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The costs associated with this policy seem much more likely to be based on decreased sales if folks buy a game, play it as much as they want (within 30 days), a
by zaksoup 7y ago
The costs associated with this policy seem much more likely to be based on decreased sales if folks buy a game, play it as much as they want (within 30 days), and return for a full refund.
Less that they spend bandwidth/compute costs they can't recoup with the return.
- rhn_mk1 7y agoThis presumes that those who buy a game and then return it wouldn't have returned it without the new policy, and that there's more of them than those who come because of the extra publicity and buy without returning. Considering the rampant piracy of GOG games I think the first group is rather small.
- thecrash 7y agoAll GOG games are easily available on the pirate bay and other free sites. Anyone who just wants to get a game without paying already has an easier path than buying and requesting a refund. This is in line with GOG's anti-DRM policy: No matter how restrictive your systems, people who don't want to pay won't. So why have systems which punish and inconvenience the people who do want to pay?