That's a number of disparate factors not tied together well. We've already brought up the point that many other nations have equally bad, or worse, economies than Russia, yet only Russia gets the discount. And the piracy issue alone does not wash.

As a parallel example, there is a big "scanlation" movement where fans of manga scan and translate titles that aren't available in their country. Yet publishers often do eventually release the books there, and when they do, most fans buy them and the scanlation boards take down the free scans. Those fans understand that supporting the legitimate product puts money back into the hands of the creators, and shows the publishers that they want the products brought to their country.

Let me know when the majority of Russian game pirates start doing the same.

You've got one weak-ass nation if OUR media controls YOUR policy. All it does over here most of the time is make the average citizen stupider.

So it was our tanks that rolled over the border and our rockets that have killed all those Ukrainians, including civilians? I must not have noticed the stars-and-stripes on them.

One things I've learned from all this - some Russians are really good at backfilling the justification for their abhorrent acts. In one post you've tried to wash your hands of both piracy and military aggression, while trying to paint the Russians as the poor pitiful victims. And like all bullies, they cry foul when the tables are turned.

Pirates ho! :)

Coming soon: DLC: Crimean!

Thank you, GOG, for your awesome regional prices, especially for Russian Federation. I purchased KB series. Massive assault series, Sunless Sea and Space Rangers HD. Now I am thinking what to buy: NEO Scavanger or Vangers? Or may be both? Yes, I shall purchase both games. Looking forward to see Warlock - Master of Arcane and Civilization 2 - Test of Time on GOG.com. Surely, with huge discount for Russland, as usual.

+1

There is some difference. You see, that countries DO have stressed ecoonomics but basically dont have not money nor significant market. Russia have stressed economics but still have 140 millions of potential consumers and money left.
Believe or not, but Russia is still 1\6 of Earth. Its much harder to ignore then Tanzania and Venezuela.

As for Africa..ok, fine, i kinda not consider them at all. Just wait several years until we become africa too, then things will change.
А, поцреот...ну-ну. Какое тебе дело до Украины? Это другое государство и пусть оно хоть растворится - до лампочки. Что вам вечно горит спасать весь мир, особенно если он того не просит? У себя в подьезде порядок устроить не пробовали?
Вот, млин, сил уже нет, прямо детектор какой-то - только начинаешь указывать объективные проблемы в России и сразу "а вот ан украине"...

А что до заводов - ну все понятно. "Заводы стоят!" Никакую иную форму кроме зводов по изготовлению металлических полуфабрикатов, которые наверняка идут на экспорт не воспринимаем?
Пожелал бы пойти накатить, да ночью же реклама алкогодя запрещена...

Actually you a re very wrong. Those scanlation not...taken down, really. they just became hidden. Even i know some sources where all that stuff still stored.
1) Once you upload and share thing you cannot surely delete them anymore.
2) USA is no whole world. Thing published in USA is not automatically published elsewhere
3) Translation work done. Do you want to trash your whole life results?

Oh no, it's one of those discussions.

Yeah... How about we focus on a recap and drawing some conclusions after exactly one year since the "good news" moment?

I think we can agree on regional pricing not being done right on GOG or any other popular online store. (and I doubt it will ever happen)

Hm? MaGog just split the countries that used to be included in RU from that region, listing them as unknown with no pricing info. Did something happen?

Meanwhile, split off the flat-priced games with regional pricing publishers/developers into its own thread. No longer including the regionally priced ones, so at the moment fits in one post even including the full list of companies, but that's a bit of a problem, since I was planning to split it in 3 posts, to leave room for the unavoidable growth, yet since it edited the first one when I posted the rest, that didn't work. Ah well, will split off companies at a later point I guess, then see.

Just woke up to see the change myself. Glad to see someone using my metrics.

Here is what I found.

MaGog checks region composition only once a week, so the change could have happened at any time since last Saturday. Specifically, it happened when the two editions of The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 were released. For some reason, the prices for these two games differ between Russia and the other nine countries, so MaGog split the ten countries into two regions (because a region is defined by all its countries having identical prices for all games).

The prices for Russia:
* Regional price for Book of Unwritten Tales 2, The in RU $8.69 instead of $34.99
* Regional price for Book of Unwritten Tales 2 Almanac Edition, The [Premium] in RU $11.69 instead of $44.99

The prices for the other nine countries:
* Regional price for Book of Unwritten Tales 2, The in UZ $18.99 instead of $34.99
* Regional price for Book of Unwritten Tales 2 Almanac Edition, The [Premium] in UZ $24.99 instead of $44.99
You will (or will not) notice that these are the Ukraine (UA) prices for these games.

For all the other 105 games regionally priced in Russia, the nine countries continue to follow Russia (RU), not Ukraine (UA).

I will be creating a new region for the nine countries (symbol: UZ), hopefully tomorrow.

Was checking to link to it on that new thread, and say which table number I'm referring to :) May have checked while it was updating, because I got a read error (visible in source, I mean) while it was loading table 7 data the first time around.

So now the Russia+-discount has an exception too. This will complicate things a bit.

If this trend continues, we'll end up with just as many regions as there are countries in the world.