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.
And in principle I'm fine with an online store that only sells conventional, offline singleplayer games to not give a pickle about service games.
There are a number of old LAN games there too. It's basically the only place I can feasibly shop for multiplayer shooters at the moment. The sad part is that I think the newest one is Crysis Wars, from 2008.
Of course, and many singleplayer games had multiplayer modes, that stuff wasn't necessarily separated.
For a number of these, they're often games that had GameSpy servers or otherwise the online multiplayer portion of it was shut down, yet the game and multiplayer remain playable, and that's what SKG is about.
Good to know but I’m not sure how that's relevant to the principle originally being discussed.
The movement is about the legal right to keep what you paid for *period*. If you're "fine" with publishers killing service games today, you're just signaling to the industry that you'll be fine with them adding mandatory online check-ins to your favorite single-player games tomorrow.
Apathy toward a principle usually ends with losing the privilege you thought was safe... Food for thought.
I really can't bother.
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.
My family share for GOG is an SFTP server, which I'm pretty sure you can also do just using FileZilla and forwarding one port. Or you hand them the files on a flash drive.
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.
No, but the workaround is to let the launcher use a different config
We don't have plans to support multiple accounts, but you can still run Heroic pointing to a different config folder by using the XDG_CONFIG_HOME=~/.config2 env variable. You could create a shortcut to something like XDG_CONFIG_HOME=~/.config-user-1 heroic to open Heroic for one user and XDG_CONFIG_HOME=~/.config-user-2 heroic to open Heroic for another user.
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
To be fair, 'you can do whatever you want with your games' is totally different from 'we should add features that actively support piracy'
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.
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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Seems the new GOG owner doesn't care as they push AI use in the company
Was there another incident besides the 2026 sales promo image? I was a bit disappointing of their "response" if you can could call it that. But I don't really see this as "pushing AI", as far as I can tell this might just be an intern who was given the task to make a promo image and did not care at all.
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
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I care. Enough to abandon my qualms about AI usage? Not really, it just means GOG is not the answer.
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