March 12 edit: After yesterday's announcement and today's clarifications, I'm tentatively suspending this call.

Mentioned this on two of the relevant topics, but should have its own since nobody else seems to have made one for a boycott...

I was waiting for that letter, but since it seems that we got this preorder instead, posted my call to boycott.

Long post since it includes comments I made on here, including that one where I tried to be very reasonable, and the links to the videos being shared around here these days, but the gist of it is this:

As of now, until and unless they will renounce this change and once again enforce flat worldwide prices as one of their values, do not make any purchases from GOG.com anymore, do not purchase any games published by the companies that have pushed for this change, the first one announced being Triumph Studios, from anywhere, and persuade everyone you know to do the same. In addition, make it perfectly clear why you are taking part in this boycott by posting firm, though preferably thoughtful and reasonably polite, messages stating your stance on their forums and social media pages, and by sending such messages directly to them. And you may want to add a vote to the wishlist item as well, for what it’s worth.

EDIT: To add this in this first post as well, I do want to make it perfectly clear that boycotting them, and asking for others to do the same, does in no way imply wanting to see them bankrupt or otherwise gone. Quite the contrary, it's just because I don't want to see GOG gone, I don't want to see them weak and defeated... Yet in one major way it already is gone, and they have admitted defeat, and therefore weakness.

I don't know. Comments (and votes) say that many don't think this is the right response, but after thinking about it for these past days I disagree with that and think it is. I think it is a way to send a strong message and remind them that some of us are fighting those practices and those publishers as well, and that if we will continue this fight even without them, even against them if need be, then it's all the more clear that we will continue it alongside them, if they'll decide to return to their previous stance, to their principles.

At the same time, the timing of the Humble Store change as well makes me have this nagging feeling that there's something bigger at play here, something they're still not saying. Maybe It's "only" a coalition of publishers and retail stores making a push, complete with ultimatums, but may it also be some other court action, some high-level EU directive, or have something to do with the proposed European internet, forcing retailers to move away from transactions in USD as well, or quite the contrary, with the Trans Pacific Partnership... Just speculation, of course, but it is odd...

Well everyone should do as they please. If it will make you feel better, I will not buy it because of the price and the change of policy of gog. And now it get's on my list of games i might buy when it's 75% off or more.

Nah, no point. Just go buy AOW2, which is probably as good (or better) except for the graphic department. It will be cheaper and you won't have to deal with the inevitable bug and patching cycle. Plus you get to play it right now.

I'm personally considering to go buy 55$ worth of Deus Ex copies and give them away. But I won't, because I might get stuck with gift codes region locked without even realizing it, and so I won't be buying any GW material until that matter is dealt with.

Hey.

I really like GOG's forum. Generally, excellent people. And GOG is amazingly hands-off when it comes to what we can discuss, including multiple threads dedicated to game deals on competitor's sites. This has made this forum the starting point for me when purchasing anything game-related. I'd like it to remain the excellent and useful forum it is.

So please don't tempt ruin by calling for a boycott on GOG's own site.

As I stated in another thread, I will NOT boycott GoG, as they are no worse than any other digital distribution site. They are still DRM-free and their support remain excellent, though their last move has undoubtably been a bad one. I will simply avoid the regional priced games they offer until they charge no more than the same US price plus 22% (italian VAT).
Hopefully, those won't include games in the old catalog.

Later then. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. :D

Precisely. There was one comment in the Age of Wonders thread which said something about GOG losing a sale, and I was like, okay go buy it where it isn't regionally priced, lol. But whatever, it's understandable why people are frustrated, but it's unreasonable to blame GOG for this.

It is reasonable to blame them for this, because it was their choice. It's not reasonable to call for a boycott for a decision you don't agree with, when even despite that decision the store is still (IMO) better than most others around.

And again, it is reasonable not to buy a game you're not willing to buy. And honestly, I don't see this game being a particularly big success on the site, but the future will tell.

Well, thats just a little overkill.

Nah, I think I'll just keep doing what I'm doing. Gog's value to me is in the utility of DRM-free. They still offer that. Once they don't, yeah I'll leave, but you can sure as hell bet that I won't be making huffy, over-dramatic, screen-filling posts and threads detailing my feelings of betrayal. I'd just leave. Most I would say is "well, that sucks".

No one else is offering DRM-free games you say? That's alright, I've been getting into mostly-electricity-free gaming anyway. I say mostly because we play at night more often than not; still need to see. Plus, I've been meaning to get my Dreamcast back and get that collection going.

In short, there's a lot of other things to occupy my time. Losing this won't hurt one bit. Hell, backlog may even shrink for once.

I'm going to 'boycott' deals I don't like. That's just customer's common sense.
Regional priced games have smaller chance to become a part of my collection.
That's all.

No, GOG didn't invent, nor introduce, regional pricing into the world.

As to the success of the game, the vocal minority always makes something seem like a bigger problem that it is, so who knows.

That's the voice of reason.

While it's true that it was their choice, I'm not sure on how much free it was. Competition nowdays is unmerciful, and one has to adapt or "die". I really cannot blame them... but neither I will accept this kind of treatment just because I'm European. The blame should be on developers/publishers, not on GoG.