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PaterAlf: €82.40 for the whole thing in Germany.

If you just want to buy single products, it's €9.99 for Mad Max 2 and Mad Max 3, €16.99 for Mad Max: Fury Road, €49.99 for Mad Max (Game). No chance to buy the first movie alone.
I thought Mad Max 2 was blacklisted in Germany? Did they get it off the list? Or do Germans get a censored version (as usual on Steam)?
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bansama: GOG apparently only regionally restrict when there is an actual legal reason to do so, such as the game being refused classification. They (so far) allegedly don't restrict just because the publisher tells them to.
I certainly hope that remains to be the case in the future because GOG essentially does have a system to block all legal access to a game for some regions per the request of publishers because of the <i>temporary</i> gift locking in place.
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vicklemos: Hi Pater. I know it varies from person to person, but is €82 a little too much for a new game + 4 movies for you guys in Germany?
Thanks!
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hedwards: It doesn't matter if the extras were 90% off, you'd still be paying more money than you wanted to for something that you didn't want. Stores do that sort of thing all the time in order to trick people into spending more money than they should.

It might be a huge savings, just not if you weren't planning on buying the whole set.
In fact I think it's pretty cool IF they offered the movies for 90% off. They have the original pt-br voiceovers (other languages as well) and stuff, so they defintely dug deep into the old voiceovers. But at that price, no no señor.
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hedwards: It doesn't matter if the extras were 90% off, you'd still be paying more money than you wanted to for something that you didn't want. Stores do that sort of thing all the time in order to trick people into spending more money than they should.

It might be a huge savings, just not if you weren't planning on buying the whole set.
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vicklemos: In fact I think it's pretty cool IF they offered the movies for 90% off. They have the original pt-br voiceovers (other languages as well) and stuff, so they defintely dug deep into the old voiceovers. But at that price, no no señor.
I'd personally buy it at that kind of a discount, but I'm sure there are people that wouldn't want the films at any price. And even for those of us that do want them, sometimes the money isn't there in the budget to buy them.
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Gog can try to bring Star Wars movies here, especially the old ones.

After all, they did make a deal with warner bros to get star wars games here.
I think GOG's attempts at distributing video has been awful thus far. They really should have lined up a better set of initial releases, and work towards getting the rights to distribute older but excellent fare. EG: War of the Worlds, Gojira, Cosmos, Milo and Otis, Mysterious Cities of Gold, ect. There is also the kickstarter for Swat-Kats Revolution, which means the people behind that may be interested in having alternative distribution options for their work.

In my opinion, anime is a particularly good niche to start with: The industry has a long history of pirates, therefore the horse has already left the barn for much of the catalog. Stuff like Slayers, Dragonball, and Patlabor. Classic cartoons like those of Popeye, Betty Boop, and Bugs Bunny might also be good options.
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Sabin_Stargem: In my opinion, anime is a particularly good niche to start with: The industry has a long history of pirates, therefore the horse has already left the barn for much of the catalog. Stuff like Slayers, Dragonball, and Patlabor. Classic cartoons like those of Popeye, Betty Boop, and Bugs Bunny might also be good options.
It's be great if they could get some old and difficult to find content.
Say stuff like Fat Dog Mendoza and Spaced Out.
Movies was a lame idea from the very start. A waste of time and resources.

People come for games. New and old, DRM free, nicely packaged. That's it.
does having it on vcr count as drm free
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JKHSawyer: Movies was a lame idea from the very start. A waste of time and resources.

People come for games. New and old, DRM free, nicely packaged. That's it.
If GoG had more movies, I'd come for movies here too, since I've gotten to know and [url=http://www.gog.com/movie/the_frame]The Frame here, which are excellent. Besides the fact, that I finally have The Gamers-Series complete and in proper quality now.

I'd be very glad to be able to buy DRM free movies anywhere, because I don't like cluttering my wall which I have to at the moment since I'm no pirate.

GoG should at least sell "Iron Sky".
"Mad Max" would be awesome of course.
Post edited September 01, 2015 by Klumpen0815
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toxicTom: I thought Mad Max 2 was blacklisted in Germany? Did they get it off the list? Or do Germans get a censored version (as usual on Steam)?
It's been off the index for years now. They even gave the unrated version proper re-releases on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD and several times it was shown, uncut, on TV.

Recently, WB even managed to "free" the original Mad Max. The unedited German TV premiere of that film was actually announced with quite a bit of fanfare.
Post edited September 01, 2015 by InfraSuperman
Movie business is very messy thanks to various different kinds of distribution deals the Great Old Ones usually do. One movie can have different distirbutor rights from country to country, so that's why in example Netflix has different kind of catalogue outside US.

Some studios have all, or at least majority, of the rights for themselves, like Disney that usually has very wide reaching distribution, but at the same time most studios actually do partially rely on getting their budget back by selling the rights on country basis, so in the best case scenario some movies might have done either their full budget or at least a part of it back even before it's premiered.

But this also causes some issues, like the first Mad Max movie, which was unavailable in Finland for years (at least a good part of 80's-90's and 00's) only to be re-released a couple of years ago, or it actually might have been done as recently as last year.
Movies on vcr count do have drm as some of them prevent you to make backup copies and have fbi warnings.
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amrit9037: Movies on vcr [...] have fbi warnings.
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