Does Beamdog Still Sell Non-D&D Titles?

Varwulf

I seem to remember Beamdog selling a lot of other games when I first signed up to purchase BG1EE way back when, and I remember being intrigued by a couple of them. Lately I've wondered how much that library has grown since that time and I cannot seem to find a store any longer. Not on the website or with the Beamdog client.

Has anyone any information as to why this is?

Thanks

SethDavis

if you look in the beamdog launcher there might be some there. I don't know if I only see them because I'm flagged as a dev or not though.

Varwulf

Yeah, for me all I see is the EEs.

TrentOster

No, we don't sell other publishers games right now. We found the effort in maintaining other games, generating reports and wiring money around not worth the small revenue we were generating. When we ran the numbers and 99.7 percent of our revenue was from our titles and 90%+ of our effort was administrating other titles it didn't make sense.
We still host every game we ever sold a copy of in case someone bought it from us and wants to re-download it, but we no longer sell any games except our own.
Going forward, we may re-examine this strategy, but for now, we only sell our games. Right now the number of games available in the market is huge and having a massive store doesn't make sense to us. Steam and GoG are doing that space well.
-Trent

Varwulf

@TrentOster Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to explain this to me and satisfy my curiosity. It is a little bit of a shame, but I am entirely supportive and can relate to the reason behind that decision, especially when it helps Beamdog achieve its goals and frees up time and resources to the projects we're all far more passionate about.

Thanks again, Trent!

TrentOster

Happy to help bring clarity to an otherwise muddy topic ;-)

Fardragon

Interesting insight, thanks.