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If it's acceptable for GOG to have a "fair price" policy that let's them vary the price by region on games that have been here for three years or because they are "indie" then I can't help but wonder where the limits of "fair" pricing end or what justifications the community will offer for defending the regional prices while at the same time condemning the practice.

Edit: For the record, I support regional prices - just find the double standard here silly especially when GOG being unwilling to let the developer set their own currency exchange rates results in a publisher leaving a dent in the catalog.

Awesome! I actually managed to get 1 - Penumbra!

I left Alien Nations for the next person. :)

Thank you!

You all are very welcome, night & tc all :)

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Amazing the problems that having some information can bring isn't it? I mean without the internet and digital distribution, very few people would be aware they are getting charged differently. It's hard for me to say that it is an unfair practice, but it certainly seems that way. Of course, when you want to talk about things being fair then you really open a can of worms. At least if the game is being sold it leaves the choice to the consumer to decide if they think the price is fair or not.

Interestingly, I just read an article the other day discussing how the value of the dollar varies (purchasing power) on average throughout each of the States here in the US. Seems in some states $100 only buys $84 "worth" of goods while in others it buys $111. I imagine that even here in the US many people effectively pay more than what others pay, even with the price being the same.

I guess part of my point is that maybe fair pricing isn't exactly "fair" either. That being said, pricing practices on games always make me scratch my head. Even more so when you account for nature of digital items. I suppose you are right though, I can see that for some people the fair pricing policy could be as important or even more so than the DRM free policy.

Well, that happens when you're not trying to fuck 'em... ;p

Have a g' night!

That's how I feel. I've lost most of my enthusiasm for GOG.

This is coming from someone who often:

- wrote pubs and devs (both traditional and Kickstarter) asking for GOG releases
- bought games here on a regular basis (despite having a very large backlog) simply to support a DRM-free future for gaming
- enthusiastically recommended GOG to other gamers.

Now I feel like GOG has no future because of a vocal minority of first-world Europeans and Australians who don't want to pay their normal local prices for games. Maybe I'm biased being American, but consider that I don't complain that Russians and others pay less for games. I don't complain that Europeans have received a GOG discount equal to their VAT (15-25%) for years. What I care about is DRM-free games and a better future for gamers. Prices are almost irrelevant; I can wait for a sale if a price isn't attractive to me.

(Yes, I'm aware that certain countries have legitimate complaints about regional pricing as it is most often implemented because they are lumped together with more prosperous nations despite different economies, but flat pricing is not a fair pricing scheme either, and many poorer countries *do* benefit from regional pricing.)

At the very least, GOG, give us a main page poll that requires an account with at least one purchased game to vote. Regional pricing/more games vs. flat pricing/less games. I want to see the numbers.

In other words, 'business inconvenience'.

Well, none of the removed games is really old, I think they are all released in the 2000's.
Also it's always sad to see games leaving the catalog, but there's not really that many modern classics there either.

So statistically speaking after removing these games the relative proportion of truly old games and really classic games is a bit bigger than it is now. If age and classic status is all that matters.

And to be fair to GOG, because they chose to honor the wishes of their (most) users, and not go with normal regional pricing, there is also a large number of new games, crappy or not, which never even enter the catalog.

Other than that, I agree that it would be nice to see more older games (some of which are classic, some of which are not) on GOG.

I refuse to use Steam out of principle, I have ethical issues with the service that I cannot resolve, and I believe that when you stand for or against something you commit to it.

So I might miss out on a game or two, I know that, but I value my principles more than convenience.

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I have a couple hundred games on Steam, but they have all been free codes from bundles, Kickstarter rewards, gifts, or rare 100% Steam discounts. I have never spent a single cent on Steam, and it's highly unlikely that I will in any forseeable future.

I think the so-called "fair" pricing is economically unfair. It seems that I am not the only one who thinks that way. When I signed up for GOG and started buying here, there was no "fair pricing" BS. I I did not know GOG would implement the "fair pricing" idiocy. If I had known, I likely would have never bought anything from GOG, knowing that fair pricing is bad business that would lead to the inevitable loss of publishers and titles, to difficulty in signing up new publishers, and ultimately to a smaller and stagnant catalog. That was not what I signed up for. I did not sign up for less games. I did not sign up for movies. I did not sign up for "fair pricing". I signed up for games and more games. But that is not how GOG has turned out.

The fair pricing BS just came out of nowhere and was quickly shoved down my throat even as I - as a customer who had already paid and locked into the ecosystem - strongly objected to it. So I feel that I have been baited-and-switched. Bait-and-switch is certainly an ethical issue. I feel bait-and-switch is a way more serious ethical transgression than DRM or whatever Steam has done. Steam has certainly never made me feel so "screwed over". So from now on, I really should buy from Steam. Out of principle. It is an, ethical issue.

It is your logic.

I made a new request, check the description for details

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

Nobody knows if the codes will work later so Im not sure if that is a good idea.