GOG release

[Sanctherion]

Dear Moon Studios, are you going to release the game on GOG?

I’m fine with the delay, since it basically means polishing and making the game even better. But releasing it much later at GOG without even a single word on the release date before it, is a different story. I’ve seen it happen with a lot of games I’ve been interested about. The games are released on digital stores excluding GOG, people ask about the GOG version, devs ignore the questions, then one day after months or years, the game just pops in there suddenly. It’s frustrating and unfair, I should not have to buy the same game two times, just because the game was held off of my preferred store for so long. The devs common ignoring of GOG and their behaviour regarding it, makes it seem as if it was something controversial, I don't understand that at all. I don't like Steam, because I want to own games independently, without them being tied to accounts and launchers, it’s like PC games used to be. GOG also has amazing tech support in case players have performance issues.

I don’t mean to be disrespectful, I just want a simple answer. Out of all upcoming games of 2020 Will of the Wisps is the one I’m waiting the most, but I’m worried about this ignoring of GOG, that has repeated so many times.

[CheeseBoar]

Hopefully, this will just be like Blind Forest, which was completely DRM-free on Steam, too.

[Apples]

+ For GOG release.

[AkaD]

+1 For GOG release. That's where I'm going to buy this game.

[AkaD]

Originally posted by Arsames:

Hopefully this doesn't come to GoG. GoG is a meme store and their cultist fanbase are extremely annoying.

What do you mean?

[BernyMoon]

+1

[zboy2106]

Moon Studio has nothing to do with selling plan, it in the hand of Microsoft since it become in-house studio. The fact that it find the way to Steam is somekind of bless cause original it was meant to be exclusive to Microsoft Store.

[Melodia]

Originally posted by zboy2106:

The fact that it find the way to Steam is somekind of bless cause original it was meant to be exclusive to Microsoft Store.

There is zero evidence of this. If you seriously trust the /marketing/ that tried to push the Microsoft store, I dunno what to tell you.

[AkaD]

Originally posted by Arsames:

Originally posted by AkaD:

What do you mean?

GoG is a meme store because it doesn't get any relevant new games (Sekiro/DMC5/RE2 for example), their anti-drm stance and pretending to be on the gamers side is a fraud because they have censored games and denied access to games being sold on their meme store because of some lame political reasons. They have a terrible and misleading refund policy, even Epic Games Store has a better refund policy than GoG. In the end, while Steam is certainly not perfect, it is the best store with the most consumer friendly practices and the most support for all types of games to be sold in its store.

I hope Ori and the Will of the Wisp does not go to GoG and that the lack of new games continues to contribute to the financial problems GoG has and that their eventual and inevitable shutdown and closure is hastened. They already fired employees and removed their regional pricing policy, thank God, their demise is near. GoG has done nothing relevant for PC gamers, even Epic Games Store has done more by bringing some Sony exclusive games to the PC for the first time.

I can't wait to buy Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam knowing that 30% of the revenue will go to Valve, it makes GoG cultists extremely mad, lol.

Well....when buying Cyberpunk on GoG 100% of revenue goes to the CDP RED (developers of the game) since GoG is their own creation.

[Apples]

Originally posted by Arsames:

Stay desperate, GoG is going down and there is nothing you can do about it:

https://www.gog.com/news/conclusion_of_the_bfair_price_packageb_program

Thank God, their demise as a store is near. Stay desperate

The point about being DRM-Free is even if their store did close, we don't need it, we can move and reinstall our games as much and whenever we like, you twit, so ♥♥♥♥ on it as much as you like, if it goes we don't have to worry, and if it stays we can still use it. :)

Originally posted by Arsames:

Your comment makes no sense, typical for a GoG cultist. You also cut out the rest of the post, which already refuted your comment. Stay desperate,

I cut the rest of your crap out as it means nothing, i don't care what improvements M$ makes, they ditched their customers with Games For Windows Live, and they would damn well do it again if they felt their profit margins were low, even if they could damn well afford it, so ♥♥♥♥ em, i don't care what M$ try to do, i don't care about the changes they make.



Like i said, go crawl back under that rock, this post is a simple request for a GOG release of this game, don't like it? go mope in that corner of yours.

[Sanctherion]

This thread was not meant to be an attack against those who prefer Steam. My point is that GOG is being repetedly ignored by devs and I think it's unfair.

@Arsames: Would you actually benefit something from GOG's ending? Because you act like you really want it to happen.

Originally posted by Arsames:

and denied access to games being sold on their meme store because of some lame political reasons.

What's this case? I didn't find out about it on Google. A link maybe?

Originally posted by Arsames:

the vast majority of their store consists of old useless games no sane person would purchase

I do wish GOG had more new high budget games, but the lack of them is not just their fault, it's also the devs because they probably see GOG as an unsafe environment from piracy, but Steam games have been pirated as well. Pirates go to great lengths to have their way, but normal buyers shouldn't be punished for that.
There should be different ways to prevent piracy. How about something that prevents uploading install files to web (while allowing to download them from the store of course)? You could only move the files from device to device with external drives and USBs. I don't think pirates would bother physically touring and travelling hundreads of other pirates homes to spread their copy via an USB stick. That was just one idea I had. Something like that.

