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[HogIsland]

You can't have it all...or maybe you will have it all anyway in the next decade or two as people applause Steam's complete domination over the PC market.

They've earned it. I'm a steam gamer more than a PC gamer.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Hopefully the inclusive community they are a part of will keep them alive.

 

[DryvBy]

On one hand - the above is a RED LIGHT if you have any professional experience. Being honest NEVER pays off in a corporate setting. I understand how a lot of juniors fall for that.

On the other hand - it's obvious GOG has no idea what it wants to be given that DRM-free is not a selling point, as evidenced by the popularity of Steam. People just don't care.

GOG also has superior versions of old games too. Dungeon Siege 2 on Steam is a pile of trash. GOG, it's fine. Redneck Rampage, same thing. The old games on Steam are really crappy.

 

[March Climber]

But steam is not going to support game preservation

I can't tell if you're being coy or if you truly didn't get the analogy, so I won't push it further.

You got it.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

I just think PC gaming without GOG would be depressing. I don't like depending on services that need to phone home or that insist on being in their ecosystem. It's possibly the least appealing thing in the world to me, next to PCMR people that insist that mods are God's gift to man. I don't like anything about the path that PC gaming has headed down over the years, though I admit that Steam was the shot in the arm PC gaming needed in the mid-2000s. But we're past the point of there being a good reason to rely on platforms/launchers on PC, at least for offline-games. If it's a single player game that's tied to Steam for no good reason, it's inherently not a quality product to me.

 

[lh032]

I can't tell if you're being coy or if you truly didn't get the analogy, so I won't push it further.

You got it.

yea i understand, priority for gamers = platform > game preservation.

 

[Astray]

Just wanted to chime in, as a polish native, big kudos for proper translation, very high lvl work, job well done.

DeepL is fantastic for translation. Better than Google translate by faaaaar.

 

[paolo11]

So what will happen to GOG? Are they going to flop or will they survive and support?

 

[Sleepwalker]

It's always sad to see GOG struggle but they're never going to compete with steam.

I still try to support them and buy there as much as possible as I feel they are great for game preservation.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

GOG has so many oldies games not even on Steam.

Why put them on 80-90% off deals? Maybe 40-50% off at most. GOG and dev keeps more money.

Also, their sales are predictable. So if you want some old games, just wait a month and a game like HOMM3 Complete Edition always goes on sale for -75% off.

More predictable than when I'd buy office shirts for work at The Bay for -40% off. at least that was more unpredictable as it might not be the shirt brand you want.

 

[Z O N E]

It's always good to have competition, but I think the main problem is that the majority of big games will not release DRM free, so people will obviously go and buy their games on the platform that offers those games because people want to play those games.

GOG should give the option of buying DRM free games and then also releasing other games, if it wants to remain viable.

Yes, it goes against what they've always said, but realistically speaking, you won't grow, especially with more and more games releasing with DRM unfortunately.

 

[ahtlas7]

I have a lot of GOG games but almost all were free from Amazon games. I wonder how the economics of that work.

 

[Joshmyersbv]

Jesus, why would you work for a company that had a turnover rate of almost 30%? That is insane to the point of me questioning if that's accurate.

 

[rofif]

how the hell does cd action still exists

 

[Wildebeest]

Im perfectly fine with multiple stores. I'm not fine with multiple obligatory launchers.

GOG games require no launcher at all. But if you buy games on steam you are going to start your steam launcher to start another launcher which starts another launcher which installs a rootkit on your pc and maybe eventually you get to play a game.

 

[Guilty_AI]

GOG games require no launcher at all. But if you buy games on steam you are going to start your steam launcher to start another launcher which starts another launcher which installs a rootkit on your pc and maybe eventually you get to play a game.

few games on steam are like that, most either just require steam to be running (online or offline) or don't require steam at all. Either way my GOG library is still the bigger one.

 

[Wildebeest]

few games on steam are like that, most either just require steam to be running (online or offline) or don't require steam at all. Either way my GOG library is still the bigger one.

Oh, sure, but when a big game comes out and does that on steam, you are not allowed to complain in case you scare away the precious darling corporations from releasing on PC.

 

[squidilix]

NoSteamNoBuy-Fanboy win

 

[StereoVsn]

GoG and Steam both have their place. Steam has many, many features that are amazing from BPM to Linux Support to Controller support and much more. I usually get recent games on Steam due to more consistent patching.

However I get older games on GoG including rebuying g some games that I would want to replay just to have them DRM free. Ability to just download a game, not worry about DRM and run it is amazing.

 

[Brakum]

I'm sorry but i dont care about drm free games. I think it's a good thing and wish them the best, but i'm not gonna support them with my money.

 

[simpatico]

I love GOG, it's my PC storefront of choice for any game that's available there.
But I honestly don't know what more they can do to grow. Their biggest problem is that they don't get a lot of games, and there's no way to change that unless they drop their no DRM policy... but at that point they'd be killing the main reason to buy on GOG.

That's the thing. GOG can't grow like a regular business. It has to be a passion side business. CDPR is in position to nurture it, but their administrators recently have gone fully retarded and because of this, GOG will fail because it's not a traditional business proposition.

 

[JimboJones]

GOG games require no launcher at all. But if you buy games on steam you are going to start your steam launcher to start another launcher which starts another launcher which installs a rootkit on your pc and maybe eventually you get to play a game.

Not entirely true, you need the launcher for multiplayer games.
Not sure if this is true for all multiplayer games on there but it was for Doom1+2 and the recent Quake 2 remaster.

 

[jshackles]

I'll always buy games on GOG, if they're available. I have almost 800 games on their storefront. They're also usually generous with their giveaways (not as generous as Epic though!), usually several free games a year during their major sales. They've started a "steam key" like system and partnered with Amazon, so lots of good stuff happening there as well.

That being said, I was offered a job at GOG a number of years ago, and it sounds like I dodged a bullet by not taking it.

 

[LordBlodgett]

I'm a big fan of GOG, and it is my second platform. I also love their GOG Galaxy launcher which allows me to have one place to see and launch all the stupid Epic free games or the Xbox play anywhere titles I own, as well as all of the GOG games. Their problem is just lack of games. My wishlist is around 280 games currently and GOG only has 18 of them. It's rough.......

 

[apocaliptic]

I wouldn't mind if GOG offers some drm games to keep them afloat. I will but the games from GOG than from Steam if they offer same games as Steam

 

[FStubbs]

I think GOG would be helped by getting more indie games to launch in the platform.