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Good Old Games (GOG) Store discussion Nice going, GoG douchebags http://www.gog.com/news/announcement_big_preorders_launch_day_releases_coming Comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRdfYwvGTos
Oh wow, well that could back fire on them They sound very pleased about it as well, I guess at the end of the day people just want more money
To be fair, I think GOG had plateaued. I sure as shit don't agree with what they've done, but they had to move from old releases into more modern ones to survive. There's no way they were making amazing amounts of cash flow selling old games, they had to dive into big name releases... Unfortunately, that dive ended up being a belly flop because they had to remove one of their core principles to do it. At least they're only doing it for selective releases for the time being... You don't have to buy these new games from GOG... As long as their older game and indie game releases continue to be free of region pricing I will keep shopping at GOG. It's just a shame they didn't stick to their guns, but instead caved to publisher pressure.
The government needs to hurry up and ban regional pricing (wont happen, they want to and the senate inquiry has recommended it, but no politician has the balls to) edit. the only way I can see GoG saving face here is by not actively policing this, like they did with Witcher 2. "just set the location to USA, we aren't checking"
Does that still work? I recall sometime after they did that they were forced to turn geo IP checking back on. Found the source, they were court-ordered to turn it back on: http://www.gog.com/news/the_witcher_2_update_of_our_geo_ip_policy
I don't have a problem with it. At least developers are willing to let them sell stuff DRM free. If the options are region pricing or no game at all, then region pricing seems like the better deal to me.
my bad, I never heard they were forced to turn it on properly, Ive never really gotten into the witcher much. That sucks
Weren't they also "Nothing over $9.99". There isn't much left of what made GOG good. I loved it for the old games and the work they did and the fact that I'd never be charged more than $10 for an old game. A lot has changed.
GOG released a statement about their pricing announcement: http://www.gog.com/news/letter_from_the_md_about_regional_pricing
It's not really GOGs fault. Like they said, its the publishers that set pricing. However, AAA new releases that are DRM free is an awesome step. I don't care too much about the pricing etc because there are enough sales around anyway but DRM free games are a big hell yes from me.
You have heard of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement talks that are currently underway, right? One of the points of that agreement is a requirement to prevent grey software imports, which can be read as a requirement to enforce regional pricing.
Well the old stuff is no more than $10 and <$5 on discount days. The new stuff is usually too expensive to make them worthwhile even if they come DRM free. I'm sure my humble bundle catalog is larger than my gog library. The games from HB are sometimes DRM free, and often comes with steam keys too. The only reason to get DRM free games imo is for modding. That way when the game patches it doesn't mess up your game directory.
Not "old" per se but Chronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena. My point wasn't that old games weren't cheap merely they had a motto "nothing over $10" and now there are. They dropped a lot of their early ideals now. Still happy for DRM free though.
Unfortunately it comes to my point above... If they didn't sell anything over $10 it would mean they wouldn't have expanded their catalog. Their problem, they promised the world when they launched, but realised later they had to adapt to survive. If you read the link I posted they hate DRM, and at least that's one thing they'll never cave to (And if they do GOG are dead to me)
Nobody can really complain about them providing newer games and not sticking to all of their rules as they do with classics. They made those rules with classic released in mind, in a time when they never offered newer games and it was easier to convince publishers to offer their games fair priced/DRM free as they weren't making any more money off them anyway. Classics are still DRM free, region free, fair priced and highly compatible with modern PC's. All they are doing is offering new games as well. Anything that helps them expand and get more publishers on board to provide them with more old games is good in my book. It's either that or not offer them at all - people seem to forget that they as buyers have a choice. You don't have to buy your new games from GOG, whether that's because they are priced too much for you or not, it all boils down to more choice for the customers as to where they would like to purchase games plus more classic releases due to the overall expansion of publishers
Looks like the backlash to GOG's recent change of policy had an effect. Getting back to our roots "We didn’t listen and we let you down. We shouldn't sacrifice one of our core values in an attempt to advance another. We feel bad about that, and we're sorry. Us being sorry is not of much use to you, so let’s talk about how we will fix it."
