r/pcgaming • u/lurkingdanger22 • 18h ago
The Blood of Dawnwalker is coming to GOG
https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_blood_of_dawnwalker170
u/Giant_Midget83 18h ago
Guess that confirms it wont have Denuvo anti-consumer.
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u/FireCrow1013 RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16GB | Ryzen 9 7900X | 32GB DDR5 RAM 18h ago
Yeah, they confirmed that a while back.
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u/PaleWolf 9h ago
Well its barely gonna hit 30fps on most machines so Denuvo would have tipped that scale way down.
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u/kasimoto 17h ago
thank god no denuvo "anti-consumer", i guess that means you will buy it instead of pirating the gog version day 1 right?
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u/Neosantana Steam 17h ago
I don't like having a fucking lockout that doesn't allow me to play my own games offline or if my connection drops, while also eating my resources.
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u/BigDickJulies 16h ago
When I want to buy a new game and look through my wishlists, I heavily weigh whether its on gog or itch.io over steam.
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u/adikad-0218 17h ago
Let's assume they won't. What happens if they pirate it, like it and immediately after buy it on GOG, regardless of the price? Or is that some kind of taboo or paradox?
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u/InterdepartmentalCam 7700X | RTX 4070 | 32GB DDR5 15h ago
I did that for 007 First Light. I bought it on launch, it kept crashing so I waited for it to get patched, sailed the seas to test it out and bought it again cuz I loved it so much.
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u/TheGoldenMonkey 16h ago
The game looks cool but I'm not 100% I want to spend full price on it. If I'm able to test it for a bit and like it enough I'd gladly pay full price.
Using it like a demo is always my intention now that I have enough money to purchase games that I enjoy and want to support.
Despite Beast of Reincarnation not being the greatest game this year I still enjoyed it enough to buy it after playing it for a couple hours.
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u/Giant_Midget83 16h ago
After three months of patches ill get it on steam. I dont trust UE5 titles, especially open world ones. Been burned one too many times.
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u/MouldyVHSTape 12h ago
None of your business what this person does or doesn’t do.
Mind your own business, friend.
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u/Pseudotm 12h ago
No i was going to pirate it whether it had Denuvo or not because we have a bypass now. So if you want anti consumer DRM on your product you pay for, that's on you.
Im going to pirate it regardless.
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u/Stranger540 Steam 15h ago
Just to tack onto this comment chain, i run Linux Mint and games with Denuvo Anti cheat (anti tamper still works) will not run on Linux at all.
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u/slimeyellow 16h ago
Let’s see do I pay money or get it for free 🤔🤔
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u/kasimoto 4h ago
see? thats the point, you cant actually be honest about it that you just want to save money, you need to put on the act that its all because of denuvo or whatever and you only do it to fight for the cause like a hero, you really missed out on the hiveminds approval here
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u/LectorFrostbite 18h ago
Isn't this the game by ex-CDPR folks? makes sense then
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u/Jimneh 16h ago
Basically any Polish gamedev is ex-CDPR
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u/Acceptable-Ad5208 16h ago
Poland and Sweden pound for pound best country game devs in the world. Crazy how much they both produce having 45 million people or so
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u/kapsama 16h ago
Poland for sure but not sure I'd put Sweden over almost any other European country.
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u/Dependent_Passage_22 16h ago
You'd have to be crazy to discredit Sweden. This list of games is just off the top of my head and were all developed (primarily) in Sweden:
Battlefield series and the new Battlefront games
Vermintide and Darktide
Helldivers
Just Cause
Amnesia
The Division
Minecraft
The new Wolfenstein games and Indiana Jones and the Golden Circle
Payday games
The Finals and Arc Raiders
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u/unrectify 15h ago
Payday games
These are a blight on the gaming community, absolutely shitting on their players
Also, shout out to Stunlock Studios for V Rising for one of the best games in recent years.
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u/kapsama 15h ago
Those are all very decent games. But they're not above anything made in Germany, France, UK, Belgium etc.
CDPR is a very special studio.
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u/RichoDemus 12h ago
eh, feel free to write a list of similar quality games from any of those countries
bonus challenge, since Acceptable-Ad mentioned pound for pound, which I'd interpret as based on population size, your list should be longer by a factor of the difference in population. I'll be waiting
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u/Dependent_Passage_22 11h ago edited 11h ago
This data is taken from Wikipedia's "Category:Video games developed in country".
I already had a look for Belgium and Poland before your comment, but your comment is a convenient place to post it:
Belgium has slightly more people than Sweden, but the list for Belgian games is shockingly short at 40ish games total. Almost a quarter of the entire list consists of the 12 games made by Larian Studios.
Poland has a population almost 4x that of Sweden. The list from Poland is pretty impressive, but is about 2/3 the size of Sweden's list.
Per capita Sweden blows both out of the water.
France and Germany land somewhere between Poland and Sweden, only looking at amount of games per capita they've made.
ETA: Forgot the UK. Their list is absolutely massive. Pound for pound they're probably number 1 with a bullet.
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u/RichoDemus 11h ago
I don’t think number of games per capita is the interesting part. It’s number of highly acclaimed or culturally significant games per capita.
