HypersomniacLive: Could you, please, post a screenshot as I'm not sure where to look?

IAmSinistar: Maybe the design department can come up with something for the game pages? Like a little globe icon next to the price for games that have one-world pricing, something like that. Acts as a positive selling point for GOG when someone then sees the game and goes "Wow, same price for everyone! That's really cool."

IAmSinistar: Requested a lock on the other thread on this topic, as it was getting irksome maintaining the same data in two places. It was locked with alacrity, though I wouldn't ascribe that to any desire on the part of GOG to have less discussion on this topic. ;)

Phc7006: CDP : "To be able to offer players playing in Polish, lower price, we had to restrict access to the site only to clients residing in Polish"

European Regulations :

[i]There is no difference between customers anywhere in the EU

EU rules forbid discrimination between service recipients because of their nationality or where they live. This means:

you are automatically entitled to receive services from businesses located in other EU countries
you may not refuse or accord different treatment to prospective customers from other EU countries unless you have a valid reason to do so.

If you sell products online, you may not refuse to deliver to customers in other EU countries unless you have a valid reason. To avoid confusion, you should indicate any delivery restrictions clearly on your website.
[/i]

I very much doubt that offering lower prices to your domestic market is a valid reason

In fact they're as disguting as the rest of the bunch...

Phc7006: Let's be clear : the true reason is probably licence restrictions. That in turn would allow lower prices. Maybe that would be valid ( in fact I'm certain there is a way to present a valid reason that would resist any possible scrutiny ) . But as they state it, they provide a reason that is somewhat shocking and appears as a pure willingness to implement customer discrimination based on nationality.. Maybe they should express it a bit differently,

Tarnicus: Thanks for the translation :) If regional restriction is implemented "properly" here(there are a scary number of games jumping into that category now), can I see a GOG bear barking at me if I try to circumvent regional pricing? I can lend you a koala if you are lacking in GOG bears :)

Phc7006: For me, the real surprise is not that, or even the games already on GOG that were moved towards the regional pricing scheme. It's that introducing regional pricing has not brought more games. And that amongst the 11 regionally priced games that have been added to the Catalogue, only 3 would have had any appeal to me ( namely Meridian, Wasteland, Spacecom). Ok, that will vary from one person to another in function of one's taste, but what I mean is that up to now, having made that choice hasn't had any obvious positive consequence for us EU customers.
Phc7006: GOG would obviously alienate its older customer base. Dinosaurs like me. But on the other hand, it would perhaps be balanced by new customers. Although I don't see what would be the advantage of GOG over its competitors then.
Phc7006: And you can't use the store credits to buy discounted games either

HypersomniacLive: What I'd like to know is why both currencies can't be used for the same purchase, like PayPal does it - each currency has its own balance n your account, yet if you're purchasing something, in one currency and you run out of money in that currency, PayPal uses funds from your other balance(s) to complete the purchase.

Why isn't something like that possible on GOG?

IAmSinistar: Or to prevent people speculating on exchange rates by getting credit in one currency that suddenly changes value against another, multiplying the buying power of their credit in the other currency? Admittedly this would be a pretty rare occurrence, but still, the bookkeeping on the real value against the drifting exchange rates could compound across the board over time.

MIK0: When we will be able to exchange our old discount ticket for the same amount in store credit?
I contacted the support long ago and they said you were working on in and even asked my discount ticket codes, but I never heard from them again.

real.geizterfahr: Because the anouncement of regional pricing went not very well. I think the fair price packages were introduced as an "insurance" for us. Some kind of proof that GOG will push hard for world wide, flat pricing. But with even indies going the regional pricing route... I can clearly see the fair pricing packages vanishing eventually.

synfresh: The Disney games you are offering (so far) are 20 years old, it's easier for Disney to let go of regional pricing for such old titles. Let's see them do the same thing with something more recent (last few years or so).

IAmSinistar: Ah, I seem to have slept through the glitch. I suspect that the switch-over from sale mode to regular mode screwed up something on the servers. A shame, how awesome would have been an announcement that GOG had gone back to One World Pricing.

IAmSinistar: Well, my assessment of the awesomeness was contingent on GOG having actually muscled the publishers back into One World Pricing, not having made the change unilaterally. In that latter case I expect there would be a mass defection of titles, which is not desirable.

IAmSinistar: Or as we've seen with some recent additions, 2 cents = 2 eurocents. :)

Urnoev: Wow, so much tension suddenly in this thread, with everyone trying to answer clever and subtle... ;)