23 Facts About GamersGate

GamersGate AB is a Sweden-based online video game store offering electronic strategy guides and games for Windows, macOS, and Linux via direct download.

GamersGate sells games for over 250 publishers and developers, including Electronic Arts, Atari, Bethesda Softworks, 2K Games, Ubisoft, SEGA, Capcom, Paradox Interactive and Epic Games as well as smaller independent developers such as 2D Boy, Jonathan Blow and Amanita Design.

Idea of GamersGate was conceived by Paradox Interactive in 2004 after numerous fan requests for better access to Paradox's games were finally answered in the form of direct downloads.

GamersGate is a client-free service that does not require users to log on in order to play purchased games.

GamersGate accepts online payment by credit card or cash via Rixty.

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GamersGate is one of the earliest digital distribution sites and has undergone major aesthetic redesigns over the years.

GamersGate was one of the earliest video game stores to offer downloadable content for PC games, starting with downloadable content for the Hearts of Iron and Europa Universalis series.

In December 2008, GamersGate began offering developers MicroSuite, a free in-game downloadable-content API that allows game companies to insert DLC microtransactions into gameplay.

GamersGate initially required a software client for its customers to download their purchased games, but on 28 January 2009, the company began allowing customers to download games through a micro-download.

Since its inception, GamersGate has eschewed the use of controversial digital rights management schemes common to other digital video game distribution services.

Games downloaded from GamersGate are released free of passive DRM validation and always-on DRM, and GamersGate users have the option of transferring purchased games to other accounts.

GamersGate has sought to work against piracy by cultivating mutual respect between itself and its strong player community.

GamersGate has partnered with over 250 publishers and developers including 2K Games, Atari, Capcom, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Koei, SEGA, THQ, Ubisoft, and Vivendi Games among many others.

GamersGate has signed distribution agreements with numerous smaller independent video game developers and a wide variety of international developers like the Russian 1C Company, the British Blitz Games, the German Crimson Cow and Kalypso Media, and the French Microids.

GamersGate frequently offers special deals and sales on its inventory.

At E3 2011, GamersGate announced that it would be offering free video games in exchange for advertisement views.

GamersGate officially launched the follow-up program to FreeGames, christened "Void", on 28 May 2012.

Total market share of digital downloads going to GamersGate is considerably smaller than its major competitor, Steam.

Specific versions of GamersGate were made for French, German, Italian, Polish, and Spanish language customers.

The following year, GamersGate announced that, due to a 50 percent growth in sales from the previous year and in anticipation of its upcoming Void advertising program, it would be opening a physical shop and office in New York in 2012.

GamersGate has been in active competition with digital distributors including Steam, Impulse, Direct2Drive, and to a lesser extent OnLive, and Origin.

Notably, GamersGate has gained a reputation for sharp criticism of Steam which in 2011 Theo Bergquist suggested was "peaking".

GamersGate specifically pointed to shortcomings in Impulse's technological capacities, describing the service as "outdated" and archaic.