GOG.com courting indie developers

@experience_fade @numbes Getting rid of GOG altogether is not going to save any developer shutting down due to lost profits. Their bad game will sink them at launch months if not years before it's on GOG. The alternative is they can squeeze at least a little something from a distributor that has a happy customer base behind them. And honestly all developers are counting on piracy anyway, a project does not go anywhere before making allowances for that because it isn't going to go away with or without GOG.

@experience_fade @Gamesfetch @RC-Sev can you pirate the Last Guardian then?

@numbes Yes few games like pirated GRID 2 can also be played on official servers

@Gamesfetch @koospetoors that is not a solid fact payday 2 official servers are playable with the cracked game as where several of the call of dutys

@koospetoors Also the fact that pirated games do not support multiplayer (official servers)

@experience_fade You're just seeing one small point of the whole picture though, lots of companies these days treat PC gamers like criminals (and the rest like dirt, money-making dirt)

GOG actually shows love to gamer community, by selling games DRM free (which for many people is a serious plus) along with tons of extra free goodies.

In a nutshell, they show a rare kind of respect towards gamers and in return gamers show respect towards them, meaning that yes, although there stuff is out there being pirated on torrent sites, lots of people will actually consider buying it instead. Heck I know lots of people who only pirate that even support GOG.

@arqe @numbes @experience_fade yeah but so can any other game be got through torrents that is no evidence that more people pirate a gog game than a skidrow or other group steam cracked game

@numbes @experience_fade No evidence ?

You download extracted version of game from GOG and upload to a torrent.

See its pirated already ...

@experience_fade @numbes your argument of drm free meaning more piracy there is no evidence for that and i do not believe it to be true

@numbes I'm not suggesting games are cracked "easily" -- at least not without GoG's help.

That's likely why they have to "court" indie developers, because a DRM free copy of any title means more piracy.

There is still a game-by-game learning curve for piracy, for the most part. Many people find it too complicated, believe me.

GoG removes this complication, as I said. With GoG versions of games, it's as simple as installing the title, and that's it. Done deal.

@experience_fade @Gamesfetch @RC-Sev not many are for drm you even admit it will be cracked so how do you defend developers spending she loads of cash developing it rather than games when it will be cracked very quickly anyway

@Gamesfetch @RC-Sev @experience_fade Given that the game isn't out yet, and will be on a new, next gen console, I'd wager it won't be pirated for at least six months, give or take.

But make no mistake, there isn't one game on a 360 or PS3 that can't be pirated.

@experience_fade @RC-Sev you are so hilarious man,you know how long a game stays uncracked on average?8 hours,that's it.You know what the crackers did when CDPR released both a drm and free drm versions of Witcher 2?They cracked the one that had protection,just for the lulz.Piracy is difficult?Then why are 99% of games pirated on the day they launch?