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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 January 09, 2016
No more movie releases?
Posted January 09, 2016
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tokisto: No more movie releases?
Holy necromancy. Probably movie sales weren't as good as GOG was expecting. I for myself don't really care about movies as they have no re-play value like games. I watch them once and good riddance. And it's only like 1.5-2 hours of entertainment for the same price like a game that i can play for at least tens of hours. I do go to cinema every now and then but i never feel the urge to actually own a movie like i do with games.
Posted January 09, 2016
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tokisto: No more movie releases?
Good riddance.
Posted January 09, 2016
Well 99% are documentaries which I feel deserves a classification of its own and the other 1% are a couple of 'indie' 'movies'.
I guess there will still be the occasional documentary and.. stuff.
Posted January 09, 2016
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tokisto: No more movie releases?
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Mr.Caine: Good riddance.
Oh fuck off, if others want to buy movies here why would that be a problem for you.
Posted January 09, 2016
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Smannesman: Well 99% are documentaries which I feel deserves a classification of its own and the other 1% are a couple of 'indie' 'movies'.
I guess there will still be the occasional documentary and.. stuff.
You are right that the majority are documentaries, but it's not that bad. About 30% (16 out of 55) are feature films.

And I still think GOG should concentrate on non-english indie movies. There's a lot of great stuff out there, it should be easier to get world-wide distribution rights and many of them already have english subtitles (because they were shown on international festivals.
Posted January 09, 2016
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tokisto: No more movie releases?
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Mr.Caine: Good riddance.
Are you coming with me? :)
Posted January 09, 2016
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tokisto: No more movie releases?
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blotunga: Holy necromancy. Probably movie sales weren't as good as GOG was expecting. I for myself don't really care about movies as they have no re-play value like games. I watch them once and good riddance. And it's only like 1.5-2 hours of entertainment for the same price like a game that i can play for at least tens of hours. I do go to cinema every now and then but i never feel the urge to actually own a movie like i do with games.
Movies have just as much, or even more, rewatch value than games have replay value. If you don't want to see them again, the fault is not with the movies, it's your preference.

And you can take just about any movie made in the last 100 years and make a HD version of it, whereas older games either have to be played with the limitations of their older technology or remade into some kind of special editions, which often turns them into a different experience than what they used to be (Broken Sword, Monkey Island, Gabriel Knight etc.).

Also the time you spend on something doesn't mean anything, as entertainment values are not cumulative in time. Watching a crappy movie or playing a crappy game wouldn't be any better if it were twice its original length.

It can be that sales weren't very good so far, but then again, neither the catalog was very good. I don't think there's any "big title" among GOG movie catalog that would attract buyers. And the marketing hasn't been very active either. I don't recall ever receiving a GOG email about movie releases or discounts.
Posted January 09, 2016
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tokisto: No more movie releases?
that well have run dry
Posted January 10, 2016
it was always a touchy experiment. DRM is just not as a big a deal in the movie realm to the movie-goer type. besides that, the movie market is different than the games market. and on top of all of that, the studios are in a different place with regards to their attitudes towards technology vendors and their place in the world than game publishers. when all is said and done, the numbers probably just weren't good enough to justify more indie filmmakers putting their movies here, which is what it would have took to actually land a license for something more well known. gog probably would have started with a back catalog of something. vintage movies.
Posted January 10, 2016
I wondered about this as well. I hope GOG is still gonna manage to get the movie thing going on a larger scale although at this stage it seems that it would require a miracle. As much as I blame the large companies for refusing to release films on GOG, I'm pretty sure that GOG didn't knock on enough doors. There must be tons of indie directors who would have gladly put their films on here if they only knew that GOG distributes movies.
Posted November 17, 2016
A wild movie appears!
Posted November 17, 2016
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Frozen: A wild movie appears!
haha..what the?
Posted November 17, 2016
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Frozen: A wild movie appears!
I just want a sale so I can buy the movies already here :l
Posted November 18, 2016
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Frozen: A wild movie appears!
Great. They didn't release a movie for about a year and now that there is a new one, it is the Double Fine Adventure... :(

But maybe they are reviving the movie section and will bring more interesting stuff in the future. I'm not overly optimistic though, there isn't even a newspost about this new movie on the homepage.
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