Regional pricing an economic reality of a global market place. Until we reach a point when all countries have similar costs of living and income levels companies must use regional pricing to access certain markets.

In some countries the cost of a game is equal to 30 loaves of bread, while in others its equal to 3'000 loaves. If you want to sell in those countries and counter illegal software use, then the only option is respect the differences in economy and sell the game for a lot lower price.

Yes it can be misused, when companies charge £30 of a $30 product, but on the whole GoG do try to offset that.
There are also times where GoG can not account for this.

Except the Russians. And Chinese. And Micronesians.

I guess wanting regional pricing depends on whether it will mean cheaper games to you. Us fillthy rich Europeons don't generally like it because we pay dearly for our games.

On a similar vein, I'm a bit surprised how much amazement the Finnish (traffic) fine system causes abroad, where your income affects how big your fines may be. Like a billionaire having to pay much more for speeding than an unemployed single mother of 9, oh noes.

To me THAT makes perfect sense. If the fine was exactly the same for the billionaire and the single mother, then either it would not sting the billionaire at all, or the single mother wouldn't have money to feed her children just because she was speeding home from the grocery store to feed her starving children.

It is not an "extra tax" to wealthy either, because anyone can choose not to break the traffic rules. Like no speeding = no ticket. E.g. I've driven car almost daily for decades, and yet to receive even one ticket, so yes it can be done!

World: please stop criticizing our perfectly fine fine system! It works, it's great, it makes us happy, we love it, we would marry it and make lots of children with it if we could.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/world/europe/speeding-in-finland-can-cost-a-fortune-if-you-already-have-one.html?_r=0

If only games were priced like that, too. It could be nice.

EDIT: how old are you exactly, if you've driven a car for decades now?

82 tomorrow.

And I've driven car since I was like 5 years old, I actually learned to drive before I learned to walk.

Regional pricing, but taken to individual level.

Any form of deterrent based on financial loss should be linked to the wealth of the perpetrator. Otherwise there deterrents effect is negated by wealth.


and I've been driving for decades too. two decades...;-(