EDIT:
Main Topic is resolved now, discussion continues on ranting about regional pricing (e.g. PS4 in the us 400$, in europe 400€ -> ~20% increase in price) or how romanians have also to pay way too much on their games etc.
Switch to the second page to skip to the start of that discussion :)




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[i]and another store gone where i can pay in US$ ... :-(
So its basically a price increase by 25% for me, unless gog does the correction for the exchangerate.
(Im swiss, we have CHF not Euro, €'s are expensive for us.)
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Only some games have actually gone up in price with this chang e, most of the catalog is still roughly equally priced for now.

Daedalic games went up.

You can still pay in dollar, there is a tiny button at the bottom of the website where you can change the currency. Hopefully they'll add an account option for which currency you want to use. Since even if you change it now, it is not remembered and you are back to euros all the time after leaving the site.

Do you people even read the announcements? :P

I feel we're going to see a lot more posts like this.

Yes, just like the stickies are read.

Well that is what i call a friendly community :-)

Normaly (reddit cough cough) you would get shat upon hard, but here people actualy answer the question :)
Still, if the price isnt adjusted for exchange rate, euro to dollar is about 25% increase for us here.
And i dont really brows gog all day long to read trough the news section. Got shafted from steam already and many other online stores, so you can imagine how pissy i was when i saw this.

Good thing they added in the option, i know there are "certain" ways to circumvent a regional detection, but i dont like doing that.

So thx again for the hint, its actually the first time i scrolled down to the bottom of the gog page :D

If you have Euro's it's probably cheaper to pay in Euro's anyway unless the game happens to be regionally priced, in which case the $ currency will be higher as well. Switching currency is mostly only relevant if you want to get around currency conversion fees with your payment service.

For the non-regional priced games, the price is also not adjusted for exchange rate. A $5.99 game will cost €4.49, no matter the exchange rate, but it is quite close ($0.06 cheaper atm). Should there be any massive currency changes, that may be altered, but for now it is a quite good method. Especially since one can choose how to pay.

Problem is that Switzerland does not have Euro and it is fucking expensive to pay in euros. So I really would appreciate an option for the website to remember that I want dollars and not euros instead of always shoving the euros in my face^^

As Moonshineshadow said, exactly thats the issue.

If i have 2 games, both priced at 10x (10€ and 10$)
I would have to pay 12CHF for the € game, and 9.6CHF for the $ game.
That is about 20% cheaper.
(ignoring added value taxes and whatnot).

Imagine how i went on a shopping spree back in the yesteryears where steam was still only $ with no regional pricing. Nowdays i try to avoid steam purchases, i always look on gmg etc. first, even if its the same "number" value" i still get 20% off because of the fkin currency exchange rate.

And please dont come at me with "switzerland is rich"... 3% of the population have about 95% of the money here.
Plus, everything is also way more expensive here. So in the end, my average "buy force" (dunno how to translate "Kaufkraft" ^^ ) is the same as for a German or a US dude living a roughly similar lifestyle.

Therefore i always get jumpy when a shop changes over to another currency.
It is VERY nice from GOG to give us the option to not only switch currency, but also give us sort of a "money back" for regional pricing.

I would have bought one of the new consoles but they are just shitting with us.
500$ there and 500€ here..... i mean when i saw that pricing my facepalm was so hard when i heard that ps4's had sold out here... do those people even think before buying?
I might get a pony slaystation 4 later down the line wen its cheap as chips. But still... sorry for going on a small rant there.

Wasnt intended to but i left it there since it explains the issue a bit more why i get "jumpy" when i see a currency switch.

Anyways, have fun and thanks to the guys who pointed out that the button for the change is at the bottom :)

But in GOG if the game price is 10$ then it is less than 8€. So no loss with that.
And if you think that you have problems with euros because your "buy force" is like a German or US person, try with a "buy force" of a Spanish or Greek...

Exactly.

Just switch between the currencies and compare the price. e.g. PoE Champion Edition: $62.49 or €49.59.
The latter are roughly 51 CHF. The first are roughly 60 CHF.

On smaller priced titles like Mount & Blade: $4.99 or €3.99. Both are roughly 4.8 CHF

Seems you guys (siulebuo, Filben) arent really getting the point i tried to crefully explain above.

On average, when a currency switch occurs, they just 1:1 exchange the "number" value.
So first i thought they went down the 1:1 road but later saw that i can change my currency so its fine by me.

My best guess is that you guys didnt read the conversation that happend above, and since im too lazy to write a summary about the conversation every time i post, you just assumed we are still talking about gog ;)
But this time i do it, once, for you, becuse im nice:
During the conversation here we switched over from talking about GOG to talking about the general affair of currency exchange rates (like Sony does, 300$ in the US for a console, and 300€ in europe).
So i guess you still tought im talking about GOG (which im not).

In the end, its a fact if the number transition is 1:1 im at a loss, thats a math fact. (e.g. if they switch the price of a game from 10$ to 10€). But since GOG provides the option to switch currency, its all fine, and in addition they give you a regional pricing "refund" (sorta).