I won't have to pay even Iowa taxes?

What about if I order from Bob's Big Bottles the eBay seller who lives in Iowa and i live in Iowa as well?

This still doesn't make any sense; Penumbra Collection on GamersGate is €6.99 (cheaper than GOG!) for EU users, while it's still $9.99 for $ users. Meanwhile, Desura and Steam sell the Collection for €8.99/$9.99. Does this mean that Frictional is planning to pull Penumbra from GamersGate or force GamersGate to fix their price?

Since United States sales taxes vary by state it's complicated but I think Delaware is the only state that does not tax internet, or electronic good, purchases.

Are you able to switch currencies on GG? This could be the dealbreaker in my opinion. :S

if they sets corrct exchange rate and they dont go to 1 dollars=1euro, where is the problem? Frictional better think to do good game instead

No, you can't switch prices on GG, but the prices are still not the same as per their reasoning.
Edit: Interestingly enough, it seems that the price for British users is £7.99.

I don't see a way to switch my currency choice on GG. But it still confuses me - if I could change from Dollars to Euros, and my price stayed in the Euro equivalent of the Dollar price, what does it matter? Just like it shouldn't matter if I'm using a Visa versus a Mastercard - they get the same amount of currency in the end.

I think I need this explained to me in Ikea pictograms.

My understanding is that Frictional has a problem with users seeing and comparing the prices. You can't do that on GG because they enforce one currency based on where you live (or however they do it; it doesn't matter). GOG allows you to change your currency back and forth and they offer a simple/flat currency conversion which, compared to different services and distributors, would give GOG an unfair pricing advantage. Something like that...

Banks can put their own charges on currency conversions.
And there are different kinds of fees and credit expenses depending on which credit card you use.
Of course the price tag when paying in the shop is the same, but what actually gets drawn from your bank account differs.

Thanks, that's the impression I got as well. But it sounds like the prices are not consistent elsewhere either, so it really seems like they are talking out of both sides of their mouth.


I understand that, but it is typically the vendor that absorbs these costs, not the publisher who has negotiated a fixed cut for their product. So if GOG wants to use some kind of pay scheme that skims 10% of every sale, GOG has to eat the difference. They don't pass that loss on to the publisher.

In this particular case it seems like an awful lot of bother over a publisher that doesn't have all that big a catalogue. They seem to be trying to punch above their weight, as the boxing expression goes.

At this rate GOG catalog is going to have -230 games until the end of the year.

Because many other publishers will follow Nordic and Frictional Games.

Then they would also pull their games now. Apparently they did not because they agreed on gog's pricing scheme.

All this fucking talk about "globalisation", "free flow", "international market", "no boundaries" and all the other buzzwords our politicians love to spew out, and we still have this ridicilous Regional Pricing.
I wish they would make up their mind - is the economy global or isn't it?