Big companies still think DRM Free is equal to easy piracy, even if their games were cracked ages ago, probably we will recive Skyrim later this year, Oblivion arrived 10 years after it's release, and they will tried to squez Skyrim for a few dollars more this year for sure, but nothing confirmed yet.

I actually meant the old Bethesda game :)

It's less than 1.4% now that I look at the actual source data. I originally calculated $29.4 billion digital sales * 22% PC market share = $6.47 billion to be the total PC digital distribution platform market share. GOG made 343,748,000 PLN in 2020 or $91.7 million USD. So that's where the 1.4% came from.

From Newzoo's results, we have:

- $34.2 billion USD for boxed and downloaded PC games
- 98% digital distribution platform share for PC

Calculating:

- $34.2 billion * 98% = $33.5 billion digital distribution platform revenue
- $91.7 million / $33.5 billion = 0.27% GOG market share in revenue

Therefore, GOG owns 0.27% of the PC digital distribution market share in revenue. I'm not sure if that quoted 10% could be user accounts or units sold because of GOG's niche of older and cheaper games. Need to pay an annual $7k for the full report from Newzoo to validate the numbers.

Is there a way I can just auto-downvote all your posts? It would save me a lot of time ...

Just for the record:
Could be true.

But @publishers, I won't spend any money on a DRM'd release. At all, and never. And I won't take them even as a "gift" (because that's something you get to keep, no matter what). Give an offline installer, or a zip-file. Doesn't have to be on GOG (though I'd prefer that).

Look at my library, I'm perfectly fine to pay you and the devs. And I'm not alone. I'm also fine with waiting if you think DRM is needed to protect those initial sales during the release hype (I disagree, just look at Witcher 3, or even the less-than perfect release of CP77). But your choice, really. But at some point it gets ridiculous. You're throwing away perfect money we - although we may be a minority, we're still quite many - would be willing to pay, if you'd only let us. The only thing we're asking for is to get a legal version of your games that have been available for months and years on torrent sites.

Do you mind if I make a separate thread asking about this? I'm curious where the "10% market share", or ~5-%15, come from.

Maybe it's because it's a top result (snippet) generated from Google. Sometimes, these snippets are incorrect for questions requiring interpretation and analysis. This 8.5% revenue value is the percentage of revenue Level Up Labs saw on Defender's Quest on Feb 2013 after three months of being released on 6 different platforms: https://i.imgur.com/wAGjJS9.png

I don't work in the video game industry, so I also have no idea if Newzoo's stats about the industry is accurate. A third party should go over their methodology to understand if those numbers are valid. But I guess a $7k annual subscription, reported by multiple outlets, suggest this data is reliable.

yep , go to support and ask them to delete your account
oh didnt know such a "game" exists
it looks horrible :D

True enough....still, some of em put the same(or similar) DRM on decades old games as well.....which makes little sense, as they've usually gotten a good deal of the sales/profit for those titles already.

Short of cloud gaming(where the data is mostly/fully on a remote system), most DRM is easily cracked.
(from what i've heard, even denuvo stuff gets cracked in short order)

Some AAA companies, yes, AAA majority, don't.

Small to medium size companies, unaware of GOG and DRM Free market? Of course.
I mean, it's been proven time and time again that when we contact a indie dev / medium dev company, they start thinking and in fact release their game here on GOG, if GOG accept it.
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I'm not a big fan of newer Bethesda games, really, so I don't care about them being drm full, if people like to enjoy them this way. (dlcs, lootboxes, denuvos and the like...) And if for them to be released here, GOG would need to stop being DRM Free, then please never release them here.
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Marketing is fully on Steam. Steam even appear installed in movies pcs nowdays. You're right, still we can try. I will probably be contacting two Indie Devs to know if they can release their game here on GOG, hope they accept it too.
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"Obsidian's Fallout". You're just convincing me to buy New Vegas again here on GOG.
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You got a valid point I believe. But to interest some of those companies, GOG would need to focus in a equal market style, a.k.a Steam like - drm'ed. Specially for data gathering, offline log storages, background connections etc which is, eh, really bad, right? :(
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Good infos Canuck! Thank you! Inline with what I was asking for. Thanks for sharing, really.

That link isn't working by the way: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016762451000049

But I liked the first one, specially because of this: ~~~~~

We know they're wrong about the DRM = less piracy, like people said before, it's exactly the contrary and they prejudice their own clients with this... I'd like to say again that the reason I came to GOG was that I was tired with Steam DRMs and layers of DRMs on top of layers to just launch a game. This is really annoying and a disrespect with clients.

Would be nice to have Skyrim here on GOG. Let's hope. :)

I was trying to use that bit to point out that you seemed to be burying your head in the sand re: some company's reasons for not bringing games to GOG.

Tbh I think many game companies(barring a number of smaller ones, maybe, who truly aren't aware of GOG for some reason) know about GOG, and they just refuse to do business with GOG for various reasons(in whole or in part....such as not selling some games, while selling others).

(one reason could be GOG's preferential treatment[update processing, fees being charged to list games for sale here, etc] of some partners over others, which i've heard about from other goggers)

You got me, haha. gg :)
The good part of this is that many indie games are coming to gog. This, with time, may bring big ones attention.
I mean, I was really surprised when Horizon Zero and Mad Max launched here. Maybe we're getting some good future surprises...

It looks and probably is... :)
I haven't personally played it... I remember there was some advertising of it in my old Daggerfall CD. And a friend of mine actually owned Skynet and said it was not a very good game.

I am guessing that with time, some AAA games will come here...we just need to be patient.

As for others by some companies like Square: less likely, but eh.....there's other ways to get em(like discs on eBay, etc etc) at least.

Hopefully :)


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Isn't that the sequel/prequel to Future Shock? If so, it's probably more fun to play than to look at.
(loved Future Shock....well besides things like the sneaky floating mines and some of the more maze like areas, that is)

Sorry, here with the main takeaway quoted in bold: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167624510000491