How does GOG's fair price thingy work? Would the Paradox titles be eligible for this?

Seems a few publishers now look to either increase prices or offer minimum discounts even on really old titles. Activision titles come to mind and GTA V is another. Wonder what they'll go for in another 5 years?

I no longer buy any games unless they're at least 50% off. Backlog is just to darn big now. And I have now decided I will actually try to complete a few of them

The Paradox games would be - and in fact, are, eligible for this. The fair pricing package works thusly: If a game has a higher price than the base price in your region (which is the case with ca 100% of newly released games in Germany), Gog will refund you the difference in wallet funds. This also applies when a game is discounted, yet there's still a price difference to the base price region. As an example, Pillars of Eternitiy Hero Edition has a 60% discount and costs 17.99€ in Germany. I assume 60% discount off the base price is 17.99$, which is cheaper. Should I purchase said game, Gog will add 0.90€ to my Gog wallet.
If a game is cheaper than the base price in your region, the fair price package won't come into play (since you're already paying less, basically), and you pay what it says on the box ;) Hope that makes it clearer.

I don't see why they didn't, in keeping with thier philosophy, release a new DLC for each of their games:
Extra bill DLC!

I mean at least its not day 1 dlc.

Thank you for explaining that. Yet another good reason to purchase Paradox titles from GOG. :)

A little late, but thank you for starting up the thread. It's nice to have people here standing up for the consumers, instead of the usual defenders of Paradox's greed over at Steam and elsewhere.

I have only one game on my wishlist from Paradox: Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game . Will wait for a deep discount .

If the game in your region on GOG is more expensive than in the US region on GOG, you get the difference as store credit to use for your next purchase. Or so I understood it.

Lmao they even increased the price of games that are dead and not supported actively by them way to go paradox slowly becoming another money hungry publisher

Is it safe to assume that they didn't add any voice-acting to Pillars of Eternity to correspond with the price increases and therefore make the game possibly somewhat worth it?

Not for video games, it's not. Video games lose value over time; they do not gain it. With video games, we certainly can expect prices only to fall, especially if it is digital. To go the other way, to raise prices without first adding any value into the game product that justifies those raised prices, is a scam.

The Steam reviews for Paradox Games are being flooded by angry fans. Prices have gone up in many countries (but not 'Merica of course), nearly doubling for the poorest areas. But wait, that's more...

- This was done right before the Summer Steam sale and mid-GOG sale.

- There seems to have been no announcement outside of an admin's reply on the forums, so there's been little coverage about it by games media.

- Some of the games are up to half a decade old.

In general yes, but occasionally the other thing can happen. Prices in a market economy are not strictly tied to value. It also depends on how badly the product is needed, especially for items of luxury. So demand can go up occasionally and then, without any actually improvement, the price of a product should do too.

It could be that the publisher so far underestimated the popularity of its games or demand for these games went up recently and then prices might also increase.

It's the freedom of the publishers to decide their selling price and the freedom of the consumers to buy or not to buy. That's the way it works and usually it works quite well. They'll get a lot of feedback.

So legally it's perfectly okay and not a scam at all. Of course you can say that you don't like their newly increased prices and surely this move translates to some severe bad publicity, so I guess they must have a good reason to actually dare this (it's not even clear that it actually increases their profit).
Regional prices are hardly ever fair. Many years ago GOG made a video about how regional prices exist to rip customers off, and they weren't wrong, but that was before they switched to regional prices themselves.

Seems like they are backtracking. Lol: source

It's interesting how he only talks about refunds for the people who bought the games on Steam. I wonder, if people who bought the games here will also get their money back?

And I seriously doubt that they made the decision for the rollback, because they read the comments and feedback of their customers. My guess is that they either lost a lot of money, because people really stopped buying their games or that there was some trouble legally, because they raised their prices right before a sale (which is forbidden in several countries).

They said rollback will happen once Steam Sales are over.
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Business aside - it's not a good idea to rise prices unless you want to cut off new customers and focus on draining old veterans until they bail out of that ship.