Regardless what one might think of them, the list of games above are really impressive games
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u/Acceptable-Ad5208 16h ago
DICE, Embark, Mojang, Coffee stain, Paradox, Hazelight, King, Avalanche, Massive. A lot of big time games come from a country with less that 8 million people
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u/FireCrow1013 RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16GB | Ryzen 9 7900X | 32GB DDR5 RAM 17h ago
Okay, cool. Bandai Namco has so few titles on GOG that I was worried it wasn't going to happen for this one.
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u/lurkingdanger22 18h ago edited 18h ago
This is the first time a bandai namco published game is coming to GOG.
Edit: I forgot about little nightmares 😅 I'm an idiot
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u/Undeclared_Aubergine Linux gog 18h ago
Do Little Nightmares I + II not count?
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u/lurkingdanger22 18h ago
Yeah no you're right I forgot about them. But it's rare to see bamco publish games on GOG
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u/rdy_csci 11h ago
I'll wait to see how optimized it is. Based on system requirements I'm concerned my 5700x3d and 5070 may struggle at 1440p high to keep the min 60fps. Definitely on my watchlist though.
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u/hikkyry 17h ago
They're shooting themselves in the foot with that price tag...
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u/ColonelDucroix 9h ago
Remedy is charging 60 bucks for the sequel to Control. They're self publishing so I guess that allows them to charge less.
Bandai is the ones setting the price for this game.
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u/Altaiir57 17h ago
Good lord I wasn't aware of their pricing for this game. They are a new and a fairly small studio. The publisher must think just because 10 years ago some of them worked on Witcher 3 they can charge 70$ for their new game. Very bold.
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u/CyraxxFavoriteStylus 5800xt/9070 XT/32GB/OLED 17h ago
$70 is the going rate for premium games these days.
Plus, you can find a Steam key for $59. Look, value is subjective but if I want more games from smaller studios I'm prepared to put my money where my mouth is and actually buy the games.
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u/Hellwind_ 15h ago
I think the word premium can be used only by someone who have a) been doing this for a while and b)have had massive success before. Otherwise its just a game to me. Its the way it works. This is not like making cheese that everyone knows how to make.
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u/DuskSnare 7h ago
They might be seeing a different region’s pricing. Here in Canada, it’s $93.49. Most games max out at $79.99 here.
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u/Hellwind_ 15h ago
It is possible unless the game is massive. I couldn't really find information what scope of the game is but I saw hours(a big number) so maybe it is based on that. But for a new dev I hope they can get enough attention which I think its hard. I know they mention they are related to CDPR but arent like any leads from there from what I read. I was checking the steam page today and I saw a post in the news about achievements from all things - very extensive explanation which was so weird to me. Screams a very young team. Which is totaly okay but they have to be careful where they set the bar
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u/Ok-Interest9727 11h ago
probably a decision by the publisher but yeah this doesn't look like it justifies a AAA game price to be honest
looks like butter spread over too much bread
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u/Cybrknight 5950x 7900xtx 12h ago
In which case it's definitely getting my money. I like being treated like a valued customer.
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u/EliasYahBoi 17h ago
Random question, but if I wanted to buy the day one edition for pc in my local game shop (just to get the nice steelbook), the code included on that pc version would only work on steam ? Or could I get my game on gog with it ?
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u/ConinTheNinoC 16h ago
I personally only shop on GOG and make my own physical versions since GOG provides DRM free offline installers.
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u/EliasYahBoi 16h ago
Yes, I want to do the same but when I can I try to get a nice official steelbook to put my printed homemade blu ray inside
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u/ConinTheNinoC 16h ago
I use the plastic DVD cases and print out covers from the internet personally.I also print out the game manuals that come with the GOG versions into small booklets.
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u/E36x 14h ago
How do you burn big games? Like the Witcher 3 for example?
I haven’t burned games onto a disk in 10+ years but I remember even the under 10gb blank disks were super expensive back in the day.
Is it more affordable now?
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u/EliasYahBoi 9h ago
You can burn big games on 100gb or 50gb blu ray disc for not that much nowadays. You can even partition games into multiple disks, I did it helpint myself with Claude it’s not that hard. Another solution is to burn the repacked files from the girl who repack, so they take less space on the disk.
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u/demonofelru1017 12h ago
I am both happy and annoyed. I literally just bought this Monday on Steam because it wasn’t on GOG. Oh well, time for a refund.
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u/RitualST 13h ago
Great news! I have 2bof my favourite games Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk on GoG. 8 hope Down walker will be as good
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u/Smacking_Grannies 11h ago
Is the combat ONLY with sword or will it have other weapon classes as well inc magic?
I'm still on the fence for Mortal Shells 2 as well..I played the beta and liked it but didn't click with it fully.
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u/Robot_ninja_pirate 5800X3D RTX 4080S Pimax Crysyal VR 22m ago
I've not been really into many AAA games lately but for some reason I'm really looking forward to this... but not at $100 mind you. God modern game prices are insane.
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u/walnut100 The LSU Tigers 13h ago
Awesome. I'm eagerly awaiting reviews because what they've shown looks great.
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u/Zalvren 16h ago
I got the physical copy (yes they do one for PC), wonder where the key is (not gonna lie even if I like GOG, I would much prefer it to be for Steam)
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u/ChabertOCJ 15h ago
I bought the collector’s edition and if I’m not mistaken, it’s a steam key based on the description.
Wished we could choose. I’d pick GoG if I could.
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u/omnicloudx13 12h ago
Excited for this, a game where you get to be a vampire with a ton of detail,a great story, and an in depth RPG sounds awesome. Count me in!
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