[Combat Mission: Afghanistan, Shock Force, etc. on GOG.com?]

On 2/19/2020 at 10:28 AM, Battlefront.com said:

We are huge fans of GOG and have our older CM1 products on there.  We're very happy with how that is going.  However, we will not put our current games on GOG because we don't think we'd be happy with that.

The first and most important reason is that GOG does not allow copy protection.  That means our games can be freely copied by anybody and everybody.  It takes only one person, just one, to buy from GOG and post it to a download site.  One.  And once it's up there it's up there for good.  We'd likely be out of business soon after.

The reason why no copy protection works for our old games is two fold:

1.  The games are priced very low and therefore more likely to have someone agree to pay instead of download for free.  Cumulatively the honest gamers who purchase through GOG generate a nice amount of "found money" for us, which is always welcomed but it isn't very significant in terms of paying salaries and bills.

2.  The games are not even remotely part of Battlefront's survival equation.  If we received no money from CM1 products ever again we'd still be in business.  Even a relatively minor reduction in sales of our current CM2 line of games would likely spell disaster.

Notice I haven't mentioned the cut that GOG takes.  That's always a concern for us, especially if such a relationship diminishes our own sales, but it's not a problem for us if the overall relationship is more profitable than not having it.  Because the CM1 sales that GOG generates are extra revenue for us, giving them a healthy chunk of it is fully deserved.  Giving someone a cut of sales that contribute to overall lower total sales, of course, would not be such a good thing.

Customers that like and support the games we make need to value one thing above all others... us staying in business.  No Battlefront. no more CM.  Just because we've beaten the odds of staying in business year after year for 20+ years doesn't mean that we can survive making a big mistake.  Not to worry though... we are obviously pretty good at avoiding big mistakes

Steve

Interesting, so currently the games on your site have unbreakable DRM, or are they online-only? (I apologize for not knowing more.) Most games' DRM (like Denuvo) is broken pretty quickly, even the "AAA" titles, so I find this surprising!

Would you mind if I shared this thread on the GOG forum to see what insight they might have, or would you prefer I just keep it here?

[Combat Mission: Afghanistan, Shock Force, etc. on GOG.com?]

I was just curious if more Combat Mission games could come to GOG. I understand if Battlefront isn't interested in this (having to share a cut of the profits when they can avoid it), but I came across some love for the series on the GOG wishlist, so I was curious about more games releasing on GOG. (granted it's only a few hundreds votes, but still) https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=combat mission&order=votes_total