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I am a GOGer, I comes from China Mainland.

Because of DRM-FREE Torchlight and Heroes of Might and Magic 3, I got to know GOG and its DRM-FREE polices, and bought some DRM-FREE games on it. Such as ys_origin、ys_i_ii_chronicles、The legend of heroes trails in the sky and so on.

last year. Steam has supported Chinese-Yuan purchase, In China-Mainland, almost every games you can purchase is cheaper than in US dollar region. Now, more Chinese people are willing to buy games on Steam.

Will GOG Support Simplified-Chinese and Chinese-Yuan purchase?

there are many Chinese people want GOG to support Alipay.
could you vote for this wishlist?

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/alipay_support_asias_paypal
Post edited March 28, 2016 by jiangshanruhua
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jiangshanruhua: I am a GOGer, I comes from China Mainland.

Because of DRM-FREE Torchlight and Heroes of Might and Magic 3, I got to know GOG and its DRM-FREE polices, and bought some DRM-FREE games on it. Such as ys_origin、ys_i_ii_chronicles、The legend of heroes trails in the sky and so on.

last year. Steam has supported Chinese-Yuan purchase, In China-Mainland, almost every games you can purchase is cheaper than in US dollar region. Now, more people are willing to buy games on Steam.

Will GOG Support Simplified-Chinese and Chinese-Yuan purchase?
more people wanting regional pricing... :/
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jiangshanruhua: I am a GOGer, I comes from China Mainland.

Because of DRM-FREE Torchlight and Heroes of Might and Magic 3, I got to know GOG and its DRM-FREE polices, and bought some DRM-FREE games on it. Such as ys_origin、ys_i_ii_chronicles、The legend of heroes trails in the sky and so on.

last year. Steam has supported Chinese-Yuan purchase, In China-Mainland, almost every games you can purchase is cheaper than in US dollar region. Now, more people are willing to buy games on Steam.

Will GOG Support Simplified-Chinese and Chinese-Yuan purchase?
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Bigs: more people wanting regional pricing... :/
Everyone wants cheaper prices, no one wants to pay more. Trouble is, for everyone who get cheaper-than-baseline prices, someone's going to get a higher price to make up for the lost revenue.
Post edited March 28, 2016 by Maighstir
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Bigs: more people wanting regional pricing... :/
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Maighstir: Everyone wants cheaper prices, no one wants to pay more. Trouble is, for everyone who get cheaper-than-baseline prices, someone's going to get a higher price to make up for the lost revenue.
Russian People enjoy the cheapest prices on the earth...
and GOG support Russian Ruble purchase...
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jiangshanruhua: Russian People enjoy the cheapest prices on the earth...
and GOG support Russian Ruble purchase...
Take a look at these:

https://twitter.com/CrazyinRussia/status/713927278623850496
https://twitter.com/CrazyinRussia/status/713431690530721793
https://twitter.com/CrazyinRussia/status/713429400180637696
https://twitter.com/CrazyinRussia/status/713109825371168768
https://twitter.com/CrazyinRussia/status/712679674938331136

This is why Russia gets lower prices and we're barely scratching the surface. :P
Another thread saying that they want GOG to be more like Steam?...
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jiangshanruhua: Russian People enjoy the cheapest prices on the earth...
and GOG support Russian Ruble purchase...
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MaximumBunny: Take a look at these:

https://twitter.com/CrazyinRussia/status/713927278623850496
https://twitter.com/CrazyinRussia/status/713431690530721793
https://twitter.com/CrazyinRussia/status/713429400180637696
https://twitter.com/CrazyinRussia/status/713109825371168768
https://twitter.com/CrazyinRussia/status/712679674938331136

