Will the minigame come to GOG

Now that we have a separate thread just for this, I'll repost this so everyone is clear on what happened.

I've emailed both GOG and Inti on this matter (and others in the case of Inti). I'll let everyone know what answers (if any) I get.

@ikai

So far as I know (and I'm by no means an expert) you could ask for a refund but I don't think that you will get your money back. That money wasn't profit money it was spent on development it might make a difference on if you paid through Kickstarter or Fangamer/PayPal but either way you invested in a project and if your unhappy with the end results that not something that anyone's really accountable for in the end. You'd have to contact whomever you paid through for more info.

Now having said that there are other options (a console copy perhaps or even making an exception to no steam games) even if it's not all on the same system it's better to have it then not, I hope you find at least one of these is acceptable to you but I doubt that a GOG option will exist before deadline after the 18th.

@ikai

Hey a shot them off an Email myself hope it works out.

It's worth noting that sometimes GOG can be very strict with what gets in their store or doesn't. Inti is no emergent indie dev, though, so I wouldn't think they're opposed to the idea of having the game in the store.

Normally the forum is the place to make your voice heard on matters that are important to you so that the team can listen to your feedback. Unfortunately, that is not the case with IntiCreates. Tonight there will be a stream on Twitch where you can ask them questions. Use that, not this.

IntiCreates has self developed and self published CotM.

Let's not talk about half hearted refunds just to make a point. That's not necessary to be heard, and considering it's a stretch goal mini game, let's not lose sight of why we put our faith in IGA in the first place.

If you are limited to PC and don't want to install Steam, I understand. I strongly encourage you to let IntiCreates know. This is not the place for that, however. I hope I'm being helpful in directing your next move on this important topic.

Brainiac No, you're definitely right about that. The Steam client is required to download games. But a download manager is not DRM, and while there's certainly an argument to be made against a mandatory download manager, that's not the same argument as being against DRM.

The arguments against DRM are based on two fundamental points. The first is from a user perspective, that requiring the user to "phone home" or otherwise go through hoops to play a game creates an inherently worse user experience to no gain for the user and possibly to negative effect in the event that the user does not have access to the Internet at all times. Steam as a download manager has no bearing on this complaint because - assuming no actual DRM is in place - you are no less able to obtain and play your game wherever you are than without a download manager. You need the Internet to download the game, but at no other time(for a single player game, anyway).

The second argument is from a game preservation standpoint. DRM is almost guaranteed to become un-navigable at some point due either to servers going offline or OS incompatibility. At that point, cracking the game becomes the only way to access the content of the game, and due to the illegality of this, game preservation efforts are unnaturally hampered by DRM. This again has nothing to due with Steam itself, as the resulting download from a Steam purchase is not encrypted or otherwise protected against copying and use save for by intention on the publisher's part. It's less convenient to preserve than a GOG installer, but again, that's not a DRM issue.

@ikai  Disappointing, but not particularly surprising considering that this is a side project.  Still, just because they're saying no now doesn't mean that might not change in the future, it just means they have no current plans to change it in the future.  There have been a number of games that started out as Steam exclusive on PC only to get a GOG release some years later.  Time will tell on this one, but it's best to treat that as some possible future pleasant surprise and put it out of mind for now.