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Posted May 05, 2016
Make your purchases in PLN, CAD, CHF, NOK, SEK, or DKK



Today we are adding six new local currency options to our store. From now on, if you are making purchases from Poland, Canada, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, or Denmark, you will be able to pay in your local currency, i.e. PLN, CAD, CHF, NOK, SEK, or DKK, respectively.

If you live in one of these beautiful countries, you're already able to choose between USD and EUR. Now, you get a third payment option: your local currency. Any store credit you may already have in USD or EUR remains unchanged and can be used for future purchases made in those currencies.
For more information on how our store credit works, check out this <span class="bold">FAQ</span>.

You can easily switch between your currency options using the drop-down menu at the website's footer or by going to Account → Orders & Settings → Account and Locale.



Having more options is always useful and a familiar currency can go a long way towards helping you plan your gaming budget. Now, you can do your DRM-free shopping in eleven currencies : USD, EUR, GBP, AUD, RUB, PLN, CAD, CHF, NOK, SEK, or DKK. Enjoy!
Posted May 05, 2016
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Alessander: However, I'm still waiting for BRL.
Same here.
Posted May 05, 2016
Excellent news.
Goodbye horrible conversion fees.
Posted May 05, 2016
Canadian dollars? Nooo! Now I can't live in my fantasy world of pretending that $5.00 US actually equals $5.00 CDN. It's my coping strategy when I spend too much. "Well, it's only $5.00" or "only $10.00". LoL

This is actually great, thanks GOG!
Posted May 05, 2016
GLAD TO SEE THIS! you have no idea that showing what I am actually paying up front on something here is good for me cause the exchange rate is shit here haha

But here is the major question I need an answer too

Will you guys be doing constant updates to the American to Canadian difference? cause right now it shows you guys are 4 to 5 cents out of date on updated pricing for the Canadian dollar... and I hope you don't slack on this at all.
Posted May 05, 2016
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TPR: Works for me:
https://www.gog.com/account/settings/personal
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Wiewioor: Nope. I cannot change it. I'm in US, so maybe it's blocked. Only changeable thing is locale. Even if I try to change the currency settings using the form in the footer of the page, it allows me to change to USD only
Polish currency is only available while you're located in Poland so if you are in the U.S. then you won't see the PLN option.
Posted May 05, 2016
Since regional pricing here on GOG (I don't care if it was GOG's or the publishers idea) I don't care much about currency at all. We have a good exchange rate at the moment? Does not matter since we are always screwed being so rich (at least that is what those who introduced this must be thinking).
Posted May 05, 2016
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Alessander: However, I'm still waiting for BRL.
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pacciulli: Same here.
Same here too. :,(
Posted May 05, 2016
Good job GOG!
It is always good giving people the option to buy games in their local currency.

Question to GOG: How about restoring Paysafecard, as payment option, for countries that had this option removed (like Cyprus)?
Posted May 05, 2016
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JudasIscariot: Polish currency is only available while you're located in Poland so if you are in the U.S. then you won't see the PLN option.
That's... unfortunate. I have one card that has funds in one of the newly relevant currencies but I don't live in the country in question, so I can't make use of this feature. That makes no sense to me.
Posted May 05, 2016
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JudasIscariot: Because they can set their own fiscal policies rather than relying on Brussels :) There are quite a number of reasons but I know I heard that fiscal policy was one of them :)
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Crosmando: I don't see how a nation can even call itself a nation while not having their own unique currency. Same goes for the open-border travel within the EU.
Well, it´s not that different from America, is it?
I doubt that if somebody goes from Florida to California, officers at borders would frisk them as thoroughly as somebody from Europe (meaning strangers).
Post edited May 05, 2016 by Tarhiel
Posted May 05, 2016
Sounds good. (Unrelated to money, but please have the site folks working on letting people edit their own reviews.)

GOG has over 20 open positions, if you don't mind living in Warsaw: https://www.gog.com/work#/gog_mentality
Posted May 05, 2016
For Canada, right now, Gog 1% better than using the Visa Amazon.ca credit card.

-Amazon.ca Visa doesn't have a currency fee for using USD and it has a 1% cashback.

VAMPIRE®: THE MASQUERADE - BLOODLINES is 19.99 USD

Todays exchange visa rate: May 5, 2016
1 United States Dollar = 1.288771 Canadian Dollar

19.99*1.288771-(19.99*1.288771)*.01=25.50 CAD


-The price on GOG.com for today: 25.19 CAD
Also have the benefit over using the amazon visa to not have to wait until I accumulate 20$ cashback to redeem.
Posted May 05, 2016
Still waiting for INR. :(
Posted May 05, 2016
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gamesfreak64: Thanks for the answer... i agree on 99%
but i and we dutch do know whats going on....
too much power for EU laws that only benfit the big EU people, the big industry and very rich people
the common man will always loose on any front.
Inability to make our own laws, cause 1 EU law cannot fit 28 countries, all EU laws cant be overruled once set, cant be reversed.

So i agree 99%... but i cant agree that EU is the best way, maybe for very poor countries, but we dutch were doing very well in the past, we were small but present, now we are still very small but were not present anymore...
The thing we admire is the fact that the small east european countries as they call these, do have a spine and dare to speak out for themselves, if you could read dutch you would see that many dutch admire these small countries...
but we just cant admire the EU...
I can confirm this about Dutch pressence.
The Dutch were a lot more known before the EU.
Tulipans/flowers, and some other goods were major imports from Holland at least here.
Today we dont have a lot of dutch products left in the stores.
I think its mostly from Germanny, France and some from spain.

About the currency change.
maybe cool.
the currency rate kinda sucks here now so norwegian kr is low compared to other, mostly the bigger ones.
Great for exports and tourists though but still expensive as heck here.

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Wow, its so weird seeing the local currency here on the store
Im so used to dollars now.
Post edited May 05, 2016 by Lodium
Posted May 05, 2016
Kinda cool, but most publishers still don't want my money.
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