{"id":96741,"date":"2019-07-16T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/346735"},"modified":"2019-07-16T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T21:11:00","slug":"gog-puts-heavens-vault-up-for-sale-after-declining-to-sell-the-game-at-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/16\/gog-puts-heavens-vault-up-for-sale-after-declining-to-sell-the-game-at-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"GOG puts Heaven&#8217;s Vault up for sale after declining to sell the game at launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CD Projekt-owned storefront GOG has walked back an earlier decision about Inkle Studios\u2019 <em>Heaven\u2019s Vault<\/em>, announcing that it has changed its mind and will now sell the game on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement picked up by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gog-changes-its-mind-decides-heavens-vault-is-good-enough-after-all\/\">PCGamer<\/a>, GOG global communications manager Marcin Traczyk&nbsp;explained that the change of heart came \u201cafter checking the final game, how it was perceived by gamers, and receiving numerous requests from our users suggesting to release it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inkle launched <em>Heaven\u2019s Vault&nbsp;<\/em>on PC and PlayStation 4 this April.&nbsp;GOG turned down the game at that time, telling Inkle co-founder Joe Humfrey that the game wouldn\u2019t be a good fit. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They gave reasons stemming from their experience playing an early build of the game and what they think their audience wants,\u201d Humfrey told PCGamer shortly before the game\u2019s launch. Both then and now, Humfrey said that a platform like GOG can make a huge difference for games created by small studios.<\/p>\n<p>GOG&nbsp;picks and chooses the games that it puts up for sale based on what it believes is in the best interest of its audience, though it says it sometimes misses interesting releases because of this. In the case of <em>Heaven\u2019s Vault<\/em>, the company reached out to Inkle after the fact to work out a GOG launch \u201csimply because we believe that its high quality and unique character deserves to be recognized and shared with our audience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CD Projekt-owned storefront GOG has walked back an earlier decision about Inkle Studios\u2019 Heaven\u2019s Vault, announcing that it has changed its mind and will now sell the game on the platform. In a statement picked up by PCGamer, GOG global communications manager Marcin Traczyk&nbsp;explained that the change of heart came \u201cafter checking the final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}