I'm only pointing it out because if PayPal can and does it, then there isn't (or at least there shouldn't be) a "legal" reason preventing GOG from doing it.

What?? I didn't know this. Makes the whole store credit totally useless for me since I only buy discounted games and did so for years on GOG. So simply store credit and (un)fair price package are totally useless for me thzen?

GOG YOU BETRAYED ME.... ARGHHHHHHHH

*voice trails off*

edit: Wait I just read the blue message saying you can. Okay. Phew... safe for now. I take everything back. Although the concept of having store credit in a certain currency is a bit funny too.

I would then probably prefer to keep my money within my own bank accounts and do the currency speculation there instead on fictive store credit accounts on GOG. On the other hand why not allowing it. GOG with its store credit system would work like a bank managing customer money in different currencies.

The other solution would be that GOG in future only gives store credit in $ and converts the store credit back whenever a purchase is done.

Exact...

Only 2 out of 11 then... Need to get rid of the routine "new game= regional pricing" that had somehow creeped into my mental algorythm... ;-)
Still.. The fixed exchange rate cannot last forever. considering how things are going on here in Europe, the Euro may well go further south. And I'm not even discussion the situation of the RUB/USD pair... If the fixed rate is not revided from time to time, the "pay in USD" option becomes meaningless for non US customers

Contacting support to ask why support doesn't reply, kind of redundant. Also I hoped there was some company plan about what to do with previous ticket. Now I know there isn't.

That's not important. Most of credit card company and paypal could do the exchange for you. You could have lived with only the usd price. However different currency option was needed to push regional pricing so that's why we have it now and that's why some games cost more even in usd.

I certainly could live with ( and would have liked to stay with) USD being the sole currency. What I mean is that, as it is, fixed echange rates in a world of potentially severe exchange rate disruptions is equal to having one's regional currency forced upon us. For instance, buying a classic now for 9;99 USD is de facto more expensive than the set price in Euro.
And of course, the convenience of using one's currency was but a pretext to introduce regional pricing... :-(

Nvm.

For the people asking, it turn out that GOG magically cannot convert the old ticket into store credits for unknown reasons. Nice move.

I certainly can support the first question.

The second, is,.... different. I don't think any manager whatsoever will ever accept to sign such a positive assurance not to do something. Of course, one can read it as an expression of customer dissatisfaction, or of actual worries ( and then I can add my own voice tho that ), but what to expect beyond what is already written here (http://www.gog.com/support/website_help/what_is_gog_com ) ?
:-(

If they are absolutely sure they never will, what's the difference? It's like me saying I'll never, say, start gathering signatures to run for president.
But, you know, the confidence level in them not doing something they said they never will is pretty low from where I'm standing as of this year... And yeah, it is an expression of dissatisfaction, sat on my fingers regarding the details of the first, was getting carried away, so came up with that to let off some of it in a way that'd at least sort some things out. Of course it won't happen, but...
But regarding what would count, a list approved as exhaustive by the community of anything that constitutes DRM, a provision that new forms of DRM may be added to the list as they appear, and the firm legally-binding commitment to never include any games that feature any of the listed items in the GOG catalog, under penalty of GOG ceasing to exist. CDP's other shop can go international and include such titles if they want them... Just like they should have done with regionally priced ones as well.

You know that that will never happen since even Gog Galaxy will work as a form of drm (lite drm) - namely you will be able to play certain multiplayer games only if you will use it as it was stated in the Galaxy announcement thread. If that game has singleplayer though you will be able to use it without Galaxy.

Hence, problem. (Not affecting me personally as I'd never do anything in multiplayer and hardly spared as much as a glance at anything Galaxy-related as a result, just got the "optional" part and moved along, but definitely as far as principles go.) They've been going to shit since the "oh, by the way" moment.

What worries me more is how that Galaxy thing will manage downloads. Will we be able to download installers and patches , or will we have to use an integrated install service, meaning having to be connected to be able to install a game.

Multiplayer is the least of my concerns. The last game I played on multiplayer was Warcraft II ( and that was when it was released )

The problem I see is that the gog downloader has been officialy abandoned which means that the new system in gog galaxy probably won't work the same since its also going to include auto updating and other stuff. As much as I understood separate installer and patch downloads will be only possible from the website itself. Otherweise the client will work the same as the one from steam when we talk about installation (everything automatic). They were talking that maybe only downloading is going to be possible but that has not been confirmed yet since there is no data about the client and platform available yet. I do expect them to clarify a few of these things in the Q&A Twitch Stream.

The galaxymonster will anyhow have to have a download module. There are different ways to implement it, and including a function allowing to backup install files is nothing particularily difficult nor demanding.