"You see that bridge? I built that. But do the call me Jan the Builder? No.
You see that library? I neatly organized every book. But do they call me Jan the Archivist? No.
But them, one time I got drunk..."

"Hey, isn't that Jan the sheepfucker?!"

right. dont most of those do regional pricing? I hope people who are mad enough to boycott, are not so silly to support other sites that do regional pricing instead.

But to leave a place to go to another place that still has regional pricing, which people don't like, but also DRM makes no sense. There is no win here.... if anything it just sends the message that we as gamers have no issue with DRM.

Ah, but did they start out saying "No regional pricing!"?

so are you saying, this isnt really about regional pricing, but about "im mad because you changed your mind about somthing"?

Yup that about sums it up :)

It is about regional pricing, but it's not that I boycott companies who do regional pricing but rather that GOG is destroying the trust I had in them.

You may say it's strange to hold GOG to a different standard than I'm holding other stores to, but it's GOG who set that standard by saying "Look, no regional pricing here!".

Pricing for any product is just a matter of you looking at the price for a specific game and deciding if that price is worth it for you. Just do that with each game. If it's not worth it for you, then you don't buy it. But I understand what you're saying about prior claims from GOG and such, I just personally think it's worth it to compromise on some things in order to secure a DRM-free future (which is the core idea of GOG in my opinion).

And there are no other DRM-free stores out there that I'm aware of. There are stores with some DRM-free games, but these stores also have a lot of games with DRM (or end up still requiring Steam).

And by the way, some of you guys who start new threads don't seem to understand how you may be going against yourselves. By creating threads with such a ridiculous "headline" title, you actually end up encouraging a boycott more than discouraging it, even though you're actually against the idea. How about being a little smarter with your thread titles next time?

DOTEMU

Anyway, it's not about cost and value but rather about not supporting a company you feel has betrayed its principles. According to the letter all of the games will be regionally priced. Originally I was going to just skip the ones with regional pricing, but that letter ruined it for me so I guess it's a boycott now.

The thing I think a lot of people are not getting, and I think GOG are not fully appreciating, is that it's not about the change in itself.

There were many of us that shouted GOG's name from the rooftops, told all our friends to prefer GOG to other services. We were GOG's marketting, not TET, us. We posted on TPB when a GOG game was being pirated advising them to go to GOG, we replied to all the issues on the forums, even when support was crap. We did this because we believed in the stated goals of the company.

We feel used.

I'll post something similar in one of the threads currently shitstorming about this so please don't derail this thread, but hopefully that's putting our anger in perspective for you.

If you boycott gog for regional pricing, while supporting sites like steam and amazon etc, then you are not taking a stand against regional pricing, but rather nitpicking with gog, while encouraging other sites to continue regional pricing because gog hurt your feelings. All there is to it really.

thepiratebay

I'm not among those who scream boycott, but I have to say that I still find this question silly, because it's the same one that supporters of Steam regularly ask those who have sworn to only buy DRM-free games. And one could just as well ask those who only support GOG: Where do you buy your Diablos, your GTA's, your Elder Scroll games, your LucasArts adventures etc.? You don't buy them at all because you don't like the conditions they're sold under? Then you have your answer there. And even if GOG was the last place to buy games from, who of us really needs to buy games? As SirPrimalform said, most of us already have pretty large backlogs that would last us a lifetime, and even without them, there'd still be plenty of good freeware out there.

That being said, I don't see any reason for me to boycott GOG; at the moment I just don't feel like giving them extra support and free promotion anymore either, just like wpegg said.

Personally, I'm pretty annoyed. But I think what I'll do is still buy the games I want for here, because despite all I still feel this is the better store. However, I will stop buying extra copies for giveaways like I've been doing.

Basically, GOG went down from being a store I really liked and wanted to support, to a good store that gives good service but I can't fully trust.

Technically, people calling for a boycott can presently not go anywhere at all if they are even remotely consistent in their words and actions. This is mainly regarding new releases of AAA titles.

I wonder how many of the boycott supporters will stay true to their cause and how many will or already have betrayed their own convictions. I have no problem with anyone doing a boycott across the board and consistently but if words and action don't match, that's not very cool.
To those saying A and doing B, I hope they're aware that they aren't some level 99 Paladin Protector of the Light and all that's Holy yadda yadda but rather they might compare to one of those little maggots crawling out of Duriel's freshly slain corpse in Act II. The ones that can't even be attacked because they're just non interactive bitmap animations. I'm sure no one around here wants to be a non interactive maggot or any kind of maggot in general but then again, cognitive dissonance prevents maggots from realizing that they are maggots.