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Posted February 11, 2016
Prancing with the devil.



<span class="bold">Pony Island</span>, a devious puzzle game where you gamble your soul to escape a sinister arcade machine, is available now DRM-free on GOG.com for Windows, Mac, and Linux with a 10% launch discount and the game's soundtrack included as a bonus goodie.

The old Arcade is about to close for the night. You approach a colourful coin-op machine standing apart from the rest at the end of the hallway. "Pony Island". Hey, it's what that weird neighbour's kid was playing endlessly before the accident. You feed it a coin, press "Start" and it glitches on you. A slight push; no effect. Frustrated, you start pressing buttons, kick, yell, send the machine to hell. It backfires. Badly.

You are no longer in the Arcade, you are inside the arcade. You're trapped in the devil's digital playground and there is only one escape: to puzzle out how to fix it. But you are not alone. The souls of other unlucky gamers who fell for this cunningly attractive trap are in here too. Or maybe that's what the diabolical architect of this infernal game wants you to believe. Is the code really broken? Or is it your soul? You need to think outside the box, if you are to escape this devilish arcade box. Or just use this cheat code that we happened to have lying ar--[ERROR - UNKNOWN INPUT FORMAT]



Outwit a malfunctioning machine programmed by the devil and escape <span class="bold">Pony Island</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com. The 10% discount will last until February 18, 1:59 PM GMT.
Posted February 12, 2016
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budejovice: I can think of one. The dev doesn't want it here. It blew up so long ago that there's not a lot of doubt GOG would be happy to sell it.

EDIT: Not a lot of doubt in my mind. I'm sure others doubt it.
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Pica-Ludica: I honestly can't think of a reason why Toby Fox wouldn't want it on GOG. There's already a DRM-free version available via Humble Bundle, so it can't be that. I understand there being difficulties to find a mutually satisfactory arrangement when dealing with a difficult case like Lucasarts, but a one-man band indie developer?
I assume people have emailed him, but I've certainly never heard any rumors or anything else from either camp about why it's not currently here.

I just emailed him myself. I'll share any response that may be received.
Posted February 12, 2016
Brought, finished. Cool game. It's okey.

But about discussion - i also want to see Undertale here, as well some other titles like Ori and the Blind Forest, Layers of Fear (they'll go out of EA in 10 days), Cities Skyliness (yeah, i know, won't happend, fuck Paradox and their policy), LISA... Damn, there's so many games on my wishlist on steam that i just want to see on GoG and GoG is like "nope, buy bye". Anyone would hug me? :(
Posted February 12, 2016
BOOM: Pony Island


Up next: Undertale


Keep on with the force, don't stop
Don't stop 'til you get enough
Posted February 12, 2016
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Dalthnock: I forgot Clive Barker!
how?! he is the master of horror!

Hellraiser is great concepts but executed not the best usually. Lord of Illusions and NightBreed are far superior movies.

His books though, are unmatched by anything. AHHH!
Posted February 12, 2016
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Maxvorstadt: What the.....? What is THIS? Okay guys, who put the LSD into my lemonade?
Seems more like datura to me
Posted February 12, 2016
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Dalthnock: I forgot Clive Barker!
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drealmer7: how?! he is the master of horror!

Hellraiser is great concepts but executed not the best usually. Lord of Illusions and NightBreed are far superior movies.

His books though, are unmatched by anything. AHHH!
One of, let's not overreact here.

I agree, Hellraiser wasn't especially well executed, but like you said, the concept is so brilliant that it's easy to overlook the glaring flaws.

The second was a bit forgettable & had downright messy story-telling, but I liked it anyway. I liked the third a bit better, even if it was cheesy as hell at times.
Posted February 12, 2016
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blackbishop86: The only explanations available are backed by thin air. Everyone can believe whatever they want to believe about why GOG didn't approve this the first time or why some other good games are not here, like because it is too niche or because they just like to see their users angry/sad about it, but until we have an official answer(or some sort of evidence) all we have is speculation.
Degica posted GOG's response to their request to get Mushihimesama on GOG on a shooter enthusiast forum. It's not speculation. GOG said not enough people outside Japan know about Cave's games to warrant selling it and would only reconsider if Steam sales were good enough. This is ludicrous from a business sense, "let's all see how many people buy something on a competing store, then we'll know how few people will still be willing to buy it here."

Degica want to bring their shooters out DRM free and came to GOG first. They're going to go to Humble instead otherways. All GOG is doing here is proving genre ignorance and that they only care about day one revenue and never think about long tail sales. They only get onto games outside the genres they particularly like to either complete series already on here, to placate a dev with stuff they actually want or to ride a current hype train.
Post edited February 12, 2016 by ReynardFox
Posted February 12, 2016
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budejovice: I assume people have emailed him, but I've certainly never heard any rumors or anything else from either camp about why it's not currently here.

