There's an old saying, 'dogs that bark don't bite'. To be more accurately, small dogs that bark do occasionally bite because they feel threatened even by small things.
I envy anyone whose life is so devoid of actual problems that the policies of an online shop is a serious issue to them. Nevertheless, I fully understand anyone who doesn't like regional pricing and it's perfectly reasonable to decide not to buy any game that is regionally priced. But if you want to complain to someone, why not address the publishers directly? Tell them that you won't buy their games because of regional pricing, regardless of what stores they're available at. I see no reason to complain to GOG about this. If you want to boycott someone, boycott the publishers and tell them that directly. You can fight a problem best by going to its source.
In the meantime, I hope you'll keep buying old games from GOG as usual because otherwise you'd be throwing the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak.

Hear, hear.

Agreed, people might as well do something constructive with all their rage. :)

Hey, been boycotting EA, Vivendi/Activision/Blizzard and Ubisoft for a long time now... Though I did get something published by Activision and Ubisoft on here, old games on big sales, and either way it was GOG, it was different, supporting them. Now it's not different anymore.
As for bigger problems, hard to hold higher ideals if you allow the smaller ones to get compromised. And this is an easy battle in terms of what needs to be done, you just no longer make purchases and post some messages explaining why. It's not a street protest, doesn't require going to court, doesn't require facing police batons or, worse, bullets. The effort is actually quite small for the potential payoff.

Will I boycott GOG? No. Am I worried about a possible opening of Pandora's Box? Yes, I do. Did I find the way the announcement was made bad? I did, because sugarcoating bad news is not the way to go. Will I reserve final judgement till the games are announced? I will. Do I ask too many questions? Well, duh.

Come to think of it. If that's the pricing scheme for games, then game prices here are not much different. Import prices explain the hike though and there should be no reason why you people are getting charged $30 for budget games. That sounds completely insane.

but...but...but....BENGHAZI!

I think that most of us (at least I) are mad not because of paying a little extra (although this shitty policies will sure make some countries to pay a lot extra), but because of betraying the principles. If I buy on GOG instead of torrenting everything it's because they have earned my respect being the most helpful company I know, and therefore I won't do anything as drastic as start yelling that GOG is the shit and that nobody should buy anything here. But, no matter how good and nice GOG was in the past, we must face that this policy is a backstab to the principles they were created on.
Even if I have not that much money to spend on games, I always try to buy them on GOG, even if I can get them at an abandonware site and use dosbox and I don't mind spending a little more money here instead of grabbing the same game on a ludricous steam sale. But if I do that, it's because of GOG's principles, which make this company so special and I wanna support as much as I can (sadly I have got to buy expensive chemistry books and that kind of stuff, so I can't support as much as I would like, but I think I make my point).
Therefore by backstabbing those main principles without a warning or a survey or anything makes us think that, even if in the past we were proud GOG costumers, GOG is slowly changing its objectives and does not suit its classic users anymore. And by changing what GOG is, we don't have the GOG we wanted tu support and defend and therefore buy anywhere else.

So, do I mean: FUCK THIS SHIT AND DON'T BUY ANYTHING TO THESE FUCKERS? Hell, no. But this doesn't mean "Let GOG fuck us around, changing its business model and betraying all those things that made it special" either.
Because let's face it, no matter how much we like GOG, they will always be second. And they are second because of the principles. Betray them in order to attract steam lovers and you get steam lovers sticking to steam and GOG lovers pissed out.

Hear Hear. Just let GOG do regional pricing and DRM, and the people that aren't happy with it can just go complain to the publishers, I see no reason to complain to GOG about this.

I buy games depending on the price, I wouldn't boycott gog, but my decision to buy a game here will be partially dictated by its price.

I'm not a fan of Steam in itself, but, it has regional pricing and some extraordinary sales, so you can get good value on Steam regardless of regional pricing. No doubt the same will be true for gog.

Gog's strength is its drm or the lack of it should I say, I will always choose a drm free copy before a steam/origin etc. copy and price becomes a secondary issue.

Either way, if the price doesn't suit you, wait for a sale to incorporate that game.

But, I think boycotting gog is not the correct way to go, they do so much that is right, I don't think they should be penalised for doing something that is in fact dictated by the publishers. Boycott the publishers if you need to rage on somebody, but boycotting gog, well, that is like shooting the messenger.

I would agree, if GOG wouldn't themselves have advertised until last week with the "One world, fair price" slogan.
As for continued use of gog, I'll still buy old games here, but for new games it has less and less appeal anyway. No linux support, and now regional pricing, I see no advantages except that the games are DRM-Free. On the other hand Steam Offline mode worked pretty well lately for me, and I can live with that. And I still can get steam games for USD.

This "messenger" chose to accept the terms of said publishers in order to have their games on here, pissing on their principles in the process. They said only last summer, as shown in that video being shared these days, that they gave up on signing publishers, naming Capcom and Take Two, specifically because they insisted on regional pricing and that went against their principles, which they wouldn't allow any dent in. So publishers have been asking for this all along, nothing changed there, what changed is GOG's attitude regarding their principles.

gOg is just a store like any other store. If you do not like what they are offering - don't buy. If they offer something you like - buy. You do not need to buy everything they offer, nor do you need to abstain from everything.

Boycotting a whole store just because you do not like some of the products is silly. I will buy what I want at a price I feel comfortable with where I want.

Who's to say we aren't telling the publishers as well, the fight for the fair treatment of customers is a multi-front battle but getting through their heads can be like trying to break a brick wall with spit balls

Knee-jerk overreactions are just how the internet do.

Jepp! If this comes true, they lose a big argument on the market.