From MaGog's logs for 14 March:
Well, GOG is really and truly taking the mickey when it comes to the pricing of "Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Digital Special Edition Upgrade [DLC]".
Reminder: MaGog has previously reported that this much-coveted DLC costs:
- $3.99 in US (baseline price)
- $1.49 in Russia and nine other former Soviet republics
- $3.49 in central and south America
- $4.99 in Ukraine and New-Zealand
- $5.39 in most of Europe
- $5.99 in UK
Naively, I thought to myself that the rest of the world would pay the US price, but apparently that is not the case (reminder: this kind of detailed information for every country in the world is collected by MaGog only once a week, on Saturday).
Apparently, most of the world actually pays $4.99.
Three additional countries pay $5.39 (Serbia, Montenegro, and Vatican (congratulations, HypersomniacLive)).
And only a handful of countries actually pay the US price. These countries are:
United States (US), Canada (CA), Cuba (CU), Iran, Islamic Republic of (IR), Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (KP), Myanmar (MM), Sudan (SD), Syrian Arab Republic (SY), Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of (VE) Now look at this list and tell me that there isn't somewhere a Republican US Congressman having a fit right now.
Truth be told, I believe this is primarily a GOG bug in the US price of the DLC. The regular edition HM2 costs $14.99, the special edition costs $19.99, and the DLC costs $3.99?! I believe the US price should have been $4.99.
Regardless, if MaGog is to continue, rather parochially and anachronistically, to refer to the US price as the baseline, it now has three regions where previously there was one. I split "Rest of the World (US)" into (1) "Most of the World (CN)", (2) "Rest of Europe" (RS), and (3) "Rest of the World (US)".
I expect that sometime soon the first (CN) and the last (US) will recombine, once the DLC price is changed to $4.99, but meanwhile enjoy the new and improved "
matrix".