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Posted January 05, 2022
hi, i think about buying thief simulator cause i find it 70% off by cheapshark.com (my fav search engine after closure of magog engine - recomended!). -> https://www.cheapshark.com/browse?storeID=6&title=thief%20simulator

there is shown price of $5,99 (70% of $19,99) and the same with using other finders.
but on gog i can see $6,77 (70% of $22,57).

so, is this cause of regional pricing? i dont understand it because these agregators should work with default prices, shouldnt they??

thanks for explanation and have a nice whole new year!
Post edited January 05, 2022 by flanner
This question / problem has been solved by Mortius1image
Posted January 05, 2022
A query to return pricing for a given country for Thief Simulator is:
https://api.gog.com/products/2020235723/prices?countryCode=CZ

The Czech Republic gets regional pricing that is natively a Euro. The price in GOG is 5.99 Euro. Using GOG's internal exchange rate, this works out at 6.77 USD, which is the figure you see.

As far as the pricing returned by CheapShark is concerned, it appears to be using regionless/US pricing. Plug in US to the URL given above and you get $5.99.

So yes, your aggregator of choice works with default prices, which isn't necessarily the price you see. Dealing with 150+ possible regions is too much of a pain, so most support a limited selection of not bother at all.


If you want an aggregator that handles regional pricing, try Is There Any Deal. Just be aware it will be Euro centric, as that is how GOG defines the regional pricing.
Post edited January 05, 2022 by Mortius1
Posted January 05, 2022
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flanner: so, is this cause of regional pricing?
Yes. Thief Simulator has a base price of 19.99$ and 19.99€. That's effectively a -11% price cut for the US:
https://isthereanydeal.com/game/thiefsimulator/compare/
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flanner: i dont understand it because these agregators should work with default prices, shouldnt they??
I've never heard of CheapShark before, but evidently it's displaying American prices and just doing currency conversion when selecting prices in euro.

See if you have better luck with https://gg.deals -- I mostly use it because GOG doesn't have any sort of useful advanced search that lets me find games by current price. Though GG.deals is not aware of many games on GOG (or at least that they're on sale right now).
Posted January 05, 2022
wow, so, in czech republic we are richer than US citizens on average and the same as swiss ppl :-)

thanks guys, i have to deal with it
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