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Posted February 25, 2014
So I live in Australia and even if I set that in the settings gog believes I'm in the US thus I escape the regional pricing nonsense, Wish I knew how though.
Posted February 25, 2014
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Magmarock: So I live in Australia and even if I set that in the settings gog believes I'm in the US thus I escape the regional pricing nonsense, Wish I knew how though.
When The Witcher 2 was released, GOG encouraged users from Australia and other regions affected by the censorship to change their country assigned to their user account to get around it. They argued that GeoIP is not always accurate so they weren't using it, and taking country from the user account instead.

I guess regional pricing now means that GOG will use GeoIP after all.
Posted February 25, 2014
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Magmarock: So I live in Australia and even if I set that in the settings gog believes I'm in the US thus I escape the regional pricing nonsense, Wish I knew how though.
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korell: When The Witcher 2 was released, GOG encouraged users from Australia and other regions affected by the censorship to change their country assigned to their user account to get around it. They argued that GeoIP is not always accurate so they weren't using it, and taking country from the user account instead.

I guess regional pricing now means that GOG will use GeoIP after all.
I had to use a proxy to see the difference and either they're not using GeoIP or that somehow GeoIP think I'm in the usa
Posted February 25, 2014
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Magmarock: So I live in Australia and even if I set that in the settings gog believes I'm in the US thus I escape the regional pricing nonsense, Wish I knew how though.
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korell: When The Witcher 2 was released, GOG encouraged users from Australia and other regions affected by the censorship to change their country assigned to their user account to get around it. They argued that GeoIP is not always accurate so they weren't using it, and taking country from the user account instead.

I guess regional pricing now means that GOG will use GeoIP after all.
They were forced to Introduce GeoIP fore regional pricing soon after The Witcher 2 was released, they lost a court case with the retail publisher (Atari, was it?).
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Magmarock: I had to use a proxy to see the difference and either they're not using GeoIP or that somehow GeoIP think I'm in the usa
Consider youself lucky.
Post edited February 25, 2014 by Maighstir
Posted February 26, 2014
I guess we should all move to "Mother Russia" digitally =P
Posted February 26, 2014
Oh GOG I have just moved to russia. good news for me :)
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