What I'd like to know is why both currencies can't be used for the same purchase, like PayPal does it - each currency has its own balance n your account, yet if you're purchasing something, in one currency and you run out of money in that currency, PayPal uses funds from your other balance(s) to complete the purchase.

Why isn't something like that possible on GOG?

Indeed very useful. Thanks for that tool...

Ok, thanks for that. Still had the old discount tickets in mind... My bad

Or to prevent people speculating on exchange rates by getting credit in one currency that suddenly changes value against another, multiplying the buying power of their credit in the other currency? Admittedly this would be a pretty rare occurrence, but still, the bookkeeping on the real value against the drifting exchange rates could compound across the board over time.

No worries, I wasn't expecting confirmation or anything. Merely musing aloud as to possible factors. :)

Meridian isn't regionally priced, is it?

I don't think GOG tracks exchange rate to be able to do that? They just have prices set for each currency separately.

That's true, but I was thinking about the conversion of the credit amount. Say I have $5 USD credit, and I was to spend it as EUR. Is there a flat calculus that GOG uses so that $5 USD always equals the same value of EUR? Or do they, say, calculate what your credit is equivalent to in games, and present those choices, rather than what the current exchange value would buy? That's the issue that I wonder if they are trying to avoid, the fluid values of one currency against another.

Nope, it's flat-priced.

At least partially, yes. The USD price that I see (from a regionally priced title) is not the same price that a USA-ian sees, but I do not know if "my" USD price changes with conversion rates over time.
Your FAQ says "legal reasons".

As Cavalary said, GOG doesn't use daily exchange rates - the price of a game is set based on a fixed exchange rate. I'd expect GOG to apply the same in using different currencies from one's store credit to make a purchase.Since GOG uses fixed exchange rates, the amount in EUR is always worth the same amount in USD, no? So, why can't they do the same as PayPal? That's what I'm wondering about.

And to make it clearer, if you want to make a purchase with PayPal using your balance and you have balances in more than one currency, PayPal checks the amount you have in the currency you're trying to make a buy. If that balance is not sufficient to complete the transaction, it draws the equivalent of the missing amount from your other balance(s).


I understand this as they do need to present the store credit in two balances, just like PayPal does.
Also, the last sentence (Please keep in mind...) is a separate paragraph from the above when you read it on the FAQ page, I suspect that it's the limited formatting that put it together with the first paragraph you quoted.

When we will be able to exchange our old discount ticket for the same amount in store credit?
I contacted the support long ago and they said you were working on in and even asked my discount ticket codes, but I never heard from them again.

True, I wasn't overly bothered about that though.