A combination of retail brick-and-mortar pressure plus the standard pricing of new AAA titles.b

If you think a physical copy of a game is WORTH $60 'because shipping and physical disc' then you are insipid to the concept of how game sales work.

IT DOES NOT COST $10 extra for the disc and maybe even some manuals along the way. $1, maybe, but $10 and you'd better have a polished, wooden disc case and freaking A1 manuals.

THE REASON WHY CDPR charges $60 for their games is because they're selling their game physically as well. CDPR CANNOT compete with themselves with their own product, or else no major retail brick-and-mortar store would bother selling their games.

"Oh you want to sell TW3? We're going to charge you quite a bit PER GAME to sell in our store"
"Oh, the prices on your website are cheaper? That's unhealthy competition so we're not going to sell your game for you"

Wow, I never knew how rough Aussies get it until I saw this.

Try $80 sunshine, and that's the discounted price, and no not everyone is wealthy down here.

We get screwed over by corporate cartels here.

It's why we pirate a lot of things.

Sad to see another company climbing aboard the "Australia Tax" train. I preordered TW2 here on gog, and it was reasonably priced. I thought CDPR and gog were different to the big companies that typically do this, but apparently that has changed. $81 is a ridiculous price and I will not be buying TW3.

I don't think you understand that if you want to sell a game and distribute it to popular stores like EB games and "Game", you need to make them happy.

Making your game almost $30-40 cheaper, ONLINE OR NOT. Will not get your game sold. Greedy companies seek profit. If they find out that you're creating unhealthy competition with them, they won't sell your product. Period.

This is not the fault of CDPR, this is the fault of consumers, and their demand for physical games brought from brick-and-mortar stores.

Precisely this. If CD Project started to sell its own game at a lower price than the physical copies, Bandai Namco (responsable for the physical distribution) would likely sue them for unfair business practices -and win, without a doubt.
So yes, as Fenixp properly points out, CD Project is forced to sell the game at a steeper price than they would, if they also want to sell retail copies, being them collector's edtitions, vanilla PC boxes or console versions of the game.

Don't you get the Fair Price deal? The TW3 page should show a note saying that you'll get a certain amount of credit back to make up for the regional difference.(assuming it takes tax into account. Not sure if it does)

That's not money!

So? There are loads of games on GOG, and you'll probably want to buy one of them eventually. Why not just include the price of it in a game you're also already going to buy?

And they are legally required to have regional pricing, and they couldn't just lower the price of specific games, as then the devs would end up getting less money from the purchase(out of whatever percentage they get).

If it was money, you could use it to buy games on sale. These gift codes force you to "buy" at full price. You cannot use them as partial payment for a more expensive game either.

Besides, the lowest non-discounted price is $20, and so that is what I consider to be the "base" price. They are sure as hell not compensating for that difference. They are only required to have regional pricing because of deals they made with publishers. Publishers they chose. Publishers they chose even though those same publishers totally screwed them over last time.

Yet it's the standard price on Steam.

We get 2 games as comp, so no big deal.

As for price, I have both Witcher games on GoG, so my price is 71AU, witch is not bad if you factor in NwN:DE, plus 2 games (I assume of your choice) from the store.

Th, I am thinking I should get past act one of The Witcher before I go and by this... lol

amazon.de/gp/product/B00JPECMT4/ref=s9_simh_gw_p63_d0_i5?pf_rd_m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&pf_rd_s=center-4&pf_rd _r=1SKVC 3BCCSD53R205R0X&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=455353687&pf_rd_i=301128

This is Murdered: Soul Suspect for 69 EUROS (94 Dollars)
And you crying about TW3 being overpriced.... REALLY?! REAAAALLLY?! I MEAN REAAAALLLY?!