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Posted February 03, 2015
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mrkgnao: These two are the first significantly old games (9-11 years) to be regionally priced.
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Phc7006: Let's hope this is not a bad omen ;-)
Hope is cheap (and in some regions, very cheap).
Post edited February 03, 2015 by mrkgnao
Posted February 04, 2015
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Coelocanth: Well, since the Canadian dollar is going for a shit, I'm waiting to see us Canucks get a 'CDN discount' on GOG games... :P
race to see whether its the CDN or AUD which goes to big shit first. We dropped from 1:1 a few years ago to around .76 ish currently ://... and its sliding
Posted February 05, 2015
http://www.gog.com/game/world_of_goo

Weird pricing.
9.99$ in US
9.89$ in DE
3.59$ in RU

Didn't check more countries but this game is regional priced. ;)


edit: Prices without discount obviously.
Post edited February 05, 2015 by Wurzelkraft
Posted February 05, 2015
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Wurzelkraft: http://www.gog.com/game/world_of_goo

Weird pricing.
9.99$ in US
9.89$ in DE
3.59$ in RU

Didn't check more countries but this game is regional priced. ;)

edit: Prices without discount obviously.
You are right, in Swiss it is also 9.89$. I would suspect some bug, since ten cent difference is rather strange.
Posted February 05, 2015
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Wurzelkraft: http://www.gog.com/game/world_of_goo

Weird pricing.
9.99$ in US
9.89$ in DE
3.59$ in RU

Didn't check more countries but this game is regional priced. ;)

edit: Prices without discount obviously.
I decided to initially ignore it as a glitch, but it's quite strange how $9.89 and $9.99 are apparently €8.89. Strange rounding shenanigans.
Posted February 05, 2015
From MaGog's logs for 5 February:

NOTE! CHANGED Sunless Sea [Upcoming], reg_price_ru: 18.99 ***TO*** 5.79
NOTE! CHANGED Sunless Sea [Upcoming], regional_str: ***TO*** RU,


NOTE! CHANGED World of Goo, reg_price_de: undef ***TO*** 9.89
NOTE! CHANGED World of Goo, reg_price_pl: undef ***TO*** 9.89
NOTE! CHANGED World of Goo, reg_price_ru: undef ***TO*** 3.59
NOTE! CHANGED World of Goo, reg_price_ch: undef ***TO*** 9.89
NOTE! CHANGED World of Goo, reg_price_cz: undef ***TO*** 9.89
NOTE! CHANGED World of Goo, reg_price_no: undef ***TO*** 9.89
NOTE! CHANGED World of Goo, reg_price_se: undef ***TO*** 9.89
NOTE! CHANGED World of Goo, regional_str: undef ***TO*** DE,PL,RU,CH,CZ,NO,SE,
[Regular price is 9.99]
Posted February 05, 2015
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IAmSinistar: As an example, imagine a cafeteria where everyone pays the same price, but there is a small group of folks who are in cahoots with the manager and thus get rung up lower at the register whenever they shop there. To me the price they pay isn't the regular price, but a special favour price that only they get. If they stopped shopping there the prices wouldn't change. Nor would the manager suddenly change everyone's prices to what those folks pay, because it's not economically viable to extend the same special consideration across the board.
Not quite. People who are in cahoots with the manager still eat up the actual food and time of the personnel. But the Russian discount doesn't exist because the devs aim to please Russians, it exists because the devs want to maximize their income. That's it.

With perishable goods, a more fitting example would be shopping at the stale market.
For me, the choice is
(1) buy cheap junk food in the regular store, be sick, OR
(2) buy heavily discounted luxury food at the stale market, be healthy.

From the perspective of a luxury store owner, the choice is
(1) throw the unsold luxury food away, get nothing
(2) sell it at heavy discounts to stale market dealers, get something.
I bet my ass luxury store owners aren't exactly aiming to get into good graces of us hobos when they pick (2).

