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Posted February 21, 2014
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. :)
Posted February 22, 2014
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rrr8891: 12?! Try 39. It's not how old you are, it's how old you feel.
Feeling up children is never good.
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I should learn not to bait the troll, because baiting is what he is doing to others.

On the bright side I don't think GOG will allow DRM to soon, it would be worse PR and there are a vocal many who would go else where. If you were going to DRM why not steam. GOG wouldn't want their custom going there.

Whatever happens I think a lot of people will not buy at inflated regional pricing. How many do remains to be seen.
Post edited February 22, 2014 by deonast
Posted February 22, 2014
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Sorry guys, I really admire you for what GOG has become over the years, but this time I cannot approve what you are doing.
Regional pricing, and the consequent regional restrictions have never brought final users any good.

Given GOG.com core values of customer respect you should not allow something like this to happen.
Post edited February 22, 2014 by kScope
Posted February 22, 2014
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cerb: I don't consider regional prices unfair as long as they have a reason to charge more like higher taxes or any other regional cost. But since everything is distributed online and we buy everything in the US (no matter where we live) and the costs are just higher in order to squeeze out a bit more... well this SUCKS!!!
Yeah, if there are higher taxes and/or longer warranty I can understand higher price. However since I am buying in US online store (or soemthing like that) I really do not think it is fair to pay more than other people. Why should I? I just wish I could charge someone more, just because he works for EA or something, but I guess that is not allowed anyway :(
Posted February 22, 2014
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blotunga: So what will stop people to use a proxy or VPN to buy the games from another region (where it's the cheapest)?
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TheEnigmaticT: What stops people from going to pirate bay and getting everything for free forever?
To be honest with the decisions you guys are taking, not much is going to stop people to go to pirate bay now....(i am just so fundamentally against it, otherwise I would even consider it now....)
Posted February 22, 2014
I'm not convinced that these news are "good". However I'll wait and see what GOG does in the future.
Posted February 22, 2014
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cerb: I don't consider regional prices unfair as long as they have a reason to charge more like higher taxes or any other regional cost. But since everything is distributed online and we buy everything in the US (no matter where we live) and the costs are just higher in order to squeeze out a bit more... well this SUCKS!!!
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NetAndy: Yeah, if there are higher taxes and/or longer warranty I can understand higher price. However since I am buying in US online store (or soemthing like that) I really do not think it is fair to pay more than other people. Why should I? I just wish I could charge someone more, just because he works for EA or something, but I guess that is not allowed anyway :(
Just as a reminder before this gets repeated a lot. GOG's of Polish Origin with it's payment system running through Cyprus. The US doesn't come into it other than that they've always requested payment in $ :)
Posted February 22, 2014
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NetAndy: Thanks, I do not know about games, but I remember region restriction on DVDs... It is not fun to get gift just to find out that it is not working (stupid DRMs) :)
Oh yeah, region restrictions. I bought Doom 3 BFG Edition, and it turned out to be region locked. Not buying anything from Bethesda ever again until region locking is gone. Such a thing should never have existed. I live in the EU, and I should be able to play a game that is distributed for EU customers.

Some publishers still think Baltic States are a part of Russia. Morons.
Posted February 22, 2014
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Posted February 22, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: What stops people from going to pirate bay and getting everything for free forever?
How is that an answer unless you're implying that using VPNs or proxies are illegal here. Are they? (or will they be)
Posted February 22, 2014
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Vainamoinen: Easy and central question: How many pricing territories will you provide to your partners? Four and only four?
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TheEnigmaticT: You know, I don't know the answer to that. I know we're scheduled to have four more currencies, but I don't know how many different "regions" there will be.
I do fear that many many doors are opened to major ripoffs and individual censorship right now.
And, yeah, I live in a prime country, if not THE prime country, for both, so there's the taste in my mouth right now. :(

I understand gog's aspirations, very much so, and would love new games to be on the platform, on release day, DRM free. Will this central and far reaching change of your policy achieve that? I don't think so. "Three games" in several months will not become a landslide immediately.

Had international pricing been the real problem for those major publishers, you'd have lined up dozens of AAA titles from the last five years alone, and their developers right along with them - Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, 2K games, RockStar, SquareEnix, etc. That would have been a prospect which would have made the change in policy halfway understandable.

Instead, you're watering the mouths of MINOR publishers! Daedalic Entertainment for example, who just fricking love to ask a whopping 150% more for their games in German speaking countries. I wish you made at least that impossible by saying: European Union, one price.

Right now it seems like too big a sacrifice for far too little achievement. 2014 is still long though. Go ahead: convince us that this was a good move.
Post edited February 22, 2014 by Vainamoinen
Posted February 22, 2014
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why is everyone complaining about price increases anyway? you know you can just torrent all this shit, right?
Posted February 22, 2014
Sorry guys i don't like the idea of regional pricing as we have seen on other digital platforms this system can and is abused even to the point of £1 = $1 or 1 euro.

One of the key reasons i joined gog apart from DRM free games and the ability to play old games is the standard pricing worldwide.

I wish you could reconsider this and it is also annoying that publishers force this on companies.

If we go down this road i am going to be very weary about buying games especially on release and i have purchased a lot of games on release over the 5 years i have been here.
Posted February 22, 2014
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rrr8891: why is everyone complaining about price increases anyway? you know you can just torrent all this shit, right?
A person with a conscience and a sense of community can indeed not. Instaban please.
Post edited February 22, 2014 by Vainamoinen
Posted February 22, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: What stops people from going to pirate bay and getting everything for free forever?
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Nirth: How is that an answer unless you're implying that using VPNs or proxies are illegal here. Are they? (or will they be)
I'm not him, but from his answers in this thread he can't answer you that question yet, because they have no plans yet except getting new deals thanks to abandon regional pricing. His answer will likely be like this: "Currently" there are no plans to block or foribd vpn.

I believe it's just better not to torture him anymore as long he has no exact orders and new rules from the publishers.
Posted February 22, 2014
You mean regional prices with the usual one dollar = one euro price conversion, right? But we will be charged in dollars... These are not good news.
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