GOG/CD Projekt are not being bought by EA

[owsf2000]

Apparently I missed a short lived rumour yesterday about EA supposedly buying GOG/CD Projekt. Due to how viral it got, the founder of the company came forth pretty quickly and put it to rest by denying anything of the sort going on - and that the paystub used by the original leaker of the news to prove him being an employee is fake.

Great. Happy to hear. Would be rather stupid for them to sell to be honest.

But at the same time I laugh at some people's comments about the issue, for instance "Yeah right. As if CDPR would ever sell to EA. A company that's been praised for its DRM free games, that do not try to milk the consumer using cheap DLC tactics, sellout to a company that won the, what was that thing? The worst company award? Thrice?"

Yeah. That's a reason to believe people don't change amirite?

Minecraft.

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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.