Actually, it was stated up front that gift keys are only valid until the end of the promo.

Hmm, valid points all. I need to go think about this some more. No wonder I could never make the debate team in high school.

It's hard to get people to act as a group, but if a large number of GOG users would actually buy that upcoming game first, and then demand a refund based on GOG's refund policy and state the reason for cancelling the purchase as regional pricing, the message would at some point get through.

Especially when the publisher gets the sales report, and sees something like 90-95% cancellation rate on purchases.

Of course this will never work in practise, as few people would actually go through all that trouble, but in theory, that would be effective.

Otherwise, just simply not buying and writing on the forums the reason for not buying is the best option.

Err... racism? Wait, what? I really don't follow you there, care to elaborate?

And yeah, we'll see how it goes. It's not like I want to see the game fail, after all.
I really don't think that GOG offers refunds on grounds of things clearly stated on the gamecard, such as the regional pricing. Which is perfectly fine, given they have to pay for the transaction fees in case of a refund.

You have a point, but I stand on my ground: ruining a franchise is not the same than ruining an entire business enterprise, because it's not a simple marketing failure we're talking about, but the future of a whole company. I know GoG has a very loyal niche, but I belive this is not enough to maintain a viable business: if they want to grow (as it's natural in economy, since who doesn't is eaten in a brutal and Darwinian way), they need to do this. Especially given the fact that recently a famous big competitor has increased its interest in old games.

I don't really care much about regional pricing. as in: I only care about the final price of the product, the price I have to pay. whether a guy in usa can buy it cheaper than me... not really important to me.
so no boycott for me.

You sure about this?

To each their own I guess, I just hope anyone loudly calling for boycotting GOG doesn't have a Steam account with recently purchased regionally priced AAA titles on it, because if you have it would make you look like a major weasel turd, apologies for language.


Anyone remember this:

"8. What about pre-orders?
You can cancel pre-orders at any time before the game's release, and get the money back."

But wasn't GOG growing, and everything was golden, 2nd online retailer, and all that stuff? Was that growth not enough? Granted, none of us know the inner workings or the hard data, but GOG seemed to be doing pretty well for itself without resorting to that.
hmmm, that's true. Who knows, that might work. I won't bother checking, though.

Oh well, the ol' thinking box seems to be playing tricks on me.

Could have sword* there was at least one promo with that warning, though.

*sworn, but a seppuku is fine, too.

Not me, never used other on-line games retailers, bad business model (you know, DRM, regional pricing...). And no worries of a situation like in that image in my case either, have stuck to harder decisions for years over less. Besides, a boycott is a very simple, next-to-no-effort, method of protest. You don't really need to do anything other than saying why you're doing it at first.

I am not going to support this boycott. I think it is a good compromise for being able to sell us games where the publisher insists on regional pricing. The most important thing for me about GOG is that all games here are DRM free. If there is a particular offer I dislike for what ever reason, I do not buy this one particular game. No reason for me here to boycott GOG as a whole. And I think it is not very polite to shout for a boycott on GOG's own forum.

If you're going to boycott, boycott only the games that are known to have regional pricing; boycotting the entire site because of three games (so far) means you're also punishing all the developers and publishers that still have global pricing on GOG.

Sorry but no, I will not buy a game that a person from U.S.A. can buy for less. That's clearly wrong.