This is why Russia gets lower prices and we're barely scratching the surface. :P
我可以把这理解为对俄罗斯人的恶搞吗?
我觉得大多数俄罗斯人的生活应该和普通中国人的生活差不多,都不是特别富裕;
Post edited March 28, 2016 by jiangshanruhua
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ValamirCleaver: Another thread saying that they want GOG to be more like Steam?...
No, don't need to become the second Steam, Just improve Chinese User's experience.
In other words.
reduce the difficulty of Chinese game player' Payment.
almost every Chinese youth have an Alipay account rather than paypal or visa credit card...
Are there enough Chinese gamers who are interested to buy games from GOG?
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Azhdar: Are there enough Chinese gamers who are interested to buy games from GOG?
of course.
China is the Biggest Emerging Game Markets.
Many Chinese gamers are willing to buy game on Steam.
Because Steam support Chinese-Yuan purchase and has more cheaper prices.
So why can't GOG do it?
Post edited March 28, 2016 by jiangshanruhua
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Name is Wong. Sum Ting Wong.
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jiangshanruhua: No, don't need to become the second Steam, Just improve Chinese User's experience.
If you don't want GOG "to become the second Steam" then why did you bother to mention it above?
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jiangshanruhua: last year. Steam has supported Chinese-Yuan purchase, In China-Mainland, almost every games you can purchase is cheaper than in US dollar region. Now, more Chinese people are willing to buy games on Steam.
In other words. reduce the difficulty of Chinese game player' Payment. almost every Chinese youth have an Alipay account rather than paypal or visa credit card...
I don't believe that it's fair for you to expect GOG members from most of the rest of the world to subsidize the purchases of those who would purchase in PRC Yuan which is most likely what would happen it something like this would come to pass.
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jiangshanruhua: No, don't need to become the second Steam, Just improve Chinese User's experience.
If you don't want GOG "to become the second Steam" then why did you bother to mention it above?
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jiangshanruhua: last year. Steam has supported Chinese-Yuan purchase, In China-Mainland, almost every games you can purchase is cheaper than in US dollar region. Now, more Chinese people are willing to buy games on Steam.

In other words. reduce the difficulty of Chinese game player' Payment. almost every Chinese youth have an Alipay account rather than paypal or visa credit card...
I don't believe that it's fair for you to expect GOG members from most of the rest of the world to subsidize the purchases of those who would purchase in PRC Yuan which is most likely what would happen if something like this would come to pass.

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jiangshanruhua: Because Steam support Chinese-Yuan purchase and has more cheaper prices.
Here we go again, most other members of GOG would most likely be charged higher prices to make up for the difference in revenue brought about by allowing payments in PRC Yuan.
Post edited March 28, 2016 by ValamirCleaver

In other words. reduce the difficulty of Chinese game player' Payment. almost every Chinese youth have an Alipay account rather than paypal or visa credit card...
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ValamirCleaver: I don't believe that it's fair for you to expect GOG members from most of the rest of the world to subsidize the purchases of those who would purchase in PRC Yuan which is most likely what would happen it something like this would come to pass.
why Russian can ...
It's fair too?
In my opinion, even if GOG don't want to set a Chinese-Yuan region for China user.
could GOG support Alipay?
I have money on Alipay, But GOG can't gain it from my Alipay pocket.
again.
almost every Chinese youth have an Alipay account rather than paypal or visa credit card
Post edited March 28, 2016 by jiangshanruhua
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Azhdar: Are there enough Chinese gamers who are interested to buy games from GOG?
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jiangshanruhua: of course.
China is the Biggest Emerging Game Markets.
Many Chinese gamers are willing to buy game on Steam.
Because Steam support Chinese-Yuan purchase and has more cheaper prices.
So why can't GOG do it?
They would probably consider this someday, but maybe not very soon. They've been focusing on Europe and North America (and Australia/New Zealand) so far, and they still only support 4 languages and 5 currencies...and it's been around a year since they rolled out support for their newest language (Russian). There's been some indication that Portuguese will be one of the next languages they will support, and I think Spanish would probably be a priority, as well. Both of these are European languages that would also open up the South and Central American market to them. Not as large a market as China, but then, GOG is not a very big company (yet).
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jiangshanruhua: of course.
China is the Biggest Emerging Game Markets.
Many Chinese gamers are willing to buy game on Steam.
Because Steam support Chinese-Yuan purchase and has more cheaper prices.
So why can't GOG do it?
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HunchBluntley: They would probably consider this someday, but maybe not very soon. They've been focusing on Europe and North America (and Australia/New Zealand) so far, and they still only support 4 languages and 5 currencies...and it's been around a year since they rolled out support for their newest language (Russian). There's been some indication that Portuguese will be one of the next languages they will support, and I think Spanish would probably be a priority, as well. Both of these are European languages that would also open up the South and Central American market to them. Not as large a market as China, but then, GOG is not a very big company (yet).
It's a sad news...
DRM-FREE is so attractive and I prefer GOG than Steam.
I'm willing to pay more money to support GOG rather than Steam.
And I have no paypal.
Every times I have to seek some shopping-agents to buy game then they send to me.
Post edited March 28, 2016 by jiangshanruhua