Probably unnecessary, since Poland is part of the EU, The german government, or even a german private party could very probably sucessfully sue them in Poland.

What I think most of all can agree on, is that the region locking is a necessary if unfortunate act on GOG's part to legally cover their asses, if they start catering explicitly to german consumers.

So the question should be if the potential market share they might gain from this is really worth the loss of freedom.

Germany is a country that is still doing well financially speaking, There is a ton of German income that will flow in here and the lack of ability to buy a handful of the games here (three out of close to nine hundred) is pretty much the cost of doing buisness for GoG.

yeah, but then there are HumbleBundles and Steam-Sales... :)

I kinda itch to say that "told ya". You open Pandora's box and the next thing you see is that every crappy thing is out.

Which they shouldn't.

Hmmm, pretty sad to see Commandos Regional-Locked...
...anyways, we have to fight these laws! They are the ones that have to be banned!
That´s right, there is no real need for a translation of the side or even the installers---GOG uses such everyday-PC-English near to every PC user does know!

I still don't understand which law they should use to sue GOG?

It's not forbidden to import banned games or to buy uncensored versions from foreign shops. Unless they are not located in Germany there is not much that could happen to GOG.

So do we. ;)

But seriously, I'm just pointing out that for a country beaten down by two World Wars, Germany sure is a powerhouse.


But not burnt. So, progress!

Is there still hope inside? :(

If you do a significant business or presence in a country, you are considered to be doing buisness there. Before e launch of the German language storefront gog could claim the sales were incidental. Now that they have a dedicated storefront their lawyers have advised them to do this or risk being sued. And gog isn't anywhere the size of steam and really probably couldn't absorb another suit right now.

What? I can sue everyone for everything I imagine but that doesn't mean I will get my way with it (in fact, I shouldn't get my way with it). Also, I can illegally download half of the copyrighted content in USA overnight and the worst it can do to me is to request extradition. You can't penalise subjects that are not under your area of jurisdiction without explicit consent of appropriate area of jurisdiction. Nobody can forbid an Australian to come to Poland and buy banned game. The funny thing is, unless something changed recently or I'm completely mistaken, this concept applies to online shops in Poland since in Polish law there is no such thing as an "online shop". Government couldn't be arsed to create laws for online shops so they work with laws for normal shops. (but like I said, I could be mistaken here)

I can give you banks forbidding transactions to gog and removing them from google search for countries in question, which would be bad but in an indirect way. I still don't see how they could do any direct damage.

And discounted only in Russia.

Three's the charm?

Well if that's the case they should turn off the German version of the site immediately. Don't know why it should be neccessary anyway. About 90% of the Germans should understand enough English to have no problems with any English storefront.