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ne_zavarj: I wonder how many of you non EU customers complained when Valve decided to use the $1 = 1€ crap on Steam .
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mrkgnao: I didn't, and why should I?
I have never bought a single thing on Steam.
Also Steam never pretended to care about principals in the first place to begin with.
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VanishedOne: I wonder whether we'll start to see giveaway threads with entry requirements like 'min. 10 rep, not living in a country that already gets a massively lower price'.
I hope not. I hope we're better than GOG.
Ok, i only slept 2~3 hours and i'm a bit (or alot) dumb, did something change recently?
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Cyraxpt: Ok, i only slept 2~3 hours and i'm a bit (or alot) dumb, did something change recently?
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/good_news_price_updates/post1

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/good_news_price_updates/post5

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/good_news_price_updates/post29

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/good_news_price_updates/post35
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ne_zavarj: I wonder how many of you non EU customers complained when Valve decided to use the $1 = 1€ crap on Steam .
Some of us (like me) don't even use Steam (for resons like optional client, regional pricing etc.).
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mrkgnao: Snip
First post, maybe i'm failing to comprehend your sarcasm, did gog moderation closed the other thread? Or is it about the increase of the number of games cheaper on Russian than in the rest of the world?
Sword of the Stars costs only 0.89 rubel? That`s about 2 Euro cents! Cents, I said! That`s nothing!
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mrkgnao: Snip
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Cyraxpt: First post, maybe i'm failing to comprehend your sarcasm, did gog moderation closed the other thread? Or is it about the increase of the number of games cheaper on Russian than in the rest of the world?
Nobody closed nothing. It's just that we felt there's not much point in keeping a thread about regional pricing, when 95% of the catalogue is regionally priced. So we opened a new one, hopefully choosing a title that will still be relevant a year from now.

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Maxvorstadt: Sword of the Stars costs only 0.89 rubel? That`s about 2 Euro cents! Cents, I said! That`s nothing!
It's not "Sword of the Stars", it's "Sword of the Stars - Necromancer DLC".
And it's not 0.89 rubles, it's 0.89 US dollars. All the prices MaGog reports are always in USD (as mentioned in post #2).
Post edited April 04, 2015 by mrkgnao
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ne_zavarj: I wonder how many of you non EU customers complained when Valve decided to use the $1 = 1€ crap on Steam .
Many of us dont use Steam.
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mrkgnao: [..]
You surely sense a disturbance in the GOG.
I hope that you're wrong about the future :\

I agree that DLCs, regional pricing and the neglected site are quite bad new changes, but I keep repeating myself that they're just temporary or quite unavoidable for new games.
Region locks have also been a shock, but luckly they're limited to a few titles in german.

Surely I could never accept any DRM or forced online client, so I keep my fingers crossed..
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phaolo: Region locks have also been a shock, but luckly they're limited to a few titles in german.
Hotline Miami 2.
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phaolo: Region locks have also been a shock, but luckly they're limited to a few titles in german.
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Gydion: Hotline Miami 2.
Ah yes, also that :\
At least german users can still download the uncensored eng version.. are australians totally locked out?

Anyway, what could GOG do against stupid country laws?
Should they have totally avoided selling the game also to the rest of the world?
This seems a necessary compromise, even if not ideal..
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phaolo: Ah yes, also that :\
At least german users can still download the uncensored eng version.. are australians totally locked out?
That's not how it works. German users are unable to purchase the Commandos games and Australian users are unable to purchase Hotline Miami 2. If they have received those games as gifts, they will receive and still be able to download the same version as the others. The only regionally-censored (not locked) game on GOG is Witcher 2 on Australia.
Post edited April 05, 2015 by Grargar
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Gydion: Hotline Miami 2.
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phaolo: Ah yes, also that :\
At least german users can still download the uncensored eng version.. are australians totally locked out?

Anyway, what could GOG do against stupid country laws?
Should they have totally avoided selling the game also to the rest of the world?
This seems a necessary compromise, even if not ideal..
"Stupid country laws" were also in effect before they did that, and the games have been in catalog since 2009...

On another note, look what showed up flat priced. Not also DRM-free though.
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Grargar: [..]German users are unable to purchase the Commandos games and Australian users are unable to purchase Hotline Miami 2. If they have received those games as gifts, they will receive and still be able to download the same version as the others[..]
Ah, gifts only, ok.

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Cavalary: "Stupid country laws" were also in effect before they did that, and the games have been in catalog since 2009...
I must admit that I am puzzled about that too.
They enforced the ban suddenly after the forum introduction, and that doesn't seem like a great tradeoff.