Good Video Games / 2017

[Nor_Treblig]

@Ignacio

I thought you could buy them directly from Humongous (if I recall correctly, that was the case 1 or 2 years ago), DRM free.

The only thing I can find on their homepage are Humble widgets which could theorethically give you also DRM-free versions but they decided to use Steam keys only.

@ideal

Another option (although it provides false stats) is to buy a Steam version (if it’s only available there and in order to support the dev) but play a cracked one (in order to stay DRM free).

I made exceptions but generally I won’t support developers who are OK with using DRM.

@ideal

It’s a shame that The Cave isn’t available DRM free

There is at least hope since the deal with SEGA comes to an end:

After TWP, The Cave

DF owns the IP and SEGA has an exclusive to it for 5 years (ends Jan 2018). At that point, DF can do anything they want with it and SEGA stops getting the money. It’s a typical dev/pub deal, in that the dev gets X%, but that X% is recouped from the advances (in the case of The Cave, around $3M). That doesn’t mean the game needs to make $3M, it means the devs X% made $3M. So, if the dev was getting 25%, the game would have to make $12M before the dev saw any money. Since I am getting no backe…

Ron wasn’t so sure about if the extra work of making new up-to-date builds for different distribution platforms will be worth it but at least Double Fine is known for putting their self-published games on DRM-free platforms like GOG and recently itch.io.

There may have been a similar deal regarding Costume Quest 2.