They have to have the keys from a specific source to be able to give them, and I don't believe they would get a bunch of GOG keys and just let them sit around for the few people that might ask for one. Their bundles offer only the type of keys that are in each bundle.
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No, because they sell tens of thousands of keys for most of their bundles. Anyhow, here is your answer. If you buy a Humble Bundle that does not offer GOG keys, they are NOT available. If you don't trust our answers, contact Humble Bundle support who can tell you the same thing.
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Humble tends to go DRM before GOG in most cases, especially bundles, but I can swear there are a few non-Steam games in their shop that have GOG keys.
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Yes usually there is no connection between them, GOG games belong to GOG Store; Bundle Stars Store sell Steam keys, Humble bundle sell Steam keys + DRM free. Only few exception when they're connect to each others, but they'll announce it when selling, you can't suddenly asking swap keys like that.
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I don't think that's possible, at least at this moment. GOG games is everything GOG Store has, it is the reason this Store was born and survive. They can't simply offer that to other Store that easy.
Maybe oneday the owners of all those Stores + developers will sit down together and cooperate, but not for now. You want GOG version? You have to go to GOG Store.
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Each retail PC copy of Wild Hunt will contain an additional GOG.com game code for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. One can install and play the game without the game code and without becoming a GOG.com user.
http://en.cdprojektred.com/support/gog-com-game-code-boxed-copies-of-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt/
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Thanks for this link, I didn't know about that. I've been considering moving to GOG too because I started to hate Steam and its community, but from my past experiences with GOG, there's stuff I don't like of that place too. Having this possibility is nice, but right now it doesn't seem to have any out of my 1800 games available :(
(ok I have lots of indie trash, but also lots of indie goodness and AAA stuff, so I hoped to find at least a part of my games there)
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You could always start a petition which would ask HB to allow buyers to choose between Steam and GOG key before claiming them. Just by the numbers of people signing, you'd see if it's something people are interested or not. If there's enough people, they'd be crazy not to try and make some deals.
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Some stores carry GOG keys for the Witcher games, otherwise there were maybe 2 or 3 bundles at Humble that had GOG keys (one was pure GOG, like seven trillion centuries ago, when Humble was still new). But I never saw any store carrying GOG keys outside those, nor any bundle with GOG keys for a good while. GOG keys are mostly used at GOG for gifting purposes, nothing more.
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One of the reasons of GOG's loyal user base though, since this way they get the money themselves. It is similar to how Steam started, I just hope CD Projekt RED doesn't whore themselves out to the allure of easy piles of money like Valve did.
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Of course it will be like that. Assuming that Publishers and GOG agree with that method, providing GOG key mean HB also have to share the profit with GOG. Why the hell they want to do that ( •̀ω•́ )σ
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Because that's how it works. They almost never sell GOG game outside their Store and now you think they provide their game / their service for FREE? For OTHER Stores? Oh dear. That's the only source they do to get revenue, and now you want they starve to death? And once you get their game, remember the word "DRM free", you have no tie with their Store anymore, you can run away with your copy.
Steam, in the other hand, giving publishers the free will to generate keys, BUT in the end, customers still have to come back to Steam, using their Client, and continue using their service, make Steam bigger and bigger. That's what we call Steam-DRM. Beside that, Steam has ton of way to get money from you, even when you bought game keys outside Steam. While GOG only sell their games to get money.
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Same logic can't apply to GOG, because GOG is DRM free (customers don't need to use any other service after buying the game), Steam is Steam DRM (customers still have to use Steam service, and the more customers using Steam, the more they become potential buyers for next, next, next games). GOG is still very small, and like I said, the only way they can get money is from selling games, they must be very carefully with every event they made with other stores, or they will go bankrupt in the blink of an eye (because their games can be shared unlimited, while you can't share Steam games, because of Steam DRM). You're only right about the part they want to have more loyal customers. That's why GOG connect / Galaxy client were born. They do that instead of selling their games outside their Store because of those reasons.
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Of course on GOG there is a few other services, but they're all optional, customers only need download and play, done. Other service, cutomers can use it or not, GOG still only get benefit only from selling games.
While on Steam, people have to use Steam client in order to play games (to play a game, you need to open client, and their Store is right there, you looking at it every single day, with hundred of good deals, people will become their potential buyers no matter they want it or not). Steam get money from selling game like GOG, but they also can get money from trading cards, background, inventory items etc. There are tons of interesting things Steam made you want to spend money on. That's why they don't afraid giving publishers the ability to create keys to sell outside their Store.
About piracy, mostly Steam game need to be cracked, GOG doesn't.
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The point is that Steam games need to be cracked to share, while with GOG game, you can share with anyone you want immediately.
You still don't get the point, Steam allow publishers create keys free because they have other ways to get money. GOG doesn't. If GOG allow publishers do that, they will go bankrupt.
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Steam or GOG, both need to purchase first to crack or share. but imagine how easy it is to share a GOG game? And the pirate also get totally clean setup file with full functions. Yummy!
Yeah grown enough, that's something about future, not now. They also need a ton of more services to get other source of revenue to reach the point "generate free key to sell outside store".
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Re-read my comment please. And yes, all at the future, I just want to answer the question you asked before:
Would they though? I don't think HB shares profit with steam, only with publishers.
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I still think you need to invest more times into these things.
And do you get how to pirate a game? no matter Steam or GOG, the game need to be bought first (not mention the leak source, that totally different topic). But Steam games, the quality of cracked file usually isn't good, while GOG pirated games have quality same as buying.
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Then once again I sorry have to say you don't have much knowledge about game crack. Cracked games are not easy to get the quality as purchasing game, not to mention that depends a lot on how skill cracker team is.
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Cracked games have files were modified, make the game bypass/playable without DRM, that's why it's usually unstable/bugs. You will know this if you played those at day 1 (bugs from crack error / not mention bug from the game itself). Later many cracker team have to update crack fix files to fix this. I know this very clearly because before Steam, I was a poor kid can't afford any games but had the love to know everything about gaming, including cracked games, I was really curious why/how they did that and the reasons after all, also the quality of those.
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The Day 1 is just an example, I mean they usually have bugs at that time. No matter what, when the files were modified, if the cracker team is not good enough to know the results / the trap developer/DRM setup, they easily make the game broken at some point.
Yes you're so right about scene groups. they focus on speed of cracked game, unlike internal groups, who focus on quality of cracked version.
Anw we should end things here, it's a really nice converstation, glad to chat with you :P
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Since GOG is mostly a reseller for games that is one of the biggest reason for not many options for keys/games outside of GOG.Though it would be in the best interest for both parties to keep games on GOG to max profits.Steam despite several legit resellers who have sales and a lot of times better ones still sell games on Steam I would suspect people would still buy on GOG and one of those reasons would be refunds.
Once they open up the floodgates to other resellers profits take a dip due to competition and more places to buy and more places to take a cut and most likely a variable one at that.I would love to see a full GOG bundle and more GOG keys outside of GOG I doubt it will happen anytime soon.
As of right now, they do have the Galaxy client and if they can grow from there who knows maybe they will be the Steam of DRM free.
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