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Posted March 23, 2012
Sword-wielding gamers, shirt-ripping retailers, cake-eating customers, and ass-kicking Heads of Marketing--you will find that and much more in this series of short videos we have prepared for you guys to watch over the weekend. You can watch the first one below, but stay tuned because we will upload a new video at 12:00 PM EDT every day until Monday.

What are they for? What are they advertising? We won’t say--you know how we are--but you can look at our [url=http://imgur.com/a/TOsf2#0" target="_blank]“Making of”[/url] album for the videos here, if you’d like to speculate wildly ;)

Find out what we’re up to when the “Newer, Fresher, Bigger” GOG.com lands Tuesday at 09:00 AM GMT. Hope you guys enjoy the videos!

The DRM Knight -- [url=http://j.mp/GOGvid1" target="_blank]watch it now[/url]
The Regional Ripoff -- [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRdfYwvGTos" target="_blank]watch it now[/url]
The Complimentary Cake -- [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iXd8w2wdz8" target="_blank]watch it now[/url]
The Refined Gamer -- [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvaNgCTncLk" target="_blank]watch it now[/url]
Post edited March 26, 2012 by Rostek
Posted March 24, 2012
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OmegaX: That's what I thought too. If GOG wasn't selling Witcher 2 with regional pricing they would have a point but right now it looks a little hypocritical. At least blue coins can be used to buy any game. I may have gotten more free games from GG than payed games from GOG.
EDIT: Meh never mind
Post edited March 24, 2012 by Miaghstir
Posted March 24, 2012
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OmegaX: That's what I thought too. If GOG wasn't selling Witcher 2 with regional pricing they would have a point but right now it looks a little hypocritical. At least blue coins can be used to buy any game. I may have gotten more free games from GG than payed games from GOG.
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Miaghstir: Though I just checked, and I'm quite mistaken (sorry about that, GOG).

€40 is $US53 according to Google.
The Witcher 2 seems to be €39.99 and $US54.99.

At least the latter price is what shows up for the gifting price when I visit the page on my main account, and the former for purchase when I visit on my second account. Both have location:Sweden, and obviously the same IP (but, curiously enough, the purchase price has $ for its sign, not € - I assume that's an error).
I see it as $39.99. I guess they show you that price so that you can't gift it to yourself for cheaper.
Posted March 24, 2012
Concerning the Witcher 2, GOG (at least the parent company) was forced to do away with flat prices due to a court decision. So in the end, not GOG's fault.
Posted March 24, 2012
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SLP2000: Well, if they say flat prices worldwide, they mean no regional restriction too.
I disagree. A flat price worldwide (defined as all regions in which the game is sold) is different to being available in all regions.

Many stores and publishers define "worldwide" or "international" to mean all the countries, in addition to North America, to which they have made the game available. That does not necessarily mean the game is available in all countries (which have access to the Internet).

In other words, many stores and publishers do not understand what "worldwide" actually means and will often re-define it to mean "all regions around the world to which we have decided to sell" which, put bluntly, often means, "all countries excluding Japan".
Posted March 24, 2012
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de_Monteynard: Concerning the Witcher 2, GOG (at least the parent company) was forced to do away with flat prices due to a court decision. So in the end, not GOG's fault.
Wrong. TW2 always had regional pricing, what changed with the court order was that they started using GeoIP to determine your country. Before the court order you could lie about your country to get the dollar price but if you didn't you got charged in euros. To alleviate that GOG gives "not money" as a compensation to european buyers.
Posted March 24, 2012
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de_Monteynard: Concerning the Witcher 2, GOG (at least the parent company) was forced to do away with flat prices due to a court decision. So in the end, not GOG's fault.
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OmegaX: Wrong. TW2 always had regional pricing, what changed with the court order was that they started using GeoIP to determine your country. Before the court order you could lie about your country to get the dollar price but if you didn't you got charged in euros. To alleviate that GOG gives "not money" as a compensation to european buyers.
My mistake then. I apologise.
Posted March 24, 2012
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OmegaX: To alleviate that GOG gives "not money" as a compensation to european buyers.
So they give their equivalent of blue coins. The in-store credit they were mocking in the second CM. Hypocritical much?
Posted March 24, 2012
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OmegaX: Wrong. TW2 always had regional pricing, what changed with the court order was that they started using GeoIP to determine your country. Before the court order you could lie about your country to get the dollar price but if you didn't you got charged in euros. To alleviate that GOG gives "not money" as a compensation to european buyers.
They disabled GeoIP in first place because they wanted to allow anyone to use lower pricepoint because theys were forved by they publisher to sell the game with different pricepoints across the world so, no, it wasn't their.
Also the "not-money" reward was for those higher price-points to equalize the value of your purchase. GamersGate gives you blue-coins for every purchase and it doesn't matter too much if the price is in Euro or dollars. So, although, I disagree with their mocking of it, it is quite different matter than their free coupons coming with Witcher 2.
Posted March 24, 2012
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Dinasis: I also love how so many people take issue with Origin's privacy policy while at the same time having no issue with Steam sending hardware configurations, etc. back to their cloud for analysis and graphing. The ads when you close a game irked me, too. Peddle your hats to someone else.
As far as I know, you can always refuse to take the hardware survey and nothing is sent without your consent.
Also, you can easily disable the ads when you close a game in the options menu.
Posted March 24, 2012
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OmegaX: I see it as $39.99. I guess they show you that price so that you can't gift it to yourself for cheaper.
Oh fuck me then, I'm just tripping over my own feet.
Post edited March 24, 2012 by Miaghstir
Posted March 24, 2012
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Vitek: They disabled GeoIP in first place because they wanted to allow anyone to use lower pricepoint because theys were forved by they publisher to sell the game with different pricepoints across the world so, no, it wasn't their.
Also the "not-money" reward was for those higher price-points to equalize the value of your purchase. GamersGate gives you blue-coins for every purchase and it doesn't matter too much if the price is in Euro or dollars. So, although, I disagree with their mocking of it, it is quite different matter than their free coupons coming with Witcher 2.
I know the reason behind disabling GeoIP but that doesn't make it not be regional pricing. Some people might not have lied out of principle. They were forced to enable it back because the publisher wasn't happy with that and sued them. Other stores like GG comply with the publishers because they know the consequences they might face otherwise.
I agree regarding the comparison between blue coins and TW2 coupons but the ad was making it not me. The seller gives the euro guy blue coins as a compensation for regional pricing so I pointed out that the coupons for TW2 were the same thing.
Post edited March 24, 2012 by OmegaX
Posted March 24, 2012
It's funny, every time I watch a video by GOG I am reminded of the"Dexter's Laboratory" cartoon from about 10 years ago. Not meant to be an offense or anything. That was a great show and GOG is a great site so it matches.
Posted March 24, 2012
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999888: As far as I know, you can always refuse to take the hardware survey and nothing is sent without your consent.
Also, you can easily disable the ads when you close a game in the options menu.
Maybe so, I measure how long it's been since i personally used Steam in years, so I guess I can't really speak to its current state. Even so, opting-in is far and above more preferable than opting-out. At least with the ads, just because an option exists doesn't forgive a program's default behavior, otherwise you wouldn't see any security firms or business IT departments complaining if, for example, Windows Firewall were disabled by default.
Posted March 24, 2012
True story bro
Posted March 24, 2012
"What?! That's like 20 dollars. What the hell guy?"

LOL
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