Never ending indeed...

So what is the ratio of regionally priced vs. non regionally priced games since they introduced the fair-price package and local currencies? I just wonder if my suspicion that the fair-price package rather supports regional pricing is true or not.

If you mean how many regionally-priced and non-regionally-priced games (of all types, including DLCs) were added to GOG since 27 August 2014 (the day of the grayvolution), the numbers are:

- 11 regionally-priced: [url=http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=324&scp=gdspur&dsp=ipgfsorlcmba&ord=j0&flt=jne~27082014~prp~1~tds~witcher~&opt=&myf=MonSep290825002014_fuuQNp9p6fAK3]http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=324&scp=gdspur&dsp=ipgfsorlcmba&ord=j0&flt=jne~27082014~prp~1~tds~witcher~&opt=&myf=MonSep290825002014_fuuQNp9p6fAK3[/url] (one of which is still upcoming)

- 17 non-regionally-priced: [url=http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=324&scp=gdspur&dsp=ipgfsorlcmba&ord=j0&flt=jne~27082014~prp~0~tds~witcher~&opt=&myf=MonSep290824522014_f1XGlUgqR9lE8]http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=324&scp=gdspur&dsp=ipgfsorlcmba&ord=j0&flt=jne~27082014~prp~0~tds~witcher~&opt=&myf=MonSep290824522014_f1XGlUgqR9lE8[/url]

Thanks you for that cool website/tool and for the answer. From almost zero to 40% regionally priced.. that is a lot.

The other question is...how many games would have been added if GOG not have introduced regional-priced games?

Probably the same. Or not. Maybe just the game that even now are not regionally priced (so it can be done apparently). However how many games would have been added if GOG allowed DRM?

Also, and I'm trying to understand it myself, it seems that is not too obvious that the one that set the price and force the regional ones is the publisher/developer. It could very well be GOG that do that in the first place. And that would be very bad because that would mean that they are lying.

Well, but the regional pricing thing will be balanced with the fair price package. That wouldn't be working with DRM, because DRM is either on or off - there is nothing between.

DRM on GOG would mean a great loss of customers...including myself.

I don't know. There are customers that doesn't care about regional pricing like there're customers that doesn't care about drm. If it is a matter of service a better method to download/manager purchase should have been prioritized.

Also, fair price package doesn't change the fact that you have to pay and higher amount upfront. You'll get back part of the money only when you purchase something else, so it's not a solution.
What instead is something that ruined the service are different currency. Before that most publishers didn't care about the price, but now that the price could be seen in different currency they want a different price, so the one that opened the way to this was GOG to begin with.

We don't have a look behind the lines so we can only guess if GOG have wanted different currencies or the publisher/devolpers have done so.

And the fair price package is a solution...not a perfect one but rather better than the 1$ = 1€ thing you see on Steam (for example.) For someone who only want to buy one game...yes for someone like that the credit store means nothing. Every one else only must buy each game separtly to benefit from it (and to pay the adjusted unregional price!)

So 28 games have been released since the floodgates opened, 11 of them regionally priced. At the same time, 36 (if you also include Constructor) have been removed. So the number of game entries since the switch is actually minus 8. However, since I won't touch any game that any company that has a regionally priced game was involved in, and there are a total of 90 of those at the moment, it means that from where I'm standing the number of entries compared to just before the switch is actually minus 98.

But don't they say that they want to remain a boutique, selecting games that meet certain criteria for release, because they could easily release 20-30 games a week but instead for a long time they were at around 2, then 3 with the addition of new indies, and now they're up to around 5? Well then, that's not a problem then. It's the change in the criteria that's the problem.

For me, the real surprise is not that, or even the games already on GOG that were moved towards the regional pricing scheme. It's that introducing regional pricing has not brought more games. And that amongst the 11 regionally priced games that have been added to the Catalogue, only 3 would have had any appeal to me ( namely Meridian, Wasteland, Spacecom). Ok, that will vary from one person to another in function of one's taste, but what I mean is that up to now, having made that choice hasn't had any obvious positive consequence for us EU customers.
GOG would obviously alienate its older customer base. Dinosaurs like me. But on the other hand, it would perhaps be balanced by new customers. Although I don't see what would be the advantage of GOG over its competitors then.
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catpower1980 disagrees with you.

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This would suck big time, but people here stated the opposite.

That should be valid only with the old discount tickets, and that was not cool. With the store credit you should have simply an amount of digital cash to spend at the checkout, like you do with the steam wallet for example. I don't recall if I had already made a purchase in that way but I believe I did.