Obviously regional restrictions are not ideal but neither is never releasing certain games DRM-free to the majority of customers worldwide. GOG already sells a number of locked games (https://www.gog.com/mix/regional_locked_games_on_gog), so why don't they sell more? Customer backlash? Are those excluded any worse off than before? There are ways around these kinds of restrictions ;).

What titles do you suppose would be released here if GOG relaxed their stance on regionally restricted games?

Maybe also economic reasons? My (very subjective) impression from several years of stalk... ahem observing the forums is that gog has quite a lot German customers & a release like i.e. Return to Castle Wolfenstein (thanks for the link btw; I'm even forbidden to look at the gamer card :P ) would be automatically released with the exclusion of a lot of customers; so they put more effort into releasing games that a wider audience is allowed to buy.

No.

Why not? Please elaborate.

Final Fantasy and Konami games all seem to be region-locked on Steam, so those may only get here if gog lets them region lock. Gog also said we'd get bigger movies if they agreed to region locks on those too.

Because that's pretty much the only principle they've stuck to consistently. They've introduced region pricing, lack of goodies, new games and such, apart from no-DRM, which is somewhat iffy, they haven't stuck to any of their other principles.

So I guess if they publish one DRM game, you will be asking them to publish more DRM games?

No. DRM-free I care about, regional restrictions, not at all. Is GOG better off with Wolfenstein and Quake in the catalog? I say yes.

Because regional restrictions are a shitty, alienating practice and there are countless games that could be made available instead that are not bound by such limitations.

So, you're against GOG releasing Wolfenstein and Quake?

No, they don't. A regional restriction is not the same thing as not being allowed by law to sell certain items in some countries.

Sure it is.

So what about all those people that do care about regional restrictions and don't care as much about DRM? Should GOG just go on and dispense with any pretense of DRM-free? Because maybe those people feel GOG would be better off with Diablo 3 and Lords of the Fallen.

No. I think GOG instead should stop looking a gift horse in the mouth and make the wishlist more public. Make a poll on the front of the site for games/publishers vying for invitation, rather than relying on the obscure, perhaps even niche footer based community wishlist.

LIke, if the people vote that they want Bible Black (Currently sitting at 60 votes) and Active Software is willing to sell it, and they've approached GOG directly, it and six other choices should be up on the front page to be voted upon. I know that (probably) sounds like Greenlight, but it could keep the same curation that GOG has for the store. At the very least, it'd make pushes for games like Huniepop much easier.

Of course some kind of prequalifier would help, like if a games has over 1000 votes as Undertale does and is a viable DRM free qualificant, (IE, the publisher isn't a hardass), then it should automagically earn a spot in the running.

If a game isn't viable, like as is the case with Dialbo, that earns the Darvond shrug of, 'What am I supposed to do about that?'