when you click on the agree button, it usually means you agreed to said eula before installing the game

funny how people have this illusion that just because back in the good ol retail disk day devs and publishers couldnt realistically stop you from using their software in other ways than it was outlined in their Tos (you know that wall of text softwares asked you to agree before installing it anf what nobody ever reads) that it meant you owned the game.

You didnt, you merely owned a license to use it and nowadays devs and publishers finally have means to enforce said Terms of Service which naturally caused outrage.

very ironic in my opinion tho

people will vote with their wallet toward the service they prefer and like it or not, digital distribution is a much easier and convenient way for many of us to play our games compared to retails. You might not necessarily care about the features those services offer compared to retail ones but many of us do.

Btw many indie games still release in physical packages with disks and all that if you are so insisting on those


Bottomline is: at the end of the day its the customers who give their money to the companies and not the other way round

I fully expect that in a century's time, someone will have made a Windows 10 emulator that runs on those future machines. I would be very surprised that if that didn't happen.

That's pretty easy for me since I don't care for linux nor game on one but want drm free games, the choice is gog. However if there are exclusive games on steam that I wanna play, that then becomes a different story......and depending on how badly I wanna play it and other factors like how many layers of drm I need to go through just to finally play the damn game.........

...wait what's this about them going down under?? This is news to me.....

It is as illegal... and thus if it's the same I'd rather express my disagreement by not pay money...

Doesn't need to seem logical to you really, I really couldn't care less about what you guys think about it.

Exactly, or whatever workaround . But if the software itself has any more store-dependent mechanism, I believe there will one more issue they need to resolve if people want to get it running.

Anyway, I hope GOG will do well and I will buy games here as long as the game is sold here.

So is discrimination, too bad those laws are rarely enforced.

Imagine going to a GameStop and having your price calculated after you show them the nationality on your ID.
Do the same online and nobody bats an eye.

I agree with you though that you should rather not support such measures with any money at all, which is why I'll take an even closer look at the publisher tag now since GOG's curation didn't care about that anymore for years now, which is the really sad thing.
The FPP was a nice gesture but accepting regional pricing was the wrong approach in the first place.

True. But if GOG were bigger then they would have enough power to actually negotiate better prices. Still, EU should have made it illegal for publishers to instigate regional pricing in the first place.

When those priorities clash and they refer to the same thing, you can't agree to disagree, live and let live and so on. Support in one direction removes the chance of the other. Difference being that I demand more rights and care for customers, in more areas, and you're willing to put up with whatever.
Exactly what's going on. Ideally have a single price for all for the same product purchased from the same place, less ideally because there's no way to do it fairly but I guess tolerably have discounts for some poorer countries (never asked for any for mine, mind you, though for example the average wage here is about the same as that in Russia now I see, and they get a 70% discount in general, and let's not even talk of my earnings personally...) but have a single price for all the rest, not higher prices for some.
Hear, hear.
They tried that with Thronebreaker and then quickly put it on Steam too because CDP was very unhappy with the sales... Could work if they would do it just to attract some people, a very long game, giving up on the sales goals, but CDP won't work because they just want the money, hence GOG's situation.

Witcher isn't an 18+ game. If it were, then it would be rated AO for Adults Only, which it's not. Rather, it's rated M for Mature 17+.

GOG doesn't allow AO games unless they have been censored first before being sold on GOG.

So GOG's policy is consistent. It's not a good policy, but it is consistent.

That's not what the game card says:

"Rating:
PEGI Rating: 18+ (Bad Language, Violence)"

Could you please say that again? Wasn't one of GOG's own policies, to "Offer Uncensored games whenever possible"? And they even marked the relative wishlist entry, "in progress", years ago?

Regional Pricing/other policies being dropped is one thing, completely fooling the customers ever since the beginning is another!

Can somebody please verify/confirm?

Yeah, you demand "rights" that I don't want and are thereby campaigning to deprive me of some games that you deem unnecessary, demanding that GOG doesn't carry games that don't meet your criteria. You're effectively trying to dictate which games I should be allowed to buy on here. I play very little and buy maybe one game every two months. It is far, far more important to me to have a bigger selection of games and I'm far more willing to spend a larger amount of money to get a game I really want than have my game of choice not be available. This doesn't make me unprincipled or a lesser customer than you. I just have different priorities. The significant difference between us is that I'm not trying to insult you for yours.

How does this relate to what I said? My position is that you should decide how much money a game is worth to you and that you should buy it only if its price is less or equal, and let me do the same. You're not replying to that but instead repeating that you just don't want to let me do it.

I'm fairly certain that lots of people in the low-price regions are financially better off than me. I, too, am not representative of the general average economic prosperity of my country as I choose a minimal lifestyle. I cope. I buy games that are worth their price to me considering what I have available. Sometimes that would be even more than they cost in higher-priced regions. But I certainly don't demand no one should be allowed access to games that I deem not meeting my requirements.

You are valuing your own principles higher than mine, you're dismissing mine, and you're being overbearing and insulting over it.

That quoted post is baseless fear-mongering. Under no circumstances would that ever possibly happen.

Just because you personally hate Achievements, it doesn't change the fact that - as the person you are replying to pointed out - there is no excuse for devs to treat GOG customers like second-class citizens by removing features like Achievements from the GOG version, even though the Steam version has them.
Why are you using PEGI though? The ESRB rating is clearly not Adults Only, therefore it's not an 18+ game.
I don't know; was it?

In any case, their policy now is not to allow uncensored AO games, and that's been consistent for quite a while, i.e. they censor HuniePop, and VNs, and refused to allow Agony Unrated onto GOG because it's an AO game, etc.