They do care. See archive.org for example.
Conflating care with the bottom line of your corporation is disingenuous.
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Oh man. I've supported gog from the beginning, always purchased there.
Even if it was more expensive or late or downsides (especially to steam).
Still, they didn't always hold up to the drm free standard they set.
Then they come up with this, which to me sounds like 'give us subscription money for what we already did the whole time'.
The Patrons initiative is particularly interesting
No it's not! I care for the games. I want a drm free packaged version. You name the price, but keep all original features.
I don't give a flying shit about any online badges or whatever. How could I know where the additional money goes? By my estimate I'll pay the subscription and your ceo gets more money but the games wont see any of it...
Oh and spamming me with mails telling me how awesome it would be for me to be patron but completely without any real, tangible, non corpo speak reason to leaves a bad taste and kills a little confidence in you every time.
They have the opportunity to right their wrong of bailing on the StopKillingGames campaign, but they're likely more worried about appeasing the corpo publisher more than they are defending their supposed core mission.
I don’t think they have even one game in their catalogue that StopKillingGames is about.
Not sure that was their point. It's about the principal of it.
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:
- I look in the tab in my library for games in my brother's account I have access to with family sharing.
- I download a game from the list.
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
- Find the right webpage for my brother's games (you can't see them from within the GOG client for some reason.
- Ask my brother to download the installer
- Get my brother to send me the installer file over discord
- The installer is too big
- Say nevermind just give me your login info
- I try to login to his account with the GOG client
- Ask my brother for his 2FA authenticator code
- Finally login, and can download the game
- Remember to turn off cloud saves so you don't override your brother's cloud saves.
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.
then you either use a third party remapper or you simply add the shortcut in steam
If I'm just going to use Steam or extra software to compensate for Steam features, I might as well just use Steam.
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".
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?
If they abandon AI usage, I'd consider buying from them. Unless they give AI up and get a team of great humans at the helm to develop. They can get fucked, and I will spend my money elsewhere.
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Only games I bought from these guys are the games I can't get on Steam.
For me it's the opposite.
My preference is itch.io, then GOG, then Steam.
The way I specialize is:
- JAST USA for the rare occasion they have a game I want, and I don't want to bother with getting a patch.
- DLSite for the robust catalog of R18 games that are outside of my government's snooping.
- DMM (with some special browser cookies to even get in) if I want to be sure my government isn't snooping when I buy games.
- itch io for free games or games made by small time creators
- GOG for games released around 1995 - 2005
- Steam for general purpose
- Patreon if there's a particular paid early access game I'm looking for.
GOG needs to copy Steam a bit more.
Give us game based discussion boards, a mod workshop, and most importantly a friends notification system. Steer into the social experience of old games.
Apart from the fact that all things you listed exist in one form or another on GOG, have you considered that there are people that prefer not having all those random bullshit social features in their game store? Stream may be more popular, but getting out of their niche and copying steam will alienate their fans without attracting steam users.
Also fuck the workshop, it's the worst thing that ever happened to modding. It's a total pain in the ass to download and apply a mod that is only available there to any non-steam version. Additionally it produced a generation of gamers that is unable to trouble-shoot even the tiniest problem with the mods they applied.
It's very sluggish compared to Steam; everything is slower in GOG client. I wonder if it is a server problem or my region.
game based discussion boards
These already exist, every store page has a "Forum discussion" link. You can also go here and you should find the "game specific forum" section where you can search for whatever game.
I care. Enough to abandon my qualms about AI usage? Not really, it just means GOG is not the answer.
If there's someone else doing the same work, by all means give to them instead.
archive.org and their collections to the rescue!
The true GOAT.
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Seems the new GOG owner doesn't care as they push AI use in the company
Push slop and lose your business there will aways be other services that are more ethical.
Something tells me the "double down" is to distract from that fallout
I suspect so.... But not everyone knows so it's still worth mentioning.
I know it, but I'm not sure why one would affect the other. I still get DRM free games on GOG that I'm not going to find on itch.io or elsewhere.
Because supporting GOG now means supporting unfettered AI usage. If you disagree with such policies, the only way to voice that discontent is with your wallet.
I suppose so, but even if that bothered me, it would still mean I'm not owning the games I buy when I shop elsewhere.
Depends on the game. As I mentioned in another thread, there are many games on Steam which are DRM-free and do not require the client. GOG's advertising suggests they are the only method for getting such games, but as always, the devil is in the details.
Mostly it comes down to how much you feel about one issue over the other, but I don't see how they can be unrelated if there's a monetary transaction involved.
Considering games with no DRM can have it added retroactively, that Steam pushes updates I may not want with no option to decline, and that that wiki can't even load in its entirety without erroring out for me and comes down to user submitted data, GOG's DRM free promise is more than just advertising.
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Its true, but also "please give the business more money" isn't exactly the thing anyone but business owners and shareholders want to hear.
"I care" ... "Sorry let me check my latest game download from limewire."
all this stupid publicity makes me feel dirty for buying there
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