On March 31st we are going to discontinue the Fair Price Package program. Let us explain the reasoning behind this decision.
>We came up with Fair Price Package (FPP) as a way to make up the price difference between various countries. Some games on GOG.COM have regional pricing, meaning the price of the same game in one place can be higher compared to its price in North America. In countries where the game is more expensive, we give users the equivalent of the price difference in GOG Wallet funds. In actual numbers, on average, we give users back 12% of the game price from our own pocket. In some cases, this number can reach as high as 37%.
>In the past, we were able to cover these extra costs from our cut and still turn a small profit. Unfortunately, this is not the case anymore. With an increasing share paid to developers, our cut gets smaller. However, we look at it, at the end of the day we are a store and need to make sure we sell games without a loss.
>Removing FPP is not a decision we make lightly, but by making this change, we will be able to offer better conditions to game creators, which — in turn — will allow us to offer you more curated classic games and new releases. All DRM-free.
But I was told GoG was serious competition to Steam... turns out Epic Store is the only real competition to Steam
I have no problem with this. I don't know why gog was ever expected to hand out free cash to people to offset the publishers' use of regional pricing. It's just a ridiculous notion that it was ever their responsibility and no company apart from them has ever done anything like this.
Aiden Phillips
>turns out Epic Store is the only real competition to Steam
Epic caused this though. Also it's your fault for living in Brazil.
Jack Martin
>dude it's good that this service that made games cheaper is going away lmao kys shill
Hunter Adams
>Epic caused this though.
How?
Dominic White
I don't work for GoG or anything, but don't they need to increase their share to developers because Epic started doing that?
Steam isn't doing that so I don't see why that would happen
Maybe some devs have said "Well we could just go to Epic Store instead of GoG..." and GoG took the knee, but maybe GoG is in no position to bargain, meaning they've never been competition to Steam
Jack Ross
>meaning they've never been competition to Steam
I wouldn't argue with that, and anybody that did was stupid.
Elijah Cruz
>gives a bigger cut to devs >passes that cost onto customers Now this is Epic
This. Also, do steam key sites suffer the same fate
Jace Garcia
Maybe I should screenshot your post for future use. GoG has always been Steam's bitch boy (see pic), a boutique when they still sold old games and actually having a purpose, now just selling bad new indies like Jotun
I think this is the third or fourth thread on this he's made today. You'd think (you)s would get boring after making the same style of threads for months. OP, what video games do you like? Honest question, since you spend ages every day arguing with people on here.
Adam Davis
GoG didn't have to do that.
FPSes, platformers like Shovel Knight and Cuphead, point and click adventure games like Grim Fandango or Sam & Max, stealth games. I like a lot of games and genres.
Uh I really am not big into grand strategy or sports games unless they're arcadey.
I do it partially for it the (you)'s, because you got to do it for that if you have a view as controversial as mine, as I truly believe that Epic is the first competition we've seen to Steam's monopoly.
Jordan Nguyen
winnie the pooh
Jose Anderson
>GoG didn't have to do that. Exactly. GoG was able to take a bigger cut before Epic pull their stunt which is hurting the PC gaming industry. Predatory practice as they have the size and financial backing to absorb that smaller cut while smaller players like GoG and resellers can't do the same.
Carter Hill
>check GoG to see if I get regional pricing >I don't >epic gives me regional pricing
well I don't need to care about this shit
Joseph Ward
Regional pricing for all 12 of its games!
Isaiah Young
>Exactly. GoG was able to take a bigger cut before Epic pull their stunt which is hurting the PC gaming industry.
So because GoG has no balls or room to bargain with, it's Epic's fault?
GoG has been around since 2008 and done nothing about Steam's monopoly.
>Predatory practice as they have the size and financial backing to absorb that smaller cut while smaller players like GoG and resellers can't do the same.
Those resellers just sell Steam keys.
GoG hosts content and could have argued that. Maybe a dev said "Well we'll just sell our game on Epic store instead of GoG" and then that's how they got wrecked - but that's still GoG putting themselves into a position to get wrecked, GoG already loses out on games, so what's another?
Thomas Mitchell
GoG has its own niche. I don't think it ever tried to compete with Steam directly. Epic's launcher is fucking garbage and I don't want to buy games on it just because of that.
Logan Brown
>GoG has its own niche.
*had
Jace Torres
>Regional pricing for all 12 of its games!
Now let's look at the games worth paying for on GoG...
