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JAAHAS: Now that is just an absurd claim, as each game put on GOG Connect has to at least have required that GOG and the respective publisher agreed on it, which tends involve lawyers and they don't work for free.
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Pheace: I think you're perfectly aware of what I was talking about there.
I am sure you do, but the "I *highly* doubt it ever cost [Person/Company/Government] anything to do that" part is a concept that quite a lot of people seem to have on many things, so it could easily distract some readers to dismiss my main point if I didn't come back to ramble on about things "everyone" knows.
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Pheace: I think you're perfectly aware of what I was talking about there.
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JAAHAS: I am sure you do, but the "I *highly* doubt it ever cost [Person/Company/Government] anything to do that" part is a concept that quite a lot of people seem to have on many things, so it could easily distract some readers to dismiss my main point if I didn't come back to ramble on about things "everyone" knows.
I'll spell it out a bit clearer then.

Did they spend money creating a backend to interact with the Steam API, spending time (and thus salary) talking with developers/ advertising GOG connect to use it as a tool to get more people to the site during sale periods? Yes they did.

Did they have to spend money 'per license' as you were clearly implying and which is the point I was responding to. I *highly* doubt it.

Relevant quote, again:

depending on whether the publishers agreed to allow the Steam licenses be duplicated to GOG licenses for free or if GOG had to pay them a more or less discounted price for each new license
Because, as I stated before, this is basically just an extension of something that was already commonplace before GOG connect even existed. (developers giving Steam keys for games customers had already purchased elsewhere)
Post edited October 03, 2019 by Pheace
Today Gog celebrates 11th anniversary, and still there is no Gog Connect event.
Fun fact: DUSK will be on GOG Connect, most likely when the next major update for the game is released.
https://twitter.com/DaveOshry/status/1179657686964531201
Post edited October 03, 2019 by ShadowOwl
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Pheace: I'll spell it out a bit clearer then.
What are we even arguing about here? I never said anyting about the technical aspects of GOG verifying that a valid Steam license exists in the linked account for a given game and then produce a valid GOG license for it, my point was that the purpose of the GOG Connect is/was to get Steam users to create GOG accounts in the hope of getting a fraction of them to start spending at least some of their gaming budget here from then on.

I then continued to hypothesize a possible reason for why GOG's marketing team is not announcing more games on GOG Connect at least monthly if not weekly, and unfortunately by subconsciously avoiding to use the words that I can't easily retrieve from my mind I skipped the legal paperwork side of things entirely at first and come up with the likely scenario that not that many publishers and developers are overcome with joy to the idea that potentially all of their sold Steam licenses for one of their games could be duplicated to licenses for a DRM-free version without any compensation, so unless they were planning to promote a new sequel by giving the previous part in the series for free, GOG may have needed to negotiate a some kind of a compromise where they pay a more or less discounted price per a duplicated license or drop the negotiations and move on the next publisher in their list.

But enough of that, I hope it is now clear that getting a game to be featured in GOG Connect is not as simple as calling a publisher and asking can we do it, great, kthxbye, or possibly with a very small indie developer it could be, with the addition that the conversition goes like: "Can we do it? Great, we just emailed you the link to the agreement form, please fill it so we can proceed, kthxbye".
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BeatriceElysia: Come on, we didn't see one since end of Fair Price Program. If you call that a coincidence...
What I want is a fair regional pricing. Steam has it and it's wonderful. It gives a very fair pricing to us who live in the 3rd world countries.