GOG, please support Linux soon. Other digital retailers are simply too ridiculous to throw money at.

Yeah, I never actually shopped there but it sucks to hear that. Since I'm US I doubt I would feel the effects of the wonders of "regional pricing" (ie: screw everyone else).

How much would it cost GOG to hire people that could work with at least one Linux platform?

Humble Bundle Store could have given GOG a run for their money (obviously I still love GOG, but truth is competition is good), and perhaps still can, but this is a step back.

GOG, keep your one-price policy. :)

I'd imagine different stores use different means.

Too many steps back for my taste. Some games don't come free of DRM any longer, and not all games come with Linux or Mac OS clients now either. We have this pricing fiasco as of today. All the Humble stuff used to be promising and innovative. Now? Nothing special. Hope the owners open their eyes soon. Being a run of the mill digital retailer isn't the way to go.

They've been steadily losing my patronage for a while now with their weaker and weaker DRM-free offerings in bundles. This latest change doesn't directly affect me, since I live in the homeland of The Almighty Dollar. But it still turns me off further to them.

Shouldn't you be directing that vitriol at the MEPs? Whenever this comes up, it turns out that doing business in the EU is genuinely that much more expensive due to various regulations and taxes that they're subjected to in the EU.

I'm not sure why this idiocy of getting a bank in the EU that takes Euros when that's likely what caused the pricing change.

I can't help but imagine the folks at GOG smirking at how their competitors lose their unique selling points one by one.

The bad thing ist: this is no price OPTION. Like Steam it (probably) depends from where the IP comes from. I never bought something in the humble store but now they won't get money from me.

Humble Indie Bundle: DRM-free -> DRM-free with extra Steam keys -> Steam keys with some DRM-free downloads -> Bundles with steam keys only (and introducing the "pay-what-you-want----but-at-least-1-$-!")

Games. Strictly speaking they're selling games (keys) they got to people outside the country (either as goods or as a service for the licensors). I'm not exactly sure where that falls though but I imagine it could be seen as an export of either a service or good, just not sure if that applies to digital goods. (though service might then still apply).

Even if this is not the case, a Polish company wouldn't run it's payments through Cyprus without good reason, and seeing it is (or at least was) known for being a tax paradise, that does seem the most likely case.

Iirc, one of the stated reason originally was legal and contractual reasons. GOG simply could not operate under laws and regulations that existed in Polland at the time.

I agree that the only thing that HB has left that really stands out as unique are their bundles, but I do wonder if they will last too long, since so many seem to me to have been heavy with the Steam keys of late.

$1 != £1 / €1 / ¥1 / R1
So it does seem a little strange that they have basically approached it that way.

They are pretty much a Steam key reseller now no matter how anyone spins it

But does it solve the issue of sucking up to [METAPHOR REDACTED: TOO CRUDE].


Let me rephrase that. Will this do anything to make 'Humble' Store less of a yes man to Steam?

Which is a shame.
When I first found out about them they were selling The Binding of Isaac, and I was really impressed with the how good the games in the bundle were and looking at those bundles that went before I was disappointed that I had not know of them sooner.
Yet for the last few months they do appear to waver in quality and appeal like Indie Royale, you either like what you see and question the price or there is nothing worth buying it for.