AppleQueso wrote:Steam at least gives you some nice benefits and treats their cusotmers with some level of respect. It's a pretty fair tradeoff for the insanely minor and non-intrusive DRM they use I think.
Aye. While I do prefer a disc, Steam is probably the least annoying direct download service that includes DRM of some kind (and GoG doesn't have nearly the selection).
It's more flexible than anything in use on consoles at any rate.
Inazuma wrote:How is this good news? Wouldn't it be best if they released their PC games normally? Or at least, how it was done before companies like Steam popped up.
Reatil chains are pretty well-known for ignoring PC titles and shoving them into a corner. Why pay to make physical copies and have bigger sunk costs just to sell poorly when you can sell them in the biggest market of PC gamers?
Yeah, more money...
I was talking from the perspective of the gamer, not Nippon Ichi. Wouldn't it be best to buy a physical version or download a DRM free version, instead of using Steam? That's all I meant.
It bothers me to see gamers happy about getting fucked over by DRM and DLC and shit like that. Oh well. Nothing new there. Nevermind me.
Yeah, whatever, everyone already knows about your views on digital media, no need to restate them ad nauseam.
It's good news because we, PC gamers, are not getting fucked over by anyone, we're just getting games we otherwise wouldn't.
Besides, Steam has a ton of benefits, great sales and international availability. Physical copies don't.
I hope this works out well, since it'd be nice to see more Japanese developers jumping ship to the PC. You've also got Recettear and Chantlise on Steam and they seem to be doing pretty well for themselves while being incredibly Japanese games. Though I've personally found Nippon Ichi games to be very hit and miss for me.
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lisalover1 wrote:Falcom should start paying attention; re-releasing the Ys series on its native platform would be huge among RPG fans.
Nono, Falcom needs to go talk to GoG.
If newer releases go to Steam and classics to GOG, I think we can agree it'd a good enough solution!
I can agree to that too, but I think new releases should go to GoG also. Everything from GoG has no DRM, which is how it should be. If Falcom releases some cool Japanese games on GoG, I can actually consider buying them.
Inazuma wrote:I can agree to that too, but I think new releases should go to GoG also. Everything from GoG has no DRM, which is how it should be. If Falcom releases some cool Japanese games on GoG, I can actually consider buying them.
Except GoG stands for Good Old Games. Apart from the Witcher titles (which are created by the company that pays for GoG), the titles are all at minimum 5 years old, most being 10+
The age is probably what allows GoG to host/sell them the way they do, since most of what they have would only be available through online retailers anyway. Probably easier to get licensing agreements if they approach a company with a "so... your game isn't on store shelves anymore...how'd you like to let it make money again?".
