Trilarion: That would be kind of a problem for me, because what is a discount worth if you can beat it by being in the right region, but ultimately if the absolute differences get smaller I would buy it at some point. I would probably just wait even more. I haven't yet played games I bought last year, so I'm not doing very smart things anyway.
I don't like regional pricing and (very much) delayed buying anyway is the only thing I can do. All this advertisment of games regionally priced here are more a burden than an opportunity for me. I wish I could tell GOG to turn them off for me.
I wouldn't count promos myself. A game stops being regionally priced when it, well, stops being regionally priced, as in that's the new pricing arrangement they arrived at, not just a brief blip on the radar.
And yeah, little hope of things changing for the better now that the industry broke through here as well. They still have the DRM thing to work on, but I'm sure at least some are quite encouraged by this success and looking for ways to twist that around as well, likely using Galaxy and including elements that for some reason can't exist properly in the off-line version, like I believe EA was saying their intended approach was, to perhaps phase out separate DRM for its own good (heh) but add elements requiring a connection to all games and have that work as (even worse) DRM as well.
As for turning them off, it'd be one way, but I'd still go for badges identifying them. At first I was suggesting some sort of "medals", but since I saw the current suggestion is a globe for flat-priced ones, why not go with that then?
- One of those globe made of flags icons for regular regional pricing.
- Same icon but grayed out (or silvery/metallic, more like) in case the publisher/developer is only asking for their regular share of the standard price, so nobody's actually making any more money from certain regions (and GOG's not losing for giving the difference back) and the differences are only there to appease their other partners.
- A proper globe icon for a single flat price.
- A globe icon with the sun rising over it (or just the flat price icon with "FAIR PRICE" stamped on it) for any games where the standard (US) price is the maximum, so AUS and Eurozone aren't screwed, but poorer regions get lower prices. This seems unlikely to ever exist, but just in case.