It's not only your neck of the woods buddy.

The Canadian dollar has depreciated considerably compared to the American dollar. That 35 USD monthly vps bill is now 45 CD. Same story for GOG purchases.

It probably makes for more competitive exports, but it's not so great for purchasing.

For for the most part, that's our story. The best we've gotten was parity with the American dollar at one point, but otherwise, the American dollar always had higher value (by a significant margin atm) and yet, our wages are about the same in our respective currencies.

The world never was a fair place :).

So, when do we shift from this EU model to a more federal one? :) Things like Erasmus helped with cultural integration, and it's undeniable that EU funds contributed to some level of infrastructure normalization, but the political and cultural barriers to deeper integration are huge.

It was a good run, I hope at least the free trade zone remains in some capacity, Schengen is under pressure and it would be a pity to throw the baby out with the dirty water.

How does this affect regional pricing?

Is people buying games at the same price in Euro?

There's been a long grivence of many people that 1 Euro is not 1 USD, but recently I check 1 Euro is 1.05 USD now. If the Euro dip further then below 1 USD, will these people so against regional pricing be suddenly supporting regional pricing?

It probably does not affect regional pricing much it adapts the regional prices constantly. Based on the conversion rate a year ago the prices in Europe were higher than in North America and now with the changed conversion rate they are still because the publishers adapted regional pricing to these currency fluctuations. So I expect that the people against regional pricing can still be against it for the same reasons.

Sigh, the days were so much easier, when GOG only charged everyone the same in dollars, when there were frequent 50% sales, the base prices were not absurdly high and there were no Insomnia sales. Then someone decided that shopping should be the actual game.

+1 for surprising a laugh out of me. Gamification is the pits.

Is it possible to convert Euro to USD through paypal and other payment service and pay in USD? Do these payment service still insist on charging more for the conversion due to VAT?

I feel like i want out of euro, real bad and real quick. And EURO. And NATO. All sh*t in the entire world is coming out of those 3 cr*ppers. Them be bad newz, arr...

I've a feeling you guys will be leaving the Euro real soon. Europe too - possibly. NATO - what's your problem with them?

Them...

Geographically that should be impossible... unless they try to physically disattach themselves from the Balcan peninsula and attach to Turkey or Egypt for example.

It would be an interesting geographical experiment, I'm sure there's a James Bond plot that could be put to use here.

As I think you know, I was of course referring to the European Union. :)