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Posted June 06, 2014
Having just pre ordered Witcher 3 in the UK I was given a code due to the fact that the UK is paying more for the product.

However I was given two separate codes for $5.99. Now while I am not knocking this, as compensating people for regional pricing is good.

(although I fail to understand regional pricing since GOG say they are now part of the same family as those releasing Witcher 3, which means surely they should be able to set the price themselves - unless I miss understood that totally)

Anyway my point was, when you use the codes it's not like they get added to your account to say perhaps go towards any purchase you want. When you claim the code you have to make a decision on what you are claiming and it is only $5.99. Surely it would be better if you could add the code to your account to claim against a higher value game or even combine the two codes so you could claim say for example a $9.99 game package.


Maybe I'm missing the point, and I'm certainly not knocking the code thing as other companies do not offer this goodwill to their customers, but is there any reason as to why it is done the way it is?
Posted June 06, 2014
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whatisserton: Having just pre ordered Witcher 3 in the UK I was given a code due to the fact that the UK is paying more for the product.

However I was given two separate codes for $5.99. Now while I am not knocking this, as compensating people for regional pricing is good.

(although I fail to understand regional pricing since GOG say they are now part of the same family as those releasing Witcher 3, which means surely they should be able to set the price themselves - unless I miss understood that totally)

Anyway my point was, when you use the codes it's not like they get added to your account to say perhaps go towards any purchase you want. When you claim the code you have to make a decision on what you are claiming and it is only $5.99. Surely it would be better if you could add the code to your account to claim against a higher value game or even combine the two codes so you could claim say for example a $9.99 game package.

Maybe I'm missing the point, and I'm certainly not knocking the code thing as other companies do not offer this goodwill to their customers, but is there any reason as to why it is done the way it is?
It's because GOG hasn't implemented a Wallet/credit system yet, but they have mentioned that they are working on it.
Posted June 06, 2014
It's probably done this as GOG.com hasn't store credit/a wallet.

As a bonus to them, you might gift a code to someone who isn't a customer here yet.
Explaining why you got that code would add to that.
Posted June 06, 2014
Thank you for the replies, that effectively answers my question.
Posted June 06, 2014
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whatisserton: Having just pre ordered Witcher 3 in the UK I was given a code due to the fact that the UK is paying more for the product.

However I was given two separate codes for $5.99. Now while I am not knocking this, as compensating people for regional pricing is good.

(although I fail to understand regional pricing since GOG say they are now part of the same family as those releasing Witcher 3, which means surely they should be able to set the price themselves - unless I miss understood that totally)

Anyway my point was, when you use the codes it's not like they get added to your account to say perhaps go towards any purchase you want. When you claim the code you have to make a decision on what you are claiming and it is only $5.99. Surely it would be better if you could add the code to your account to claim against a higher value game or even combine the two codes so you could claim say for example a $9.99 game package.

Maybe I'm missing the point, and I'm certainly not knocking the code thing as other companies do not offer this goodwill to their customers, but is there any reason as to why it is done the way it is?
IIRC CD-Projekt are bound by their agreements with other publishers for the production of their boxed, retail copies of the PC AND console versions of The Witcher to not undercut their own retail prices on-line and implement regional pricing, unfortunately

I actually suspect that it may have been CD-Projekt's own experience with the unavoidably of regional pricing that lead them to try to introduce the options for Publishers to have regional prices on GOG (which went down like a lead balloon and had to be scrapped, as we all know!)
Post edited June 06, 2014 by Fever_Discordia
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