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The DRM-Free Revolution Continues with Big Pre-Orders and Launch Day Releases!

Good news! GOG.com is going to bring you more fantastic launch day releases, preorders, and other exciting new content from some of our favorite developers. We've lined up 3 big titles that we will be bringing to GOG.com in the next couple of months for sale or preorder that we think will be hits with all of our gamers; and we have more equally exciting games coming up soon.

If you've been a member of the site for a long time, you may recall that when we launched sales of The Witcher 2 on GOG.com, we had to add in regional pricing. The game cost different amounts in in the US, the UK, the European Union, and Australia. We're doing something like that once again in order to bring you new titles from fantastic bigger studios. Since we don't accept currencies other than USD on GOG.com right now, we'll be charging the equivalent of the local price in USD for these titles. We wish that we could offer these games at flat prices everywhere in the world, but the decision on pricing is always in our partners' hands, and regional pricing is becoming the standard around the globe. We're doing this because we believe that there's no better way to accomplish our overall goals for DRM-Free gaming and GOG.com. We need more games, devs, and publishers on board to make DRM-Free gaming something that's standard for all of the gaming world!

That brings with it more good news, though! As mentioned, we have three games we're launching soon with regional pricing--two RPGs and a strategy game--and while we can't tell you what they are yet because breaking an NDA has more severe penalties than just getting a noogie, we're confident that you'll be as excited about these games as we are. For a limited time, we will be offering anyone who pre-orders or buys one of them a free game from a selection as a gift from GOG.com, just like we did for The Witcher 2.

If you have any questions, hit us up in the comments below and we'll be happy to answer (to the best of our ability).

EDIT: Since we've answered a lot of the common questions already here (and lest you think that we've ignored you), it may be handy for you to check out the forum thread about this and search for staff answers by clicking this link here. (hat tip to user Eli who reminded us that the feature even exists. :)
Umm.. so, just for curiosity, where are these (evil) new AAA games?
Or, is there any new info about the regional price?
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HGiles: For an international business, net profit of $900,000 is not great. With that kind of situation, it's not surprising at all that GOG is trying hard to expand.
Remember reading recently that EA reported $210 million losses in Q3 last year. Compared to that, a profit is a profit.

But what's striking is the income / net profit ratio. They have over 20% net profit! Can think of major international corporations with margins under 1%, and that's talking of the profitable ones, not the ones reporting losses.
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hedwards: Perhaps, but do Polish dogs eat apology letters?
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HypersomniacLive: Hmm, never had one... perhaps?

Oh wait, you expect it to be an apology letter? As a whole or only on some level?
An apology and removing this blight from the store. I think we'll probably get an apology as a measure to appease the rioters, but quite honestly, it should go way beyond that. I've been a supporter of GOG since just about the beginning and I'm getting tired of them making a fool out of me for trusting them.
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phaolo: Umm.. so, just for curiosity, where are these (evil) new AAA games?
Or, is there any new info about the regional price?
And there walks a brave man, wearing red cloth, entering the arena ...
Too bad that, from now on, the games released on this site will have sort of a "So it could have been that publisher who insisted on regional pricing!"-stigma attached to them.
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Lodium: Net profit woudnt that be after the cost have been paid?
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IAmSinistar: Could be, financial bookkeeping is a somewhat inscrutable subject to me. So if that's what they bank after paying staff and office rental and maintenance and acquiring new product, then it's a pretty tidy sum.

Wonder where it goes? Volcano secret base? Orbital laser satellite?
If it were me I'd build the time machine, go back a couple of days and start over! :)

My this site is getting shaky, lots of onlookers?
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IAmSinistar: snip

And can I just add that the Zloty is one of the greatest currency names ever? It sounds like what aliens would use for money in a bad sci-fi film.
Stuff like that make bad sci-fi films so enjoyable to watch - so bad they're good and all that ;-P
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adamhm: The lawsuit came about because of GOG's decision to not use geo-ip to determine each user's region, instead just trusting whatever they had set in their profile (the lawsuit was also about CDPR's decision to remove the DRM from retail copies of TW2 but CDPR won on that issue).
Is that really correct? Searches on Google reveal that CDPR was sued because Namco-Bandai objected to CDPR making a distribution deal for the X360 version of the game with THQ for Europe, thinking they had exclusive European distribution rights.
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nansounet: That will be funny where all those angry people, gonna be happy of the coming of the lucasarts game on GoG thanks to regional price....
There's no Lucasarts anymore. There's Disney, which is one of the most reviled corporations in the world, for many different reasons.
If they really expect me to give them money after trashing their founding values because the greedy biatch that is Disney asked them so and they kissed their cheeks, they can't be more wrong. I will get a Steam tattoo before i buy any of those games.
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IAmSinistar: And can I just add that the Zloty is one of the greatest currency names ever? It sounds like what aliens would use for money in a bad sci-fi film.
I think nobody corrected it so far so let me do it ;) It's not Zloty but ZŁOTY, with a letter "ł" ([url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ł]see article about it[/url]). We have 9 additional letters in Polish: ą ć ę ł ń ó ś ź ż

And if you think that sounds funny you clearly haven't heard W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie ;)
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phaolo: Umm.. so, just for curiosity, where are these (evil) new AAA games?
Or, is there any new info about the regional price?
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Phc7006: And there walks a brave man, wearing red cloth, entering the arena ...
AVE GOG CUSTOMERS, MORITURI TE SALUTANT!

:D
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IAmSinistar: And can I just add that the Zloty is one of the greatest currency names ever? It sounds like what aliens would use for money in a bad sci-fi film.
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HypersomniacLive: Stuff like that make bad sci-fi films so enjoyable to watch - so bad they're good and all that ;-P
I heartily agree. That stuff is just scrotnig!
Regional pricing as standard for bigger titles?
Wasn't happy when you did this with the Witcher. But as a standard procedure?

Guess my time here comes to an end. Which is sad, but then again, if the developers want me not to buy their games - so be it.

P.S. And those free gift games do not change much - I had them all already bought last time.
Post edited February 25, 2014 by Fakum12
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Ghorpm: I think nobody corrected it so far so let me do it ;) It's not Zloty but ZŁOTY
So it's written in alien as well. ;)
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phaolo: Umm.. so, just for curiosity, where are these (evil) new AAA games?
Or, is there any new info about the regional price?
I honestly wouldn't care even if those were Monkey Island 3, Half-Life 3 and Shenmue 3 exclusives on GOG, as a matter of principle.