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Just spotted this in upcoming:

http://www.gog.com/game/the_book_of_unwritten_tales_2_almanac_edition

And the Raven and other Unwritten Tales games are already back!
Post edited February 19, 2015 by jcoa
Looks promising! Probably expect it for next week's re-releases...

Afterall with GoG having to fold in and give regional pricing for one publisher, they might as well allow other ones who bailed out...
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jcoa: Just spotted this in upcoming:

http://www.gog.com/game/the_book_of_unwritten_tales_2_almanac_edition

And the Raven and other Unwritten Tales games are already back!
I don't think they ever left; they're just regionally priced which GOG didn't want to do with Nordic's older games. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Post edited February 19, 2015 by tfishell
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jcoa: Just spotted this in upcoming:

http://www.gog.com/game/the_book_of_unwritten_tales_2_almanac_edition

And the Raven and other Unwritten Tales games are already back!
Raven and Unwritten Tales never left, because GOG+Nordic ended up agreeing with the pricing for those games and probably the same thing will happen with Book of Unwritten Tales 2. As for the rest of the catalog, I wouldn't expect it back so soon (20 February).
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jcoa: Just spotted this in upcoming:

http://www.gog.com/game/the_book_of_unwritten_tales_2_almanac_edition

And the Raven and other Unwritten Tales games are already back!
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tfishell: I don't think they ever left; they're just regionally priced which GOG didn't want to do with Nordic's older games. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You are wrong... Nordic left as they felt gOg's new confusing regional pricing system meant tht the games are not priced the same in all stores. Nordic felt it was unfair to other stores they sell in, or it would be to much work constantly updating the prices in other stores to reflect gOg prices. Basically they did not want to be seen to favouring one partner over any others.

Edit - you can see that Nordic is fine by having flat world pricing, as that's what they do on Shiny Loot, it was because gOg ok introduced their own strange system and they could not get an agreement
Post edited February 19, 2015 by amok
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tfishell: I don't think they ever left; they're just regionally priced which GOG didn't want to do with Nordic's older games. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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amok: You are wrong... Nordic left as they felt gOg's new confusing regional pricing system meant tht the games are not priced the same in all stores. Nordic felt it was unfair to other stores they sell in, or it would be to much work constantly updating the prices in other stores to reflect gOg prices. Basically they did not want to be seen to favouring one partner over any others.

Edit - you can see that Nordic is fine by having flat world pricing, as that's what they do on Shiny Loot, it was because gOg ok introduced their own strange system and they could not get an agreement
They didn't left. They pulled out most of their games because gog refused regional pricing for them, and remained interested to "continue to work together with gog.com on selected games".
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/last_chance_special/post729
Post edited February 19, 2015 by dksone
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amok: You are wrong... Nordic left
You misread what tfishell said. He never said that Nordic didn't leave (although actually they didn't, they just removed a bunch of games). Anyway, he was talking about Nordic's newer games that stayed, because GOG was fine with giving them the same Euro price they have on Steam, accepting regional pricing for newer releases. That doesn't mean the old games will be back, because for them there's still the issue of GOG not wanting regional pricing for them, but at the same time displaying prices in EUR now, which appears irreconcilable to Nordic.
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dksone: They didn't left. They pulled out most of their games because gog refused regional pricing for them
That's not what happened.

It's that Nordic didn't want to accept GOG's version of regional pricing where prices can change depending on the exchange rate.

Given gog.com’s decision to aim for an exchange-rate orientated pricing would leave us in the unenviable position of constantly having to adapt our pricings in all territories on- and offline to ensure an equal treatment. As exchange rates are very dynamic in nature with the potential of shifting rapidly, and given our network of more than 100 off- and online partners, this will result in a significant amount of extra time and work. For a company of our size, this can result in a non-manageable effort and will heavily impact our work hours, which we would like to dedicate to all the great games in our pipeline (such as The Book of Unwritten Tales 2, SpellForce 3, The Guild 3, MX vs. ATV Supercross and many more), rather than constantly adapting our global pricing structure.
Post edited February 19, 2015 by Pheace
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amok: You are wrong... Nordic left as they felt gOg's new confusing regional pricing system meant tht the games are not priced the same in all stores. Nordic felt it was unfair to other stores they sell in, or it would be to much work constantly updating the prices in other stores to reflect gOg prices. Basically they did not want to be seen to favouring one partner over any others.

