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General discussionIntroducing GOG.com DRM-Free Movies(632 posts)(632 posts)
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Posted August 27, 2014
Cause there's no business like show-business!

Our DRM-Free approach to digital distribution has been the foundation of GOG.com since day one and we're convinced it is now firmly rooted in the gaming industry landscape. More and more users start to expect and demand the digital content they paid for to be free from any kind of restrictive mechanisms that limit access to their collections and get in the way of enjoyment. We think this is a good time to take the next step in our quest to make digital entertainment better for everyone. Today we set out to spread our DRM-Free ideas across the movie industry! That's right: GOG.com now offers DRM-Free movies.

Our goal is to offer you cinema classics as well as some all-time favorite TV series with no DRM whatsoever, for you to download and keep on your hard drive or stream online whenever you feel like it. We talked to most of the big players in the movie industry and we often got a similar answer: "We love your ideas, but … we do not want to be the first ones. We will gladly follow, but until somebody else does it first, we do not want to take the risk". DRM-Free distribution is not a concept their lawyers would accept without hesitation. We kind of felt that would be the case and that it's gonna take patience and time to do it, to do it, to do it right. That's quite a journey ahead of us, but every gamer knows very well that great adventures start with one small step. So why not start with something that feels very familiar? We offer you a number of gaming and internet culture documentaries - all of them DRM-Free, very reasonably priced, and presenting some fascinating insight into topics close to a gamer's heart. Now, what do we have in store for you?

- There's a whole new Movie Catalog for you to browse!
- All the movies we sell are priced at $5.99 (that's a launch promo price for a few of them), and we aim to have that as the main price point for most of our future releases
- Two of the movies - The Art of Playing and TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard are available for FREE, so that you can test our new movie distribution features
- Most of our movies are in Full HD 1080p quality, some in 720p. With those of you with limited bandwidth or download quota in mind, we also supply much lighter 576p versions.
- Apart from downloading your movies you have the option to watch them streaming online, right here on GOG.com
- GOG.com is famous for its bonus goodies - each movie will come with as many of them as we can muster
- You can expect subsequent movie releases each week

That's it. GOG.com Movies is a go, time to get some popcorn!
Posted August 27, 2014
Yay, more things I don't care about in the store I almost stopped caring about!

That's a good question though, when are you releasing the Laura Bow games, GOG?
Post edited August 27, 2014 by MoP
Posted August 27, 2014
THANKS, GOG!!!

I don't know if my input on the subject some time earlier had any effect on this, but I wanted GOG to expand to movies and music, so this is a happy day for me.

Hopefully you'll be able to get some interesting titles to your movie catalog too. The ones you start this thing with, are... well... let's just say uninteresting.

But if you ever get some stuff that's worth watching and in DVD/BluRay quality, I'm buying!!


Hopefully you will also take some "special interest" videos into your catalog.
For instance, there are some great theme park/roller coaster videos out there, but ordering them gets very expensive, as they are delivered on physical discs. A DRM-free download option for such content would be a perfect solution.



PS: Don't ever allow Wing Commander movie enter your catalog. Thank you.
Posted August 27, 2014
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WingedKagouti: Looks like a bunch of vanity projects for various subcultures of nerd/geekdom. I'm sure it's an ego boost to both their creators and the subculture in general that they get their movies featured here, but I can't say that I'd be inclined to watch any of them unless someone paid me.
Ditto. Even if they didn't have a price tag attached I'd be hard-pressed to be bothered to watch any of those.

I find this move by GOG a bit odd, and, frankly, I don't expect any 'real' movies to show up here anytime soon.
Posted August 27, 2014
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This is cool as hell and I hope it takes off. As it is now, I get my films in two places:

1) cinema
2) torrents

I look forward to replacing number 2 with GOG.com
Posted August 27, 2014
What just happened?!
Posted August 27, 2014
Looked over the "movies". Why would I pay money for any of this shit? Imagine paying five bucks for every youtube video you watch.
Posted August 27, 2014
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yogsloth: Looked over the "movies". Why would I pay money for any of this shit? Imagine paying five bucks for every youtube video you watch.
What I have posted about 3 of the movies:

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/introducing_gogcom_drmfree_movies/post30
Posted August 27, 2014
I've said it before, unless gog can get some good anime and foreign films, I will have close to zero interest in the new movie side of gog.
Posted August 27, 2014
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F4LL0UT: What just happened?!
The second step into becoming a multimedia shop.
Next stop: music and mobilephone games ;)
Posted August 27, 2014
I admit that I was very surprised. This really came out of the blue for me. That being said, I don't hate the idea. I think it will be a curious experiment, and it if doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. I'm fairly positive that the GOG guys have considered the relevant risks for doing this kind of thing.

In my opinion (for what it's worth), I think one of the big scale tipping moves GOG could make would be to pick up cartoons, particularly anime. Okay, maybe that's just what I want, but if GOG wants to try to make this kind of thing work, going for a niche market may be less risky (if the publishers are on board with your ideas). I doubt the big companies like Funimation, Viz Media, and Sentai will be immediately interested, as they have their own formats for digital distribution of their content, but it may be worth asking Aniplex of America, NIS America, or Media Blasters. If it works for them, then they might inspire bigger companies to jump on board, like Fox, Disney, and Nickelodeon. Who knows where this this could lead.

It also might not hurt to dig into the better parts of video "abandonware": the public domain. 1940s Superman cartoons anyone? Who knows what gems might be floating around.

In any case, I wish GOG good luck on this new and different endeavor. We'll see if anything awesome comes from it.
Posted August 27, 2014
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triock: I would rather see ebooks here. :I
I'd like to see more old games not this kind of crap ( movies ) .
Post edited August 27, 2014 by ne_zavarj
Posted August 27, 2014
I approve of new projects, but right now there's no movie worth buying. Get some nice, well-established films that aren't documentaries.

Anime would be especially kickass if you could get some.
Posted August 27, 2014
Oh my GOG, Bronies...
Posted August 27, 2014
GOG try getting Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. It's creator owned, so no need to deal with a big studio and getting Joss Whedon on board would definitely attract people to the movie section. Also, The Guild by Felicia Day is a great webseries that I think gamers here would appreciate.
Post edited August 27, 2014 by Barry_Woodward
Posted August 27, 2014
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ne_zavarj: I'd like to see more old games not this kind of crap ( movies ) .
I on the other hand was always hoping that GOG would eventually extend its business into movies.
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