I was angry for a second because I thought this was an in game quest. I dont think its obvious that this isnt, might want to clear it up.
But I mean, the suggestion is that rather than just wanting each platform to get it's own "thing," that they got together and said:but he's right ... if i want all the goodies i have to buy the game more than once now ... i expect something like that from other companies but not from CDPR
Silly question, but will these be available only AFTER the game is launched? (so in 4 or 5 years Kappa)
I don't really see any other "valid" reason for such policy. I mean, who is getting any advantage of this separate goodies?That's a rather cynical take.
I don't really see any other "valid" reason for such policy. I mean, who is getting any advantage of this separate goodies?
Likely it is also part of the deal with the platform holders. I work for a larger consumer goods company and a lot of big retails like Target/Walmart love to get "special" versions of products - even if it is just a variant color scheme or cheep give-away pack in.
I expect Steam/GOG/PS/XBOX like to have these small trinkets to differentiate their product from the same product on another platform. For CDPR it is an easy way to generate some goodwill from their partners without having to spend too many resources on it. At least it is not in-game items like many other games use for this purpose.
I don't really see any other "valid" reason for such policy. I mean, who is getting any advantage of this separate goodies?
I dont see how cdpr benefits from a deal to incenticise potential customers away from the own platform.
The distributors. Steam in this case specifically. This is a campaign intended to promote Steam, in case it wasn't obvious. It does not exist for the benefit of players.
CDPR is still getting 70% of money off the games sold on Steam. Lets not forget they actually stand to benefit here. They are selling on steam already, might as well sell more.
It is possible that Steammade a deal about some benefits worth money, but Im not sure.
Thats 30 percent less than they get from games sold on their own platform. They dont stand to benefit from people choosing steam over gog at all.
But I mean, the suggestion is that rather than just wanting each platform to get it's own "thing," that they got together and said:
"Hey! 1 in 10,000 people might think a digital comic is worth $60.00 and therefore buy multiple copies of the game. So we should give different small digital goodies for platforms and create a whole set of add-on goodies and a marketing thing around it so that we can sell 2000 (assuming 20 million copies sold) extra copies of the game."
That's crazy on multiple levels. And suggests that they're exploitative of consumers (which I think they're long track record shows is not their thing at all).
The much simpler explanation is that they wanted each platform to have a relatively inconsequential and inexpensive to make add-on that could make it unique.
There are a great deal of people who are "steam fans" and ONLY buy their games off steam. Well, I used to be one. I pre-ordered on Steam without much a second thought back then, 18 months ago. Today I might not as Ive become conscious about Steams practices, but it is what it is.
the question why there are different goodies can only be answered by CDPR.
As a customer, I now have to choose one of the two comics, either GoG or Steam.
I only get both "if" I buy the game 2 times.
As a pre-orderer of a CE, I don't even have this option because the box only contains a code for GoG
and I think that's not very customer-friendly.
As a customer, I now have to choose one of the two comics, either GoG or Steam.
Distributors who paid CDPR to get exclusive content. CDPR got the advantage from this situation.The distributors. Steam in this case specifically. This is a campaign intended to promote Steam, in case it wasn't obvious. It does not exist for the benefit of players.
CDPR is still getting 70% of money off the games sold on Steam. Lets not forget they actually stand to benefit here. They are selling on steam already, might as well sell more.
It is possible that Steammade a deal about some benefits worth money, but Im not sure.
How on earth giving stuff to steam users only would benefit PlayStation users (and the other way around)? The other option is giving everything to everyone without dividing customers. Dividing is everything but "building a friendly reputation". Even no goodies at all for anyone would be more equalising, paradoxically.The customer, mostly.
And cdpr also gets an advantage in the way of building a more friendly reputation / its a way of "free" advertising in that it will be shared.
Distributors who paid CDPR to get exclusive content. CDPR got the advantage from this situation.
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How on earth giving stuff to steam users only would benefit PlayStation users (and the other way around)? The other option is giving everything to everyone without dividing customers. Dividing is everything but "building a friendly reputation". Even no goodies at all for anyone would be more equalising, paradoxically.