Games are getting too expensive. Zak McKraken alone is priced badly, back in days it would be bundled with other games, like happened with King's Quest titles.

Except that this (the OP's point) has nothing to do with introduction of different currencies on GOG, or the Russian's paying 25%. If GOG was still using USD-only system, Euro and UK users would still be paying more because of the currency exchange used by the bank. And you can always switch back to USD.

Not that I support Russians paying less, but why do people keep raising this point whenever someone asks about currency exchange...
I remember reading a comment by someone from GOG that it's because most publishers prefer using USD. Not sure where.

It's because the USD is the currency of international business. Most international trade and contracts use the dollar by default, just because it is easier and because the dollar is traditionally much more stable than most other regional currencies.

You know, I wonder if our brother across the water might embrace the idea of having one gift a code for them rather than worry about exchange rates. :)

I agree but since people will notice the changes anyway GOG might as well make the thread sticky.

Where are you getting your stats?

I've seen GOG state many time that North America is their biggest market by far, which is the reason they're opening a place in the US.

If you hate regionally priced games, wait until you learn about regionally priced text books. Here in the states a book that runs you 150, will be under 80 in the UK and under 30 in HK or Singapore english. Now time was the US book had a hard cover and that's how the textbook cartel justified it now you don't even get that.

NA may be the biggest single market, but I'm pretty sure there are more Europeans here than Americans.

That sounds quite lovely.

That still won't stop people from asking why the price has been increased. Besides, there are only so many threads that can be stickied (plus stickied threads have a tendency to be ignored :P).

Again, based on what? A gut feeling? It might be true that more regions outside the US are represented here on the forums (extremely debatable), but GOG has a customer base that is much larger thasn just the few who regularly use the forums and numbers in the millions. They have never shared any stastistics on the regional breakdown of those customers, so I don't see how you can make that claim with any semblance of accuracy or authority.

I heard about one student sued for "piracy" which purchased books in Singapore and reselled them in USA...

Well, I find it a bit worrying that the euro is that weak at the moment, but since I really don't know a lot about economy, I'll just close my eyes and hope it will only hurt a bit...

As for Gog, paying with dollars now is just cheaper than paying in euro, so I'll just go with that for the time being. Before the implementation of other currencies it used to be that way anyway. A game would be a little cheaper or more expensive on any given day, based on the currency exchange rate. It's just more apparent now.

Also, I'm not sure Gog using a different currency for reference would change anything, you would just get people from different nations complaining ;)
Only way out would be fixed prices for any given currency, and I'm not sure I would be in favor of that...

I am really quite shocked that it has lasted so long. I was expecting to see a more $1-€1-£1 rate by now.
I am not saying that the Euro or Pound are worth less then the Dollar, but I really felt that GOG would have caved to a static price point for all regions. As it is, in a month or two we may get lucky and see a slight price drop, but I would not get too excited.