Id say many of us are here for DRM free... thats the main point of GOG.
Its the same people who whinge about the regional thing all the time...

true.... basically i dont mind that regional pricing stuff, if i like the game and i can afford the price they ask for that kind of game , cause each game has price, a differnt price, no games are the same so the price i can afford to pay and will pay depends on the game itself.

Yekes, you guys down there seem to be even worse than europeans! If I sounded Passive agressive or something, my Apologies, I was literally saying to forgive the regionally priced outbursts of some users, to give them some slack.

europeans , are the worst? arent they? :D
well i am EU aswell and i dont mind if and what some people would think of me, but have no fear like i said in a reply few posts up, in a while we will be poor countries aswell, and benefit the low prices, just read the news about all the travelling around with 'gazillions' of people, so dont worry we will be 'poor' in a few years.
Yeah, i can only make funnies about it cause the government does what they are orderd to do, and have no backbones, all is being decided for them, so we cant really blame them.
Anyway back on topic: like i said the game is cool and looks good, reasons why i cant play it and thus wont get it, are already mentioned by me in that post.

Wow... there's really not much to say to this kind of shit post...
I'm sorry but is this supposed to be illogical?!

I tried the flashversion of the game and kind of liked it.
But I spent far to much money recently. So I've to put it on the wishlist for now.

It's just my promotion outfit for Hallowe'en. I'll be back to the big metal deathmachine soon enough. :)

Well, I did say 'seem to be'. I have no idea what to totally think of a bunch of text, so I'm saying what it looks like. The overgeneralising 'you guys down there' is just unwarranted. Let's just call it a misunderstanding.

It pickled my interest before actual release. I wishlisted it at that time.

it seems to be a decent game with good pixel art (cause pixel art can range from lame to great... )

but as one said in the earliest posts:
regional pricing is a turn off (for me at least)
regional pricing for indies is... meh ? wtf ? put it the ackward way you prefer

and i will refrain myself of ranting against the more and more common bad habit of selling soundtrack as separate product. GOG releases are stripped of goodies now and then. I liked the time when each game was carrying wallpapsq, soundtrack, and much other stuff (or even DECENT manual). nowadays it is installer, no manual, nothin else, and soundtrack/goodies are on separate deluxe sumthin upgrade or so on

even if i like gog policy about regional pricing (giving out the difference in store credit)
i really rarely let myself resign to buy a game when it is regionaly priced.

1) because doing so sends an encouraging message to devs/publishers that region pricing is ok despite the ranting and give them the feeling they can just keep on doing it... and it also leads to worsen negociation between them and gog and weaken gog's ability to enforvce their own policy we seemingly like ourselves (else we would all be elsewhere than in gog)

2) it weakn gog also in the fact they endure financially the difference for the sake of their/our principles

anyway i'm broke this month and already am helplessly drooling at galaxy rebel also, and maybe at many releases to come until next month's income...

so, no "kingdom" for me right now.

Then we'd get mad here in the US, because there is no VAT here. What we have is sales tax, which varies wildly and is established at the state and local levels, not nationally. I can travel less than 10 km here and pay a different tax rate for the same item in a store. Sales taxes are rarely listed as part of the item price here.

Let's use an example: I go to the grocery and pick up a jar of Nutella. The tag on the shelf says $3.99. When I go to the checkout to pay for it, a number of things can happen.

1) The grocery store's in a state that a) does not charge sales tax; or b) chooses to exempt food items (excluding restaurant food) from sales tax. I pay $3.99.

2) The grocery store is in a state that does tax food items. (Additional wrinkle: the food item sales tax may exist, but be less than the tax on non-food items.) I pay the state sales tax, plus up to two layers of additional sales taxes (county and/or city), meaning anywhere from 2-12 percent or so on top of $3.99, for a range of $4.07-$4.47.

By the way, in almost all cases the onus is on the final retail seller, not the buyer, to collect sales tax in the US. That'd be GOG, not the devs---the devs are wholesalers providing goods for resale to GOG the retailer, and sales tax does not apply to wholesalers. This is another way sales tax differs from VAT. So US devs would be responsible for corporate taxes, but they don't have to calculate/collect sales taxes for games they provide at wholesale to third parties. This is another incentive for US devs to let someone else, like GOG or Steam, handle distribution.

Now, technically there are times where you're supposed to keep up with what you "should" pay in tax for online purchases, if the seller doesn't, and file it with your state income tax return, but pretty much no one ever does.

If GOG calculated taxes the way you'd prefer, I'd pay a different total price depending on whether I made the purchase from my household IP or my work IP, which are 40 km apart.

wow... sale tax/vat sounds rather complicated out there.

here in my country, you jut got your face punched for +20.6% of the initial price (that hurts enough already)
so when i see that gog/any store geolocalized price for me is above base us price + 20.6% i just get pissed off (and usuallly allow myself to rant out loud against the greedy publisher)

VAT seems way more preferable then. VAT is a tax on consumption, right? So it's paid by the consumer and goes back to the consumer's state, right?

All in all, US buyers don't get taxed for gog games then?

I understand your VAT outrage. :) But what I'm pointing out is that for devs who are US-based, or can run through a US subsidiary, they're making extra profit at the US price because they don't have to pay VAT on their end.

If my understanding is correct, a French dev would have to pay the French govt that 20.6% VAT on what they receive from their sales to GOG. If the dev has a US subsidiary, they can contract to GOG through that subsidiary, claim wholesale, and not pay US sales tax, much less French VAT. Even allowing for US corporate taxes, the devs could set a lower US price and still make as much or more profit. I'd dearly love to know what the respective profit margins are in these cases, because I think it's entirely possible that at least some developers are making more money per sale off US customers, in which case you can argue that we're the ones overpaying. :)

No kidding. =P

Glad you grabbed the screenshot! Now fixed. :(