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Posted September 23, 2014
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IAmSinistar: I've put a couple basic totals in the main post. It's still slightly ambiguous, since I'm counting Guacamelee as one game, even though it is really two stand-alones with no DLC option to turn one into the other.
You should also include Wasteland 2 Digital Classic Edition, as well as Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade.
Posted September 23, 2014
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IAmSinistar: I've put a couple basic totals in the main post. It's still slightly ambiguous, since I'm counting Guacamelee as one game, even though it is really two stand-alones with no DLC option to turn one into the other.
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HypersomniacLive: Cheers!

So, in less than a month, we went from 5 items to 39. That really doesn't look encouraging for the future and GOG's statement that they will always strive to get flat prices, or that it's about getting AAa-ish titles on Day-1.
The only titles released with flat pricing in a consistent manner are the oldies/ classics - hmm, it'd appear that GOG once again became Good Old Games for another portion of their customer base.

EDIT: typo and addition.
You can click on the MaGog link in the OP to get a complete list and a count. And it's not 39, it's 41...
Posted September 23, 2014
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Grargar: You should also include Wasteland 2 Digital Classic Edition, as well as Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade.
Thanks, that brings the total of all items to 41.

And folks should remember, some of these items are pre-existing games which were turned into regional price entries. So it's a combination of revisions and additions when determining GOG's rate of regional price releases.
Posted September 23, 2014
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mrkgnao: You can click on the MaGog link in the OP to get a complete list and a count. And it's not 39, it's 41...
Cheers, why didn't I think of this myself? >//<


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IAmSinistar: [...]

And folks should remember, some of these items are pre-existing games which were turned into regional price entries. So it's a combination of revisions and additions when determining GOG's rate of regional price releases.
In a way, I find this worse.
Posted September 23, 2014
Maybe the time is approaching where it will be less work to list games NOT regionally priced on GOG?
Posted September 23, 2014
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undeadcow: Maybe the time is approaching where it will be less work to list games NOT regionally priced on GOG?
It does look like the ability to categorise such releases might be coming. Classic Game = One-World Price, New Game = Regional Price. It's not that absolute yet, but the genie is out of the bottle and it looks like just about any publisher can insist on regional pricing now, AAA or not.
Posted September 23, 2014
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IAmSinistar: It does look like the ability to categorise such releases might be coming. Classic Game = One-World Price, New Game = Regional Price. It's not that absolute yet, but the genie is out of the bottle and it looks like just about any publisher can insist on regional pricing now, AAA or not.
Also this substantial increase in more regionally priced games seems to be an adverse side effect of allowing local payment currency options because before that there certainly weren't as many of them. It is just sad that an option that was added as a convenience for the global consumer base of GOG has become an excuse for most developers and publishers to not sell their games at a flat price.
Posted September 23, 2014
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stg83: It is just sad that an option that was added as a convenience for the global consumer base of GOG has become an excuse for most developers and publishers to not sell their games at a flat price.
Don't kid yourself, that's not the main reason it was added.
Posted September 23, 2014
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undeadcow: Maybe the time is approaching where it will be less work to list games NOT regionally priced on GOG?
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IAmSinistar: It does look like the ability to categorise such releases might be coming. Classic Game = One-World Price, New Game = Regional Price. It's not that absolute yet, but the genie is out of the bottle and it looks like just about any publisher can insist on regional pricing now, AAA or not.
It's a distinct pattern. If you combine that with the loss of Nordic & co "classic" games / the switch of 20 some recent games to regional pricing that we experienced when they started this, it probably means that GOG does not accept to apply their "fair pricing" policy to older games. For the pubishers it's basically "take it or leave it" for the moment.

What will be interesting is how this pattern evolves when GOG signs up the new mystery publisher.

On a longer term, I expect fair pricing to mutate as well. For the moment, It's, above all, a way to avoid alienating the existing consumer base while acquiring a new one, that will be less sensitive to regional pricing et all. Once this done, it should logically evolve towards something that drains less of their profit, or even become extinct
Posted September 23, 2014
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Phc7006: On a longer term, I expect fair pricing to mutate as well. For the moment, It's, above all, a way to avoid alienating the existing consumer base while acquiring a new one, that will be less sensitive to regional pricing et all. Once this done, it should logically evolve towards something that drains less of their profit, or even become extinct
I believe your prognosis is accurate.
Posted September 23, 2014
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IAmSinistar: It does look like the ability to categorise such releases might be coming. Classic Game = One-World Price, New Game = Regional Price. It's not that absolute yet, but the genie is out of the bottle and it looks like just about any publisher can insist on regional pricing now, AAA or not.
The irony is that, aside the games we knew about already, we have yet to see a single title that aligns with the reasoning that was given when regional pricing was first introduced.

I'm starting to wonder whether the 23 titles that got switched to regional pricing recently were also behind the initial introduction of regional pricing.
Posted September 23, 2014
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stg83: It is just sad that an option that was added as a convenience for the global consumer base of GOG has become an excuse for most developers and publishers to not sell their games at a flat price.
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Pheace: Don't kid yourself, that's not the main reason it was added.
It's just sad that a decision ( to step into regional pricing ) taken to improve chances of attracting other publishers and/or newer games had to be camouflaged as an option designed for the convenience of customers" - fixed for him [devious sarcasm]
Posted September 23, 2014
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HypersomniacLive: I'm starting to wonder whether the 23 titles that got switched to regional pricing recently were also behind the initial introduction of regional pricing.
A disturbing notion. I don't like to give rein to conspiracy, but it would be nasty indeed if the negotiations to keep these titles were already underway, and that introducing the regional price scheme was part of the conditions for keeping them. Still wondering why we lost Nordic in all that, given that there wasn't any resistance to regioning-up a number of other games.

Fog and shadow - just because they aren't opaque doesn't mean they're transparent.
Posted September 23, 2014
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Pheace: Don't kid yourself, that's not the main reason it was added.
Be as it may regional priced games aren't as profitable for GOG as they are for other digital stores like Steam and Humble among others. Its still not in the best interest of GOG to have more regional priced than flat priced ones because they are taking the initiative to make up the difference for their customers and that is probably the reason why the Nordic games were removed. I guess we'll have to see what the future holds but I am still not as extremely cynical as some people are when it comes to various theories regarding GOG's motives. :)
Posted September 23, 2014
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Pheace: Don't kid yourself, that's not the main reason it was added.
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stg83: Be as it may regional priced games aren't as profitable for GOG as they are for other digital stores like Steam and Humble among others. Its still not in the best interest of GOG to have more regional priced than flat priced ones because they are taking the initiative to make up the difference for their customers and that is probably the reason why the Nordic games were removed. I guess we'll have to see what the future holds but I am still not as extremely cynical as some people are when it comes to various theories regarding GOG's motives. :)
Not *as* profitable, but there's still little downside. They pretty much break even on regionally priced sales. They gain sales from non-regionally priced areas. They gain games to their catalog, which increases the number of customers coming in increasing the amount of people likely to buy other games as well.

Also as some people mentioned above, I'm on the side that believes the current compensation is just a stopgap to hold people over till they remove it. Softening the blow of regional pricing. Maybe it'll be a year or two, but I have little doubt it'll get removed at some point, and they'll probably spin a good story around it how it's the best for all of us.
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