Posted February 27, 2014
Zambrey did a fantastic post yesterday on the situation of the GOG.com-Team:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/letter_from_the_md_about_regional_pricing/post1510
"Meantime in GOG office:
- What is the situation now, Trevor?
- Hey Monk, not good. They took over three our threads and still raging about regional prices.
- How is that? You said they would be calm by now.
- Yeah but they don't want to accept that. They are bitching about some old videos we made.
- Fcuk, I knew this would be a problem. But it was only PR-stuff, they really took it seriously?
- Seems like it, yes.
- GDoc, you should have put more sweetness in my letter, like we love them and stuff.
- But boss, I did everything you wanted. Anyway, I don't like the idea. I thought that we are the good guys.
- Eh, nevermind. What can we do? Trevor, can we throw any free game at them?
- Well, it could be a problem. You know, the publishers... They want to change their pricing... You know, 1$ = 1EUR...
- They supposed to do that in few months. They want it already? Greedy bastards. What about the Witcher? CDPR wouldn't mind, I guess.
- Sir, Judas reports that 95% of them have it already. It could be not enough...
- You could be right. So promo, then? We have one more Insomnia Sale stashed around, they kinda liked it.
- But last time they created like 30k+ posts in one week, I'm afraid that they will use another thread to complain.
- Fcuk, what else can we do? "
I laughed a lot--- but then I thought:
What the hell would I do to make us, the raging crowd that just wrote over 2000 posts in two days, calm down now?
And yes, I´ve come to an answer: The solution is simple, elegant and would perfectly suitable to your belowed style:
Listening to the second most active wish on community wishlist is what you should do right now!
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/fair_price_regional_price_badge
Such silly discussions like "They will rise prices for classics too" could be stopped with ease with that method and, the most important aspect:
We´d proberbly all get the idea that you are still listening to us!
So: Set that wish on progress and everything could be better. Forfill it, and everything shall be fine.
And: Let us all only judge this progress when we are able to do it---so just meet again in a year or so and then we take a look at the results and might say:
"It was a genius idea to abandon one world pricing. Look at all those games---look how DRM-free gaming has evolved"
Or we might say:
"This was a crap idea. Let us turn it back."
But please: Don´t try to do this now. Just continue living---and meet again for discussion next year!
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/letter_from_the_md_about_regional_pricing/post1510
"Meantime in GOG office:
- What is the situation now, Trevor?
- Hey Monk, not good. They took over three our threads and still raging about regional prices.
- How is that? You said they would be calm by now.
- Yeah but they don't want to accept that. They are bitching about some old videos we made.
- Fcuk, I knew this would be a problem. But it was only PR-stuff, they really took it seriously?
- Seems like it, yes.
- GDoc, you should have put more sweetness in my letter, like we love them and stuff.
- But boss, I did everything you wanted. Anyway, I don't like the idea. I thought that we are the good guys.
- Eh, nevermind. What can we do? Trevor, can we throw any free game at them?
- Well, it could be a problem. You know, the publishers... They want to change their pricing... You know, 1$ = 1EUR...
- They supposed to do that in few months. They want it already? Greedy bastards. What about the Witcher? CDPR wouldn't mind, I guess.
- Sir, Judas reports that 95% of them have it already. It could be not enough...
- You could be right. So promo, then? We have one more Insomnia Sale stashed around, they kinda liked it.
- But last time they created like 30k+ posts in one week, I'm afraid that they will use another thread to complain.
- Fcuk, what else can we do? "
I laughed a lot--- but then I thought:
What the hell would I do to make us, the raging crowd that just wrote over 2000 posts in two days, calm down now?
And yes, I´ve come to an answer: The solution is simple, elegant and would perfectly suitable to your belowed style:
Listening to the second most active wish on community wishlist is what you should do right now!
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/fair_price_regional_price_badge
Such silly discussions like "They will rise prices for classics too" could be stopped with ease with that method and, the most important aspect:
We´d proberbly all get the idea that you are still listening to us!
So: Set that wish on progress and everything could be better. Forfill it, and everything shall be fine.
And: Let us all only judge this progress when we are able to do it---so just meet again in a year or so and then we take a look at the results and might say:
"It was a genius idea to abandon one world pricing. Look at all those games---look how DRM-free gaming has evolved"
Or we might say:
"This was a crap idea. Let us turn it back."
But please: Don´t try to do this now. Just continue living---and meet again for discussion next year!