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I was about to buy Starbound. I saw the price on the online store(website) and then I go to GOG Galaxy and noticed that the price is different in the APP store. On the desktop APP the price is $15.39 and at website is $7.99.

I'm kinda of new to GOG, so someone could explain why this happens? Should I buy the game via the Web store?
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breaker182: On the desktop APP the price is $15.39 and at website is $7.99.
Stabound is regionally priced in Brazil, costing $7.99, while in most of Europe it's $15.39. For some reason it seems that your country isn't picked up properly in Galaxy.
There is some setting i can change? By the way, all the games on GOG Galaxy APP have a higher price, comparing with the Web store.
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breaker182: There is some setting i can change? By the way, all the games on GOG Galaxy APP have a higher price, comparing with the Web store.
There is no such setting. The only thing you can do is to contact support by going here:
https://www.gog.com/support/contact/general_website_questions

Then, select "GOG Galaxy issues" as the problem type, and explain that the prices on the client are significantly higher than the prices on the website. While you wait for support to respond, use the website, instead of the client, to make your purchases
Post edited August 01, 2016 by Grargar
Also, don't forget that since it's regionally priced you get store credit to balance it out.
Oh! I see this regional pricing thing now. But, this regional pricing is a little tricky and make no sense. If i buy Starbound from the GOG Galaxy, I will pay $15.39 and get a $0.40 off in a future purchase, and if i buy it from the Web store, I will pay $7.99. I will try to contact support or just buy it from the web store.
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breaker182: Oh! I see this regional pricing thing now. But, this regional pricing is a little tricky and make no sense. If i buy Starbound from the GOG Galaxy, I will pay $15.39 and get a $0.40 off in a future purchase, and if i buy it from the Web store, I will pay $7.99. I will try to contact support or just buy it from the web store.
It does make sense, it's just in your case it's buggy.

There's a global price. If your region happens to pay more, you get store credit to use on future purchases. (Store credit is only good for a year since your last purchase, but it's generally a good idea to expend it if you're buying something and have store credit, because why not?) If your region happens to pay less, you just pay less. Brazil usually gets a discount.

It's not that you have a choice of whether to buy at a higher price price with a piddly amount of store credit or at your regional, comparatively smaller price. It's that in this case the website works okay and the client is buggy and detects your region incorrectly. In fact, if you try to check out via the client, you'll probably see something like "I assert that I agree with the terms and conditions and I am currently located in the International Space Station" or something similarly untrue. Hence, legally, you actually can't opt to make a purchase through the buggy client and assert a false statement just because that's what the buggy client tells you to do.
I was a little precipitate when I said the regional pricing don't make sense. And yes, my client was definitely buggy. Happily, after a fresh new installation, everything seems to work fine, the price in Web store and in the Galaxy app are exactly the same now. This makes me happy, because I really liked GOG and want to give it a try. Thanks everyone for helping me out.
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Tpiom: Also, don't forget that since it's regionally priced you get store credit to balance it out.
Not in Brazil, he won't -- their regional price is less than the base price.