That was their hook (well, one of a few :P ).

The person I replied to raised this issue in this thread related to this brand-new game - because, remake though it may be, it's still a from-the-ground-up remake, with a completely new soundtrack (minimal and underwhelming though it many seem to find it).īut speaking of those already-old-at-the-time games that they released with bundled soundtracks and other goodies 12+ years ago: the only reason they went to so much trouble getting all those extras together and bundling them in with the respective games was because they wanted to entice people who weren't used to buying purely digital goods to come shop here (because it was by no means clear to anyone that a DD shop that only sold old games - without DRM - would work). Early GOG didn't really even carry many 'somewhat recent' games, let alone brand-new (apart from CDPR's, for obvious reasons). For that matter I've seen a few recent indie games that include the soundtrack as a goodie (I can't think of an example at the moment but I'm sure I've purchased at least one or two games because of that). A few even now provide audio files as separate files in the game distribution (most Falcom and Arcen games at least) but usually without metadata and some editing/selection that goes into official soundtracks.

Joveian: Early GOG and maybe the old physical distribution by CD Projekt did that when they could as goodies.

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