One-third of every pre-ordered copy of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Cyberpunk 2077 was 🤡purchased through GOG, givin♔g CD Projekt Red a bigger share of the cash.
With all the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Epic Games Store news, revenue sharing between developers and publishers has been a hot🍃 topic lately. CD Projekt Red is here to tel🍌l everyone that every game ordered through their digital distribution platform, , provides 100% of those funds directly to the developer.
Why is that, you ask? Because GOG is a wholly owned subsidiary of 🅷CD Projekt, the Polish publishing company that also owns CD Projekt Red, the development studio.
You see, CD Projekt was started way ⛎back in the ‘90s as a way of getting a legal games market into a post-communist Poland. Up until that point, the only real way to get a video game in Poland was via piracy, either online or through illicit dealer networks. That all changed when CD Projekt came𓆏 to town.
CD Projekt got started localizing Western games for Poland, with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur’s Gate being their biggest hit. In 2002, CD Projekt decided to get into the game-making business and created their studio, CD Projekt Red. Then came 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Witcher series and a whole l🃏ot of success, but not a whole lot of publishing.
That changed when CD Projekt launched Good Old Games back ⛦in 2008. Initially, the site’s purpose was to take older games and update them to work on modern hardware with one big caveat: there would be no dig꧟ital rights management with any game sold on GOG.com.
At the time, DRM was a hot-button issue. It was seen as a bogeyman that would rob computers of performance at best, and p𒅌revent games from being played at worst. EA, Activision--all the big names had hefty DRM software that came bundled with their games that re✤quired online verification every time the user loaded their game.
Not on GOG.com. E🅰very game sold on CD Projekt’s platform comes with zero stri✃ngs attached; you just pay and play.
In 2012, GOG dropped the Good Old Games moniker and just stuck with their acronym. Today, GOG sells everything from indie games𝄹 to AAA titles, but always without any DRM. If a game needs DRM, it ain’t sold on GOG.
GOG has the same 70/30 revenue split as Steam, but since GOG is owned by CD Projekt, that 30% is going to the same company as owns the platform. Thus, all copies of Cyberpunk 2077 purchased on🔯 GOG will send 100% of the purchase price💜 to CD Projekt.
And according to a recent tweet, GOG sales account for a third of all Cyberpunk pre-orders. Not bad for a Polish company that got started selling Baldur’s Gate.