comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical

Re: GOG.com to developers: "Your customers hate DRM"


On Nov 14, 3:31?am, "eddyster..._at_hotmail.com"
<eddyster..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> What I think is even more telling is this portion :
>
> "Part of the evidence provided is the fact that, aside from
> distribution giant Steam, GOG.com delivered more digital copies of The
> Witcher 2: Assassins of Kingsthan the rest of the e-tailers combined.
>
> Out of the million or so copies the game sold in its first six months
> of availability (ending October 30th), roughly 24% were digital. Of
> those, 195,000 came from Steam, and 35,000 were from GOG.com, leaving
> only around 10,000 spread across Impulse, Direct2Drive, GamersGate,
> and others"
>
> -
>
> Message to publishers : you don't have to believe us when we're
> telling you DRM hurts your sales, here are the numbers to back this
> up.
>
How are you arriving at the conclusion that DRM is hurting sales all
that much?
To me, it appears as though the Steam DRM is widely acceptable to most
purchasers as their sales are nearly 6 times that of DRM-free GOG.
(Are Impulse and the others DRM-free, too?)




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