14 DAY TRIAL // GOG.com is one of the biggest digital distribution platforms, and they just announced that they are going to accept games still in development and are also adopting a 14-day refund policy.
The people over at GOG.com have realized that many games are launching now before they are finished. If we take a look at Steam, we'll see that many of the most played games are still being developed and are far from a stable release. This is a system that works, despite the fact that it shouldn't.
The feature that is present on other platforms, including Steam and Origin, is a simple refund policy. The other side of the coin is that GOG.com is obligated to have some kind of mandatory policy for the European Union.
GOG.com will choose the early access titles
Since Steam is already using the term Early Access, it’s difficult to ignore. Well, the guys over at GOG.com don’t plan on having the same kind of liberal policy as Steam and they will choose the games that are worthy of integration. This should, in theory, prevent problems like the ones on Steam with projects that never made it out of development.
“In today's gaming world, we're seeing more and more titles that become hits before development dwindles down. We want to give you a way to enjoy what these games have to offer, a way that's comfortable and fair to you — the GOG.com way: that means evaluating each and every game, a 14-day no-questions-asked refund policy, and more” developers wrote on GOG.com.
Here are the first games in development that have been chosen for GOG.com: Starbound (-33%), Ashes of the Singularity (-25%), Project Zomboid (-40%), TerraTech (-30%), and The Curious Expedition (-15%).
GOG.com even changed the user agreement accordingly, so you might also notice some changes.