im not sure about that
but the promo was europe only

i was however able to give thief away to somebody in the usa ( and several other games as well )
the promo was region bound but the games not

snowkatt?

More like, grumpykatt.

yes !

i HATE christmas

What about new year's eve?

indifference

Off topic, but I'd like to thank the author for starting this thread. Would've missed the sale otherwise. I really got to pay more attention to the GOG main page.

Got Deus Ex 2 and Daikatana.

Most games are even on the Square Enix homepage only available in English. An exception is Hitman: Contracts which comes in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. GOG has only English.

I surely WILL but that was not the point. The point was to pint out how important it is to add as many langiages as possible. I am prett sure that it is a sale argument for many potential customers. I know for a fact that for most Germans it is. I think there is one available but using such patches is not legal if the translation was made by professionals.

You are still misunderstanding me. I have a lot of games in English and I watch TV and movies in English, I have no problem with English - BUT if I have the possibility to buy a game with my native language (meaning I can play it with people who don't know english) I will buy it there and not on GOG. I also know for a fact that most German players want their games in their language because German is a country where most things are either dubbed or subbed (mostly dubbed)., afaik there is not a single game here in Germany without at least German subs! So the only thing I say is that GOG should sale their titles with as many languages as possible. I am not talking about bad publishers who do not translate their games. I am talking about already existing translations on the market for which the rights mostly are owned by another publisher so you have to pay a little bit extra for them which however may help to sell a lot more games.

At least in this case, I put the blame squarely (heh) on Square-Enix, because with the exception of Hitman: Contracts, they don't sell any of their games on GOG elsewhere (like Steam) with additional languages.

But wouldn't it be possible (and hopefully not much more expensive) to try to get the already existing other languages? As far as I know the publisher - in this case SE - owns the rights to one game and a certain amount of languages (in this case English only) but could it be that SE does not allow that the version with other languages will be sold on GOG? I always thought that the rights to different languages versions can be negotiated with the developer of the translation? Or am I completely wrong?

I don't know. Maybe the rights to the localizations belong to other companies and Square-Enix doesn't find it particularly profitable to negotiate for each language. Even truer if the localization part wasn't done by the IP owner, but by a local distributor.

If SE really has not allowed GOG to use the translation from other distributors then I guess GOG really isn't to blame for this and of course there may be some situation when you just can't change it.

However I really hope that GOG tries every time as hard as they can. Just a few minutes ago I read here in the forum another post from a German who states that he just won't buy anything in which the German language is not included on the game card.

I guess I am lucky that I do understand english but there are quite some remarkable German dubs out there which I really would want to have in my collection. The new "Outcast" version which brings back the german language officially is one prime example another would be "The longest journey".