tfishell: Makes me wonder if we can thank Disney for showing other pubs GOG is worth their time, or if other things behind the scenes just fell into place, or what happened.
JMich: No. Talks take much longer than we think, and they are usually kept under wraps. So Bethesda was most likely in talks with GOG before the first Disney game was released, while Paradox and Warner Bros were almost certainly.
Not sure if GOG had any new faces in its marketing and licensing department that made it happen, or if the other companies had a change in their management that made it happen.
Yes indeed.
I'm sure that the talks started near the beginning of GOG, it's just that they didn't start going anywhere until relatively recently. Without access to the internal communication, it's hard to say why, but just ensuring that they have rights for the whole world is going to take a long time. And that's really before most of the negotiations can even start.
P1na: Pat in the back when it is due. You did well this time, GOG.
It irks me a bit not knowing how much of this goodness was a direct consequence of the recent changes on the site, such as regional pricing, but I'll let it slide.
HereForTheBeer: I was thinking a bit earlier that it could be an interesting read if someone from one of these 'converted' publishers would post a letter here to explain their thoughts on the matters of what games show up and when, DRM, why they didn't show up earlier, what their decision process was like, that sort of thing.
That would be interesting, but most of the games that have been showing up from those publishers didn't have DRM in the first place. So, I'm not sure how much of a factor the DRM is, I haven't seen anything to suggest that GOG gets access to the whole catalog when they sign a publisher, it wouldn't surprise me if they were willing to settle for portions of the catalog hoping to convince the publisher to grant rights to the remaining games later.