Edit - you can see that Nordic is fine by having flat world pricing, as that's what they do on Shiny Loot, it was because gOg ok introduced their own strange system and they could not get an agreement
Which in other words means they wanted their older games regioanally priced after GOG introduced local currencies.

The price for their games wasn't the same everywhere before (many games on GOG were $5.99 instead of $4.99 and they never cared or felt it is unfair back then.
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Pheace: That's not what happened.

It's that Nordic didn't want to accept GOG's version of regional pricing where prices can change depending on the exchange rate.
Your quote is talking about currency exchange to ensure flat pricing though ("equal treatment"), so it's not contradicting dksone's statement. If GOG would accept fixed regional pricing like on Steam (which they do for the newer releases), Nordic would be okay with it, so in the end it is the combination of local currency and flat pricing that is the problem here.
Post edited February 19, 2015 by Leroux
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Pheace: That's not what happened.

It's that Nordic didn't want to accept GOG's version of regional pricing where prices can change depending on the exchange rate.
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Leroux: Your quote is talking about currency exchange to ensure flat pricing though ("equal treatment"), so it's not contradicting dksone's statement. If GOG would accept fixed regional pricing like on Steam (which they do for the newer releases), Nordic would be okay with it, so in the end it is the combination of exchange-rate system and flat pricing that is the problem here.
The quote implies regional pricing was offered, which directly contradicts the post I quoted "gog refused regional pricing for them".

Varied vs fixed is another argument.
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amok: You are wrong... Nordic left as they felt gOg's new confusing regional pricing system meant tht the games are not priced the same in all stores. Nordic felt it was unfair to other stores they sell in, or it would be to much work constantly updating the prices in other stores to reflect gOg prices. Basically they did not want to be seen to favouring one partner over any others.

Edit - you can see that Nordic is fine by having flat world pricing, as that's what they do on Shiny Loot, it was because gOg ok introduced their own strange system and they could not get an agreement
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PaterAlf: Which in other words means they wanted their older games regioanally priced after GOG introduced local currencies.

The price for their games wasn't the same everywhere before (many games on GOG were $5.99 instead of $4.99 and they never cared or felt it is unfair back then.
That's certainly your perspective on things. But unlike me, Pheace in the post above yours dug up Nordics own rationale
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Pheace: The quote implies regional pricing was offered, which directly contradicts the post I quoted "gog refused regional pricing for them".

Varied vs fixed is another argument.
Well, if you put it that way - but I assume you're well aware that "regional pricing" is mostly used around here to describe significantly different prices in different regions, not equal prices in different currencies (because in the latter sense, every game on GOG is 'regionally priced' now).

What we're doing here is nitpicking, it's not either or, like I said above, it's the combination of regional pricing and local currencies that causes the problems, no matter with which words it is expressed. Nordic would be okay with flat pricing if there was only one currency, and they would be okay with different currencies if there was fixed regional pricing even for their older games (as exemplified by the Nordic games that are still sold here).
Post edited February 19, 2015 by Leroux
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Pheace: The quote implies regional pricing was offered, which directly contradicts the post I quoted "gog refused regional pricing for them".

Varied vs fixed is another argument.
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Leroux: Well, if you put it that way - but I assume you're well aware that "regional pricing" is mostly used around here to describe significantly different prices in different regions, not equal prices in different currencies (because in the latter sense, every game on GOG is 'regionally priced' now).
True that, I keep confusing the two -_-
Well the Spellforce games still aren't present... But i wonder how soon that will change...

As for it being unfair to have different prices at different stores, that's sorta not that important if the price difference is rather small. Quite often on books they have a suggested retail price, but that doesn't stop the shop from adding 10% if it's in a mall or somewhere particularly expensive, or selling it at 50% of that price (although if they do it's probably because they have an overstock of items that didn't sell well...)