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/ ? c Z m f r n b (join the spaces)

Petition all you want but GOG made their reasoning clear a month or more ago. If you want this support to continue, have you considered applying?

They did? I'm kind of jealous :P

Do Germany next, do Germany next! *jumps, waves* Its actually users speculating if its either the Brazilian economy or lack of native speaking employees or a special type of government taxes + links that end up on 404 gogbear and google translates which describe the situation but with gog not making their reasoning why clear at all. *sigh* And I was all ready for some good morning yesteryears coffee klatsch :P

This is sad, but was to be expected. Geopolitically, Brazil is huge, and it's mostly because of Brazil that the Portuguese language is one of the top 5 most spoken languages in the world (+200 million native speakers, versus the roughly 12 million ones we have in Portugal -- which will be down to ~8 million by 2025, if the birth-to-mortality rate doesn't radically change), but GOG is a company and deals with revenue, income and market share. South America is supposedly a meager 3% of GOG's world market, and Brazil is an even smaller share of that already ridiculously small percentage. It's not viable for GOG to maintain a Brazilian domain and waste time and money on a market that just isn't there -- and probably never will be. Brazil has a lot of people, for sure, but it's also going through one of the roughest periods of its history, economically speaking, and most Brazilians who game on the PC will still buy games on Nuuvem or whatever's the cheapest option for them, instead of GOG. Because as soon as the big publishers forced GOG to drop worldwide "fair pricing" and take up a regional pricing model, GOG immediately stopped being a cheap option for Brazilian customers. Another thing to bear in mind is that South America, in general, and Brazil, in particular, have pretty... lenient laws concerning copyright, and it's not just a coincidence that Brazil is one of the countries in the world with the highest rate of piracy (alongside Russia, for different reasons), which means the probability of the ordinary Brazilian PC gamer being a pirate and not buying games on GOG, Steam, or any other digital distributor is extremely high.

The only viable "solution" for this, that I can think of, is if GOG launches a .pt domain and merges the Brazilian and Portuguese markets under the umbrella of a Portuguese (language) store. I say this because Portugal has a much bigger percentage of GOG market share than Brazil -- even though still pretty small, in the European scope of things. This still wouldn't address the price issues, and Brazilian customers would still end up having to pay a ridiculous expensive amount of money for their games, because of regional pricing and the downright absurd international video game distribution policies Brazil enforces. But at least you'd still have a working forum in Portuguese, a fully localized storefront, with gamecards and descriptions in Portuguese.

For the record, and let's make this crystal clear, GOG isn't "leaving" Brazil. Brazilians can still access GOG.com and purchase games like everyone else; the Brazilian GOG employees even made sure to state that Brazilians can still set the price to R$ (BRL) and that PT-BR GOG Support will continue to be a thing. All that's ending is the .br domain; a PT-BR storefront; PT-BR GOG forums; PT-BR game pages, descriptions and news. GOG isn't suddenly vanishing from Brazil, which is what this petition makes it sound like.

^ Surely Brazilians have to be benefiting from regional pricing, no? Like Russians, although perhaps not quite as much? Are they really paying more for their games than people in the US?

EDIT:
I decided to stop being lazy and check it out myself: if MaGOG is to be believed (and I'm not sure if it's still updated), Brazilian prices are on average 41% lower than US prices. It's primarily EU countries (and some of its neighbours) that have to deal with increased prices.

For the most part they do, yeah. But there's a few rather-high-profile games that don't apply any discount to them, while they do on Steam, so there's some complaints from time to time.

Ah yes, online petitions. More complicated but sure to get the same results as a piece of paper saying:

"Dear [insert company name],

please ignore all signatures below and keep doing what you do.

Sincerely,
some dudes and dudettes from the interweb."

I see, so the main complaint from the Brazilians is that the regional pricing isn't always enforced, rather than that GOG has regional pricing to begin with.