Hey gog community,

I like being here, i have alot of games, and im really enjoing being here, but i just saw something wrong today, here on gog there is sign that 1€ is not 1$. Its not true, if game have low price (1,49) then costs are exactly same in both currency. Is that normal? I always bought games with euro, now i think im totally wrong.. To get a example look at the today weekend Nordic promo, where -75% games are both 1,49€<->1,49$. Regional pricing are messed up for me, or maybe im blind or something? :)

PS: i just bought a game both in € and $ (same price), and i just spared ~0,15 cents buying with $, wow, such a a mazing amount of money. Its kind of weird, i live in Europe, and i must use $ for payments, because € is unfair?

Greetings,
Shofixti

It is normal. GOG's current exchange rate is $1=€0.949. With that in mind €5.69 -75% is about €1.42, but since GOG rounds up to 9, it ends up becoming €1.49. The current real exchange rate is $1=€0.89, so till GOG updates its own currency exchange rates, you are advised to keep on paying in $.

Its make more sense now, thanks for explaining it for me, i will use $ from now on.
Too bad i dont have my own currency here, and gog team is from same country as me.

Anyway thanks again, and have a good day. :)

Well, I have a bad news for you. Whenever you see € in the price tag on the Internet, be wary of being ripped off.

Besides, while GOG exchange rates for games that are not regional ripoffs are set to be more ore less equal to price in US dollars, they're changed manually and usually not daily. So it's just better to check which currency is cheaper for you.

My advise is to pay attention to this thread. Every once in a while, it is updated with new exchange rates for the supported currencies here.

GOG originally had prices only in USD, with the same price world-wide. A year ago or do, though, they decided that introducing regional prices offered a much greater chance of seeing more games here -- primarily "AAA games" were mentioned -- and so they introduced "fair pricing" to replace "one world, one price". "Fair pricing" currently means that for some games, if you pay more than the US price (even if you change to USD, you'll still be paying your local price, just in a different currency), you get the difference back in a kind of store wallet (this wallet is separated by currency though, so if you pay in EUR one time and USD another, and fair pricing applied both times, they will not be combined).

GOG do update their non-USD prices every once in a while, in order to try and keep up with how the currencies change in value, but there's very likely to be a difference between your bank's exchange rate and the exchange rate GOG used when calculating new prices, also GOG's prices are calculated for the exchange rate at a set point in time and so does not keep perfectly up-to-date, and thirdly GOG tries to have their prices end in .49 and .99, so there's another cause for slightly different prices which is quite noticeable when talking about very low prices such as $1.49 ($0.15, as you noticed, is as much as 10% of the full value).

They should really get rid of that sign now that 1 EUR actually is more or less $1 ... Happy times for Europeans. :/

Not exactly. $1 is currently €0.9. We still have a ways to go.

I'm looking forward to the time when games on Steam will finally be cheaper for Europeans than Americans due to the $1=€1 policy. :P