Magmarock: ...GOG has been nothing but the best for years and now people are talking about boycotting it over an announcement we really don't know that much about, are you serious?

Honestly, that is just pathetic. ...

Magmarock: My god what is all this text, is it really necessary.

timppu: 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.

Magmarock: I don't believe GOG should have gone through with this decision without first conducting a servery and seeing how the rest of the community would react to it.

Starmaker: I already told everyone a thousand times. Surveys of GOG users will just show people want GOG to be more like Steam, because GOG users don't mind Steam. Reneging on the region-free promise is badwrong, but them taking the PR hit for it instead of slapping our collective face with a "fuck you, you idiots asked for this" survey is a sign of respect.

Trilarion: I don't it is pathetic. Just think that complaining here is all people can do and nothing GOG has to even pay attention to and also observe the civilized tone and you see that this is far from being stupid.

I think the boycotting is mostly a warning. People will not completely shun GOG but the love has considerably cooled. If you don't like something (like regional prices) you aren't obliged to keep on doing what you did in the past.

I think that the personal decision of everyone to buy or not to buy for whatever reason deserves respect.

I don't think I'll boycott GOG but I'll wait a bit and see how the regional prices develop. I might buy games with regional prices later or not at all, depending how I'll feel about it.

Magmarock: Boycotting is a little bit past the warning in my opinion. Regional pricing is a very serious issue especially when it means paying upwards of $80 for a game that is worth $40 and has no place on the internet.

It not as simple as, don't like it don't pay it. Because that simply doesn't work. When it comes to consumer rights the general population is pretty bad at it, but gamers are the worst in all fairness. Pre order culture is something that shouldn't even exist and don't get me started on the xbox 360. That system violated so many consumer rights that I'm sure it was illegal to sell and no one did anything about it.

Starmaker: I already told everyone a thousand times. Surveys of GOG users will just show people want GOG to be more like Steam, because GOG users don't mind Steam. Reneging on the region-free promise is badwrong, but them taking the PR hit for it instead of slapping our collective face with a "fuck you, you idiots asked for this" survey is a sign of respect.

Dzsono: How so?

Magmarock: Well let me put it this way. You walk into a bar with you friend and the bar tender charges you an extra $5 for the drink because of where you live. Now, how would that make you feel?

Magmarock: You have a point there, but I remember what they did with planetary annihilation, It was a game that might have been released here. However, there were some features that required the game to be online in order to work. GOG conducted a survey and found that releasing the game on the service would not have gone down well.
I was under the impression that the text you quoted explained it. Well let me put it this way. You walk into a bar with you friend and the bar tender charges you an extra $5 for the drink because of where you live. Now, how would that make you feel?

Dzsono: Sorry, I was asking about the violations that the Xbox360 made to consumer rights. I don't know anything about the console :S

Magmarock: Pre order culture is something that shouldn't even exist and don't get me started on the xbox 360. That system violated so many consumer rights that I'm sure it was illegal to sell and no one did anything about it.

Magmarock: Oh right, sorry about that. It broke down and over heated the the point where it was not fit for purpose or sale. It is illegal to selling something that is designed to fail or just built to such a poor degree.

The share amount of faults it had well if more gamers contacted the government department overseeing fair trade in whatever contrary you live in I am 100% sure that system would have been taken off the shelves.