What you said was dead wrong. Regional pricing is perfectly legal in the US. A cup of coffee is going to cost different depending on where you are at. The average cost of coffee in New York is differnet than in Idaho. Regional pricing is mostly used for gasoline. Different regions in even the same city are priced differnetly depending on their location. It has nothing do do with distance either. If a price is advertised it always has the discamer saying regional prices may be differnet. Regional prices are paid for utilities. Regional prices are used for tax calculation. Regional prices are used for insurance.


It even says so in that link.

Valve often has said that they decide to take a smaller cut during sales.

This is also not the same product. They offer a game on Steam that does not come with an installer. GOG offers a game with an installer. Do you really think that Steam or GOG pays for each game people buy? They take a cut from the sale. The precentage of the storefront cut depends on the contract that the developer/publsher agrees to. Knowing the industry as much as I do, they also have stated on their contract about how sale pricing would go. You do know that big publishers will likely have lawyers employed for them.