Posted December 14, 2014
handsfree: What, the penumbra collection is back?! When did that happen?
I thought it was removed because gog wouldn't allow old games to be regionally priced. Now even that isn't true anymore?
On Dec 4, along with the same old bullshit, "they’ll be here to stay, regionally priced - as there was no other choice in this case - and with our Fair Price Package!", or (replying to me on Fb) "otherwise, we'd not be able to bring you all some titles that a lot of people really want to play". Yeah, so how long till applying that to some form of DRM as well, especially with Galaxy coming? And if they won't, why not, I mean it's the exact same argument... I thought it was removed because gog wouldn't allow old games to be regionally priced. Now even that isn't true anymore?
Me, I'm starting to pester ShinyLoot to become better (commitment to DRM free, or at least setting that percentage of the catalog as DRM free exclusively, not "85% DRM free or DRM lite" as it is now, and more payment methods).
Meanwhile:
- Unliked GOG's Fb page again.
- Definitely won't be promoting anything they do anymore.
- Will enter every darn giveaway or contest (if they'll still make any, those were fun...) to get as much as I can from them without paying.
- Of course no purchasing of any game where either the publisher or the developer have anything regionally-priced (in the higher price somewhere sense, can be fine with the discounts-only pricing, unless of course the discount would end up applying to most of the world and the US price will end up the odd higher one out) on here, whether or not the game itself is regionally-priced.
- If I will purchase something it'll have to either cost me (while using Paysafe, where the actual conversion fee to USD is 8.5% despite the listed 4.04%, and 5-6.smth to EUR, not sure exactly now) at most 10 RON or, if it's something I'd REALLY want, be at least 80% off and at most 35 RON. The conversion thingy says that today that'd mean $2.57 / €2.12 or $8.99 / €7.40.
- That's still quite some "if", as regionally priced titles more than 3 years old were my last line in the sand, so "default" reaction now is to say back to the high seas if I'll really want something, GOG's policies got me completely off them for the past 3 years, changing them would only naturally get me back. But there may be some nice devs worth supporting, so we'll see.