I've been a big fan of the Witcher series and have bought all of them in physical release and also a big fan of CDPR's DRM-free policy. So when I first came across GOG, I was indeed excited because it seems a better place to support game developers than Steam in every way, because of the inconvenience brought about by Steam's DRM system.

But unfortunately, everything in my GOG library this far has been either redeemed via keys in physical copies (e.g. TW1 ~ 3), or gifted through GOG Connect, or offered for free by GOG itself. I'd really like to support GOG, but Steam offers a much much lower price in China. For instance, Pillars of Eternity is discounted these days on GOG with a price of $17.99, equivalent to 123 CNY, while on Steam, it's now 122 CNY without discount. During the winter sale on Steam, it was sold only at 48 CNY for the Chinese market, and Hyper Light Drifter, which I bought during the sale, was sold at 40 CNY only.

I know regional pricing has been controversial and any suggestion bespeaking support to it may very likely spark a forum war. But since GOG offers great discount for Russian gamers, I wonder whether or not this can happen for China. If it does, I believe lots of Chinese gamers will embrace GOG rather than Steam because of the better service and experience that GOG has to offer, such as more additional goodies, soundtracks in higher fidelity (FLAC instead of mp3) and the riddance of annoying DRM.

I'm trying to bite my tongue....

If GOG is too expensive, buy on Steam... or go pick up copies from those bootleggers that are oh so common in China.

You can no longer get bootlegs in developed cities in China. Maybe in 2nd-or-3rd-tier cities, you still have them but I'm unsure. And seriously, every pirate downloads from illegal sites, among which a lot of them are not hosted in China.

Oh and why would I post this thread if I ever want to buy bootlegs???

You can't get bootlegs in big cities in China? How exactly do they control that?

I don't think anyone controls it. Bootleg business just died out naturally, as more and more legit gamers started supporting Steam and boxed versions. I myself have bought some DRM-free physical releases from Amazon UK, as the delivery is way cheaper than from Amazon US.

Those who support piracy download cracked games via torrent, because it's free, so buying a bootleg is costly and hence meaningless in comparison, especially with the fast Internet speed in Shanghai that allows for finishing download of a triple-A game in several minutes (whether it's the genuine copy from legal vendors or the pirated one).

Far out.
Thanks for the answer, that's really interesting. I wonder if that has affected bootlegs over here.

Same here.
Steam has much more cheaper price than GOG for my region (somewhere near you).
But I never mind to buy from GOG.
Even steam took some time to implement that.
So I believe it will be added to GOG as well but not so soon.
I simply buy them when price is affordable for me.
Instead of buying 6 cheap games from steam I prefer buying 1 from GOG.

You might want to consider adding this request to the community wishlist
https://www.gog.com/wishlist

suppot

If enough people want it, GOG will eventually add it. I'd say do what Thunderstone suggests, make a request in the community wishlist :P

You mistyped "suppolt".

For regional pricing they probably don't need to add Yuan support, just adjust the US-$ prices accordingly.

Although I'm very much against regional prices, living in a high priced area and not liking that I should pay more for the same product and the same service, I guess for GOG it makes sense to kind of match prices of Steam at least for Witcher in every region. With Witcher they should have total control of the price, so it should be possible.

I in general feel like I'm ripped off (by Steam and GOG who have the same price in my region more or less) and I would like to have cheaper prices for me too in general.

Which is not a particularly good method.

Why not? Are there large conversion fees between $ and Yuan?