Demigod Forums
Just wondering if Demigod has gotten the new goo treatment. I want to put it on my laptop too (since it runs so well without a massive rig) and crush some heads down at the coffe shop.
Nope. Goo is strictly for 3rd party publishers to use. Stardock isn't putting it in their games.
That said, you'd be able to do that even with GOO 
Correct me if I'm wrong - It's Stardocks new drm which utilizes a user instead of an IP address... basically it allows a user to buy a game and download it to all of thier own computers since the copy is not tied to a particular IP. Great for users - allows us to buy a game and use it on more than once computer, while still tying the game to the user so it isn't pirated everywhere. At least, I think this is how it works 
Edit: Annatar is much smarter than me
Basically. GOO is an alternative form of DRM tailored to compete with SecuROM and the like and is meant for other publishers to use. It is account based, very similar to how SD does it, which means it doesn't care about installation limits tied to some ambiguous machine ID where upgrading a piece of hardware uses up another ambiguous number of activations.
It's also meant to be vendor-neutral, meaning if, say, you buy a GOO'd game from D2D and D2D goes under, you can still download it from Steam or Impulse or Gamersgate or whatever because your registration for the game is universal and not specific to any particular vendor.
And finally, it also allows official ways of transferring your license for purposes of re-selling the game, the publisher gets a little cut and nobody gets to complain about the serial already being registered.
I think Frogboy described it best - GOO is basically what SD has been doing (minus the serial transfer) rolled up into a package that any other publisher can use.
Welcome Guest! Please take the time to register with us.