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.... i was wondering what the UK price is for these games or is this a service only for the US of A?
It's a worldwide service and the prices you see are the "UK price". =D
USD are just used because they're a universally exchanged currency.

Hope you enjoy!
What eyeball says, and welcome to GOG, I hope you enjoy the stay :)

I do always use a currency exchange rate website to see how much it is at the moment in Euro, if it too much, I do normaly wait for a day or two ;)
The prices for all games on GOG are the same for all regions, that is one of the selling points for GOG.
Welcome to the forums and community

As people have already said: you will be charged the same ammount as all other users worldwide, you will just be charged in Pound sterling instead of US Dollars
Post edited March 11, 2011 by Roman5
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Roman5: Welcome to the forums and community

As people have already said: you will be charged the same ammount as all other users worldwide, you will just be charged in Pound sterling instead of US Dollars
That's not true, GOG does charge in USD. That's why some banks charge an exchange fee.
If you ever need it for anywhere else though

Google has a handy currency converter using the formula

X (3 letter abbreviation for currency) in (3 letter abbreviation for currency)

For example

20 USD in NZD

Just enter it in Google's search bar and it will calculate the current exchange rate.
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Roman5: Welcome to the forums and community

As people have already said: you will be charged the same ammount as all other users worldwide, you will just be charged in Pound sterling instead of US Dollars
Wait... I'm getting contradictory information from your post.

"As people have already said" would be "a game for $US 9.99 will cost you £UK 6.22, or whatever the current rate is".

"you will be charged the same ammount as all other users worldwide, you will just be charged in Pound sterling instead of US Dollars" can easily be interpreted as "a game for $US 9.99 will cost you £UK 9.99".

The first statement is true... if the post was meant as a joke, sorry to ruin it.
Post edited March 11, 2011 by Miaghstir
Your buy here will be conversed into pounds by your bank. The conversion rate is the rate at the time of the transaction. Addiotional fees might apply, but that depends on your bank.

If I would buy a $9.99 charged game now, my credit card would be charged for 7.23 € + 1,75% exchange fee.

You would be charged for £ 6.23 + fees.

edit: ninjad
Post edited March 11, 2011 by SimonG
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Roman5: Welcome to the forums and community

As people have already said: you will be charged the same ammount as all other users worldwide, you will just be charged in Pound sterling instead of US Dollars
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eyeball226: That's not true, GOG does charge in USD. That's why some banks charge an exchange fee.
my apologies, it seems what I meant to say was: you will still be charged the same ammount based on the exchange rate but that will be converted and displayed in Pounds instead of US Dollars in your region and on your bank account
Post edited March 11, 2011 by Roman5
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Roman5: Welcome to the forums and community

As people have already said: you will be charged the same ammount as all other users worldwide, you will just be charged in Pound sterling instead of US Dollars
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eyeball226: That's not true, GOG does charge in USD. That's why some banks charge an exchange fee.
Aye, my bank charges an exchange fee of £1.50 every time I used it on GOG, that quickly added up. Using PayPal seems to avoid this issue, at least I haven't seen any additional charges, though there may be additional hidden costs.
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eyeball226: That's not true, GOG does charge in USD. That's why some banks charge an exchange fee.
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FlintlockJazz: Aye, my bank charges an exchange fee of £1.50 every time I used it on GOG, that quickly added up. Using PayPal seems to avoid this issue, at least I haven't seen any additional charges, though there may be additional hidden costs.
When you pay by paypal, there are two options. You can either have paypal do the currency exchange, in which case they use their own exchange rate that is a bit higher than the real exchange rate. The other option is to pay in whatever currency you're being charged, but that will trigger your bank's exchange fee. If yours is £1.50 for every transaction then paypal is almost certainly cheaper.
$9.99 converted into gbp at current exchange rate, everyone pays $9.99 but when converted it varies, as already said paypal seems to remove any exchange rate charges whereas paying by card can cost up to an extra £2 (looking at you dunfermline bs)

Any how i really just came in here for a coffee and to say hi and welcome. Good to see that some others are being polite today.
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FlintlockJazz: Aye, my bank charges an exchange fee of £1.50 every time I used it on GOG, that quickly added up. Using PayPal seems to avoid this issue, at least I haven't seen any additional charges, though there may be additional hidden costs.
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eyeball226: When you pay by paypal, there are two options. You can either have paypal do the currency exchange, in which case they use their own exchange rate that is a bit higher than the real exchange rate. The other option is to pay in whatever currency you're being charged, but that will trigger your bank's exchange fee. If yours is £1.50 for every transaction then paypal is almost certainly cheaper.
Thought that might be the case with the higher exchange rate via paypal's method, but since I do so many separate small transactions it would come out cheaper, cheers for confirming it. :)