Matruchus: God the game is priced the same on gog yes. Go to other store and you will see that it costs a lot more. Maybe not for Poland that is known as a piracy haven similar to Russia and for your two countries the prices have to be artificially lowered cause of that. My country when its regionally priced is always put together with the better going countries like Germany and I have to pay their prices - do I like that no. And goodbye now.

keeveek: And again, if you bothered to actually fucking read my posts, you'd know that I said GOG pricing does screw you over, only LESS than 1 dollar = 1 euro pricing.

But still does screw you over.

If you don't understand that, you are beyond help.

Zoidberg: No, you should not: a videogame is not a steack, a muscle car is not a steak, jewels are not steaks.

Sorry to break it down to you but videogames are luxury items, cultural items like books, movies and music... and luxury items. If a price is too high for a luxury item, wait for a sale, GOG makes them quite often.

Think five minutes upon that and you will see it's a sensible argument.

Cheers,

Matruchus: Here post from Gdoc on this issue in this thread: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/last_chance_special/post226

MarkoH01: I still have a few questions left:

1) Why did they introduce local pricing at all (I never had problems paying in US$ with my card from Germany)?

StingingVelvet: ...
And beyond all of that, dismissing everything I just said, publishers should be able to charge what they want. You shouldn't tell them what to charge. Let the market decide how proper the price is. The consumer is in complete control in a capitalist system. If GOG users thing 6 Euro is too much then they won't buy, and Nordic will reconsider their pricing. Steam can charge a $ = Euro price because people accept it, don't care, and know it's the same price as in their local shop anyway.

ktchong: I said it and warned about the so-called "fair" pricing before GOG implemented it. A lot of people were upset at me for speaking out. However, I am gonna say it again:

Equal is not the same as fair. Here is a good example: communism supposedly enforces economic equality, but it is also fundamentally unfair. What GOG has is "equal" pricing, i.e., equalized prices across different regions. However, is nothing fair about GOG's so-called "fair" pricing. In fact, it is economically and fundamentally unfair.

Here is a simple economic fact: a dozen eggs do NOT and should NOT cost the same in the US, Europe and China. The eggs should not even cost the same in different European nations. Different regions have different wage levels, different living standards, different tax rates, different piracy rates, different socio-economic conditions, etc. So the same merchandize is actually worth very differently to people in different regions. The same economic principle applies to video games as well.

When GOG makes American customers and Western European customers pay the exact same price for a game (on the face value,) American customers - who have lower socio-economic standards than people in many Western European nations - are actually paying more. That is the gist of some very important economic fundamentals.

When I first read about the misnamed "fair" pricing, the economist in me immediately reacted, "how is it fair?!? It is most unfair." The prices may be equalized across borderlines, but economically it is certainly NOT fair. I knew GOG would lose publishers over the "fair" pricing idiocy. I brought it up in the GOG forum as a warning, but was immediately dismissed and silenced by mobs who demanded "fair" pricing. Mob mentality seems to rule at GOG. Now GOG is suffering the consequences. It does not bore well for the long-term viability of GOG if publishers start abandoning GOG over the equal-yet-unfair pricing.