You do realise that you can't compare the cost of actual physical goods with that of digital ones, right?

Not to mention that regional pricing in the game industry is completely arbitrary.

Well...im not comparing costs. Im comparing the change in pricing between objects found in one country or another. See by finding the DIFFERENCE in average costs and knowing that pwrcent i can compare how ARBITRARY they are. All i have is the word of you they're arbitrary.

I like doing research.

This does not make sense.
The difference is way higher inside my own country which has places 1000km apart (Flensburg -> Konstanz) than between here and the next town behind the next border.
Bread does cost multiple times as much in Monaco as in Ukraine (or Germany) for example, but they have to pay the same at GoG, which is way more than the Russians have to although Moscow is surely richer than many parts of the Balkan region. It wouldn't even make sense only related to the nationality, but it's completely arbitrary anyway.

Not that it's sensible comparing digital goods with bread by the way...

Yay people taking examples literally!
All im asking is about the PERCANTAGE not the COST between two different things. This is about finding the average change in price between currancies when compared to one another. Not the average COST of an item. This isn't about which is cheaper and has nothing to do with the actual product.

Looks pretty nice. Wishlisted for now.

I fight the regional pricing by buying the game only when it has deep enough discount that I find the price agreeable to me. Currently I find the price maybe a bit too high for this kind of game (with or without regional pricing).

Here's an example then - you can get a loaf of bread (~500g) for $0.50, but you can also get a loaf of bread (same weight) for $1 or even a bit higher.

OMG this looks beautiful, has a very Evil Genius vibe, one of my most favorite games!

Definitely buying this soon.

You know I don't want this argument. Especially since i haven't even said gog was right or wrong. I was just curious about pricing discrepancies and seeing through the hyperbole.
But it doesn't matter. Your all just coming off as whiny entiled brats.

I agree with you and your sounding like whiny children.

You can't see it as long as you are not affected. And as someone from the USA, you will never be affected (US price is the base price).

I will put your belittling aside, and ask you an honest question. In your reply to me you said:

I gave you the range of prices for a loaf of bread of certain weight. I have no idea how much it costs or how the cost varies in the US. Since you do, why was that not a valid example for the comparison you said you wanted to make?

When I see the leaps made to justify not paying for shit, it makes me want to support DRM like the new thing for Lords of the Fallen.
Like everything else in the world that depends on purchasing power.

Looks fun, but cost too much IMO. This same game on mobile would only cost like 5 bucks.

It works if you're a recurring customer of GOG. However, I don't buy so many games, I generally hold out. To me, shop credit is not of good value, because I never know when I will get to spend it. As a result, I only see higher prices now. Nobody likes price increases, especially for digital goods that are cheaper elsewhere.

I think people here like to bring this up all the time so that it isn't forgotten and mistaken for acceptance.

For simplicity, I am ignoring several factors that don't really matter (e.g., GOG's cut, dev cut vs publisher cut, exactly which business sends the VAT check, etc.). All VAT rates are from . (Want to check my math? [url=http://vatcalconline.com/]Here's a VAT calculator.)

Customer in US pays $20 (or more when sales tax is taken into account). Dev gets $20. (Note that in the US, the customer and not the business is generally responsible for the payment of any sales tax for online sales. And even in those cases where the business is responsible for collection {physical presence in the given state}, this is made transparent because the business will advertise the price without sales tax and sales tax will be added on as an explicit amount in the bill - the customer is responsible for knowing the sales tax in their state and thus what will be charged. Note not only the transparency, but the fairness inherent in this system -- the people who benefit from the tax pay the tax. The people living in Florida (and running a business there) do not benefit from Kentucky's collected taxes, so the people in Florida [and other states/countries] don't need to pay for Kentucky's taxes -- the people in Kentucky do.)

UK VAT is 20%. In order for the dev to get their $20, they have to charge $24 (which converted and then rounded to the nearest psychological ".99" number in the native currency is £14.99).

Same as UK - VAT is 20% in France, the dev "should" be charging the Frenchies $24. $22.59 is a deal. (In fact, this isn't even a "due to rounding" deal - 18.99 euros would still be less than $24, so they did not need to go to the lower price of 17.99 just to get the ".99" - they just gave the Frenchies a better deal for other reasons.)

VAT in Germany is 19%. In order for the dev to get their $20 they would have to charge $23.80 for the game. $22.59 is a deal. (Instead of a tiny rounding up to 18.99 euros they went with a much larger rounding down to 17.99.)

VAT in Poland is 23%. In order for the dev to get their $20 they would have to charge $24.60 for the game. $22.59 is a deal. (Even more "rounding down" going on here than for France.)

Australia - no VAT. Dev gets their $20 by charging $20 (rounded to the nearest psychological ".99" in terms of $AUD.)

If EU citizens want VAT, then they should pay for it - that is only fair. (And if you don't like the higher prices, then get rid of VAT. You can't have it both ways.)

In fact, due to GOG's (un)"fair pricing policy" (giving of GOG credit which math says on the business side has to be made-up financially somewhere else), money collected from people in some non-EU countries (like the US) is being used to subsidize the whiny self-entitled math-challenged little bitches in the EU (as well as those in the EU who are not whiny self-entitled math-challenged little bitches, though those EU-ians don't seem to speak up so much in the GOG forums on the topic of regional pricing - do they exist? I want to believe! I really do!). And even when they are being subsidized (and therefore getting a better deal than the US) they still keep whining! Just shut the fuck up already!

And note that even though the GOG credit subsidy may not apply to those few that really have no use for GOG credit, that does not negate the existence of VAT and the need of the dev (and/or publisher and/or GOG) to pay it, and therefore a "true" one-world pricing would just make that same VAT-subsidization apply all the time -- and this is what all the whiners want. (An explicit VAT-add -- everyone getting the same base price but applicable taxes added on to that would be fair, but I haven't heard the whiners calling for that.)

(And for those replying -- if I don't get around to responding to your reply, note that it will be because your reply is simply not worthy of a response. It's really sad that I can know in advance that there will be a multitude of such replies, and that the truth is made so unwelcome {and thus scarce} on the GOG forums, but I personally will not bend to other people's stupidity so when I choose to speak, the truth it shall be. Now go ahead and spew stupidity about how it's only "fair" that I subsidize your taxes while you do not subsidize mine.)

So basically you wait for a sale? Seems reasonable to me.