I totally agree with the point that 40€ in germany means nothing to me. But i know at least 5 people where every € count and thats exactly the point i made.
Even if you think europe is rich not all are and by forcing this regional prices you don't do anything to make it better. Instead you treat them as bad as the child somewhere in the other world.
So what is now better ?
But as i stated i'm realy angry on the fact that a kickstarted project where people all around the world participated to make it happen try to force changes to a brand (GOG) which worked out fine before.
Also if steam and other stores wouldn't have used the regional pricing to advantage of the Publishers / Stores we would never be talking about that. But regional prices are the prefered way to make something more expensive which shouldn't happen. At least lets say on countries with similar kinds of income and costs. Like for example UK/USA/Australia/Europe.
So if that is realy a need (which i doubt since even on humble the first game i checked was makeing the europe price more expensive and missused the system) , than it should be completly transparent. Like instead only showing the price in €. Show the price in 'local currency' / $ / £ / €. Also seperate Vats from the price. So you can compare it and decide to buy or not too.
But the argumentation right of now wasn't to treat customers the same way. The argumentation i read so far was ... oh we need to do it the same way like steam.
And in this point it's just stupid to use steam as reference.
Overall the last point i made in my former post still is valid.
I don't can fix all isues on the world but makeing it more open to missuse is nothing i wanted to stand for when i backed the project. (I have an idea which will be the second RPG GOG is talking about and if i'm right i backed that too
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The money i gave was meant to make a game and not to enforce business politics. The people who asked for a GOG release asked cause they like the platform as it was. Changing GOG wasn't part of the deal.
So i wait for an explination of Larian Studio and i will than decide how my future towards Larian Studio will be.
