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Posted February 26, 2014
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tinyE: People who not abide by price rules relocated to beautiful gulag in glorious Siberia.
Yeah, but they still get Russian prices. Win/win :-P
Posted February 26, 2014
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fronzelneekburm: An excellent idea, ... comrade!
Aw, those Russians
Posted February 26, 2014
If GOG has regional pricing, then my first thought is that some assehole made them do it as a condition for selling GOG the distribution rights to the asseholes game.

Any guesses on which game companies would do that?

Edit: But on the other hand, given that international currency exchange is such a new idea, only having been introduced since 'ancient' times thousands of years ago, i can understand why some game companies would not realize it's existence and have to use regional pricing.

Edit: just read the tagged post on regional pricing, i was right! But the main reason for regional pricing (retail stores) makes no sense to me here in Australia. If i see a game regionally priced against me on Steam, why can i buy the same game off the shelf for half the price, then register it on Steam anyway to play without the disk??
Post edited February 26, 2014 by mystikmind2000
Posted February 26, 2014
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mystikmind2000: Any guesses on which game companies would do that?
Larian Studios (Age Of Wonders 3), Triumph Studios (Age of Wonders 3) and CD Projekt themselves (Witcher 3).
Posted February 26, 2014
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fronzelneekburm: Larian Studios (Age Of Wonders 3), Triumph Studios (Age of Wonders 3) and CD Projekt themselves (Witcher 3).
Not sure who publishes/will publish AoW3 and Divine Divinity: Original Sin - but Namco Bandai are forcing this on CDPR/GOG
Posted February 26, 2014
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fronzelneekburm: Larian Studios (Age Of Wonders 3), Triumph Studios (Age of Wonders 3) and CD Projekt themselves (Witcher 3).
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Bigs: Not sure who publishes/will publish AoW3 and Divine Divinity: Original Sin - but Namco Bandai are forcing this on CDPR/GOG
That's a flawed argument since it's CDPR who decided to go with Namco Bandai as a publisher, again. They would have been well aware of their requirements from Witcher 2 already.
Post edited February 26, 2014 by Pheace
Posted February 26, 2014
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P1na: I remember the days I couldn't buy anything at steam because the country I was at did not match the address of my paypal account. Ah, that was fun.
Paypal still has that issue and there's no way of telling them that you're traveling. I had a lot of fun in China dealing with them automatically reversing charges without my permission.
Posted February 26, 2014
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P1na: I remember the days I couldn't buy anything at steam because the country I was at did not match the address of my paypal account. Ah, that was fun.
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hedwards: Paypal still has that issue and there's no way of telling them that you're traveling. I had a lot of fun in China dealing with them automatically reversing charges without my permission.
I could swear you didn't use to be in Russia. How did you get the change to stick, and is it impacting prices?

It wasn't changing the price for me at all when I changed through Account settings, so I changed back to US.
Posted February 26, 2014
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hedwards: Paypal still has that issue and there's no way of telling them that you're traveling. I had a lot of fun in China dealing with them automatically reversing charges without my permission.
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HGiles: I could swear you didn't use to be in Russia. How did you get the change to stick, and is it impacting prices?

It wasn't changing the price for me at all when I changed through Account settings, so I changed back to US.
It doesn't have any impact on prices. They changed that after Namco Bandai sued them last time. I believe you have to have an IP from Russia at bare minimum.

I left myself in Russia out of contempt for these ridiculous pricing policy changes and I shall remain "in" Russia until they do the right thing and fix this.
Posted February 26, 2014
How is regional pricing being enforced?

Tiny robots... millions and millions of armed, tiny robots. With teeth. And buzzsaw hands. And camera eyes. Electrified army-bots that can see your thermal body heat. Waiting to pounce from the shadows.
Posted February 26, 2014
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Pheace: Strangely I'm from the Netherlands EU, changed my country to US after the announcement (but before the first regionally priced game was released), and I'm still looking at $ prices. My IP doesn't appear to factor in so far. Checkout till paypal was in $
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_Bruce_: Yes, they are still charging everyone USD, they are just charging you *more* USD. This is how 'fair' regional pricing works. Also note there is only one game (AoW3) currently using this, but all will move over by the end of the year.
F.U.D.
Posted February 26, 2014
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_Bruce_: Yes, they are still charging everyone USD, they are just charging you *more* USD. This is how 'fair' regional pricing works. Also note there is only one game (AoW3) currently using this, but all will move over by the end of the year.
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mangamuscle: <a href="http://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/how_is_regional_pricing_being_enforced/post41" class="link_arrow"></a></div> [url=http://www.gog.com/forum/general/letter_from_the_md_about_regional_pricing]http://www.gog.com/forum/general/letter_from_the_md_about_regional_pricing

"by the end of this year, I'm making the promise that we will have converted our classic catalog over to fair regional pricing"

Direct quote. No room for Doubt. No Uncertainty. Plain english.

I agree my comment wasn't clear that you might be charged in your local currency (or just a different currency) rather than USD, but this is pretty much a technicality.
Post edited February 26, 2014 by _Bruce_
Posted February 26, 2014
I hear they're going to use deadly Japanese hornets. But only for the UK members. And maybe the Aussies.
Posted February 26, 2014
We will see 3rd party russian GOG-gift key sellers on other sites like Kinguin later this year.

And no, i dont have inside information. Its just the usual thing that happens with regional pricing.
Posted February 27, 2014
I put my VPN at work and I've got strange results:

Russia: RUB599.00, We'll bill the equivalent in USD: $16.99
USA / Canada / France / Germany / Brazil / Australia / Singapore / Japan: $39.99
UK: £29.99, We'll bill the equivalent in USD: $49.99
Romania / South Africa: €39.99, We'll bill the equivalent in USD: $54.99


So rich European countries get to pay less than poor European countries and UK sits in the middle.

Russia gets it for very cheap, guess they are very poor now after the 50 billions olympic gamess...
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