GOG.com: We are slightly adjusting local pricing due to changes in currency exchange rates.

Due to recent significant changes in currency conversion rates, we need to re-evaluate and update the local price values for the products on GOG.com. When preparing for the launch of our local currency payment options we've monitored the conversion rates for 18 months, looking at the average, and rounding it to the closest 0.09. That's how we came up with - for example - the 4.49€ equivalent for the $5.99 price-tag (with 4.51€ being the average converted price out of the previous 18 months). With fairness and clarity in mind, we decided to stick to the prices calculated this way, and only update them if a really considerable change in currency exchange rates would occur.

Unfortunately, this happened much sooner than anyone would expect. There are evident changes in the conversion rates for almost all currencies used on GOG.com. Therefore, we are forced to adjust some of the local-currency prices of the GOG.com catalog items.The prices are changing only by a small margin that allows us to compensate for the recent shifts in currency exchange rates. Here here's a representative example of the pricing changes:

For $9,99 games:
- the EUR price was: 7,49; is: 7,99
- the GBP price was: 5,99; is: 6,19
- the AUD price was: 10,89; is: 11,49
- the RUB price was: 359; is: 389

The changes will come into effect on Wednesday, October 1 at 12:00PM GMT. We apologize for any inconvenience this change may be causing you. Please remember that you have the option to switch your preferred currency back to USD in the site's footer.

We will continue to monitor the exchange rates and apply further updates. Hopefully, we'll see the rates reverting to their more beneficial state soon, so that the next small price update can be in everyone's favor. We will communicate any future adjustments in the forum thread for this topic, so please follow it if you're interested in the future development for local prices.

Wurzelkraft: Don't confuse currency conversion with regional pricing and don't compare a regional priced game to a currency converted game please. ;)

RawSteelUT: Not only that, but GOG already backed down from regional pricing outside of the games they're already contracted for, so we're not going to see enough regionally-priced games to ever justify people constantly throwing it in their faces.

Fact is, this is a completely different issue, one brought about by the economic sanction war between Russia and the west, deliberate currency devaluations and stagnant Eurasian economies. There's no reason to bring up the regional pricing thing, which GOG staff have already admitted was a mistake.

fr33kSh0w2012: Aussies are getting arsed by this deal by an extra 60c which is a lot when you're a Pensioner Like me can't afford it!

fr33kSh0w2012: http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2012/11/16/1226518/080400-best-20-beers.jpg

Little Creatures Puffing Billy, bock, 6.5% alcohol, $5 for a bottle
It's single-batch and harder to get than attention in a crowded restaurant. But it's a good local version of the German bock style. Think dark malty lager with a strong alcohol finish and a hint of smoked meats. An aspirational drop, you better get some now because it will be gone as quick as the waiter who just walked past.
Drink with: pork knuckle

Oh, Great My Sandwich Meat is out of date!

Rinu: Frankly, I am still waiting for these big AAA new games GOG claimed were the reason for backing off on "one price, one world" policy. So far I have seen only Kickstarter games, that promised to release DRM-free version during their campaign, old not well known games and some new (oddball) games that can be hardly considered to be AAA.

Rincewind81: Witcher 3 will be the next...

sunshinecorp: To put it in much simpler terms, if regional pricing wasn't in effect, Divinity Original Sin WOULD HAVE TO COST 40 DOLLARS FOR EVERYONE, WORLDWIDE. 40 dollars converted to euros is 31 euros. Not 55, and not 50. The difference you see is not in cents. It's in tens of euros.