Topic summary
TotalGaming.net
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Stardock.
Digital distribution
Having developed Stardock Central to digitally distribute its own PC titles, the company launched a service called Drengin.net in summer 2003. It was originally planned for users to pay an annual subscription fee to receive new titles as they became available. Initially, Stardock's own titles published by Strategy First were available. A year later, Stardock replaced the subscription model with a new system called TotalGaming.net in which users could purchase games individually or pay an upfront fee for tokens which allowed them to purchase games at a discount. TotalGaming.net targeted independent game developers rather than the larger publishers. In late 2008, new token purchases were discontinued.