GOG is exactly the issue here. Where games are sold through Australian stores that applies. GOG is exactly the case were you can't stop it, and stopping the Austalian stores from selling will just shut them down.

yeah, it's the betrayal of "faith"

In the past I would have agreed, but these days an awful lot of those boxes are really just steam keys meant to be impulse purchased at the shop.

Pretty much how I feel. the more games on GOG the better, especially new games. I do think they let the community know about this in a piss poor manner, and I understand why people are concerned. Maybe the Frenchman needs to don his frock and apologize while then explaining in detail how everything will work.

You can argue with me all you like, or you can talk to someone more informed about how to approach this, since you care about this so much. The way I reason is that since region pricing depends on the region, then you need to change the way how things work in that region; easier said than done, of course.

Or you can just wait to buy games at prices which work for you, even years down the line, if that suits you. It's up to you.

Like i said in the other thread, its shit for those in high pricing countries.
On the other end, i don't see me buying any digital game for the same price i could get a boxed version (that pricing is the rule in Germany). In the worst case scenario I would buy new games only for consoles as i've done it before i found GOG.
Lets wait and see (and compare).

Stock up on something not related to Steam. I'd make a killing if I could stock up Diablo vanilla's CE and ROS' CE boxes.

Haha. No doubt, it'd be a little mushy. :D

Maybe not but lots of people like to yell when they are getting screwed. ;-)

You know, I'd love to see how they intend to compensate those affected by the inevitable regional restrictions which are now likely to happen (sooner rather than later)... I mean, really, how do you compensate someone when you're telling them their money is no longer good enough? In that case, it won't be a case of customers boycotting GOG, but GOG boycotting them for the sake of getting a few more games.

And make no mistake. Replies in that announcement thread have most certainly confirmed that regional restrictions will be coming. It's just a matter of time.

Square are a wonderful example of regional price gouging. Do you think it fair that while the US pays $5 for a 75% discounted game, those in Japan are being forced to pay $20 for the exact same product at the same 75% discount? In short, a discount on a price gouge is still a price gouge. And that's even if they allow the same discount across regions. Again, Square are a great example. That new release of an FF MMO on Steam? 50% off for ROW. No discount in Japan and a significantly higher price tag to boot.

Well it's like walking into a bar and being charged extra because of your T-shirt. Regional pricing really has no right to exist at all and GOG should be above that sort of thing. I did see a few people here and there but I pretty much agree with you right there. In fact I think GOG should take all the responses they've revived to these publishers and say "Look see, how consumers will not approve of this we can't sell it."

When you talk about Regional pricing on Steam both the staff and the users there are often very dismissive and don't care. You might get the occasional person who cares but most don't.

I thought Square was Japanese? O.o

I'll admit that I'm kind of quick to blame Team America for everything, so it's kind of difficult to swallow why Square would be harsher... to Japan?

Ugh, GOG better be pullin' some Disney Magic around the corner. Someone pointed out that Humble Store or whatever it's called did the same regional price thing just a few days ago, and it's kind of difficult to believe that it's a coincidence.

Square are Japanese. And that's why they like to screw us over. Big time. Not just price hikes but availability too. Damned near impossible to get games on PC when a Japanese publisher is involved.

No it would be like if Corsair had a lifetime guarantee of their RAM and made a huge fuss about why this was important and how products should be built to last etc and then one day out of the blue they changed to a one year warranty and made a press release about how great this news is.

As for myself I'm not going to boycott GOG itself. I will be boycotting any games that include regional pricing, even if my region (hah! fat chance) happens to be the cheapest. And in general I will be much less likely to make impulse purchases from GOG given that I no longer have as much interest in supporting a company that backflipped on its principles like they did. But if there is a game I particularly want that has prices equivalent across the regions I will probably still buy from here.

They've made an announcement, and they might change tier tune and not go through with it.

As for the Corsair compression I still stick by my first example. GOG said that the games on the service was the good part of the news, not the regional pricing part. They might even put in some sort of compensation or just take this backlash and show it to the publishers and say "No!"