One thing I will say for CDPR, despite them adjusting GOGs stance on DRM right before releasing their second game so that the game could have DRM included on the initial launch, is that they had the right idea to augment their business by starting GOG. As when it comes down to it, GOG is just a big ass store. One that nets them lots of additional money. Imagine if Bioware had the foresight to do the same thing instead of selling out to EA to get some extra cash.
I'd argue pretty much every serious game dev should be doing this on one level or another. Some already do to various extents. I doubt there'd be much to NIS these days if they didn't have all the stuff in their own webstore - granted it's all their own stuff, but they use it to branch out into additional markets such as anime and they always have special collectors editions to encourage preorders of their products directly with them. Which nets them a larger slice of the pie by cutting out the other middlemen. (Gamestop, etc)
Of course, if they weren't such horrible DLC Whores I'd probably still be interested in ordering all their collectors editions at launch. They sure saved me a hell of a lot of money in their own twisted way.
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Date: 2015-09-18 06:40 am (UTC)I'd argue pretty much every serious game dev should be doing this on one level or another. Some already do to various extents. I doubt there'd be much to NIS these days if they didn't have all the stuff in their own webstore - granted it's all their own stuff, but they use it to branch out into additional markets such as anime and they always have special collectors editions to encourage preorders of their products directly with them. Which nets them a larger slice of the pie by cutting out the other middlemen. (Gamestop, etc)
Of course, if they weren't such horrible DLC Whores I'd probably still be interested in ordering all their collectors editions at launch. They sure saved me a hell of a lot of money in their own twisted way.