The introduction of the 10% paysafecard fee is an outrageous introduction to government level of taxation. Wanna stay anonymous ? It will cost you. Either sell your data or pay a fee. It introduces a two class society where people have to be able to afford to stay protected. That is a deep social issue that seems to have invaded gog. Its not about being able to afford the fee. Its that i dont want to get taxed for protecting my anonymity. Paying it doesnt solve anything, the price will just rise more and more. It is going to create a 2 class society of people, and they can change the taxation level at any point. They can also make it more and more inconvenient to use paysafecard at any moment. Again, paying the fee is not going to solve anything. You are just telegraphing how much you can afford your anonymity.

Currently gog doesnt sell store credit in local shops like all other major companies do. Why not ? There isnt any current payment method that lets you keep your complete anonymity. From purchasing the credits at a local shop to charging your gog wallet, no personal information could be collected. And gog doesnt provide an alternative to the paysafecard. Why not ? Why not sell store credit in local shops ? Is gog too small for that ? What keeps you from providing that opportunity ? Buying DRM free games isnt the only thing people care about.

It's 8.5% but yeah it does feel kinda annoying.

Actually, officially you are not allowed to be anonymous in not a single part of any transactions and in your bed only if you do not moan to loud. So, yes... any anonymous methods will be taxed with heavy fees so... those "who dare" have to pay the price.

However, the biggest platforms are without additional fees... i do no spell out the name now (there are several of them... i mean really big, bigger than GOG, EGSs or some adult-game stores). GOG for many years was not having such fees but... not that far ago... they changed their policy, making them more expensive now for anyone using such payment-methods. Not a single word from GOG nor any exact reasoning... apart from simply "having to less margin" on this payment method.

"All other major companies do".

There's a huge majority of stores which do not sell store credit via third parties. And those who once did have been of late phasing out gift card/voucher systems due to flagging sales and scammer issues. As a rule of thumb mainly the bigger mainstream stores with deeper pockets ever bothered with discrete 3rd party credit products, and Steam, being the biggest fish in game stores right now, only has the existing card stock being on offer now (once sold, there will be no more).

Furthermore, it's an added cost to the business to set up and offer this, and that must be offset by projected increases in sales in offering said payment systems. In other words GOG wouldn't get huge amounts of customers using a voucher system, so it's not financially worth paying out for one.

Furthermore I think you're confusing destruction of anonymity with the expense of anonymity. Anonymity in the modern age has pretty much always involved inconvenience... so an increase of price for Paysafecard customers is merely a continuation of this.