yinhh: There is a post that has been widely circulated which teaches people to preorder Witcher 3 for $15 by tricking the gog website to think you are buying from Ukraine. It is on reddit, slickdeals, etc. You might want to disable regional pricing until you figure out a way to fix this.

Or at least revoke their purchases based on IP they usually logged on with.

stg83: There is no real way to fix this without imposing region locking of games like Steam which isn't possible here because GOG is DRM Free. IP based blocking will make legitimate customers from Russian/CIS territories complain about it as GOG can't differentiate between actual customers and those abusing the system.

This is a natural consequence of regional pricing and open to exploitation by anyone using VPN to hide their real location. Another pitfall that could have been avoided had GOG stuck to its original principle of flat worldwide pricing.

stg83: Then what about customers that travel to Russia for a short period of time and are in their rights to buy the game at the designated regional pricing, should they be locked out from purchasing games using credit cards from their own country's banks?

ThePunishedSnake: GOG should be able to sort that out, just put on a quick customer ad hoc service, only related to situation like this, so they can be solved quickly.

stg83: How will GOG's customer service differentiate between which customers are actually in Russia and those that are being dishonest about it while using a VPN.?

Foxhack: Is the purchaser using a payment method with a Russian address?

No?

Then block the sale.

P1na: I can only hope keeping me as a customer is more beneficial to them.

stg83: I am referring to customers traveling to Russia for a small period of time not residents, read this post. It definitely is, as long as you keep buying and promoting Deus Ex. ;)

PalioDeMonte: I don't see the reason why I should care about this at all .

P1na: Honestly, they are the ones who wanted regional pricing. I say, deal with it. And if in order to deal with it they enforce regional locking, I'l leave GOG.

Pheace: Does preventing gifting of a game in those regions count? Because they prevented gifts from being bought for the Witcher 3 from those regions.