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Hollow Knight: Silksong is now available on Steam - and it broke the Steam store
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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2025
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Regional pricing can be a good thing at times, they are generally beneficial to lower currency value countries.
It is a great thing. Sliksong GOG price is 60% higher than Steam in some regions. GOG needs regional pricing.
Steam services that by injecting more DRM, region-locking games (and accounts) to a set of countries like consoles do, and that is incompatible with GOG's idea. They can let devs decide on pricing without implementing any rudimentary locks, but then it would be inconvinient for wealthy countries' gamers to ever purchase a game in their own region unless they intent to support dev/platform. It greatly complicates their side of things and would be a very divisive decision for a smaller storefront that is built around their wholesome image.
It locks our anyone who is not from a privileged rich country tho