GOG asking for more donations from gamers with the new GOG Patrons program

Whereas it hasn’t been correctly publicly introduced but, GOG Patrons is a brand new system launched by GOG to hopefully pull in additional folks to donate. This is not the primary time GOG have requested for folks to donate, as back in June they added a donation type to the checkout web page however this goes one step additional.

The primary level of the GOG Patrons program seems to be instantly supporting their recreation preservations efforts as a part of the official GOG Preservation Program. To not paywall something on the GOG retailer, simply as a further method to assist GOG instantly.

It appears loads like a built-in type of Patreon, and anybody who has used Patreon (like ours) might be conversant in the concept. You pay a small quantity every month to one thing / somebody you want, and doubtlessly get rewards on your assist. Within the case of GOG they are saying you get entry to an unique Discord, voting on Preservation Program priorities, credit score on your assist on recreation retailer pages and behind the scenes content material.

GOG have to date solely despatched an e mail out to some prospects to allow them to find out about it, because it’s at present in “Early Entry” in response to GOG workers. As posted on the GOG discussion board from staffer “king_kunat”:

Hey hey, everybody! 😀 Simply needed to shortly soar in and shed a bit of sunshine on the subject:

We’ve certainly launched the GOG Patrons program right this moment in its early entry part. Lengthy story brief, it’s a brand new method for gamers who care about recreation preservation to instantly assist our ongoing work. And as we’ve talked about (and can maintain repeating in every single place): it’s not a recreation subscription or a paywall and all the pieces you’ve ever purchased on GOG stays totally yours, ceaselessly.

The thought is easy: Patrons assist fund our efforts to maintain traditional video games alive by restoring, sustaining, and bettering them. In return, they get entry to an unique Discord group, behind-the-scenes content material, and small recognition perks throughout GOG, simply as Shanuca talked about.

The preliminary response has been optimistic, and we’re already studying loads from the suggestions we’ve obtained. This early part helps us fine-tune this system earlier than it opens extra broadly, making certain it really meets our group’s expectations and displays GOG’s values. We’ll replace you increasingly more as we go and make this system public.

Hope this clears issues up a bit!

It would not give any ensures that your assist will really result in something, as that may be not possible to do, all of it depends upon what rights holders they’ll persuade or monitor down to truly let GOG revive their video games.

You’ll be able to see extra on the GOG Patrons web page.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.