So far we're getting US prices which are .. lets just say ridiculous, to put it into perspective, where i live, in Algeria (which is located in the north) most average people here make $200 to $300/Month at best so a $60 for a new game is .. yeah you get my point. other countries in the region have it worse too.

I have friends in Brazil and they seem to have regional pricing, i have regional pricing as well in Epic Store and was hoping GoG will step up and do the same too when they announced it back in February. but so far nothing happened.


Any idea's how on GoG is planning to roll out regional pricing? are they still in the process of doing that?

You could try clicking support tab above then account and website or orders and payments and clicking contact us then filling out the form provided to reach a staff member.

Perhaps it's a catch 22. They don't have many Algerian customers because of the lack of regional pricing, they don't think it's worth setting up regional pricing for Algeria because they don't have many Algerian customers?

Have you tried writing to support?

https://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

If you look at Steam's download stats Algeria is about 40TB. But that puts it pretty much in the Top 5 of download countries

South Africa - 695TB
Egypt - 88 TB
Morroco - 65 TB
Algeria -50 TB
Tunisia - 46 TB

So I mean if you're looking at just Africa you'd probably at least put Algera in the top of the list

The problems you have are that other regions like the rest of South America/Pakistan/etc have higher usage so you'd likely want to prioritize those first.

also note that supporting a region is a lot more than just 'slapping on a price' as there's the whole logistics of the banking systems and other issues that you'd have to consider as well. GOG doesn't support that many currencies and if you compare it to Steam's list, you'd honestly want to support the other 40+ currencies first then get to something like Algeria.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/pricing/currencies

Just from a 'what makes financial sense' perspective, you'd probabaly see gog burn down through Steam's supported currency list first, before they'd even consider trying to get to Algeria

That was kind of my point. GOG probably doesn't perceive it as being worth it.

Does Algeria have regional pricing on Steam? I'm usually in the same boat (but for Indonesia), and I know that Steam's prices are usually half of what I'd pay on GOG after conversion and regional pricing factor in... if Steam already has regional pricing, that might explain the high usage.

Sorry, it probably wasn't super clear from my post, but Algeria isn't supported by Steam. Only South Africa is. But as yo uacn see by the bandwidth used, its 10x more than even the next largest which is Egypt, and Egypt is a country users have requested Steam support

interesting. Thanks.

Well Nope. Sadly Steam doesn't have regional pricing for us. i made many attempts to contact support there and even email Gaben himself but there's no comeback.
Steam have two "suggested lower price in USD regions" one is CIS and the other is SEA, this two regions include few countries that are close to Russia and others in Asia) no such thing for African countries as far as i know.
Epic really suprised me when they supported our region with better prices and that made me think why won't GOG be the same too. that would make things really cool for me. oh well ..

That doesn't surprise me because China is very involved in Africa right now. It may seem "generous", but their business practices are no less predatory than the IMF and World Bank, so I'd be wary.

that's not true. They don't need to deal with the local currencies/banking systems in order to set regional prices.
Just add another database entry to set the price and handle the transactions in dollar just like before.
Works fine for South America, no reason it shouldn't work for Africa.

But there are probably not enough buyers from African countries to convince GOG that it is worthwhile to sit down and work out some suitable pricing arrangement.

Yeah, exactly; most users here will pay by US Dollar or Euro's anyways .. and yeah, Most likely they thought it's not worth it. i can't blame them to be honest, Most people here don't know what is GOG and what it stands for but a better price is always a good way to get people to notice you.

Steam always takes into account how locals actually pay for things. They look at local payment methods that are popular. Have you ever heard of Kombini? No? Its a cash payment service that allows users in Japan to buy things online with just cash because credit cards are something no one uses in Japan. In places like Brazili they supported Boa Compora a popular local payment method. Every country that steam supports always has a range of payment methods that make sense ofr that region.

You could probably count the number of African GOG customers on one hand.

Hey man sorry to say this, but get in line. India needs regional pricing first I say!