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Posted May 13, 2015
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MIK0: *snip*
Fair enough. =)
Yes, pre-ordering is pretty risky, usually every game needs few patches at least.
Posted May 13, 2015
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Antimateria: Fair enough. =)
Yes, pre-ordering is pretty risky, usually every game needs few patches at least.
The only reason for pre-ordering that I see is that you have 100% confidence in the devs that they won't disappoint you and because of this you want to support them.
Posted May 13, 2015
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blotunga: The only reason for pre-ordering that I see is that you have 100% confidence in the devs that they won't disappoint you and because of this you want to support them.
Blind faith is never a good thing.

Still, I'm fairly confident that it is a good game. I mean.. It's a sequel. How bad it can be? Right? Right..? =D
Posted May 13, 2015
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HypersomniacLive: The EURO getting weaker, and GOG adjusting their prices based on exchange rates fluctuations, may be the culprit behind this.
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MIK0: I also thought of that, still it's strange that the change wasn't comunicated (well thinking about it it's kinda normal here).
I also see a lot of regionally priced games with fair price package of less than 1$, so I don't understand why TW3 is that way. Also TW3 expansion is regionally priced and has half the price of the regular game.
I'ts more or less impossible to communicate that. For regionally priced games the price changes constantly due to currency rate. Do you really expect them to make a daily announcement about that?

Right at the moment many games lost the fair price package because of the weak Euro. Several of them are even cheaper than the US base price for people at the Euro zone. The fair price package you still see are mostly games that had heavy regional pricing from the beginning or that were added to the catalogue while the Euro was already going down.
Posted May 13, 2015
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Antimateria: Blind faith is never a good thing.
Still, I'm fairly confident that it is a good game. I mean.. It's a sequel. How bad it can be? Right? Right..? =D
You see now why I usually don't preorder...
Posted May 13, 2015
I think I'm confused about regional pricing, so somebody help me.

My understanding is that flat pricing means aif a game is 5.99 in my currency, it's 5.99 in any other currency. So I would pay 5.99 USD while someone else may pay 5.99 pounds, even though a pound is worth about 2 USD.

Regional pricing means if the game is 5.99 USD it will he that same price no matter what currency I use to buy it. Is that correct? (So around 3 pounds using the exchange rate in my first paragraph.)
Posted May 13, 2015
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A_Future_Pilot: I think I'm confused about regional pricing, so somebody help me.

My understanding is that flat pricing means aif a game is 5.99 in my currency, it's 5.99 in any other currency. So I would pay 5.99 USD while someone else may pay 5.99 pounds, even though a pound is worth about 2 USD.

Regional pricing means if the game is 5.99 USD it will he that same price no matter what currency I use to buy it. Is that correct? (So around 3 pounds using the exchange rate in my first paragraph.)
Flat pricing is when everybody pays the same 5.99 USD in American dollars or their regional equivalent, so a Brit would would pay 3 GBP.
Posted May 13, 2015
Checked again and with the current currency rate (1€ = 1.13$), it's indeed strange that you don't get the fair price package for The Witcher 3. With the 27% discount the game costs €43.79 for me which is about $49.50.

If I'm not mistaken the US base price is $59.99, so 27% discount would mean $43.79 and so there should be about $5.70 fair price package.

But maybe I'm doing the math wrong (I'm not very good at such stuff)?
Posted May 13, 2015
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JaqFrost: Flat pricing is when everybody pays the same 5.99 USD in American dollars or their regional equivalent, so a Brit would would pay 3 GBP.
So I got it exactly backwards. Yeah, regional pricing sucks!

Don't you get store credit for the difference though?
Posted May 13, 2015
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PaterAlf: Checked again and with the current currency rate (1€ = 1.13$), it's indeed strange that you don't get the fair price package for The Witcher 3. With the 27% discount the game costs €43.79 for me which is about $49.50.

If I'm not mistaken the US base price is $59.99, so 27% discount would mean $43.79 and so there should be about $5.70 fair price package.

But maybe I'm doing the math wrong (I'm not very good at such stuff)?
no us discounts differ from eu discounts:

59.99 (full), 53,99 (10%), 50,99 (15%) and 47,99 (20%)

so you have to compare euro price for 47,99 with 43,79€
Post edited May 13, 2015 by apehater
Posted May 13, 2015
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apehater: no us discounts differ from eu discounts:

59.99 (full), 53,99 (10%), 50,99 (15%) and 47,99 (20%)

so you have to compare euro price for 47,99 with 43,79€
So I still should get about $1.50 fair price package. I wonder how often they adjust their currency rate for regional priced games.

And it's interesting that they use different discounts for different countries. Does it mean that a loyal US customer isn't as good as a loyal European one? In my oppinion that's even more unfair than normal regional pricing.
Posted May 13, 2015
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PaterAlf: So I still should get about $1.50 fair price package. I wonder how often they adjust their currency rate for regional priced games.
Whenever they feel like it. The € has gotten stronger for about 2 weeks now, and yet they have still not adjusted it. Hence why GOG's equivalent dollar price is $46.39, instead of $49.75 (or $49.79, since GOG likes rounding up to 9).

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PaterAlf: And it's interesting that they use different discounts for different countries. Does it mean that a loyal US customer isn't as good as a loyal European one? In my oppinion that's even more unfair than normal regional pricing.
Only the Europeans who have a base €60 price get this preferrential discount. All other countries get the standard 10%, 15%, or 20% discount.
Posted May 13, 2015
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apehater: no us discounts differ from eu discounts:

59.99 (full), 53,99 (10%), 50,99 (15%) and 47,99 (20%)

so you have to compare euro price for 47,99 with 43,79€
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PaterAlf: So I still should get about $1.50 fair price package. I wonder how often they adjust their currency rate for regional priced games.

And it's interesting that they use different discounts for different countries. Does it mean that a loyal US customer isn't as good as a loyal European one? In my oppinion that's even more unfair than normal regional pricing.
their current exchange rate is 9.99$=9,49€, 1.05~1€. they don't adjust the currency on a daily base. its sometimes higher and sometimes lower then the real exchange rate.
Posted May 13, 2015
It's becoming really misleading.
Posted May 14, 2015
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MIK0: It's becoming really misleading.
It is, isn't it. Thanks to the currency rates fluctuations, and the constant updating of prices, a good chunk of regionally priced games appear as non-regionally priced ones, while the flat priced ones appear more expensive in local currencies.
Post edited May 14, 2015 by HypersomniacLive
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