sNeaksieGarrett on 29/3/2012 at 00:30
Quote Posted by N'al
Yes. GOG is not a charity.
Of course not, but my point was how do you know their main motivation unless you know them personally or you heard them say "our main motivation is money." It's an educated guess, though a very good one.;)
You're right though, I could have worded my post better.
In any case, it will be interesting to see what games they can get onto the service now.
wonderfield on 29/3/2012 at 02:02
Your post was worded fine. Making money may very well not be GOG's main priority...but the odds that it is are overwhelming given the type of business they're in. In some cases it's more difficult to discern.
EvaUnit02 on 29/3/2012 at 03:22
Quote Posted by wonderfield
The DRM-free angle is the only way GOG is going to be able to really differentiate themselves from other digital distributors now
(
http://www.gamespot.com/news/good-old-games-shifts-focus-adds-recent-titles-6368125) Nope. They're also committed to not having regional pricing and giving away extra goodies with each purchase.
The former may not be of huge concern for the (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usa) cheeseburger inhalers, but us here in Oceania and Europe get fucked over by jacked up regional prices on a regular basis.
june gloom on 29/3/2012 at 04:09
Is it possible for you to refer to countries not your own in a non-derogatory way, you goddamn (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealanders) sheepfucker?
seriously, tell russel crowe to come home, he's worn out his welcome
N'Al on 29/3/2012 at 06:09
Quote Posted by sNeaksieGarrett
Of course not, but my point was how do you know their main motivation unless you know them personally or you heard them say "our main motivation is money." It's an educated guess, though a very good one.;)
:erg:
I don't
need to know them personally. It's a business; its main motivation is to make money.
june gloom on 29/3/2012 at 06:16
sneaksie give up you're not understanding basic economics
faetal on 29/3/2012 at 07:06
In fact, if GOG is publicly traded, they have a legal obligation to make money. GOG is likely just catering to its target audience, namely people who hate DRM. Go to Amazon / Play / Metacritic and look at low rated user reviews for modern games - a good 75% of them are usually DRM gripes. That's an audience right there. They already had the old games angle sewn up, so their approach to taking on newer games has to target an audience which isn't yet catered for, because Valve has too good a platform to directly compete with.
Bjossi on 30/3/2012 at 11:34
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
It still amazes me how many people apparently think that GOG stands for "Good of Games".
This. Every time I see GoG I want to punch someone in the face. 'Old' is an adjective, not a preposition for crying out loud.
Chimpy Chompy on 30/3/2012 at 14:09
So hang on, the first clutch of good-not-so-old-games is all indie stuff. Are we expecting big-name publishers to sign up for selling new games drm-free?
Jason Moyer on 30/3/2012 at 15:45
All I know is they have pre-orders up for Grimrock mmm.
