Tallima: Most folks still shop here and the regional pricing, although not great, has allowed some new publishers on board (I bet Disney's in that camp). And GOG did an awesome thing by paying it back in store credit. That's huge. And settles it in my book. But I am from the US, so I admit that it's not at the tip of my thoughts day-to-day.
PaterAlf: Disney is not in the camp. All their games came here flat-priced (before the whole catalogue got the regional discount for some Ex-Soviet states). Same goes for Warner and Paradox. Most of the regional pricing (besides Devolver, Daedalic and CDPR themself who were all fine with flat prices in the past) is done by indie developers.
So no, regional pricing didn't help to bring new publishers on board (or at least I can't see that effect).
Well, shoot. That does seem to be a bugger.
Are most regional-priced gamer people ok with GOG's refunding the difference in store credit? Obviously, that's not optimal, but it seems like a fair trade-off for more devs. That said, there's only a few games I have ever purchased here that were regionally priced.
When they stopped one fair price, I went crazy. I thought it was horrible. But their response, for me, seemed like a good middle-ground. But again, my prices are what sets the standard, so being the "privileged elite" hardly makes my opinion matter.
jdjones1966: ...it really was forced on the clientele and took over immediately as the primary way to download an install games.
I know we still have the GOG Downloader, but that is destined for the scrap heap ... downloading the files outside of Galaxy with or without the Downloader has become cumbersome at best.
mobutu: I really don't understand what's so hard in clicking a link to download a file inside of any browser.
start browser, gog-login, gog-account, click game then click on files to download them. Run .exe
I've been doing this for ages (seems like) and I didn't even downloaded and installed galaxy, yet. I'm pretty sure I'll give it a try, maybe next year or so when it'll be more polished/stable but for now I download my games from gog the old way. And it works.
For most of my GOG days, I could not DL from the web. It almost never worked. I would either get checksum errors or the file would just stop downloading.
I got a download helper utility and that didn't help me either.
I don't know what my problem was, but the downloader solved it.