Rally the russians! They are our salvation from that overpricing mess...

I'm only being charged $39.99/$44.99 here in little old England. Perhaps those numbers would change if I actually tried to make a purchase otherwise I fear the information you've been given might be slightly inaccurate. Or Gog changed the price overnight.

I'm Russian, forgive me... :P

But seriously, does anybody here know how all of these "regional prices" form and WHO does it? Is it Triumph or GOG or someone else?
I was always especially weak in ecomonic theory so I REALLY don't understand this strange mechanism... Prices seem slightly... ehm, unbalanced, I don't know.

Funny, the only ones who get a discount are Russia and GOG's home country Poland.

Congratulations GOG and Triumph, that's really regional pricing done right! :-(

Oh man, did Uruguay get kicked out of the continent again?

Hi, guy from Switzerland here: It's only on GoG where I can buy stuff in USD prices. On Steam we have to pay the same prices in € like germans etc. And don't get me started on prices in game-shops, we pay like +70USD for a PS3 game, and that's considered cheap.

I checked a popular online store: Age of Wonders 3 costs 45 Chf, thats about Usd 50, and that's the regular edition. Wanna know what Diablo 3's expansion collectors edition costs? Friggin 109 chf, and that's the cheapest price at the time.

By the way, Russians, Ukranians, Belorussians and Polish are almost identical genetically... The memory of blood comes into play.

Also from Switzerland. My experience has been that the Swiss price is calculated by a double/triple conversion. Eg. one case I experienced myself:

US $50 (well, 49.95) = € 50 = (at that time) ~chf 65 = US $ 77

What fun...

^ So true! AAA console games are sold for 90 usd in Switzerland.

Seems to be a discrepancy between the prices listed on the "Age of Wonders games on GoG.com" side panel and the actual pre-order price on the game's page.

I'm seeing £$39.99 for the Standard Edition and $44.99 for the Deluxe Edition on the side panel, but the actual pre-order prices from the game pages are £29.99 ($50.04) for the Standard Edition and £34.99 ($58.39) for the Deluxe Edition.

UK here too, by the way.

Looking at this list I would say that the correlation of purchase power and regional price is not that high. They have set the price too high for a lot of not very rich countries in Africa, East Europe and South America while Japan, Switzerland, ... profit from low prices that might not be justified.

Is this fairer than worldwide equal prices? Difficult to say because the answer depends on what an equivalent worldwide equal price would be: $40 or higher or lower?

Yeah, the reason for Russian pricing is pretty simple. It's the same idiotic way to think that marketing somehow still manages to get paid for:
Some company tried selling their game cheaper in Russia, and surprise, surprise, more people bought it. Since Russia therefore has more buying customers, it's worth it to sell it cheaper.
In other words: They sold more games by making them cheaper. They understand it's the way to go in Russia, but are somehow blind to the fact that the same would happen in most other countries. It's maddening.

P.S.: I hate regional pricing, but don't dislike the idea of Russians getting games at an affordable rate.

Where did you get Croatia price? I'm from Croatia, and my prices are: 39.99$ and 44.99$.

That beeing said, I do think it is somewhat strange, as I have higher price in other stores (usualy 1$ = 1€).

Serbia: $39.99/$44.99 (for now, maybe they might change to euros :S)

I'm from Brazil and the prices are shown as $39.99/$44.99.