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OK, it's your word and for any lack of proof I'll have to believe you. I don't think it's quite as simple as you make it out to be, but then again few things really are, heh. What one platform offers that another does not, is not relevent to 'supporting the devs' when the devs themselves decide their promotional content and organise their sales/availability on subscription services, nor is the discussion of physical vs digital media and playing at a friends house, as this topic is about acquiring a key to keep for yourself by pretending to be from a region with a weaker currency, so they lower the buying price. While most of the heads do behave in a heavily profit-centric manner, sites like GOG make certain considerations in their model that are more pro-consumer than outright profit driven, hence why they have a stronger 'moral' defense, and why the distaste is stronger here. The industry does not have a single face. "VideoGames industry is a business machine,it not live with ethics,live with money" Just as people should be mindful that piracy of steamgames comes with the risk of key logging trojans that can log details and steal accounts.
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It's a potential risk (albeit probably minor at first) that people should be mindful of. The people who complain that their accounts or access to various storefronts have been restricted / banned aren't likely to be totally random and without anything that prompted the false positive. Though you're more likely to get the key revoked than anything more severe, repeated flagging for suspicious activity may have a cumulative effect. And even using your own card to subvert regional pricing with a VPN is capable of looking suspicious, especially where the industry is guarded against resellers.
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If anything, only the rich can afford to re-purchase all of their games again, if their original account was restricted due to accidental association with fraud. "Only rich\elite people care about "accounts"" It just doesn't sit well with me, though that is more under the assumption of people being able to buy normally, but just not wanting to. It's certainly better than piracy with no intention of paying or acquiring the game legally later, but it still uses a loophole that lends credence to devs who don't adapt to regional matters. It's an equivalent to 'moral piracy' only instead of buying the game when you are able to, you just donate whatever you felt like, only given the pricepoint in VPN gouging, it's often not even 'paying what you think the game is worth'. Once you own that key, your incentive to pay the devs the rest of what they are essentially owed is gone. The problem with exploiting VPNs and regional pricing is that you are attempting to acquire a legit key to keep, but are likely getting a price that is far lower than what you would end up paying on a sale. I'll see myself and my janky moral compass out :P I dunno, maybe this is just me throwing out my mere opinion, but it feels somehow more wrong to use a weaker currency / economy in that manner, and just makes me think this is the kind of stuff that makes less scrupulous devs justify not adjusting their prices for such regions, etc.
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Plus there's the ethical aspect when it comes to indies or small devs, or even when it comes to GOG-centric sellers they're already foregoing DRM which makes me feel the pricepoints are more respectable in general. Attempting to buy games with VPN stuff and then associate them with your actual account seems that it would just put your account at risk, or associate it with potential fraud / mass resellers in the case of gray markets. If the price point is an issue (whether due to harsh budget issues in current times, or you are against a companies policies/pricing) and you don't want to wait for a price drop, then it makes me wonder why piracy isn't the go-to option. It seems a little odd to me for someone wanting to own a 'legit' copy but also willing to circumvent regional pricing matters with VPNs or gray markets. Consider that when buying at GOG, you get your stuff DRM free.