Posted March 04, 2021
and that releasing a game on GOG will eat into developer's profit.
Here's an example:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/720560/discussions/0/2971771480507750808/
In reality, nothing can be further from the truth.
Here's an example:
There's a game called Kingdom Rush Vengeance which previous installments of were released here and on steam. But KRV is still not released on GOG. I don't know the reason for why it's still not here, but I do know that developers of these games work on multiple projects at once, so perhaps KRV release on GOG is not of the highest priority for them at the moment. Happens.
While doing some "research" I've stumbled upon KRV being pirated on one of the torrent sites. And when I checked the details of that torrent? Boom. Steam files. And within a month of that game being originally released on steam.
So while this misconception is completely false, I do believe that it might be doing some serious harm to this platform in terms of new indie games never being released for the fear of "losing money".
Here's an example:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/720560/discussions/0/2971771480507750808/
In reality, nothing can be further from the truth.
Here's an example:
There's a game called Kingdom Rush Vengeance which previous installments of were released here and on steam. But KRV is still not released on GOG. I don't know the reason for why it's still not here, but I do know that developers of these games work on multiple projects at once, so perhaps KRV release on GOG is not of the highest priority for them at the moment. Happens.
While doing some "research" I've stumbled upon KRV being pirated on one of the torrent sites. And when I checked the details of that torrent? Boom. Steam files. And within a month of that game being originally released on steam.
So while this misconception is completely false, I do believe that it might be doing some serious harm to this platform in terms of new indie games never being released for the fear of "losing money".