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This could be the case, or could not be. They shared a post on Reddit 19 hours ago from their official account, and I thought it might be nice to share that here, at least to spark some discussion.
They simply shared a post titled:
Shall we? π¦πΏ
With the following image:
Link to the Reddit post is here if you want to see what others are saying about it!
It would be fucking awesome. I can totally see others doing this in the future but GOG is the perfect player for selling drm-free physical stuff at the moment. People who think "full digital is the inevitabile future everything" are just sad analysts watching their own garden, we already know PS5 selling datas were manipulated from Sony, people need physical like in any other art medium.
Please don't team up with Limited Run Games to do this.
Who are they?
A scum company. They got caught using burned CD-Rs for their 3DO games instead of actual pressed discs, insanely long wait times, used to openly cater to scalpers. Insanely expensive for what they offer, and are playing a hand in the death of physical games by creating false scarcity.
mrixrt's videos on them
I think physical copies are still important, and if I ever go as far as selling my own games, I plan to sell them alongside the digital copies. I'll see how much I can put into it after losing the 30% Gaben tax, likely a small box with installer DVD (or optionally USB stick if I will be able to find quality ones for cheap) + printed manual will be the baseline, then a Big Box edition for more money with some more goodies (soundtrack CDs + artbook + posters + other tats).
That's the thing. Steam caught on in part because compared to physical retail "only" 30% was a massive improvement for the average game company. I've heard 60-70+% going to buying/printing floppies/CDs, packaging, distribution, etc. at the high end. I'm sure the big companies got bulk discounts or multi-year deals for supplies.
Yes that meant that since those aspects were a significant amount of the cost anyway you could do stuff like the StarCraft Battlechest that was crammed with extras. But it also did a lot of gatekeeping in it's own right.
Now you could probably do some kind of limited run thing that would be a lot more viable, but it's definitely a luxury step up.
I donβt think we should create more waste in our world, so Iβm voting against it.
Iβd want GOG to focus more on Linux and on getting more games on their store.
Every time I read this fake ecological motivation I aks myself why people think we can save the planet without some plastic and paper in a little box of human art, instead of considering real problems like big industry procedures and food packaging. Priorities.
Those would be collectibles, and as that more or less art pieces, so not really waste, unless you classify all art as waste which would be sad in my eyes.
I understand this.
Still plastic waste is a huge problem.
Dependeing on the price, anyone could be tempted by collecting these, where collecting psintings would be too prohibitive.
Optical media? Maybe not.
Custom flash drives? That would be gravy.
Ugh, I would love a portable/offline launcher/installer for my GoG game files.
GOG already offers offline installers for all games they sell.
Nice - I didn't realize that the GoG installer was portable.
I wish their settings had custom connections. Like, If I could have a portable version that connects to my NAS and downloads/installs my offline/saved GoG games; that'd be the sweet spot. If anyone has suggestions for a setup like this lemme know!
I'd kinda love to see a comeback for optical given the supply issues for flash memory, but I'll about that a custom USB ROM stick or SDCard style carts for PC would be kinda sick
You do realize that flash drives are not near stable enough for long term storage, much less archival storage, right?
If they came with manual, posters, artwork and all the goodies of old game boxes could be a win.
Also better done with completed games that are no longer to be updated.
For an empty box with a cd that once installed you need to download a 50Gb patch for it to be playable would make no sense.
I really don't want more packaging. Just give me a download to the file.
I see zero reason to want more plastic like a disc, but I could understand why someone might want a box with a book, a manual, maybe some items from the game.
My kids order stuff like this all the time from the independent game makers they like to support. Their book shelves have their favorite books and box sets of games, and they like it.
I guess my point is: for indy game makers, this is already a thing.
GoG already does this though, so presumably it would just be the consumers choice. Some folx just like bookcases and collectibles.
Gog already makes books and collectibles like I mentioned?
They do? Where?
Anyone know what was up with the Nazi symbolism they emailed purposefully? I would really want to support them but I need to know that it wasnt something terrible they did. Physical releases is definitely a plus as well.
They released a standard non-apology claiming it was part of their culture and that people just didn't understand. They also stated their German team raised issue with the email and that they just ignored it
Wait really?
They went back and forth with the community more and the devs but basically repeated themselves
It was not Nazi symbolism, well not intentionally at least. They used Slavic runes that, in the intended fonts, looks very different from the Nazi symbols. It came to the issue because in some fonts the Slavic runes are displayed without serifs and with hard lines which makes them appear problematic. So it was kind of a self inflicted homographic attack.
Well, I know the cause now but it's still not that good a reason if they were warned and decided not to use it in Germany....
Oh, it was used in germany, as I as a german had the newsletter in my inbox too, and found it very problematic.
The warning from the german team was not ignored, as far as I understood it, but just arrived too late while the newsletter team was already sending the mails. I also work in a international company with teams all over the world, stuff like that can happen without any ill intend, and so far GOG has shown no negative signs at all. So I tend to accept the explanation that it was only a error, especially with the very bad history that poland had with the nazi regime, Blitzkrieg and all.
Sure one can, and should, put GOG on a personal "watchlist" in case other strange or ugly stuff like this happens, but as long as that is not the case I don't see any reason to change my use of GOG at all. Humans, and with that companies too, can make and will make errors and I am a big fan of second, or even third, chances. I try to judge by intend not by looks.
The warning from the german team was not ignored, as far as I understood it, but just arrived too late while the newsletter team was already sending the mails.
Nope, it was blocked. They asked, were told this is wrong and knew why.
The reason you had it delivered in Germany is because your email preferences are set to English. They only skipped Germany by blocking the German language. They knew it was wrong, avoided the German language and set it to everyone else. Rather than hitting backspace once or twice.
Would it be feasible (if thats not what's happening here already) to just have blank boxes, blank discs, blank sleeve inserts, and just fire up the printer when an order comes in?
I could see it being "fairly easy" to automate, but no true understanding of if it would be realistically cost-effective or if it would scale appropriately or whatever.
Much rather have them create read-only (or semi read only to import patches?) flash-storage USB sticks.
Who the hell has a built-in CD player or even a BD-player in this time and age?
I have an external USB-CD player but only so I can digitize the CDs I buy online.
Who the hell has a built-in CD player or even a BD-player in this time and age?
The answer is nerds. The specific answer is the type of nerds who would buy this sort of thing.
You're looking at one right now, in fact β I have an internal 5.25" Blu-Ray burner in the lone singular bay in my current case. (The machine with the conga line of nearly every type of floppy drive ever created down the front of it lives in the basement.)
Automatic Ripping Machine doeant count ;)
Idk if ripping CDs every few months counts towards nerdy tasks :D
If they do a print to order thing, I could see it maybe working out as a cool side business. Or it could be a chance for them to go really harder into the vintage games market if they can get some publishers on board or get the rights to some older stuff. Doesn't seem like a winning market though on a mass market front, more just a form of advertising or a specialty service for physical collectors.
Maybe for collector editions? Otherwise digital via GoG galaxy client is preferable
Yeah, I could see this too. I see a lot of other devs / indie devs doing Design Works for their games and GoG offering something like this could be cool.
~thinks about cloth maps from Ultima games
~ heavy breathing
They used to make them out of cloth???
you used to get all kinds of really cool and amazing shit when you bought games, maps, manuals, pewter figures, and more.
They were beautiful! (this one has extra annotations written on it by the player)