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Erekoze: It's true when sending gifts to an email like now. But why I can't choose friend from my friends list? That way they see my account and account that gift goes to. Both accounts from same region? Regional price. Regions differ? Maximum price, or higher price of one of that regions.
You are right, this is how it should be, but it probably won't happen for a long time, if at all. You could vote for this suggestion on the community wishlist (Gift games to friends, Direct gift with regional price of recipient), but unfortunately GOG is not very good at implementing new features that are useful and asked for by the community in a timely fashion.
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: But the real problem is that regional pricing is unfair and discriminatory and should not exist. The problem you mentioned is just a sub-problem of that main one.

The OP & others are absolutely right to complain about it. Regional pricing should be abolished, and so should lootbox gambling sales, and all other unethical things in which GOG participates.
Totally agree. If a thing has a value to its seller, it has a value. That value is determined by the seller based on their expense and desire for profit. It shouldn't fluctuate based on where the item is sold, because that depends on people to pay more than the market value in some places to make up for people paying less than the market value in others, or raising the market value overall to accommodate the lesser sales income from other regions. Why should Australia, the EU or the US have to make up for sales in Russia, Singapore or South America?
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pds41: The problem would be that they don't know who you want to give the game to at the time you buy it.
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Erekoze: It's true when sending gifts to an email like now. But why I can't choose friend from my friends list? That way they see my account and account that gift goes to. Both accounts from same region? Regional price. Regions differ? Maximum price, or higher price of one of that regions.
That would work; given the push towards profiles, it might be something that GoG decide to bring in.