GOG - Gamers & DRM @ Load The Game

Couchpotato · June 21, 2014

Load The Game has a few comments from Guillaume Rambourg the Vice President of GOG North America. He states that gamers should not be treated as criminals.

Developers, publishers and service providers should not focus on treating paying customers as criminals with restrictive DRM (digital rights management) according to GOG. Speaking to Eurogamer Guillaume Rambourg, vice president of GOG North America, said: “DRM is only impacting the good-hearted passionate gamers out there. The very same gamers who are ready to spend $50 or more to own their favourite triple-A title and support our industry.”

“Going through some cumbersome online activation procedure? Sometimes even having to connect to the Internet to activate the single-player mode of your favourite title? Or even worse, being obliged to remain online to play that single-player mode? That’s not really the best way to reward those faithful gamers who just spent quite a chunk of their monthly income to buy your game.”

“Our industry should be cherishing and treating all gamers with respect, those people who pay our wages, servers, development projects and what not. Instead, we just make it frustrating for them to buy games. How schizophrenic is that? DRM is not protecting any product. It is harming your fans and your brands in the long run.” Rambourg highlighted research conducted by the company into The Witcher 2, which when sold DRM free on GOG.com saw far few pirate copies being downloaded than it had done when distributed through Steam and other services. He believes that this is because they are treating gamers as adults and with respect, adding: “Let’s make it easy and rewarding for gamers to buy games. They are not criminals and they do not need DRM.”

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Aubrielle · June 21, 2014

And this is why I will always support GOG.

Couchpotato · June 21, 2014

Here is the link for the full interview just in case you are interested.

Link - http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...er&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialoomph

xep624 · June 21, 2014

Thanks for the link. I believe in GOG.com too and I buy games there whenever I can (i.e. Xenonauts, Blackguards, Age of Wonders 3 recently). I hope that Galaxy will help to encourage more devs to be in GOG catalog as well and that more and more new games will be sold DRM free.

Aubrielle · June 21, 2014

Ah, thanks, Couch!

you · June 21, 2014

Well this is almost pr; mind you i support them and frequently buy games from them (though I sometime regret when those games get steamwork support added); oh well. Then we have the opposite extreme like ubi's uplay which frequently foobars and is just plain crap (imho); so yea I won't buy another ubi game (M&M-X was my last one) that requires uplay- for me - myself - steam mostly works and has some added value (for both users and developers); mind you I like GOG and I am hopeful that their new 'galaxy' feature make them more competitive with steam updates/steamworks (not sure galaxy actually addresses steamworks competitive advantage).

Alrik Fassbauer · June 22, 2014

“Our industry should be cherishing and treating all gamers with respect, those people who pay our wages, servers, development projects and what not."

The opposite of DRM :

Kickstarting. Where you actually get something for your efforts !
( As a backer, supposed the game will actually be developed, too ! )

And, besides, I consider Kickstarting as "the new Collector's Editions", because they are so much personalized that no-one else can get these items except the backers …

Besides : LOL :

"Many people in the industry were worried that the first version to be leaked illegally on torrent websites would be ours. Guess what? The version that got uploaded first, a few days before the game release, was the cracked retail version, which shipped with DRM!"

GOG - Gamers & DRM @ Load The Game

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