Why can't you just wait to buy the game when the price is right for you? Not being facetious, but curious; that's the only recourse I see in such a situation, and that's what I would have done if I was faced with it.

Eh. I rarely buy games to play them immediately, no matter how new they are. My backlog is big enough to keep me entertained for years even, so even if the game has regional pricing and I get shafted for it, I'll likely not buy it. Then when the game reaches the inevitable sales in about a year, I'll fetch it. It's business as usual for me. The only games i've bought here that were not on a promo was Witcher 2 to help GOG and CDPRed and ... some other game I forget because I thought it was getting pulled from the catalog.

The one reason GOG can afford to sell without regional pricing is because they sell old games and even the new ones are not really brand new AAA big publisher material. If the news had been about GOG resorting to Regional pricing for its entire catalog THEN I would have gotten worried, but a few of the newer games from big publishers? Bring them aboard and let me decide with my wallet.

I think what GOG is doing is actually good. This will likely be the only place you may get to buy your brand new AAA game, download it DRM free and back it up on your compy, free of any DRM worries or running an extra app. Don't like the price? Wait for a sale. Don't like regional pricing? Don't buy it. People who want to buy it shouldn't be deprived of that privilege just because others don't like regional pricing.

It would be like Corsair proudly stating - repeatedly - that they'd charge you the same price for memory as your friend who lives across the street, and then one day seeing them charge you $50 more because of where you happen to live. Now, they say they take the extra time and expense to test their modules to ensure you get a quality product, but what if one day they say that to lower prices, they'd have to change *that* policy too?

Much of the anger, from what I've seen, doesn't necessarily stem from GOG switching to regional pricing (even though a lot of it does), but from:

a) GOG going back on one of their earlier foundational principles - worldwide flat pricing - to pursue more publishers
b) The precedent this sets for the future - if GOG is willing to renege on something as central to their ethos as worldwide flat pricing to get publishers, can we *really* trust them to adhere to their principle of being DRM-free?
c) GOG being held to a higher (moral?) standard than other DD outlets. Indeed, but as dirtyharry50 points out, the joke's likely on us for expecting them to adhere to that standard in the first place.

Still, I'm going to wait and see what happens first. It's unlikely that GOG will change the whole catalog over to regional pricing overnight, but with a frustratingly low degree of clarification from them, it's impossible to be sure about anything now.

I'll continue to buy games when I consider their price a good value. I would urge others to do the same.

At least if that were to happen, they always gave notice when any given game was having a hike in price ie Interplay and usually a sale was held before it happened...so people had chances to buy it pre price rise.Hope this would be the case IF they repriced the existing catalogue in future

Aside from a free game, TET hinted at other possibilities, along with the promise they'd try to arrange for the fairest prices possible. Until we have all the details, it's pointless to assume the worst.

Yes, I do, and have stated precisely why (long rant with an included alternate solution), [url=http://www.gog.com/forum/general/announcement_big_preorders_launch_day_releases_coming/post3233]here and here (these two about a boycott in itself). Their past does not earn them any benefit of the doubt here because there's nothing to doubt, they betrayed their principles and therefore the users who truly supported them and believed in them just because of said principles. And being held in high regard because of your behavior also implies being held to much higher standards and facing a worse backlash for any betrayal.

Still no reason to force someone to pay more for the same content, no matter what the original price is...
If there was a logic behind all this, then US residents should pay more than in most other countries because the average wage is higher.

I'll answer this by reposting my comment above:

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!'.

And add this:

DRM uses lockout features to play your game. When it goes wrong you may not be able to play your game, and it best it is an extra step you might need to do.

Regional pricing uses lockout features to stop you buying a version of a game. When it goes wrong you may not purchase a game, or get access to one you already puchased. At best it is an extra step you might need to do.

Are they so different?

Then it's also pointless to assume the best. The only thing I'll be happy with is no region pricing. Even if they make it nicer than other places, it's still not as good as it was.

6B. for these 3 games and no guarantees about future games.
6C. the price is still higher than what you'd pay in other regions.

I'm gonna wait until TheFrenchMonk's (which I assume is Guillaume) announcement. I have no plans to change my buying habits at the moment. At least they aren't doing away with their sales.

We do pay more than some other regions, like Russia, which is how it should be. And when we pay less than a foreign market with lower average wages than us it's usually because of high retail box costs that is then reflected on digital pricing due to contracts.

Nothing is simple.

Our costs are also a lot higher. There's a lot of things that the government does for you that we have to pay out of pocket for.

But yes, on the balance, we should be paying more than folks in poor parts of the world.
I thought that had more to do with piracy rates than with the cost of living in those regions.

Well...no region pricing is simple.
Also, what does retail box costs have to do with digital pricing ? Fuck publishers, they're the plague of the video game industry.

@hedwards:
I know...here in France there are a lot of financial help for several areas such as medical care and others which you don't have. But still...