Disclaimer: I still haven't played a single regionally priced game in my entire life. I do, however, shop at the stale market. French soufflé FTW.
Post edited February 05, 2015 by Starmaker
Posted February 05, 2015
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Wurzelkraft: http://www.gog.com/game/world_of_goo

Weird pricing.
9.99$ in US
9.89$ in DE
3.59$ in RU

Didn't check more countries but this game is regional priced. ;)

edit: Prices without discount obviously.
It probably has more to do with conversion rates than with real regional pricing. Euro gained about two cents the last few days, so at the moment it's a little more expensive to pay games in Euros than in Dollars. GOG normally rounds their local currency prices to the next 0.09 and I guess that's the reason.
Posted February 05, 2015
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PaterAlf: It probably has more to do with conversion rates than with real regional pricing. Euro gained about two cents the last few days, so at the moment it's a little more expensive to pay games in Euros than in Dollars. GOG normally rounds their local currency prices to the next 0.09 and I guess that's the reason.
The strange thing is that there is seemingly no difference between $9.89 and $9.99. Both equal €8.89 on GOG. Oh well...
Posted February 05, 2015
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Starmaker: Not quite. People who are in cahoots with the manager still eat up the actual food and time of the personnel. But the Russian discount doesn't exist because the devs aim to please Russians, it exists because the devs want to maximize their income. That's it.
I don't get how that is relevant to my example, which is a simplified case anyway. What I am saying is that a special arrangement exists for whatever reason, and that arrangement is the exceptional case, rather than the baseline. Seems clear enough to me.
Posted February 05, 2015
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Coelocanth: Well, since the Canadian dollar is going for a shit, I'm waiting to see us Canucks get a 'CDN discount' on GOG games... :P
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Niggles: race to see whether its the CDN or AUD which goes to big shit first. We dropped from 1:1 a few years ago to around .76 ish currently ://... and its sliding
12 years ago it was 44 cents... And the sky didn't fall.. That was the year I spent 3 months in the US. FML for timing...
Posted February 05, 2015
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Starmaker: Not quite. People who are in cahoots with the manager still eat up the actual food and time of the personnel. But the Russian discount doesn't exist because the devs aim to please Russians, it exists because the devs want to maximize their income. That's it.
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IAmSinistar: I don't get how that is relevant to my example, which is a simplified case anyway. What I am saying is that a special arrangement exists for whatever reason, and that arrangement is the exceptional case, rather than the baseline. Seems clear enough to me.
It's relevant because in your example, the money is coming out of either the cafe owner's or the regular customers' pockets. Which is kind of a big deal.
Posted February 05, 2015
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IAmSinistar: I don't get how that is relevant to my example, which is a simplified case anyway. What I am saying is that a special arrangement exists for whatever reason, and that arrangement is the exceptional case, rather than the baseline. Seems clear enough to me.
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Starmaker: It's relevant because in your example, the money is coming out of either the cafe owner's or the regular customers' pockets. Which is kind of a big deal.
And where did I imply otherwise? My whole point is that the reduced price for special customers isn't the baseline price. I was making a contrast with mrkgnao's statement that the special price could be perceived as the normal price and the regular price being an inflated price.

I swear, what the fuck is it today with people reading shit into my analogies and then jumping on me about them? Between you and this dipshit it's like open season for closed minds. Analogies are intended to be simplifications to illustrate a point, not perfect simulacra of the entire scenario.

If you want to keep nitpicking and projecting crap onto my simple example, go ahead, knock yourself out. Literally, preferably.
Posted February 06, 2015
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Starmaker: It's relevant because in your example, the money is coming out of either the cafe owner's or the regular customers' pockets. Which is kind of a big deal.
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IAmSinistar: And where did I imply otherwise? My whole point is that the reduced price for special customers isn't the baseline price. I was making a contrast with mrkgnao's statement that the special price could be perceived as the normal price and the regular price being an inflated price.

I swear, what the fuck is it today with people reading shit into my analogies and then jumping on me about them? Between you and this dipshit it's like open season for closed minds. Analogies are intended to be simplifications to illustrate a point, not perfect simulacra of the entire scenario.

If you want to keep nitpicking and projecting crap onto my simple example, go ahead, knock yourself out. Literally, preferably.
There, looks like you need it.
Posted February 06, 2015
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Starmaker: There, looks like you need it.
Well thats rich coming from someone that throws a hissy fit whenever anyone fails to mention the word "giveaway" in a thread title.
Post edited February 06, 2015 by stg83
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