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I doubt that I'll completely leave, but considering that GOG seems to be sliding backwards rather than forwards, I'm likely to buy from other shops when I have the choice. I've already stopped buying games here that have Linux versions elsewhere because they refuse to carry Linux versions.

I have like 159 games in my account and it's likely to be quite some time before I hit 160 because right now I don't feel particularly respected by GOG. I never wanted AAA games here, there's a ton of games already here that I don't own, but might want and there's other shops that already have regional pricing and don't have DRM that I could buy those games from anyways.

I've slowed my purchasing here in large part because I don't like the way in which GOG is moving as a store and it's becoming more and more clear that they don't value my business.

People are bitter or boycotting GOG... well that's news. Usually EA boycott. :))

Oh, yeah? And what do people need to do to be a GOG supporter? What's the criterion to set the difference between an "average GOG user" and a "firm GOG supporter"? Is it the number of games purchased on GOG or something? I'm curious to know what i need to do to be considered a "GOG supporter".

No matter how many (great) sales you do, no matter how many games you give away, no matter how many contests you have (Spelunky figurines, Divinity: Dragon Commander figurine and other examples)...when you do ANYTHING that users don't like, some of them are bound to start overreacting and go "ZOMG B0YC0TTZ0RZ!!1! LOLZ I HATE YOU FOREVER GOG!".

This just goes to show that some people can be very ungrateful and lose trust on you very easily...and that's really sad.

Do your best to persuade others to make their purchases from here instead of from any other store if the game's available in both places would be the first thing. Which is kind of incompatible with wanting it to become like another store.

I really hope they do but I doubt it.

And I shall stick to my example You can't separate the result and the cost from each other. If Crucial came out and said 'Hey good news we had $250 million dollars in revenue last year! but uhhh once we included costs we actually lost $100 million dollars. That's not good news. Likewise, gaining more games is not good news in mine and many people's eyes if the cost to get those games is to remove flat pricing world-wide. I'm sure GOG could get a lot more games if they abandoned DRM-Free as well. Would you consider that good news if they re-wrote that press release talking about all the new AAA games they would be getting now but they had to abandon their DRM-Free principles? Would you be writing a post on these forums saying how its 'pathetic' that people are getting upset?

Flat Pricing may not seem like a big principle to you. That's fine. Seriously. But Flat Pricing for many people is a big deal, just like drm-free may be a big deal to you. Just like Corsair's lifetime guarantee may be a big deal to you. And if a company goes back on its principles its not pathetic for people to react angrily to that news and no longer want to support that company financially. That's just people voting with their wallets.

I used to do that, but now I'm not comfortable doing that. There's only so many times that GOG can treat me like a source of money than an actual person before I lose interest in helping them expand.

Granted, I am a source of revenue for them, I've bought well over 130 games here, not sure how many of the games I have were free, but at least buy a girl a drink before screwing her.

Just my point, feeling that I have to apologize to everyone who ever saw me promoting them, advertising some sale or announcement, not to mention everyone I directly tried to persuade to make an account here and buy their games from here if what they want is in the catalog. Did a lot of that over these years... And it's quite painful to need to do the opposite as of now, but you do what you have to do...

To an extent, us customers probably contributed to this by being too eager to change our minds as a group. But, each time one of these things happens there's fewer people willing to support it. I remember running an informal anti-boycott when the EA games came sans goodies, and then coming out strongly against all the subsequent changes.

I fail to see how you're being screwed to the extent you claim. Has not GOG given away plenty of games and goodies over the years? Has GOG not been extremely open about many changes, even allowing us to vote on them? This is a game site and a business, and if this is the worst thing they do all year, I'm gonna yawn and buy games at the best value available to me regardless of the pricing scheme, man.

I mostly agree to the OP. While I of course love(d) the fair prices my major reason to be on gog is the lack of DRM and all its uglyness. But I can't deny it felt a bit like a low blow seeing the price difference in this AOW preorder. And its not a price I could afford just to be supportive or willing to pay for a game on impulse just because it looks nice.

Since I cannot know if regional locked prices will go hand in hand with regional censorship I don't know if I even will go to preorder a game I really might like without knowing the details of possible censorship (which usually are really known only after release).

Time will tell and a few nights of sleep might give me a much more relaxed look on things.

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Just to make it not all doom & gloom sounding what I typed: I'm really thrilled about new games comming to gog and I REALLY; REAAAAALLY hope that it was worth the sacrifice of one of their core values.

To add to my "yes I do"... I was waiting for that letter, but since it seems that we got this instead, posted my call to boycott.

Long post since it includes comments I made on here, including that one where I tried to be very reasonable, and the links to the videos being shared around here these days, but the gist of it is this:

As of now, until and unless they will renounce this change and once again enforce flat worldwide prices as one of their values, do not make any purchases from GOG.com anymore, do not purchase any games published by the companies that have pushed for this change, the first one announced being Triumph Studios, from anywhere, and persuade everyone you know to do the same. In addition, make it perfectly clear why you are taking part in this boycott by posting firm, though preferably thoughtful and reasonably polite, messages stating your stance on their forums and social media pages, and by sending such messages directly to them. And you may want to add a vote to the wishlist item as well, for what it’s worth.

Honestly, I don't care to get tricked like this. Granted the pricing scheme isn't quite as bad as some were expecting, the truth of the matter is that I don't like being taken for granted. I don't like having spend the time that I have promoting the site over the years and then find out that they're just going the same route as everybody else with the exception of DRM. And they're not the only one that's doing that. I was pissed when Zecco and Netflix treated me like that and GOG is even more insulting.

Also, I'm not in the slightest bit giddy about the titles they've announced. And I'm genuinely shocked that those titles were sufficient motivation for giving up the region free pricing. I don't see anything in the announcement that actually justifies it. I get that in the EU they have to contend with VAT, but I fail to see how adding the relevant taxes to the price wouldn't have been sufficient rather than going all out region region pricing.

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I've been pretty much done with GOG ever since it stopped being a distributor of old games and started being a religious movement.