Gog were looking for someone to help them establish themselves on the Brazilian market some time ago so I don't find it unlikely that they would add the real to their list of supported currencies. That said gog is known to take its time getting things done (common forum meme: gog will do it Soon™) so don't expect it in the near future.

Maybe if they contacted "Boa Compra" they could get things done. But there are other ways, anyway.

With pleasure. :)

Your opening post in this thread gave me the impression that you were complaining because, since GOG doesn't support BRL, you were forced to buy your games in USD and hence to pay a conversion fee. I didn't realize your problem was your inability to get a credit card, and in fact I assumed you had other alternatives available to you: debit cards, pre-paid cards, PayPal, etc. (which incidentally seems to be true, judging by DaCostaBR's replies).

So, since I thought you were complaining about the currency conversion fees and you were intentionally disregarding the favourable regional pricing you enjoy in Brazil, I replied with a bitter remark: And from your reply to that remark...

...I incorrectly deduced you thought that there could only be regional pricing if different currencies were involved (which is obviously not the case). That's where I thought you were terribly naïve for thinking the prices you see in your browser (in USD) are the same prices Americans (or any other user from a region with a currency not yet accepted by GOG) see and have to pay for the same product. And so I further replied with an even snarkier comment:

Which was certainly uncalled for, and for which I sincerely apologize after realizing I was wrong about your appreciation of the subject at hand.

No, they aren't. Not at all. But of course you think they are, because you are on the favourable end of the regional pricing scheme. That's also part of human nature, I think. :P

I really couldn't tell. But certainly many in the GOG staff do, and I like to think they do (or at least have the means to) pass these kind of complaints/suggestions/observations on to them.

PS: And of course, I agree with you it would be beneficial for both Brazilian gamers and GOG if they supported BRL. But be careful with what you wish... Whenever GOG adds BRL as an accepted currency (and they eventually will, judging by that job opening MightyPinecone mentioned earlier), they will do just like with the other currencies and will periodically update the prices in BRL according to the current exchange rate between USD and BRL. This means that, should the BRL get weaker with respect to the USD, you'll see all the prices go up (in BRL) in order to reflect the new exchange rate between currencies. Now, Steam doesn't work this way: the way I understand it, they fixed the exchange rates some time in the past, and they pretend exchange rates haven't changed a bit ever since then. So, in the hypothetical scenario I just described, you'll find that the same game will be significantly cheaper in Steam than here in GOG(*).

(*) Incidentally, this is exactly what's happening now between USD and CAD. Up until GOG added a new batch of supported currencies (CAD among them), a week wouldn't pass without a couple of Canadian Goggers complaining about the conversion fees they were forced to pay as a result of GOG not supporting CAD. GOG finally decided to support CAD, and what do we have now? Canadians complaining about "being ripped off" (sic) because the prices in CAD on GOG are quite higher than in Steam. :\

Weird, I've never used a VPN nor been in the United Kingdoms.

Also, now when I checked the GBP is gone. Might have been a bug or it was just an option before they added SEK.

Unless there is an exception for Brazil, you should be able to link your bank account (not your debit card!) to PayPal so that whenever you authorize a payment through PayPal they withdraw the money from your bank account and transfer it to e.g. GOG...

Indeed it was. :)


Nope. I'm from Western Europe, where not only we don't have advantageous prices, but we systematically have to pay more than the orignal price in USD for them. Ridiculous.

Yeah, I'm aware of GOG's fair price package, and it's pretty nice of GOG to do so, but it's the principle that counts. And the principle stinks: flat pricing used to be one of GOG's foundational pillars (alongside DRM-freedom), but it was removed recently under the excuse that it would only affect a small subset of GOG's catalog, and that it would allow for nothing short of a flood of AAA titles. Fast forward to the present, and what do we have? Almost every single game that gets released here, no matter how big or small, comes along with a regional price. And while during the last 12 months there have been a good deal of spectacular or unexpected releases, most of them have been (good) old games, but I'm yet to see a day-one AAA release here.
What's even worse, there was at least a case (I'd swear it was either Pony Island or Undertale) where the dev revealed that when asked for prices by GOG, he/she replied with a flat price and that GOG explicitly asked for regional pricing (!!!). The fuck.


PS: Just to avoid further confusion, I'll say I'm aware that after all I'm quite privileged, and that things are much tougher for people in many other parts of the world. I'm totally cool with discounts for selected countries and regions with lower incomes, I really am (although, as I've said before in this forum, I totally plan on taking full advantage of the system should I ever travel to Russia or South America for work :P). But what I'm not cool AT ALL is with having to pay more, only just because. Even if I was filthy rich (which of course I'm not), why the hell should I have to pay for a game more than what the author decided it's worth? There's nothing that can justify that.

I have a debit card linked to my PayPal account. Have you actually tried linking yours and had it rejected, or are you just assuming that only a credit card will work?

He already made it clear that it was the currency, not the price, that he was concerned with. Not sure what the point of all that ^ was, but I hope it made you feel better, getting that out of your system. :)

I know. I initially misunderstood him, but I still felt like ranting about regional pricing, especially after thiagodalbo said he thought it was fair. And no, it isn't and it never will. Unless we end up in a global, Orwellian society where private companies have access to all of our private data, and they know exactly what we own and what we earn so they can individually taylor their prices to each and every one of our cases (and frankly in that case the least of my concerns would be what I have to pay for digital videogames).