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General discussion (archive)Would it be worth bundling XPadder on GOG?(19 posts)(19 posts)
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Posted April 01, 2012
Meh. XPadder was more interesting when it was free. Don't support this "free until you've tested it enough for me to make you pay for it" thing.
Posted April 01, 2012
(excuse my english)

I buyed Xpadder a lot of time ago and i feel very satisfied with it, for me it's a great buy. I use it in all the GoG games i can (carpal tunnel syndrome, playing with keyboard&mouse is painfull):

-Gothic 1: great.
-Anachronox: do the job
-Thief Gold: good
-Enclave: good
-Blood: good, miss more buttons
-Rayman 2: native support, but need binding 2-3 more actions.
-Outcast: not perfect but good.
-Psychonauts: perfect native control
-Rise of the Triad: good
-Far Cry: good
-Duke Nukem 3d: good
-Abe's games: perfect
-Unreal: good
...

Of course it's impossible to do a good profile for certain games: RPG's like Arcanum or Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter, Strategy games...but do the job in a great amount of games.

It would be great a "Xppader" (or/and similar( topic sharing profiles and impressions...
Posted April 01, 2012
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spindown: An Xpadder license costs $9.99. It would be impossible to bundle it with a $9.99 game without raising the price of the package significantly. Most people would never use Xpadder, so it wouldn't make sense to charge them extra for something they don't need. In addition there's the problem of ending up with multiple licenses that others have pointed out.

Just buy it once from the developer, it's only ten bucks.
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predcon: Not this.

My notion was that GoG would pay a contract fee to the developer of Xpadder for a "GoG exclusive" version, the same way Western Digital bundles a specific version of Acronis TrueDrive that only works with WD hard disks. GoG has to have enough money by now that bundling such an "exclusive" version of the software (embedded within each game) would only raise each game's price by three or four dollars.
3-4 dollars! Only! Do I get the option to NOT buy the bundled version?

There is no way in hell I would pay 3-4 dollars more for something I have zero interest in. Especially if I have already bought a game bundled with it. I would 100%, 1000%, 10000% prefer to just buy the thing once from the developer. In fact I would be bloody outraged if they tacked on 3-4$ for anything of this kind.

What is wrong with simply being a distributor of the product?
Post edited April 01, 2012 by gooberking
Posted April 01, 2012
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predcon: Not this.

My notion was that GoG would pay a contract fee to the developer of Xpadder for a "GoG exclusive" version, the same way Western Digital bundles a specific version of Acronis TrueDrive that only works with WD hard disks. GoG has to have enough money by now that bundling such an "exclusive" version of the software (embedded within each game) would only raise each game's price by three or four dollars.
It still makes little sense; even if you assume it would raise the price just by 1 dollar, as the poster above pointed out, a full licence directly from the developer cost 10 bucks TOTAL, and will cover EVERY game you own on GOG and elsewhere...

Also, people would expect to have some kind of support for that software from GOG, since they'll be acting as a distributor, and that would cause some added headaches, with very little benefits in exchange
Post edited April 01, 2012 by Antaniserse
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