Why Not Digitial Distribution?

getter77 · #1 March 21st, 2009, 10:16 AM

Serious question: What about the folks at Shrapnel having a sit down of sorts with the folks at GoG www.gog.com and seeing how things would pan out to, eventually, try a digitial distro route solely with the out of print and long out of print titles Shrapnel still has a claim to? GoG, in my experience, has been an entirely different entity to Steam, Gamersgate, Impulse, etc. Really, where else could the classics fit in with their contemporaries of the times? They support freeware as well along these ends.

S.R. Krol · #2 March 21st, 2009, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by getter77

Serious question: What about the folks at Shrapnel having a sit down of sorts with the folks at GoG www.gog.com and seeing how things would pan out to, eventually, try a digitial distro route solely with the out of print and long out of print titles Shrapnel still has a claim to?

Because our games never go out of print.

Games which we do not offer anymore are because our contracts with the developers have ended. The fact that games don't have an artificially imposed life cycle is one of the reasons that indie publishing is superior to AAA publishing, and was one of the reasons you started seeing a rise in the indie world in the late '90s. Some folks got tired of a two week window to sell a game, followed by the bargain bin, ending with it vanishing.

Gandalf Parker · #3 March 21st, 2009, 02:02 PM

Altho...
some do have previous versions. Such as Dom1 and Dom2.
Im not sure if that would be worthwhile but it was a thought.