Plumpbiscuit
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In today's surprise announcement, Ninja Theory's Hellblade is coming to GOG DRM-free!
Is it hopeful that AAA games will start coming to GOG as the norm?
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice releasing DRM-FREE on GOG
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In today's surprise announcement, Ninja Theory's Hellblade is coming to GOG DRM-free!
Is it hopeful that AAA games will start coming to GOG as the norm?
I think this is an indie game, not an AAA game. Isn't it self funded by Ninja Theory?
Yes. They're using the extra money from their other projects to make it with a very small team.
pitcairn55
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hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Does GOG do refunds?
Wasn't their combat built on intimate 1v1 or 1v2 encounters particularly because it's a low budget title being developed by a small team? At least I remember reading that a couple of years ago. If so, this doesn't scream AAA to be honest.
Beautiful motion capture though.
GavinUK86
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And they wanted it more intimate. It's in between AAA and Indie. Self published but with the quality of multi-million dollar budget games yet with a quarter of that budget.
Plumpbiscuit
Member
This is an incredibly ignorant statement as pirates are as quick to pirate Steam games within a day, sometimes even before it is released. The advantages of buying it on GOG are that you don't need a client to play it with and the game is yours to keep forever and cannot be revoked from your account. It also sends the message that people want to buy and own digital software as opposed to some numbers from a license key. You can also download and play the game on any computer as long as that computer connects to GOG in order to download it, so I'm not seeing how that's different to Steam? Also, since you own the game, you keep the .exe in a nicely packaged file that you can transfer offline between devices.
There's never been a case of a Steam game being cracked prior to release. Upon release, yes, but never before as both retail disc data and pre-load data is encrypted.
I am interested in this game. If it reviews well I'd be happy to buy the game on GOG. It is cool to support the developers and, if GOG versions sell well, show publishers that they should shackle their games with DRM like Denuvo less. That probably is too optimistic, but here's to hoping.
Plumpbiscuit
Member
What are you talking about? This has been the case for years as far back as 2013 as I remember it. A game, no longer on Steam and for sale, called Dreamkiller was also a victim of this and that game is quite old now.
Thief's pre-load/disc data wasn't cracked. It just had a staggered release schedule and unlocked in AU/NZ well before the US.
That doesn't seem to be accurate, either. SKIDROW's release is dated October 13th, 2009.
EVA UNIT 01
Member
No release date though?
im oddly intrigued by this game
im oddly intrigued by this game
Plumpbiscuit
Member
Where is your information from where Thief was released "well before" the US in AU/NZ? Thief came out February 25th 2014 in NA and everywhere else afterwards:
wccftech said:
Are you kidding me now? Pirate Bay has been around with listings since 2003 or 2004. Hell, I only know about Dreamkiller because I saw it on Google search results as pirate copies years after its release, only to find out that the game was cracked and uploaded before its Steam release. Obviously, those links don't exist anymore.
Actually, I misremembered slightly: it unlocked in Asia first.
Context matters.
I was talking about Dreamkiller specifically. Are you sure you're not misremembering? Searching Google with the keywords "Dreamkiller", "Steam" and "cracked" and a date range of January 1st, 2009 through October 12th, 2009 doesn't return anything that even so much as suggests the game was cracked prior to release.
Plumpbiscuit
Member
Okay, so even if it did release in Asia first, it would have been only by a few hours and even so, the game was still up to torrent before the NA release of Feb 25th. I can safely say this argument does not hold water with a few hours, compared to years of piracy.
Context matters.
Well as I said, the original links do not exist anymore but I don't want anybody to link anything dodgy here.
It unlocked in the US a little under 17-and-a-half hours later, and remember I said that Steam's pre-load/retail disc data has never been cracked, not that Steam games haven't been cracked before their release elsewhere in the world. Those are two very different statements and obviously the latter wouldn't make much sense.
Feel free to PM me a link. As per my edit, I went looking but didn't find anything to support your claim.
Yeah don't get me wrong I don't think it's a bad thing at all. I'm just thinking we might need another term than independent AAA is all.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Yeah, it's cool. I'll buy it day 1 because of the GOG release. DRM-free is really the only way that most PC games are worth full price to me.
Due to timezones, Asia would be about ~20 hours ahead of US.
Site claims it was few days earlier but their "proof" shows it's actually x360 version they talk about.
Due to timezones, Asia would be about ~20 hours ahead of US.
Site claims it was few days earlier but their "proof" shows it's actually x360 version they talk about.
All PS3 and Xbox 360 games leak up to 5 days before release anyway so idk why they thought it was anything special.
Wowfunhappy
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Basically, no. If you can't get the game to start on your PC, and Gog Support isn't able to fix the problem, they'll refund the money. But they will only do "buyers remorse" refunds if you haven't actually downloaded the game yet.
It's a bit of a shame, but there's basically no way to "return" DRM-free software—there's no license for GoG to revoke in exchange for your money back. Personally, I'm more than willing to make the trade-off.
