So GOG made an announcement that made a lot of people upset. In this announcement GOG said they will be adding some games to their library and that these games will include regional pricing. You can read the announcement here

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/announcement_big_preorders_launch_day_releases_coming

To be honest I do understand why people are unhappy, personally I am not pleased with this and I too would like them to change it. People have made their views clear with a requested site feature to ban all regional pricing all together. http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/ban_all_regional_pricing_from_gog_stick_with_your_principles

This requested feature has more then half the response as the "tell gog how much you appreciate them" which has been around for years.

I've got to make my feelings clear on this. I'm not happy with this decision but I'm also just as unhappy with the way people have reacted to it.

I don't believe GOG should have gone through with this decision without first conducting a servery and seeing how the rest of the community would react to it. I also don't believe they would've done this unless they felt they absolutely had to. Again I'd like to remind people about The Witcher 2, that also used regional pricing and the and the people who had to pay the difference were treated to a discount off any other GOG games of their choosing.

GOG has been nothing but the best for years and now people are talking about boycotting it over an announcement we really don't know that much about, are you serious?

Honestly, that is just pathetic. One of my favorite brands is Corsair, they've been good for year it would be like me getting one faulty bit of RAM from then and wanting to have nothing further to do with them.

I don't work for GOG or CDPR nor have I been here the longest, but I don't actually expect them to stick with this decision. I think they will either change or introduce some sort of policy like paying the difference in discounts or something.

In the announcement they said they really didn't want to do it and I for one believe them. GOG has earned my trust, a very hard thing to get I might add and as such I am more then willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and I'd like to ask that you do the same.

Wanting to ban regional pricing is great idea and its' good that you're making that known, but saying things like how you are completely done with the service from this vague announcement, well it is unfair and just plain stupid. After everything they've done so far to just dismiss this as the definite future and turn your back on them.

From what I've read only a very small number are saying they are completely done with GOG. I am strongly protesting, but will not leave until I see the end result. Consider the protest as a warning against the latter.

GOG is held to a much higher standard than other distributors based on their stellar track record and policies. People are being too harsh with them right now. We need to see exactly how they'll handle the new change before we start frothing at the mouth.

I almost hate to say it, but I really don't care who's paying what. If I think I'm getting a good deal, I'll buy it, even if someone on the other side of the world gets it for a few dollars less. Call me the devil, but I'd much rather play games than worry about the business policies of other countries and how a company I buy something from now and then conducts their business. And as I said in a similar thread, if anyone knows of any product that has one price for the whole world, I'd be interested in knowing what it is.

Well what we do know is:

1: They will be setting prices based on region.

2: The regions will not be easily faked (see: Witcher 2)

3: Some regions will have higher prices

4: The publishers have the power to push regional price differnces.

4B: It is reasonable to assume that GOG will have little control over the scale of the difference if it is publisher driven.

5: Existing regional pricing is used by publishers to increase prices often to over twice the value in some countries.

This is more than enough to start getting upset.

6. GOG said they have plans to compensate those screwed over by regional pricing.

You clearly don't live in a country where a link says 'go buy this for $5 today!' and the link leads to somewhere that says 'Special deal for you! Only $20!'. Anything purchased digitally without DRM type location restrictions? The servers are the same. The only reason the price/product/service is any different is because users are blocked from purchasing copies that their not 'allowed' to.

I for one am not going anywhere so everyone can stop smiling!

Damn...and here i was, happy and all.
:p

We do?

tinyE is ok to air your serious opinion for once. Your reputation wont be harmed :P

I actually was serious in another thread a few minutes ago but it passed.

With 1 game for it. If these are ~40 euro games, then they probably gain at least equal to 70% of 1 game (their cost) just from the regional pricing alone. It's a nice gesture to smooth over the regional pricing transition, but it's not like they 'll lose anything over it compared to what they're getting now.

Unless you can tell me how that's a line of bullshit that isn't even worth the minuscule amount of bandwidth it takes up.

Well, I'm not effected by any of this, so easy for me to wave my arms but ... well. I was angry at first, but it's a new day now, and I'm willing to wait and see what actually happens. At the moment, the community has jumped from "three games will be regionally priced, and maybe some more later" to "every single game in the catalog will be regionally priced, and also every other horrible thing that could conceivably happen will!" which I think is a little premature. If nothing else, it can't hurt to see what Guillaume Rambourg has to say for himself tomorrow (has he ever communicated directly with us via the website before? They've certainly stirred up a hornet's nest)