This is the sole reason I will NOT be purchasing The Witcher 3 from GoG. I want the game badly, but as a direct result of their decision to abolish the only thing that got me interested in GoG to begin with I have decided that I will purchase the game elsewhere so they get a smaller piece of the cake.

Consider it my way of protesting.

GOG.com Witcher 3 prices aren't really tied to Namco or brick&mortar pricing. Witcher 3 PC version is being sold at an RRP of 49.99€ in Western Europe retail market, yet the price is 59.99€ on GOG.com. If you take the pre-purchase discount into account, it doesn't change things much because brick&mortar stores aren't sticking to that 49.99€ RRP price either, they are going well below that. Physical is cheaper than digital, as seems to be the case almost always when digital stores decide to use regional pricing.

As an Australian I am utterly dismayed at GOG's brazen and unapologetic practice of now price gouging me in respect of a digital product on the basis of where I live in the world. I have been waiting in eager anticipation to pre-order the Witcher 3 and had every intention of buying from GOG to ensure that CDProjekt deservedly receives most of the proceeds of my purchase. I immediately visited GOG as soon as the pre-order news was announced only to be greeted with an exorbitant price of $80.99 AUD. GOG's consolation of $23.85 in credit for other games to make up for this blatant price discrimination is nothing but insulting.

GOG should know better than to take its customers for fools, if we are savvy enough to shop digitally then you ought to know that most of us are well aware of how to obtain this and other games from other places at more reasonable prices. Trying to charge us an unreasonable premium does little to engender customer loyalty, and in reality you are simply cutting your nose off to spite your face. Notwithstanding that your short sighted decision on pricing does not at all stop me from obtaining Witcher 3 elsewhere, probably at an even cheaper price than what you are charging in the US, I still find it disappointing that I cannot reward CDProjekt for its commitment to the PC platform and exemplary post release support of its games.

No they didn't. In fact, in that Back to Roots manifesto they specifically said they would still introduce the regional pricing.

What may have confused you is that they are still giving you the 'choice' of *which* currency to pay in. However, this wasn't intended to mean, which price to pay (US vs EU price for the game instance), but in which currency you'd prefer to pay that price (Pay your regional price with dollars or with euro's).


(You can tell they did a great job with that Back to Our roots manifesto, given all the beneficial misconceptions that resulted)

Here TW3 is €60 without discounts (over $80). Come on guys, that's not the price of a PC game, not even a brand new one.

With Witcher 2 I recommended everyone buy from GOG to support the awesome people at CDPR. I'll be giving no such recommendation this time.

Not yet, but it's coming.

Ah, and hence the nub of our disagreement. I'm talking in the here-and-now. :)

I'm confused. Witcher 2 was the first example of what you're seeing with Witcher 3 now. It was also regionally priced on here. The only difference is that they allowed you to set your own region for a while. (might be misremembering a couple of things)

There's no nub there. Neither before nor after the back to our roots statement was it going to happen instantly, it was always going to happen later, so nothing was reversed.