Please bring The Walking Dead games to GOG.com
Telltale already has a deal with GOG.com and has brought titles like the Sam & Max games, Back to the Future, and Tales of Monkey Island to that service. Unless I'm mistaken, these games have sold pretty well on GOG showing there is a desire to have DRM-free installers of other Telltale-published games.
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=walking dead&order=votes_total - The Walking Dead games have nearly 2,000 votes on the GOG wishlist, so I want to encourage Telltale to work out a deal with the appropriate people (Image Comics, Robert Kirkman...?) and the GOG staff to release these games on GOG.com.
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Why?
What's the difference between Gog and buying from Telltale?
All of the games on GOG.com have no digital rights management, not even the minimal Telltale account log-in DRM that is in games purchased from Telltale's website.
GoG is DRM free if I'm not mistaken but I'd still go with steam :P
I wonder why we haven't seen any new Telltale stuff on GOG as well. I travel internationally a lot and online services cause me too many headaches, so I stick to DRM-free. Even then, I prefer GOG because the other places aren't as strict with their definition of DRM-free.
What's that mean? nutshell it pls
Digital Rights Management is a set of technologies that companies use to restrict how customers can use the products they buy. For Steam, the client itself is the DRM, for Telltale, it is the process by which you have to login to the Telltale server before you can play the game (and on some of Telltale's physical PC releases, you are required to insert the CD or DVD into your drive before you play).
GOG.com has none of that. It's the major advantage to buying from them. You are just given an installer that you can use anywhere on any PC, without having to worry about DRM restrictions like needing to be connected to the internet to authorize the game, going over a maximum amount of computers allowed to install your purchase, or anything else like that.
doesn't that mean it's easier to play the game illegally? Idk i think i'm lost
Probably but DRM never stopped pirates from getting what they want :P
isn't twdg very easy to play illegally anyways? I'd assume it is.
I dunno I've never Illegally downloaded TWD :P But I'd assume most games are easy to play illegally these days.
thanks!
Steam's a great service in many ways, but I like to support GOG to help keep competition in the digital distribution market alive. GOG has an official refund policy, "fair price" packages for the few regionally-priced games they have (meaning you get money back if you're "screwed over" by regional pricing), and of course client-free DRM-free installers you can back-up, play offline, etc.
So despite the games already being on Steam, I hope Telltale pays attention and works out a deal to bring the Walking Dead games to GOG.
I'm still waiting for a GOG release. I watched several Let's Plays of The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us and would love to play your games, but as long as there are only DRMed versions around I won't buy them. I don't see any profit in not publishing DRM-free. I mean every game you can think of is available DRM-free somewhere on the interwebs, only the makers don't make any money out of it.
I think GOG should focus more on old titles to differentiate themselves from Steam more... Granted the DRM free is a nice thing, but I really like being able to replay games from when I was younger, or even find new games that are classic. It's nice to find games where it's like "Oh, I remember playing that on floppy disk!"
By the way, what is the licensing when it comes to publishers and developpers who have all gone out of business???
I agree somewhat but unfortunately more often than not either publishers are not interested in bringing their older games to GOG (for various reasons) or the rights are a complex mess that GOG doesn't necessarily have the time or ability to sort out. Afaik, for publishers or devs who have gone out of business, the rights may be bought or revert back to the one of people on the dev team (company CEO, project manager, etc.)
Unfortunately 2, GOG does not make it a priority to take chances with old games they don't believe will sell well. (They have rejected several games I loved growing up b/c they didn't believe they'd sell well.) Part of me disagrees with this stance but the other part realizes GOG has to pay the bills and grow so they can attract new publishers.
However, on the flip side, just this past week we got the Hugo *games and *Wacky Wheels, so GOG is still bringing classics that have a significant number of votes on the wishlist. That's the best advice I can give: vote up games you would buy if they came to GOG - http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games
I would also like to have The Walking Dead as well as the other great Telltale games on GOG. I have played The Walking Dead and enjoyed it a lot so would love to have it DRM Free on GOG. Since you guys already have a few of your older games on GOG I hope you seriously consider bringing these other great games because a lot of people there including myself would certainly buy them.
Why not both (classic and recent titles)? I think GOG doesn't want to stay in in the retro niche when they renamed themselves from Good Old Games to GOG. The DRM-freedom is enough to differentiate from Steam imho. And if they don't try to get more recent titles people like me, who don't accept the patronising of Steam, will be left out of the market and won't bring the developers any money.
No movement at this sea shore? That´s said, I do still hope to see your games coming to GOG!
Espacially WolfAmongUs, which isn´t even DRM-free in the retail edition...
Strongly disagree; GOG stands for DRM-free gaming, as it´s the ONLY platform on the web that is completely DRM-free: Every title you can find on GOG is DRM-free, on other plattforms it might even be that they don´t tell you which DRM is used! E.g. that´s the case on Steam, which do feature---as surprising as it may sound---some DRM-free games: http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
But this isn´t worth much, as you can never be sure which ones are DRM-free and which not till you buy them---and sometimes patches even DRM´ed them!!!
Anyways, GOG got still a huge focus on old games. Did you see that bunch of Lucas arts titles that got recently rereleased for example?
To your question: It´s an issue, GOG and partners (like NightDiveStudios) are permantently working to retrieve the rights of older titles that are in "license limbo"!