Reaper9988: (I assume GoG has international servers, but so far no international offices.)

Reaper9988: If anything games should be priced by where they are made, not where they are sold.

JMich: I'm from Greece and I also agree that there is no fair pricing. Flat pricing is not fair, regional pricing is also not fair.

karnak1: Yup. I know some guys who download pirated games from GOG, even though they could very well afford them.
The reason is plain and simple. They're so used to piracy that they think it's almost a "given right" of them to acquire pirated stuff.

It's twisted and greedy, yes.

I admit that I once pirated a game from GOG... Xenonauts. I downloaded it because I wanted to see how the game worked out.
I enjoyed the gameplay. And as soon as the game gets a promotion I'll buy it from GOG.

JMich: The Polish offices are actually international. GOG is based in Cyprus, even if the Cyprus branch is just a PO box.

JMich: Why? You claim that the cost of them should be based on their workhours price, but the price of them shouldn't? If a game required 50.000 man hours at $7/hour it should cost different from 50.000 man hours at $35/hour?
And why should it cost 5 hours at $7/hour and 1 hour at $35/hour to buy then?

JMich: Why? You claim that the cost of them should be based on their workhours price, but the price of them shouldn't? If a game required 50.000 man hours at $7/hour it should cost different from 50.000 man hours at $35/hour?
And why should it cost 5 hours at $7/hour and 1 hour at $35/hour to buy then?

JMich: And I do agree with this. But to continue the above Linux example, speak out against Unity/KDE/Gnome, not against Linux.
JMich: My reasoning is that a Luxury item should cost someone the same number of hours at minimum wage, no matter the country. If someone has to work 20 hours to buy a luxury item while someone else has to work 100 hours, then that price is not fair. The $US price may be the same in both cases, but the wage is not.

Or, to put it another way, there was a study at some point comparing the number of hours a McDonalds worker had to work to be able to afford a Big Mac. That number should have been a constant, but it wasn't. So why should someone require more work hours to buy the same thing? Isn't that unfair pricing?

Gersen: The selling price should be based on the cost, a game that requires 50'000 man hours at 7$/hour should cost less, everywhere, than a game that required 50'000 an hours at 35$/hours.

08q2y3h4tu: I don't complain that Europeans have received a GOG discount equal to their VAT (15-25%) for years.

JMich: Fine with that as well. Though I do believe certain jobs (emergency services, educators etc) should be paid more than others, and have an easier time buying things.

JMich: And the game should cost 5 hours of work in some countries, while 1 hour of work in others to buy. Gotcha.
Or should it cost 1 hour of work everywhere, while the one made in the more expensive place should cost 5 hours of work everywhere?

Zoidberg: So let's encourage those more prone to consume more to actually pirate stuff

Zoidberg: and let poorer people easier access to culture?

Gersen: what's fair is that peoples who actually made the games got paid a "fair" price based on how much it actually cost to make the game.

Gersen: That peoples in other countries have to work one hour or one millennium to be able to afford the game is another issue altogether.

JMich: But they did get paid a fair price for it. The $7/hour or $35/hour or whatever per hour they were paid was their fair price. You get paid to deliver a game, and you may (or may not) get a bonus once the game is delivered. How well the game sells isn't something that interests them, unless the people who made it are also publishing it. And in that case, selling it higher does mean bigger profits.

JMich: Yes. The issue of whether flat price is fair or not.

Gersen: And who paid this money ? the publisher, so the published should sell the game based on how much it as to pay for it to get made; the 35$/hour game should be more expensive than the one at 7$/hour, selling them at the same price is just the publisher abusing the system to increase profits.

Gersen: Flat price is not fair... but having lower prices in lower wage countries is not fair at all either, it's the exact opposite of fair.

undeadcow: 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.