I see.

The prices are too high right now. What is wrong with GOG? Why doo I have to pay 10 € for a 15 years old game?

Its nothing wrong with gog. It just what the publishers wan't to get paid for their game. Just wait for a sale and buy it then.

From MaGog's logs for 27 March:

NOTE! CHANGED Pillars of Eternity: Champion Edition [Premium], reg_price_no: $51.99 ***TO*** $60.09
NOTE! CHANGED Pillars of Eternity: Champion Edition [Premium], reg_price_se: $51.99 ***TO*** $60.09

NOTE! CHANGED Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition, reg_price_no: $38.99 ***TO*** $45.89
NOTE! CHANGED Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition, reg_price_se: $38.99 ***TO*** $45.89

NOTE! CHANGED Pillars of Eternity: Royal Edition [Premium], reg_price_no: $78.09 ***TO*** $90.79
NOTE! CHANGED Pillars of Eternity: Royal Edition [Premium], reg_price_se: $78.09 ***TO*** $90.79


The Norwegians and Swedes now have to pay for these games the same as most Europeans.

I'm sure the change was made to stop them from feeling left out.

If those would at least be the devs, but usually the rights holders are an entirely different type of guy...

BTW, as a result of this change the prices for NO are now the same as CH, and the prices for SE are now the same as DE, for all games.

Nevertheless, I shall leave these regions as is for the time being, as GOG is a fickle mistress. It this remains the case for a while, I shall merge them.

I'm pretty sure there also was a price drop for all Pillars of Eternity editions in RU. IIRC the pricing of the Royal Edition was about 45$ and is now about 25$. I might've also missed an earlier pricing change.

Ah yes, the (in)famous Good News™.... we really are in "dire need" of other Good News™ from the same barrel...

But on the same day also this happened....

Basically the biggest shit ever taken on preorderers since Botanicula.

So basically returning to "normal", more or less. But more interestingly, according to MaGog, the lower price is for Russia only. Is PoE the only game other than Book of Unwritten Tales 2 to separate RU from UZ?

Yes. Good catch, Cavalary.

P.S. The PoE RU price change happened on release day (26 March), at which point GOG changed the game IDs for the three editions, so MaGog was unable to compare prices and notice the change. Couple this with that day also seeing price changes for all games due to conversion rate adjustment and you can see why I missed it. Good catch, Wurzelkraft.

P.P.S. Just did a quick manual check and RU is the only region that saw a significant PoE price change upon PoE release (beyond the already-reported change for NO/SE).

From MaGog's logs for 30 March:

* Regional price for Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure in RU: $4.09 instead of $9.99
* Regional price for Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure in UZ: $4.09 instead of $9.99