TTG re-release games DRM free? (like the TTG releases on GoG.com)
On GoG.com the following three TellTale Games have been released:
- Sam & Max Save the World
- Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space
- Tales of Monkey Island
And according to GoG.com tradition: these games don't have the DRM restrictions (e.g. online activation).
Will these 'old' games also be available DRM FREE in the TTG accounts when people already bought these games?
- Sam & Max Save the World
- Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space
- Tales of Monkey Island
And according to GoG.com tradition: these games don't have the DRM restrictions (e.g. online activation).
Will these 'old' games also be available DRM FREE in the TTG accounts when people already bought these games?
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The Bone games and Jurassic Park also have a physical copy available from the Telltale Store, but you would have to pay for them, even if you own the digital versions.
Finally, you would have to pay for physical copies of Telltale game bought from GOG.
http://www.gog.com/en/witcher2/backup/
The answer to your actual question is no (not at this time, anyway).
I would love to trade the Back To the Future "DVD" to the GOG.COM version, cause last time it took like 5 months me to get my orders.
Why not? Your customers supported you by buying the games a lot earlier, directly from your website and partly at a higher price than the pre-orders on GOG. Why treat them worse than GOG's customers who get a DRM-free version and all the digital bonus content on top of it?
Your offer to ship free backup DVDs of the Sam & Max games with goodies are great for US customers, but Europeans have to pay about $20 extra shipping cost for that. Other indie developers managed to provide their early customers with GOG keys, too (e.g. Level Up Labs for Defender's Quest).
Spot on.
Ignoring these perfectly reasonable demands seems unwise in the long run. How hard can it be?
@Mike
We are not asking you to update your builds, man. Do you mean that Gog.com single-handedly patched their own builds? You certainly most have done some work already here. What's the matter with you guys?
What annoys me most at the moment is the way people think they are entitled for everything and anything like multiple versions (be it on different systems, though different sources, with or without drm) for free and if this doesn't happen then the company is shitting on a fan base.
For christ sake we are talking about first-hour good-paying customers here. It's simply a way for Telltale to not forget about them. It's really that simple. Just use the same DRM-free packages that are on the gog.com site. (Forget about the goodies.) Send out a mail, make it a promotional thing. I'm just seeing opportunities here. Simply make it extra rewarding for people to actually buy new games right away from Telltale, knowing that a possible better release (DRM-free == better) will also be available to them.
I agree with you on the at first release time part. Absolutely fair.
But I was just talking about the superior later releases. I'd love to hear some of those considerations.
Bump.
Tales of Monkey Island should now be DRM free, and most episodes of Sam and Max should now also be DRM free. (You will have to re-download the new installers from our website in order for the effect to take place.)
That is pretty cool! I will try it out.
I can honestly say that login is still required, for season 2 of Sam and Max. (I have re-downloaded the installers).
To make matters worse, after updating Windows 8, I could not run the game at all: I got a dreaded Securom error "This application is not compatible with the installed operating system or machine configuration."
Something like this error:
http://www.telltalegames.com/community/discussion/44104/sam-max-won-t-launch-on-windows-8
After much tinkering I guessed that it might be Daemon Tools. So uninstalled it, reboot by machine and yes, now it works again. I guess Telltale Games enjoys telling me what software I can and can't run on my own machine.
Anyway, I guess the moral of the story is that DRM is ALWAYS a bad idea. You must be completely mad to be a developer, and make your product inferior by adding DRM. Download a pirated version or from Gog.com will simply avoid this mess in the first place.
I won't direct my anger at Securom, because you decided to add this garbage in the first place. So, thanks but no thanks Telltale.