Hey folks,

I am temporarily living at Canada and was wondering what is the policy towards buying games in GOG via VPN if I have a legal address from my home country. Basically, I would be buying games with my home country credit card, currency, billing address etc... It would really suck if I had to use my home country card to buy games in Canadian dollars, as i would not only have to pay the higher game price for this region but also considerable amount of taxes associated with using another currency.

Of course I could technically just remotely connect to a computer back home and remotely buy games from my home country, but that would be an even bigger hassle.

I have searched a bit, but only could find topics related to buying from a VPN in general. I would think this would not be a problem... but if someone could confirm, that would be great.


Oh yeah, and unlike steam, which you just set a home region, here as soon as i log in from another country, it already changes my store region.

Your region, as used to determine available currencies and regional price, is the one you are in at the time of the purchase, other technicalities don't count, and using VPNs to trick the locator is against the terms.
Now if you don't ask and just do it, probably nobody'd know. But if you advertise it like this...

It is not that hard to see if someone used a VPN or not to buy from another region. Steam does it all the time and freely gives the ban hammer. Maybe GOG doesn't enforce this, but i'm not willing to find out.

If what you say is true, it makes absolutely no sense that GOG does this. Imagine someone is just traveling abroad for some weeks for leisure or work, they are subjected to the price of that region? Even steam allows you to buy from your home region as long as you are using a valid card/billing address from your home country.

Well, if that is true, guess I will have to stop getting games from GOG, bummer.

Although I would agree with you, I'm not quite sure that things work that way. I live in Spain, and I went to EEUU for a month, and, for instance, Google Play did not allow me to buy some applications in dollars, because my credit card (?) or/and telephone number (?) was from Spain. So, it seems the place you are in the time of the purchase is not enough and other tecnicalities does count. So, I think that this a very interesting question.

Go to checkout and look at the small print below the pay button, "Your order is protected by a secure connection. By placing it, you agree to the GOG.com User Agreement and GOG Privacy Policy and confirm that you are currently located in <country>." "currently located".

Don't give them your current location.