And Linux...

For me that's currently a huge ~ 37 % price increase ! Not a good move from the Humble Store

Good time for GOG to start thinking about Linux support.

And they dont have a forum for people to go whinge and complain about it....

What about twitter or facebook?

GOG's situation isn't exactly the same as other stores.

One of the "justifications" for regional pricing is to eliminate the need to deal with taxes on a case by cases. This isn't always 100% correct and I don't agree with it either, but that's sort of the questionable way publishers "explain" this.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, and somebody else here probably knows more about this than I do, but GOG is in a slightly better position to avoid that shaky "justification" because they don't have to pay some of those taxes, or at least they don't have to pay as much. This is partly because GOG operates out of Cyprus.

Now if you wanted to be really mean and pedantic about it, what GOG does is what some people like to call "tax avoidance".
Technically it's not illegal, but apparently it is frowned upon by some groups.

Thankfully, the groups that get pissed off at this are the kind that most of us as GOG customers don't give a crap about. Honestly, a lot of us probably prefer it to be this way, as less of our money goes to governments and the silly bullshit they like to do.
That said, it's worth noting GOG may have bit of an edge in this area.

Regional pricing is probably the first step before prices in my region will increase. Not nice.

And here I was thinking wether or not I should buy something from Humble Store and this crap happens making most things offered not worth it. Hurrah for 34% price hike. Direct dollar to euro conversion (1$=1€). :-( Got to wait and see how this'll affect Bundles. And this will probably mean regional discounts as well so most of discounts will probably be US/NA only or heavily favour them. Humble Store is not so humble anymore. :-(

They should rename it The Greedy Bastards Store

Perhaps it is humble to the developers/publishers now?

"The Greedy Brownies Store" then?

Heh.

Goodbye Humble Store, it was nice knowing you! I'm sorry for straying occasionally, GOG, will you have me back? :(

The "Makemoneywithease" bundle

Also I think they will soon introduce VAT in all their bundle (you know, this way technically the price is the same).

They don't recognize purchase power of single country anymore.

Let's make an example: here in Italy about 60% of population is unemployed.

A common paycheck is around 850€, for eight hours of work each day, five days in a week.

House rent is usually 500€ each month.

You have around 350 € left, and you need to buy food, pay bills (and here there are TONS: excluding gas, power energy, water and telephone, we have a lot of taxes you must pay).

Fuel is around 1.60€ per liter.

A game costs 70€ (console) or 50 (PC).

Then, there is Steam but with EU price.

Now I say: why I must pay so much for a game? Why countries like Russia pay a game a lot less then us?

It's okay if the living cost is compared on what you gain each month, but for now all is overpriced here.

Although it's a sad thing that this happens, it's not like they suddenly profit from the currency conversion a 100%, it's probably less than 10% difference after VAT.

whats a Widget in terms of HB sale item? (obviously i know what it is in normal terms but my brain no workey with that term in this context :p)