GOG and dead? Well, I have bought more in the last two years than ever before, the community (and my circle of friends here) is getting bigger and bigger, at least for me personally, it is really active here and on a purely human level I have met a lot of helpful, friendly people here. And then interesting games keep coming into the shop here.

Yes, the AAA titles and the usual suspects are missing, but on the whole there is an increase in the range and thanks to the cooperation with Amazon Prime all Prime customers get plenty of games for free. That is quite remarkable and should pay off for GOG.

I am also regularly happy to be able to play all my GOG games without DRM. Every time internet services fail or the internet connection itself goes down for a while, I remember the freedom that offline installers give. I don't care about regional pricing at all, I only buy games on sale anyway at the price they are worth to me.

If some games with outdated patches were updated, GOG were to focus more on multiplayer titles and a few big studios decided to simply publish everything here, then that would be almost perfect.

If you feel sad about it, then I have a very simple suggestion for you. Just don't buy any more games with DRM, the more people stop doing it, the more games will appear here in the medium term. Because regional pricing is not an argument that I can understand. Games have never been as cheap as they are today, unless you absolutely have to spend 100 bucks on Star Wars Outlaws, the new Indiana Jones or the latest football game. Or even crazier, buy a cosmetic package in a free2play game for a lot of money. :D

You should hold on to the good things and not the bad ones. And if you don't enjoy games at all anymore, then there are other nice hobbies.

It very much is for me. (As anyone who's been here for a little while knows...) Doesn't matter how cheap they are, it's the principle of the thing. It's wrong, period, but on top of that, for GOG in particular, fighting against it was their second clear, specific pillar, after DRM free.

I'm saying that it's no reason to turn your back on GOG because compared to Steam or EPIC, the price differences are usually not significant. Except for the games that aren't offered at a discount here because they've been forgotten or GOG is ignored, but that's a whole different topic. So if Onox hasn't given up his hobby and is buying games elsewhere, then I don't see any logical reason that I can understand.

It goes without saying that people from economically weaker countries can't and don't want to pay that much. The prices should be adjusted accordingly (I mean, in Argentina, prices are very low compared to the EU, for example) or people should look for alternatives (I won't go into that any further now). But that's not what I was alluding to.
All I can say is that things are changing. I wouldn't accept DRM here, but I'm willing to accept the change in pricing policy. Do I like that? No! However, I prefer it if it means that GOG stays with us (remains competitive) and more publishers offer their games here.

Do I have a realistic solution that makes everyone happy? No. :-|

Steam and Epic are DRMed, that's the first problem, so why compare policies to theirs when they're clearly worse by definition?
At the same time, someone willing to buy on DRMed stores has little reason to stay on GOG in the first place. While on the other hand a few DRMfree AND flat-priced alternatives exist for quite a number of indies and classics.
But yeah, mainly those "alternatives" should be seen as the competition, not other stores. And back in the day GOG did so, and after all it's what GOG's founders started from.