I just emailed him myself. I'll share any response that may be received.
I've emailed and tweeted him about a GOG version, and others I know have emailed also, he never answers. What concerns me is Toby is usually rather talkative on social media.
Posted February 12, 2016
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budejovice: I assume people have emailed him, but I've certainly never heard any rumors or anything else from either camp about why it's not currently here.

I just emailed him myself. I'll share any response that may be received.
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ReynardFox: I've emailed and tweeted him about a GOG version, and others I know have emailed also, he never answers. What concerns me is Toby is usually rather talkative on social media.
Yeah, makes sense. I assumed people have been doing so. Thanks for the confirmation. His silence leads me to further believe that the ball may be (have been) in his court. We may never know...

As I've posted before elsewhere, i'll give up my vigil when he hits 50% at Humble. :)
Posted February 12, 2016
Well then, I never expected to see this here. Time for Undertale now, GOG ;-)
Posted February 12, 2016
I just noticed that GOG has "Horror" as a listed genre for this game, but I don't know why. Was this meant to be a horror game? If anything, the developer seemed to be going for something more cute or humorous in contrast to the subject matter.

Anyway, having played through the game (including getting all of the tickets), overall I enjoyed it. The hype around it left me a little disappointed with the story, but I still had a good time.
Posted February 12, 2016
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blackbishop86: The only explanations available are backed by thin air. Everyone can believe whatever they want to believe about why GOG didn't approve this the first time or why some other good games are not here, like because it is too niche or because they just like to see their users angry/sad about it, but until we have an official answer(or some sort of evidence) all we have is speculation.
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ReynardFox: Degica posted GOG's response to their request to get Mushihimesama on GOG on a shooter enthusiast forum. It's not speculation. GOG said not enough people outside Japan know about Cave's games to warrant selling it and would only reconsider if Steam sales were good enough. This is ludicrous from a business sense, "let's all see how many people buy something on a competing store, then we'll know how few people will still be willing to buy it here."

Degica want to bring their shooters out DRM free and came to GOG first. They're going to go to Humble instead otherways. All GOG is doing here is proving genre ignorance and that they only care about day one revenue and never think about long tail sales. They only get onto games outside the genres they particularly like to either complete series already on here, to placate a dev with stuff they actually want or to ride a current hype train.
This topic isn't about Degica though, and also I never said anything about such company or their reasons behind not bringing their games to GOG. You and the other two users you quoted were talking about the reasons that caused Pony Island to get refused.

You just brought Degica on that post but it has nothing to do with my argument. But I understand why you think I was talking about that.

It isn't speculation for Mushihimesama as there is evidence for that, but it is for Pony Island because there is nothing to back up anything other than what is already explained by a quote from the dev which someone posted in another topic about this game. Since you cannot correlate both scenarios, my point still stands (unless I missed something).

For the record, I also refuse to buy Mushihimesame from Steam and I'm waiting it to come to GOG. I could buy it in Humble Bundle but I'll wait a bit. Who knows, perhaps it can came next week or next month.
Post edited February 12, 2016 by blackbishop86
Posted February 12, 2016
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blackbishop86: It isn't speculation for Mushihimesama as there is evidence for that, but it is for Pony Island because there is nothing to back up anything other than what is already explained by a quote from the dev which someone posted in another topic about this game. Since you cannot correlate both scenarios, my point still stands (unless I missed something).
Yeah I was responding with a broad stroke, I can see how vague the information related to Pony Island is in retrospect. I guess some of us are so offside with many recent decisions at GOG that even speculative info tends to fuel our... shaken faith in the service.
Post edited February 12, 2016 by ReynardFox
Posted February 12, 2016
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blackbishop86: It isn't speculation for Mushihimesama as there is evidence for that, but it is for Pony Island because there is nothing to back up anything other than what is already explained by a quote from the dev which someone posted in another topic about this game. Since you cannot correlate both scenarios, my point still stands (unless I missed something).

For the record, I also refuse to buy Mushihimesame from Steam and I'm waiting it to come to GOG. I could buy it in Humble Bundle but I'll wait a bit. Who knows, perhaps it can came next week or next month.
Actually, you did miss something. Apparently the dev contacted GoG and was told the game was never submitted. And if you look at that quote, it smells funny. Why is his agent saying it was rejected, but "we'll resubmit it". That sounds more like "I mailed you that check last week, but I'll get another one in the mail today." His game submission was probably stuck on someone's desk at the publishing house...
Posted February 12, 2016
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Elmofongo: The problem is its very "spoiler" terriotory.
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Venita: You could PM me then. I've already beaten Undertale three times, all paths.
Undertale on GOG when? :o
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