Posted August 08, 2022
TomNuke: Interesting. Thanks for the link.
"Not sure I'll do GOG... I like them but it was a lot of effort to support / integrate their galaxy stuff on GD for what is a pretty small chunk of sales"
I would have thought that Grim Dawn would have done fairly well... I guess as well as a GOG release can be, but it's surprising.
I own the Definitive Edition of Grim Dawn on GOG and it really is a fantastic ARPG that many people have raved about. It had great content, mod support, multiplayer implemented the way it should be, along with everything else you'd expect like full parity with other store releases, and basically we've got confirmation that the game flopped here. Or at least the sales were disappointing enough for them that they'd rather not mess with GOG anymore.
Tough position to be in, because clearly they think it's too much work to implement Galaxy features into games for the kind of sales they get here, but if they don't then people here will complain about feature parity between stores, whine about missing achievements and that will lead to even lower sales when the sale weren't even good enough to begin with. It's probably best they don't do a GOG version, in all honesty.
In other words, it seems that it would be very likely to get the sequel here DRM-free (as well as various other games from other developers/publishers, presumably), if not for the forced integration with precious Galaxy client and trying to keep parity with the version on a DRMed store (Scheme). This is why Galaxy was a horrible idea from the get-go, since it would inevitably force this sort of choice between DRM-free releases and other releases that have to pay homage to the precious client to the point developers decide not to even bother. And wasn't it supposed to be easy for developers to integrate with Galaxy/port their games here(not sure of the correct terminology, sorry)?"Not sure I'll do GOG... I like them but it was a lot of effort to support / integrate their galaxy stuff on GD for what is a pretty small chunk of sales"
I would have thought that Grim Dawn would have done fairly well... I guess as well as a GOG release can be, but it's surprising.
I own the Definitive Edition of Grim Dawn on GOG and it really is a fantastic ARPG that many people have raved about. It had great content, mod support, multiplayer implemented the way it should be, along with everything else you'd expect like full parity with other store releases, and basically we've got confirmation that the game flopped here. Or at least the sales were disappointing enough for them that they'd rather not mess with GOG anymore.
Tough position to be in, because clearly they think it's too much work to implement Galaxy features into games for the kind of sales they get here, but if they don't then people here will complain about feature parity between stores, whine about missing achievements and that will lead to even lower sales when the sale weren't even good enough to begin with. It's probably best they don't do a GOG version, in all honesty.