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Offer a good service and people will buy from your store, most customers either don't care about DRM or care somewhat but don't want to inconvenience themselves with a worse product for it. GOG have to catch up to Steam with stuff like family sharing and controller support for me to consider buying stuff there.
Why do you need family sharing if the games are DRM free? If the kid wants to play a game from your account you just pass him the exe, what's the issue
Controller support depends from the game, if you mean a controller remapper like steam, then you either use a third party remapper or you simply add the shortcut in steam. With heroic launcher you can add gog games in your steam list with a single click
You don't just pass the exe though, modern games are huge with a lot of files required. With Steam it's a 2 step process:
That's despite the fact my brother lives in the other side of the country, and it offers me all the Steam features I make use of like cloud saves as if my account had bought the game.
With GOG it's
Based on a true story btw.
There's probably things we could've done that would've made it easier and less steps, but it still wouldn't have been just as simple as what Steam does, and I'm missing cloud saves and I'd have to do several of those steps again if I wanted the game on say my Steam Deck as well as my PC.
If I'm just going to use Steam or extra software to compensate for Steam features, I might as well just use Steam.
you can login in heroic once and then install what you need, and disable cloud saves as default option
with family sharing the DRM does not allow two people to play at the same time, don't ignore this huge inconvenience
Can you use Heroic with multiple accounts? Because if not that's meaningless.
To be fair, 'you can do whatever you want with your games' is totally different from 'we should add features that actively support piracy'
Every solution that doesn’t need an external proprietary app is a better solution.
For most people, that's not the case if the alternative solution is worse or less convenient.
Every piece of free software that has ever attained some level of mainstream success and popularity has done so by offering a better product, not something worse with the excuse of "well at least we're not proprietary".
GOG allows you to download an unprotected installer. I don't think they will ever go beyond that in the name of fair use and big publishers are reluctant enough to release on GOG. You were about to use a 3rd party app anyway, Discord. Just use WeTransfer or another filehoster/cloud service to send the file. And honestly, logging into another account and download the file is not as bad as you say.
See that's kind of my point, when we're on the 100th "oh just use this other external service/software", most users (myself included) are just going to stick to the simple solution that just works.
Being able to just access family and friends games straight from my library without wasting all that time having to ask beforehand, manual downloads and file management/transfers and lack of cloud saves like it's still the 90s is worth whatever moral cost you associate with using a piece of proprietary software.
I kinda miss the 90s
Family sharing? You download the games they are installed for all users.
Family sharing isn't just for your local machine, I have family who live in the other side of the country.
Send them the file?
How is sending someone a file gonna help me access their games?
Gov gives you the installer. You can share it with as many people as you like.