Good Old Games, if you didn't already know (shame on you), is one of Steam's best competitors, offering a huge catalog of games DRM-free. All the prices are equal no matter the region - or, at least, that's how it's supposed to be. Unfortunately, like the everyone to our Tommy Wiseau, GoG "betrayed" that promise.
Well, everybody can chill. It's cool now.
Good Old Games, in an open letter to its customersOne: DRM-free forever. Abandoning fixed regional pricing means it will probably take longer to get some games, but you've made it clear that sacrificing fair pricing for more DRM-free games isn't acceptable.
Two: We will adamantly continue to fight for games with flat worldwide pricing. If that fails and we are required to have regional prices, we will make up the difference for you out of our own pockets. For now it will be with $5.99 and $9.99 game codes. In a couple of months, once we have such functionality implemented, we will give you store credit instead, which then you will be able to use towards any purchase and cover the price of it in full or partially. Effectively gamers from all around the world will be able to benefit from the US prices.
This will apply to every single game where we do not have flat pricing, such as Age of Wonders 3 (full details here), Divinity: Original Sin, and The Witcher 3. If you remember the Fair Price Package for The Witcher 2, this will be exactly the same.
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Also, because the people dosh protest too much, customers will have the choice between paying with their local currencies or basking in the glory of US standard dollary doos, whatever's most convenient to them.
So yeah. It's really nice to see companies take feedback to heart and treating matters like this so seriously. It's a nice gesture on their part, one I doubt anyone else (even Valve) will replicate. We're getting something really nice here.
Of course, as with any Faustian bargain, there's a catch...