For me buying a game on GOG is like buying any PC game before the 2010s. Buying it, installing it and playing it, simple. I don't like having my games tied on accounts and launcher programs, especially singleplayer games like Will of the Wisps. Launchers/accounts make much more sense with online games like World of Warcraft, but they are a completely different thing.

To answer to the quote above, I'm surprised that you don't know how big role nostalgia and older games have. It has been pretty common for big developers to either remaster old games or keeping them relevant with ports on newer platforms. Mega Man, Spyro, Sonic etc.
The GOG staff has went to great lenghts to keep classic and less known older PC games both available and optimized for new systems and for that I have a lot of respect for them. Of course I'm aware that there are gamers who don't look back and focus on relevant new releases, but you shouldn't treat nostalgic gamers as if they were something completely bizarre.

[Sanctherion]

Okay, now I understand better what bothers you, I actually misunderstood what you said about GOG’s denial of access of games. But you should still accept that people have different opinions than yours. Those who prefer GOG including me aren't going anywhere.

Originally posted by Arsames:

3. The GoG cultist fanbase is extremely annoying. They keep spamming Steam forums for GoG ports. There are better ways to communicate with the developers. These forums are for Steam related discussion.

Spamming? Really? That’s ridiculous. As if GOG threads are the worst thing on Steam forums compared to all that toxic immature stuff on other threads there. At least on the discussion pages I’ve visited, there have been about one GOG topic per game. Meanwhile I’ve seen lately multiple threads about peoples distaste of Epic Store per game. While I can see what upsets people about it, the discussions have gone way overboard. The worst I’ve seen are threads that mock devs for having released their game on Steam later than Epic, after an exclusivity period. Stuff like ”Go back where u came from!” or ”Pure greedy greeds!” or ”So, ya came crawling back?”. I can’t believe the content of those threads. Meanwhile I have often gotten happy when a ”Steam exclusive” game has finally come to GOG. I admit that lately I’ve been more annoyed about the neglecting of GOG, so I have the right to be vocal about it as well, but I still act my age and keep it civilized, all I do is asking devs a simple question.

[zuppaclub]

does games published by xbox game studio have release on GOG before? for example sunset overdrive, re:core, super lucky tale, etc?

imo sadly I don't think this game will be available on GOG. I hope I'm wrong.

[Sanctherion]

Originally posted by zuppaclub:

does games published by xbox game studio have release on GOG before? for example sunset overdrive, re:core, super lucky tale, etc?

imo sadly I don't think this game will be available on GOG. I hope I'm wrong.

The Definitive Edition of the first Ori was released there (not the ORIginal version). Also Dust an Elysian Tail. If I remember right both of them came the same time as their Steam releases.

Also let's be careful, so this thread won't be closed like the GOG thread of Spyro RT was. Maybe avoid swearing and name calling.

[zuppaclub]

Originally posted by ParaTerrastian:

Originally posted by zuppaclub:

does games published by xbox game studio have release on GOG before? for example sunset overdrive, re:core, super lucky tale, etc?

imo sadly I don't think this game will be available on GOG. I hope I'm wrong.

The Definitive Edition of the first Ori was released there (not the ORIginal version). Also Dust an Elysian Tail. If I remember right both of them came the same time as their Steam releases.

Also let's be careful, so this thread won't be closed like the GOG thread of Spyro RT was. Maybe avoid swearing and name calling.

so that means there is still a chance this game will release on GOG.

[Apples]

There is always a chance, Steam doesn't force exclusives, it's upto the Devs,


Unlike Epic & M$ that pay for exclusive rights... the thing is, if it wasn't for Steam half these devs wouldn't have had a chance in the first place, but jump at the chance to go all exclusive on other platforms.

30% may seem steep, but look at the profits (hah if any of the devs would show it) they all make a decent amount, their only reason for avoiding GOG is the DRM-Free policy, but even thats kinda a moot point considering Witcher 3 sales, but smaller devs would end up suffering i admit, due to smaller games being in that too buy or not too buy category most of the time.

Still every game on Steam can be cracked, the best way to make it a nightmare is to update the games often, making cracking a long and arduous process.


I don't like Steam, but it is the lesser of multiple evils. Epic buys exclusives and i didn't come to PC just to be forced onto yet another DRM Platform, it's getting too much now, Origin, uPlay, Steam, M$, Epic, all wanting a piece of the pie, it's a shame they didn't have the sense to come up with it first.

I certainly won't touch m$ with a barge pole, i have to mod their OS which is a task in itself to make it useable for me, i'm not installing their store anytime soon, their encryption of the game files is a nightmare to deal with too, it's an awful setup they have.