I do not want to fuel the discussion but I honestly fail to understand what is so bad about regional pricing for games:
- Regional pricing for games can be abused. But so can each and every system including Steam Early Access, Kickstarter, Ebay and everything else. Just because there are bad examples for regional pricing does not mean that the idea is inherently bad.
- As Raze stated there is regional pricing for everything - for food, clothes and even medicines. In Germany, for example, you are likely to pay 10 times as much for medicines (!) as for the same medicines (same ingredients, same manufacturer) in Russia. And moreover, you are not even allowed to use online pharmacies for certain medicines in Germany. So, why should games be excluded from regional pricing?
- There has always been regional pricing for games - long before the invention of Steam and Gog. The only difference was that back then people were less aware about this difference because they could hardly compare retail prices.
- No regional pricing for D:OS does not mean that the game will become any cheaper in Europe. The price will stay the same 40 € and players who can not afford it now (there are unfortunately always people in every country of the world who are on the lower end of the income distribution), will not be able to afford it afterwards either. Instead, the only effect this change will have is that an average guy in Russia will not be able to buy this game anymore. To me this really seems to be "schadenfreude" rather than anything else.
- When I buy the game, I always ask the following questions: Is the game interesting for me? Is the price reasonable so that I can afford it with my income? I never ever ask the question whether some guy somewhere else in the world can get the game cheaper. Why should I bother with regional prices for games since I do not really care about regional pricing for food and clothes?
Last edited by Elwyn; 26/02/14 08:43 AM.
