And above Zenimax is 1C, who get final say on what gets released in Russia and how it's released.

Doesn't GOG already have a relationship with 1C?

But that would only apply to RUSSIA, not the rest of the world. At that point they'd either need to implement region locking or figure out some complex system to determine which publisher gets the money from the purchase.

Edit: We're also forgetting that quite a bit of stuff that Bethesda has, mostly from id, are forbidden from being sold in Germany.

I've never heard of 1C before. How are they related to Zenimax? And if they're in Russia, how does that affect selling the games to other parts of the world?

GOG doesn't region lock. I imagine that's the crux of the problem, if 1C is the real reason behind no Zenimax.

So would regional pricing be needed for GOG to sell id Software games?

I think at this point regional pricing is a foregone conclusion for pretty much everything. Good luck with "one world" when "extra profit for no effort" appears. Regional LOCK is the real issue it seems.

I would sincerely hope locking never comes here. Pricing is bullshit, but at least we all still get the same product. Locking is more into the arbitrary "fuck the hyenas, Simba" territory.

Yeah, I already had an issue with regional pricing, but region locking seems much, much worse and more DRM-like. It's really strange: here there are thousands, if not millions of people that want to play id Software games on GOG, and these companies continue to stonewall. It's really sad. :(

This I agree with. Fair price package kind of makes up for regional pricing in my book, though many others don't see it that way, but region locking can eff off. Let everyone have access to the same product.

Vote on this.

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/strike_a_deal_w_zenimax_media_inc

I voted for all the games I'd like to see on gog.

Yay busywork!
Ya gotta love the wishlist. ;)

Their real concern is will gog region lock the game content wise not pricing , dont forget that some of id games are outright banned in many locations.

That might be the reason plus they might have read some of the nasty comments the people here made when fallout was pulled

Aren't there games already on GOG that contain content banned in Germany?

there could be but you are talking about bethesda here they are not some small one man developer team who could bypass things.

Bethesda is a big fish and they have some pretty high responsibility for the content and where and who can access it, they could easily face public backlash and lawsuits if they bypass since they are watched carefully by the public and media. Remember they took on notch a few years ago and did not back out till it was settled just because he was using a part of the name of one of their main games.