they could be a genuine competitor to steam if they gave a shit
They already are a competitor. If I see an older game on both Steam & GOG, and I actually feel like paying for the fucking thing, I'm for fucking sure getting it on GOG.
>>719599526yes but they could be better
I wish I bought Dark Athena on GOG over Steam when it was still available. Now I'm stuck with a version with install limit cancer DRM.
>>719598779Can they really, though? They have to operate based on good will since any game they upload can just be shared and downloaded with no protections against piracy. I think Epic is a bigger rival since they can afford to give games away for free.
>>719598779They won't get my money because all of their games are free.Steam games are free too btw.
I use them. I want them to sell VNs because steam sucks for that
>>719598779most big companies aren't going to go drm free that's why gog will always be a companion for getting older games.
>>719600506The have been selling visual novels for a while now, some of them are actually good.
>>719598779The DRM-free thing is an active turn-off to publishers who insist on their DRM safety blanket. So they basically have beg people to publish on their storefront, but from what I heard, publishing there is far harder and more involved than it is for Steam, so it's like they're confused on what they want to do or be.
>>719601008based
I already have been favoring gog ever since steam got really fucky with censorship and now payment processors
>>719601008>some of them are actually good.picture unrelated
>>719598779They cannot be that because DRM-free is showstopper for most publishers.It's sad that the DRM-free market is not doing very well. Humble Bundle went Steam-only, itch.io (which nonetheless allows Steam-only items i.e.: https://plugindigital.itch.io/old-school-musical ) is basically on the verge of bankruptcy, if complains from gamedevs not being paid are anything to go by.DotEmu died. Only Zoom Platform and Fireflower Games offer some sort of stable competition.
>>719603567>their DRM safety blanketWhy do they even believe DRM even helps? Silksong is releasing DRM free in a couple of days. Why do they think it would have sold another third or whatever if it was full of DRM? What would that belief even be based on? What precedence is there? None.
>>719604737NTA.To be fair, even standard Steam DRM is good enough to stop piracy of multiplayer games.Peak is friendslop that cannot be fully pirated because its multiplayer mode is online-only and relies on Steamworks.
>>719598779gog and steam both do the same bullshit discounts every sale. the only real advantage steam has is that third parties with actually good sales sell steam games.
>>719607151>gog and steam both do the same bullshit discounts every sale.because neither one of them set the prices, publishers do.
>>719605020And not being able to fileshare a game results in increased sales based on... what exactly?
>>719607732I'm just saying that DRM can be useful to protect games from piracy.
>>719603567It's not that much harder, its just less automated. With steam you can go through the entire process without talking to a single person at valve. With gog you have to email them a few times throughout the process when your stuff is ready.
>>719608148But does that give you more sales?
>>719607732Science.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875952124002532
>>719611109It depends on the game, I think it helped Peak to get more copies sold. It's FOTM that will be quickly forgotten.
>>719598779I just want them to actually improve their launcher and servers, there is no difference between the the "discover" tab from the gog galaxy section and the "home" tab from the gog store section. And I have issues trying to download some games because their servers are overloaded giving free games from twitch prime.
>>719600026Just pirate it, bro.It's what I did.
>>719600506 Can't blame you. Steam's VN support is a mess-random removals, region locks, and their whole “mature content” policy flip-flopping every six months. GOG at least commits to hosting them properly without pulling surprises. If they could just get more Japanese publishers on board, it’d be a solid alternative. Hell, even some of the denpasoft stuff would be nice to have on GOG.
>>719598779I don’t think big publishers give a shit if GoG tries or not. They’re not giving up their DRM when options are available.
>>719598779They did give a shit and tried to force their dogshit launcher in a launcher on people but couldn't even code the achievements properly and they constantly crashed games.
>>719598779Now they couldn’t. The market for older games is niche no matter what Oldfags say otherwise.
>>719604737>Why do they even believe DRM even helps? Piracy is constantly being used as an excuse for why bad business models fail and DRM is similarly used to assuage stakeholders that the company has "fixed the problem" that caused them to underperform without actually doing anything.This is why excessive DRM is mostly used by floundering, publicly traded companies (mostly publishers, the most bloated and failed business model of the 20th and 21st centuries) during crisis periods and keeping that option open means that they can siphon a few more years of profit out of the company without actually firing the leadership or impacting their pay.>>719607732It's mostly psychological. Raising the barrier to piracy minutely gives the average human the impression that they've done something wrong by pirating a game, whereas if the barrier is nil, then the average human will start to rationalize the piracy through groupthink. The question is whether looking for a torrent is already a sufficient barrier for most people, since sales for dedicated pirates that would know how to torrent and crack games were never really in question.>>719611353This shit only compares Denuvo games, the nature of which means that any game that is cracked that early is likely inundated with sloppy code that allowed Denuvo to be bypassed trivially, rather than dismantled tediously.It also makes the point that Denuvo is equivalent to cracked DRM after 12 weeks, so it's mostly just concerned with the very short-term.>>719611564>launcherGOG doesn't have a launcher.>Gala-Don't use it, just use a third-party launcher you like if you can't just doubleclick icons.
>>719598779just so your making an informed purchase, woke company CD Projekt own GOGhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com
>>719614816Valve has worked with Sweet Baby Inc. tho, all companies are woke for moeny
