Now that GOG has begun to allow new games and they have opened up their pricing system to price points other than $6 and $10, the future of GOG will look different and they are more clearly competing directly with Steam, GamersGate, and the like.

My question is how much extra will you pay to have your game without DRM? In other words, when comparing across the different services, how much extra money will you spend to get the game on GOG? If a new game is $60 on GOG and $50 on Steam, will you spend that $10 to not have DRM restrictions?


A secondary question is will your answer to the previous question be affected by how new the game is? Previously, we have payed to have GOG remove DRM from games that already had it. We pay for that service. In the future, you could potentially be paying to make sure the DRM is never put in the game in the first place. You would be paying more to avoid a disservice. Does that change your answer above?

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I was heavily anti-DRM back in the days, even refusing to buy stuff that is heavily discounted on Steam and similar platforms. And even bothered with cracking games after installing them, making custom installers and all other bunch of crap. Gave up on that several months ago, and now DRM is irrelevant to me.

I just play the game, finish the campaign / story, and then forget about it. Apart from two / three multiplayer games, I won't be replaying a single player game after I finish it, so there's no point for me to bother with DRM / DRM-free.

I'm not interested in buying any games from Steam, period. So the question (for me) is whether the game GOG offers intrigues me enough and whether the price is reasonable given the age of the game and what it offers. All things being equal though, if GOG offer a new game I'm interested in for $60 and it costs $50 elsewhere I'd probably pay it.

And if GOG offer a game I'm interested in for $10-15 and it costs $0.01 on Steam, I'd buy it on GOG.

It really depends on a DRM scheme and how good the game is, and my current financial situation of course. Let's say I'm not so horribly money-less as I currently am, and that I make as much money as I used to make. In that case, I'd spend about 10% more on DRM-free version of the game, maybe 20% if I have really anticipated the game and the DRM is worse than Steam.

I don't really know of any case with ADDED DRM, so I don't know what to answer to your second question.

Well, it depends on the "DRM."

I pay 6$ to 10$ extra on most of my older games to no longer have to hassle with those relics people call CDs. (I hope the hint was obvious)

I don't have any problem with DRM anymore. At least the current DRMs.

Depends on the replay value of the game, I guess. If it's something I will only play once then I don't care that much about DRM (unless it's something ridiculous like Ubisoft DRM). If it's a game I might be playing for months or even years to come then I'm willing to pay extra (up to 25% or so) for a DRM free version. I've also re-bought some games that I already owned on Steam when they were on sale DRM-free elsewhere.

Generally $0, unless it's something obnoxious like Always online or non-regenerating machine limits. And then I might just hold off for sales anyway just to punish the developer even more.

My thoughts exactly. Actually right now I'm willing to pay more and have a game on Steam/Origin/Desura/etc so I don't have to manage my games myself. I used to buy DRM-Free games from various websites and developers themselves, but never could really organize them and kept forgetting what I already owned. I just realized recently that I own some games in 5 copies bought at various websites.

To be honest, i dont care about DRM, as long as it isnt ridiculous, such as Starforce and uPlay. Everything else is fine for me. Ill probably buy a game wherever its cheaper, which means Steam and Amazon most of the time. If the price difference is small, i prefer to buy from Steam and Gamersgate. Steam has an awesome service that is pretty much unrivalled among other digital services, its easy to se and i dont ever have to bother looking around for updates for my games, as Steam does it for me. Steam also has the best social and community features out there. And most of my games are on Steam anyway, so i like to have them all in one place.

Gamersgate is also really good, it has an awesome rewards program through which you collect Blue Coins which can later be used to buy games. I got quite a few games for free thanks to the Blue Coins system. Thats a nice way to keep loyal custommers interested. Also, Gamersgate probably has the biggest catalog out there, so its a pretty good place to get a few rare games not sold anywhere else. It even has Daikatana.

Oh yes, Come to GamersGate, we have this shit! :D

Nice marketing pitch, I must say.

It's not so much that I would pay more for a DRM free game. It's that a game with restrictive DRM would have to be heavily discounted before I considered it worthwhile. Therefore I'd buy the DRM-free game sooner, while it is at a higher price.

to be honest I'm not really up to pay higher price for the lack of drm. Now rather than that its more important to have all that stuff accesible and not spread to thin around too many pages.

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DRM has never been an issue with me. I see greed all over. I'm here for games and community.

In most cases no (unless its those draconian, imbecile DRMs that forbid you from reinstalling the game or make you go through tedious online activation).

The goodies (especially a full soundtrack) would sufficiently tip the balance in GOG's favor, though.

Question: How much extra money will you pay for no DRM?

Answer: I think this is bad question. If developer wants to get any of my money, the "no DRM" factor is the first thing that causes me to be interested in game at all. Then I will think and read opinions if I want to play that game. In my case developer gets two options: no money at all (when DRM exists) and sometimes "normal" price (when no DRM). So, from the point of developer's view these "extra money" is nothing different from "normal" price. I will not pay any extra to choose DRM or no-DRM version. It is the choice of developer if they want me (and other people like me) to buy that game = earn "extra" money.