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You misspelled appealing to game developers and publishers. Most companies will not invest on a platform that makes it too easy to rip them off.
by toyg 3y ago
You misspelled appealing to game developers and publishers. Most companies will not invest on a platform that makes it too easy to rip them off.
- gchamonlive 3y agoYou mean like gog?
- crtasm 3y agogog is a store, PC/Mac is the platform.
- gchamonlive 3y agoExactly. Meaning opening system doesn't reduce investments, they foster competition. In theory, people should not consider developing for pcs because they are really easy to rip off, and well, that is not what we see.
- toyg 3y agoGog was born as a bargain-bin store for products that required zero investment and were already widely pirated, it was only upsides as far as publishers were concerned. I know it's different now, but I doubt their no-drm policy is as iron-clad on new titles ar it was on old ones - it's probably left to publishers to do some traditional checks on their own, rather than using a platform sdk.