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General discussionWhy aren't Edmund McMillen's indie games available on GOG?(33 posts)(33 posts)
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Posted August 30, 2014
Does anyone have any idea why Edmund McMillen's games haven't been made available on GOG? Gish, Super Meat Boy, The Binding Of Isaac and The Basement Collection are great indie games that deserve a place in the catalog.

Consider asking Team Meat about bringing the games here via Twitter:

https://twitter.com/EdmundMcMillenn
https://twitter.com/TommyRefenes
https://twitter.com/SuperMeatBoy

Vote for the games of the wishlist:

Super Meat Boy - 1078 votes
The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth - 680 votes
The Binding Of Isaac - 444 votes
Gish - 88 votes
The Basement Collection - 86 votes
Super Meat Boy: Forever - 41 votes
Mew-Genics - 10 votes
Post edited December 31, 2015 by Barry_Woodward
Posted August 30, 2014
Hm, good question actually. I was under the impression that Steam was the only place to get them outside of bundles (or at least that only Steam keys were sold for it), but apparantly you can The Binding of Isaac and the Basement Collection DRM-free on GamersGate, from one publisher Headup Games ...
Posted August 30, 2014
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Leroux: Hm, good question actually. I was under the impression that Steam was the only place to get them outside of bundles (or at least that only Steam keys were sold for it), but apparantly you can The Binding of Isaac and the Basement Collection DRM-free on GamersGate, from one publisher Headup Games ...
I think there are also (at least regionally available) retail versions of these games that work without Steam. I'm not *completely* positive on them being DRM-free, though.
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Barry_Woodward: Does anyone have any idea why Edmund McMillen's games haven't been made available on GOG? Gish, Super Meat Boy, The Binding Of Isaac and The Basement Collection are great indie games that deserve a place in the catalog. It makes sense for GOG to get Team Meat on board now in anticipation of their three upcoming games The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth, Mew-Genics and Super Meat Boy: Forever.
Wasn't that one of those cases where GOG (like in case of Braid) has little interest in releasing these games because literally everyone already has them?
Post edited August 30, 2014 by F4LL0UT
Posted August 30, 2014
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F4LL0UT: I think there are also (at least regionally available) retail versions of these games that work without Steam. I'm not *completely* positive on them being DRM-free, though.
They are completely DRM-free, even on Steam itself (yes, despite making use of Steamworks features - although Steam obviously doesn't provide any kind of convenient installer)
Posted August 30, 2014
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Barry_Woodward: Does anyone have any idea why Edmund McMillen's games haven't been made available on GOG?
Now you see me surprised, Barry...

Isn't it usually so, that you ask the Devs on FB or Twitter, what they think about GOG and about releasing their games on GOG?
And isn't it usually so, that when / if they reply to you (usually in a totally non committal way, of course), you make a new thread titled: "Dev X is interested in bringing Game Y to GOG! - Vote for it, now!"...?

So, why not go your usual route and ask the Dev (here: Ed McMillen) directly?

I mean - he should know best, no!?

So - why ask us - how are we supposed to know?

What happened?

Did Ed McMillen not answer your question?

I'm really curious.
Posted August 30, 2014
I don't know why these games are not on GOG, and I would very much like to see them here, especially The Binding of Isaac which is the best indie game ever in my opinion.
Edmund McMillen really knows how to make an interesting game. Excellent example how you can use your "inner demons" to create something beautiful.
Posted August 30, 2014
... Gish?
Posted August 30, 2014
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Foxhack: ... Gish?
Gish!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/9500/
Posted August 30, 2014
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Foxhack: ... Gish?
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Impaler26: Gish!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/9500/
... hasn't that game been completely broken for the past two years, with no fix in sight? Why would GOG sell a game that's broken?
Posted August 30, 2014
Barry, do you know his twitter? You didn't link it in the opening post.

So...

https://twitter.com/EdmundMcMillenn
Posted August 30, 2014
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Foxhack: ... hasn't that game been completely broken for the past two years, with no fix in sight?
Not that I know of. Broken in what way? If it does have a few kinks to work out, perhaps that's all the more reason to release it here, as perhaps the GOG technicians could work their magic on it?
Post edited August 30, 2014 by Barry_Woodward
Posted September 01, 2014
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Foxhack: ... hasn't that game been completely broken for the past two years, with no fix in sight? Why would GOG sell a game that's broken?
What do you mean? I've played Gish a few times on different systems and never had any problems.
Posted September 01, 2014
Voted, I wasted 60 hours of my life on Binding of Isaac, around 40 hours on SMB, those games are great, since a DRM free version exist, I really don't know why they are not on GOG.
Posted September 01, 2014
Damn gish was awesome!
Posted November 04, 2014
Bumping this, getting Binding of Isaac Rebirth on gog.com instead of Humble was something I had hoped for to show support. One lost sale. :(
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