Shamelessly "borrowed" & modded from http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1503944-unofficial-steamdrm-discussion-37/....

At the present we have no information about what DRM-free future games being published by Bethesda will be. There has been no formal announcement about it so this thread is merely for expressing your thoughts on various possibilities and expressing your thoughts about GOG and/or other DRM-Free options which may be used.

The following rules will apply to this thread as well as all forum rules already in place.

1. No flaming, attacking or demeaning one another for their opinion about GOG.COM/DRM-free (pro or con)
2. Any encouragement of piracy will result in a warning and temporary suspension of your account. Admission of piracy will result in a ban. This includes circumventing DRM of any kind.
3. Repeated posts by the same member to say the same thing can be considered spam and result in a warning against your account.

Preceding Thread(s)

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1502630-please-bring-the-fallout-games-bethesdid-games-to-gogcom/

The next iteration of the Steam/DRM thread is probably just worth having GoG added onto it, as opposed to there being an entirely separate thread. People already talk about GoG on it anyway, as well as pretty much every other PC gaming platform.

I'm also not sure there's any way to enforce a rule of people someone saying the same thing multiple times...sometimes, that's the only way to get a point across.

Today GOG got a facelift and some new features. Now you can change the currency you want to pay, without the 1$ being 1€ as it often is on Steam. They also introduced movies to the catalogue, so far it's just a handful of gaming documentaries.

I noticed that a few minutes ago to check on my library. Personally I love GoG, I love the content that comes with the games and I like the fact that the community donates old strategy guides and game booklets so GoG can add them to the games. I have...way more than 200 games, that includes the I believe 5 games they give you for free when you make an account.

Just tried out the new GoG website. They now have movies? I looked at what they had to offer and have never seen or heard of a single movie they had available. lol

Since I can get new DVD's for $5.00 or less, and new Blurays for $7.00 or less (Walmart prices) in the box with the art why even bother with 'owning' digital movies?

People were saying those same things when games started to be digitally distributed.

All I know what to say is I'm purchasing all the PC versions of video game from gog.com, in 2012 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was the last video game I purchased from Steam.

I am 2 years 6 days Steam free. August 21st, 2012 to August 27th, 2014. If PC versions of video games are sold on both gog.com and Steam then I will purchase those PC versions of video games TWICE, and physical boxed versions if they exist then I will purchase them 3 times, because I love having physical boxed versions of PC versions of video games on my shelf as well as gog.com versions and Steam versions (I will not let go of Steam because I have been using Steam since 2004, but PC versions of video games sold exclusively on Steam, I'm done with purchasing PC versions of video games exclusively on Steam).

This year will be 3 years I'm going strong not purchasing any video games (PC versions of video games) published by ZeniMax Media Inc. and Bethesda Softworks until they sell the PC versions of the video games published by them on gog.com as well.

It's very exciting to see gog.com sell movies and TV shows now.

Really, people were saying they could get blockbuster hit games for $5.00 or less brand-new in the box?

Not those exact prices, obviously, but people were expressing similar skepticism to the digital distribution platform when it was starting to become a thing. Including the whole rhetoric of the physical copies having the boxes and instructional manuals.

Last week, I just picked up the new Robocop movie in a bargain container of $5.00 brand-new DVD's at a grocery Walmart.

I think things like digital movies and streaming services have tremendously lowered the value of film type entertainment. It used to cost $5.00 to rent a movie from Blockbuster Video or similar stores for only 3 days. Movies and TV do not have the same value as games.

Furthermore, when I bought The Dark Knight Rises on DVD, it came with a Ultraviolet voucher code so I could have both the physical and digital versions of the movie. Many more boxed movies have had the same thing included.

...And?

Fact of the matter is, it doesn't matter what you personally prefer when it comes to the format of your entertainment media. For whatever reason, consumers like digital distribution, and will be more than happy to purchase digital copies online. It's proven to work with games, it's proven to work with music, and it's even working with movies.

Not to mention that deal you mentioned isn't going to be available for every movie, and not all people are going to be aware of them in the first place to try and take advantage over them. The beauty part of digital distribution is that it encourages impulse purchases, which makes consumers even less likely to do the research beforehand.

I don't prefer to purchase movies, music, video games or any type of software digitally only.

Music actually is still selling extremely well on physical CD's. Movies seem to as well Digital is also selling well.

You mean like how GooglePlay does movies? I'll admit I have made a couple of impulse purchases from GoogePlay, but they have a great catalog compared to what GoG is featuring. I'm not really against digital movies. I just don't see how GoG can shoehorn itself into this market anymore than seeing Microsoft trying to sell hamburgers. (the market is saturated with better options)

Are you saying gog.com shouldn't sell movies?

It's not what I would see as a sustainable add-on to their business when most consumers already have a barrage of much better options. I know GoG will try to grow their catalog of movies and TV. But what are we expecting to see in the future? Gone with the Wind? Most rights to classic films are locked up by the Turner Co., and most TV shows are locked up by NBC/Universal, Viacom and FOX. All those companies are enforcers of DRM. That means most of the good stuff won't be on GoG.

I still buy DVD's (my 'Puter doesn't even have a BluRay drive) & that's what I watch my DVD's on most of the time (I do have a stand alone DVD player but it's "reception" is poor (lot's of "snow")

Didn't say anything wasn't selling well, just that DD does excessively well, regardless of what the supposed advantages physical media has over it. People were skeptical about DD games and songs in the past, but today, well...

That's a bit of an exaggeration, considering how miles apart software distribution and the food service is. GOG's not really doing anything new here, they're just selling another type of digital entertainment on their site. Similar to how Steam is no longer just selling games, but actual computer programs.

Well if AAA movie and TV show companies don't don't appear for sale on gog.com at least we can have indies.

There is only 1 movie company who I think would like to sell movies that are 100% Digital Rights Management (DRM) free and that's Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. I might be wrong but I remember a few months ago reading about a movie company wanting this don't remember exactly which one.

Let's use that thread then.