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Posted August 21, 2015
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Cavalary: b) Kindly explain to me why Russia's poor (well, all Russians, but anyway, let's go with that) deserve a discount but India's poor or Nigeria's poor or Vietnam's or Sudan's or Haiti's etc. don't. If you give a discount based on that, then give it to all of Africa too, and to most of Asia (excepting Japan and South Korea, probably), and to South America, and to likely all small island nations, and to Eastern Europe, and to Mexico, and now to Greece too...
That's exactly what is wrong with this and other similar threads. Instead of discussing that such-and-such country doesn't deserve "special treatment", people could discuss which country might need some special treatment (not just on GOG).

You don't even realize how grim, and even more, inhumane is such talk. If someone lived with poverty all around him, he'd think twice before saying - "hey, this poor land doesn't deserve special treatment, let's deny those poor people whatever little small good things they had".

I hope now you see why such talk is extremely awful, to say it lightly.

Edit: oh and most official numebrs are fake, especially Russian ones, its statistics are distorted by many factors.
Post edited August 21, 2015 by Sarisio
Posted August 21, 2015
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Sarisio: That's exactly what is wrong with this and other similar threads. Instead of discussing that such-and-such country doesn't deserve "special treatment", people could discuss which country might need some special treatment (not just on GOG).

You don't even realize how grim, and even more, inhumane is such talk. If someone lived with poverty all around him, he'd think twice before saying - "hey, this poor land doesn't deserve special treatment, let's deny those poor people whatever little small good things they had".

I hope now you see why such talk is extremely awful, to say it lightly.
You are missing the point and seem to be invested in playing the victim rather than discussing the issue properly. If you had been paying attention, you would have noticed earlier that I said:

For myself it's not envy but a desire for equity. I don't object to local pricing when it is done sensibly. But in this case it is not.

So I'm all for a break to those in need, though again it's a somewhat spurious solution because individual income within a country is just as disparate as average income between countries, if not even moreso. My objection is that there is only one country getting a blanket special case across the board, and there has not been a good reason given why they alone deserve this break.

But since you personally benefit from it, I can see why you'd be invested in defending it.

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Sarisio: Edit: oh and most official numebrs are fake, especially Russian ones, its statistics are distorted by many factors.
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Posted August 21, 2015
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Sarisio: That's exactly what is wrong with this and other similar threads. Instead of discussing that such-and-such country doesn't deserve "special treatment", people could discuss which country might need some special treatment (not just on GOG).

You don't even realize how grim, and even more, inhumane is such talk. If someone lived with poverty all around him, he'd think twice before saying - "hey, this poor land doesn't deserve special treatment, let's deny those poor people whatever little small good things they had".

I hope now you see why such talk is extremely awful, to say it lightly.

Edit: oh and most official numebrs are fake, especially Russian ones, its statistics are distorted by many factors.
Hey, I say give it all for free, people deserve what little joy they can get in this life and society at large sure messes things up for the vast majority, so at least things that carry pretty much no individual cost on their own (meaning digital copies of stuff) should be freely available. But while we're paying...

And come over here too, away from Bucharest at least, better yet in some rural areas, or even city outskirts, see about poverty. But even then, it's a matter of recognizing that in other parts of the world, or in fact in most of the world, or at least for most people, considering the populations of the worst affected countries, it's worse.
Posted August 21, 2015
Globalization is a messy business.
Posted August 21, 2015
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IAmSinistar: You are missing the point and seem to be invested in playing the victim rather than discussing the issue properly. If you had been paying attention, you would have noticed earlier that I said:

For myself it's not envy but a desire for equity. I don't object to local pricing when it is done sensibly. But in this case it is not.

So I'm all for a break to those in need, though again it's a somewhat spurious solution because individual income within a country is just as disparate as average income between countries, if not even moreso. My objection is that there is only one country getting a blanket special case across the board, and there has not been a good reason given why they alone deserve this break.
Maybe I wrote some things a bit offensive, for that I apologize, it wasn't easy to read words in this thread with another spin of crisis in my land.
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Cavalary: And come over here too, away from Bucharest at least, better yet in some rural areas, or even city outskirts, see about poverty. But even then, it's a matter of recognizing that in other parts of the world, or in fact in most of the world, or at least for most people, considering the populations of the worst affected countries, it's worse.
Why, I believe you, and you as well can believe that things in my land aren't exactly good as well. It is simply worse than some people think and as our government pretends it is.
Posted August 22, 2015
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Cavalary: So why don't they get discounts too?
Because local publishers apparently have less bargaining power. Imho the russian prices are probably 1C's "fault", they have somehow convinced everyone that they should sell their games cheaply in russia, otherwise they might not sell anything at all. Or something in those lines. I wouldn't have anything against regional prices if they would indeed be fair (meaning if they would be correlated with purchasing power everywhere). Alas it is not the case.
Posted August 26, 2015
The following games appear to be flat priced:

DOOM II + Final DOOM
Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard, The
Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire, An
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout Tactics
Quake: The Offering
Ultimate DOOM, The
Posted August 26, 2015
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mrkgnao: The following games appear to be flat priced:

DOOM II + Final DOOM
Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard, The
Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire, An
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout Tactics
Quake: The Offering
Ultimate DOOM, The
Thanks. We'll give them the standard grace period and see if they remain so once they initial announcement ends.

Speaking of which, are the Forgotten Realms games still flat-priced at this point? If they are, onto the list they go!
Posted August 26, 2015
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IAmSinistar: Speaking of which, are the Forgotten Realms games still flat-priced at this point? If they are, onto the list they go!
Yes. They are. Kudos, GOG.
Posted August 26, 2015
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mrkgnao: Yes. They are. Kudos, GOG.
Sweet. Nice to be able to grow the list, and with titles published by GOG themselves.
Posted August 26, 2015
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mrkgnao: Yes. They are. Kudos, GOG.
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IAmSinistar: Sweet. Nice to be able to grow the list, and with titles published by GOG themselves.
Indeed. These are the first non-discounted games I instabought on addition in years.
Posted August 26, 2015
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mrkgnao: The following games appear to be flat priced:

DOOM II + Final DOOM
Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard, The
Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire, An
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout Tactics
Quake: The Offering
Ultimate DOOM, The
So only Morrowind (from that publisher) is regionally priced? Interesting.
Post edited August 26, 2015 by BillyMaysFan59
Posted August 26, 2015
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mrkgnao: The following games appear to be flat priced:

DOOM II + Final DOOM
Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard, The
Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire, An
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout Tactics
Quake: The Offering
Ultimate DOOM, The
Seriously Bethesda is the last company I would expect to be for flat pricing but I doubt it. Probably some mistake or bug by gog as usual.
Posted August 26, 2015
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Matruchus: Seriously Bethesda is the last company I would expect to be for flat pricing but I doubt it. Probably some mistake or bug by gog as usual.
Oh ye of little faith.
Posted August 27, 2015
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mrkgnao: The following games appear to be flat priced:

DOOM II + Final DOOM
Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard, The
Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire, An
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout Tactics
Quake: The Offering
Ultimate DOOM, The
I'm feeling charitable today, so I will add these to the list as well, with the hope that they won't need to be pulled. Thanks again for compiling the titles.
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