Don't want to get into politics or regional pricing (Regional pricing has other reasons. Mainly the retail prices we're used to from the pre-digital past), but:
Yes, our Governments are paying for lots of stuff... But where are they taking the money from? From the income taxes we pay, of course. Here in Spain you're paying 40% income tax as soon as your income hits (converted roughly into Dollar) 45.000 Dollar a year. Furthermore I'm forced to pay 412 Dollar for social insurance, monthly (that's the minimum for my age - if you opt for a higher retirement pension or unemployment pay, you'll pay significantly more). I've paid more than 35.000 Dollar already (I could survive more than a year with this, which I couldn't with the joke of an unemployment pay), and never needed anything from the stuff included there. Yes, I was at the doc a couple of times. But not at a doc from one of our public health centers... Because the health care you get from your social insurance is... "not good". So you'll need to pay for an additional private insurance as well. The same goes for the retirement pension.

Yes, we get lots of stuff "for free", if we ever need it. But we're paying for it our whole lives. And we can't opt out. I don't want to say that it's better in the US (I simply don't know), but in Europe they're pretty fast at taking more than 50% of your income away. But again, I don't really want to talk about politics. Just wanted to offer a different view on "There's a lot of things that the government does for you that we have to pay out of pocket for" ;)

If I must be sincere, it's not really the regional price that upsets me - everybody knows that they have to do it to survive the competition, and that's something I would accept if it was only based on VAT, so I'll wait before judging.
My real problem here is the fact that GoG acted like the "fair prices for all the world" were a dogma, and now changes opinion in a heartbeat: I call that hypocrisy. When you contradict yourself in such a manifest manner, it is ovious -and predictable- that in consequence many people lose at least part of the trust.
I will not stop buying on GoG, because I still think this is the best digital distribution site on the market; anyway, with increased prices and different regional service, they cannot expect I will buy as much as I bought before. In my case, 35% of increase in price means 35% less purchases, since I can spend only a certain amount of money on games. I will probably buy something only when discounted, not because I'm upset but because if I still want to play a lot of games I cannot do otherwise.

Boycotting is so sexist. I'm going to Girlcott gog.

A sign that publishers don't want to abandon the local retail model. That's how they used to price their stuff in different countries and that's how they want to keep doing it.

The vast majority of video game sales are still physical copies of console versions. Until that changes retailers are extremely important to Sony and the rest.

The best thing about GOG they're never stop working to deliver the most complete, perfect version of any of their games without extra charge. Just like yesterday when they added another game to the Dangerous Dave Pack. Same as both Dungeon Keepers and Pinball Gold Pack last year. Obviously those are just few examples, i'm sure there are many more. For that alone they earned their merit, and i'll continue to support them. People have to differentiate between personal and business affair. And GOG is just a business entity.

Which is ironic, since they already killed it with connection-DRM, release-day patches and download keys.

A few years back, one of my small pleasures was to go to the brick-and-mortar game stores, look at new titles and explore the bargain bins. Since 2-3 years, I don't even enter the shop anymore, except when I'm looking for a DS game. Why should I buy a box if all it contains is a steam key, or a game that will require me to connect to internet anyway and download some significant patch (or even half the game). They don't even have a real paper manual anymore!

2-3 "bad surprises" with boxes have converted me to the all-digital market. Publishers are killing the PC box market, except maybe for people like parents buying a present to their kid...

Co-relation does not imply causation. There are several reasons for Steam being successful and DRM is the least of those. GoG still adheres to several anachronistic conventions that make it a less convenient platform. More often than not, gamers flock to steam because there is little in the way of a viable alternative. Gamers are not driven by principles. Gamers do not like DRM but succumb to it when it offered on a platter of convenience

We should always show due respect for what is done in the supreme interest of the State

If the lack of regional pricing was really the primary reason for someone to buy from GOG, I don't think it is stupid to "boycott" (ie., not buy) games from GOG. Everyone should buy only where they feel comfortable doing it.

Then again, I am unsure where these people will buy, as GOG was one of the very few digital stores with flat pricing, that I know of.

As I said in the beginning, I found this news disappointing, but it is not a deal-breaker for me. But I foresee some potential complications for me, for which reason I would have still preferred flat pricing and no region locks:

1. Does this mean I will start receiving some god-awful German versions of games, without swastikas? But I like swastikas!

2. Will these regional restrictions cause me problems if I ever relocate myself to another country, say, Thailand? If I try to download or buy a game while I am there, can there be some complications? Will it refuse my attempts to buy GOG games if I use an account created somewhere else? Will it block some games from thai customers (and I can't buy them either while I am in Thailand)? Or the opposite: will I ever be eligible to the (cheaper?) Thai prices, if I live mostly in Thailand?

(this is just an example, I am not really relocating to Thailand, but never say never...)

Hence, I certainly would have preferred no restrictions. It is just simpler, less to think about.

EDIT: I don't trade keys, but I can also understand that people who might do that, this complicates things a lot if there will be restrictions that you can activate the key only if it is bought from the same area, and such. That won't probably affect me, but I can understand if such people dislike this change a lot.

My god what is all this text, is it really necessary. Anyway I didn't say boycotting GOG on regional pricing was stupid. Rather I said coming to a decision this early from a vague announcement is stupid. And it is.

Judging from what I see in this post, seems that if GOG decided to pull down their pants and bend over in front of certain publishers, many of you are more than willing to follow suit. That's what not boycotting now means, no matter how you justify it. You either fight this with the best weapon you have as a customer and are fully in that fight, regardless of whether we may win or not, or you don't and the message sent is that they can get away with anything. Which is of course the very reason why this happens.

More than anything I'd suggest that people just calm down for the time being and wait how this all plays out. Much of the drama that's been going on has been based on wild speculation, since we only have very limited official info at this point.

If those new games turn out to be junk, or if they suddenly decide to apply regional pricing to the entire games catalogue, well, you can still freak out and flip over some tables. :)

People are losing their shit over this because this can follow the "Slippery Slope" Fallacy

I mean, I know that it will most likely never happen but if GOG is breaking their policies regarding regional pricing, what's stopping them changing other things in the future

What's stopping them from going "Hey guys, we aren't DRM free anymore, sorry"

Where will you be and what will you do when GOG will not be DRM free anymore and not give us anymore of the sweet classics that we come for here?

I understand why they are doing this and hell, in a way I support this if this means we can get more AAA titles here but my point is: People have been screwed over far too often by gaming companies in this industry and usually one bad thing leads to another 100% of the time

That's why people are angry

Likewise

DRM free, goodies, good value is what sells a game to me

If GOG can provide this then great, I will stick with them. If not, I am welcome to go elsewhere for my gaming fix which I will do if they try to fuck with us

What's speculation? Why would what the new games are matter? They had two clear, firm principles. They announced deciding to give up on one of them. That's the end of the story. It doesn't matter what sort of shiny bribe they did it for, be it in terms of new games added or anything else, and it doesn't, at this point, matter whether it will be a slippery slope or not (though I'll remind you that TET admitted it may lead to region locks and existing games regionally priced in the future as well, when they'll come up for renegotiation). It's the fact itself that's more than enough.