https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-new-owner-of-gog-discusses-taking-on-steam-the-devil-of-drm-and-following-in-nightdives-footsteps>"I think what Nightdive is doing is the perfect example of what we would like to embark on: have these IPs, bring them to your engine, make them work, play better than ever, potentially do a spiritual successor of the game, or maybe even a new installment of the game, like what they're doing with System Shock."
>>730727561Sounds good! :)
>>730727561I have an issue with thisuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhow can I spin this negatively
>>730727561Not a bad idea. I mean they are already doing the fixing part to make them work on modern systems.
Thanks Gog for saving gaming
>>730727561>>730727614>>730727814>>730728094>>730728248Samefag.
>>730728331that's a good approach. we can attack anons instead of the topic. or say buy an ad.
>>730728331>steamies seething at the mere mention of GOGSeethe more Steamie. I bought 20 games from the GOG winter sale.
>>730727561Hope they do, they understand how to preserve games and package good mods with them sometimes too so I'd buy a gog sponsored remake
i still can't get over them using scene cracks for their releases
Sounds kind of pie in the sky. GOG has always been barely profitable at best; how are they going to afford to develop brand new games while also running their store? Especially now that they no longer have CDPR backing.
>>730727561How about they contribute to open source emulator projects and wrap those around old games instead of hiring 20 californians, 100 indians and burning half a rainforest to shit out stuff like pic related?
>>730727561Good! I hope they do that. I think I trust GOG to make new versions of games that aren't a total waste of time, too. A lot of other companies rerelease stuff that just plainly suck in dozens of different ways, and they might as well have not bothered. But who knows, maybe they'll fuck up their attempts too. Still, interested to see what they do
>>730728647Any confirmed examples?
Fake NewsThe quote is from a guy at GOG before the buyout. The owner says they have to reevaluate the idea.>If you had asked me two weeks ago, I would probably have given you the same answer as Bartosz did during Gamescom: that it only feels natural for GOG to expand on its business model and get even closer to the value creation, to the creative side of things for gamers. Today, I would say that we need to talk, and I hope it will be only natural.
>>730727561>>730727614Remakes. Sure, why not? Took them long enough.
>>730728542Sleeping dogs remake.. . Honestly, if the games are awesome, I psy gladly 50.
>>730728863>open source emulator projectsWorking for free, eh? Good idea. Might lead to problems with profitability, but rich people don't care, that's what banks are for. Problem is, gog isn't rich.
>>730729298I mean GOG already, for example, offers the DevilutionX source port as a free mod for Diablo.
>>730727561>Nightdive is doing is the perfect example of what we would like to embark on: have these IPs, bring them to your engine, make them work, play better than ever,their remasters of dark forces and bladerunner were shit and ran worse than the originals
>>730729471GOG is great.
>>730729471Sure, they do need money and good remakes are the way to go. They could become number 1 doing so. Number 1 in remakes.>>730730147Yup.
>>730728816they're just doing remasters
>>730727561I love gog as platform, but they have issues:- their developer experience is third rate- they get blown out of the water with exclusivity deals with their marketshare- their drm free approach is massive turnoff for companies who spent milions on dont-steal-my-shit solutions. Steam has cultivated their storefront position for decades, meanwhile gog thinks they can disrupt them without innovation, worse deals and missing coverage on same features. Lunatic approach without money to back it up.Epic at least had fortnite and engine sales to power through Thing that keeps steam afloat on top is their resiliency for disruption. If they would go down for month people would think twice about hedging their purchases. That never happened, and never will. Snowballed their gains to perfection. Unless Gabe's replacement will become greedy scum i doubt steam will ever fail,
>>730727561Based new owner of GOG. This is why I continue to only buy games on GOG.
>>730727561They should focus on getting good indie games for their store instead
>>730728996No, he's just talking out of his ass
>>730731132>their drm free approach is massive turnoff for companies who spent milions on dont-steal-my-shit solutions.People who make good games dont give a shit about DRMs, see last games of the year, only retrogrades with decades old decadent franchises are obsessed with DRMs
>>730731132they mentioned this in the article which I'm sure you read
>>730727561>>730728248Buy an ad
>>730734332We don't need additional DRM in the age of 200-300GB games
>>730727561They should take over restoration of Saints Row 2. This should be their duty
>>730727561>All they had to do was tweak the code a bit to make a 16-bit program run on a 64-bit OSNo thanks, I don't want to upgrade my GPU to play a 25-year old game because you copy pasted the code into UE5
>>730727561Good path for GOG to go down, evolution of their dreamlist and a further niche to distinguish themselves from Steam. My reasonable remaster wishlist, games that share engines/have a mod scene- 1. The Darkness - miss you Jackie, real sequel never2. The Riddicks - delisted, get them back3. Quarantine I & II - Glorify the weak4. Demon's Souls - lol5. Bloodborne - lmao
>>730727561This seems like a legitimately good thing to me.How has /v/ been shitting on it? I haven't been here in a minute
>>730727561I'm not downloading another launcher so they better not be gog exclusive.
>>730736316...you literally don't need to download a launcher for gog if you don't want anonit's been that way since it's very inception. they let you directly download the installer.i used to do that and add non-steam game to Steam before Galaxy came about.
They've already said they wanted to start making their own ports of older games, so this is about the same thing
Any decision regarding buying (licensing) from GOG needs to be held with the backdrop that they are intentionally lying about the fact that they actually can't sell you any media because of how copyright law has worked since 1995 and they explicitly believe it's their right to strip you of any and all licensed software for forum violations.Sure, you have installers, but they have your billing address if you gave it to them and documentation that you have obtained at some point a copy of that installer from them.
>>730736154just the typical shitposts really. they generally don't even believe the thing they're even posting
>>730736674Oh, and also reminder that they pay to make threads like these lying to you instead of improving their services like offering 64bit installers.
>>730727814They'll remaster games, remove the old ones from sale and charge more for the new ones which will have all the demaster issues as everything else.
>>730736837Oh /v/. Never change.
>>730727561Sure, demasters, that's what the industry definitely needs more of.
>>730727561Ok cool? So what classic JRPGs will they save from consolehell?
>>730737660Breath of Fire 4 (but that had a not-well-known PC port, so it made it easier for them to get it up and running).Capcom needs to put out a damn collection.
I love gog
>>730737740That pc port was shit compared to the PS1 original
>>730738090as someone who's played the PSX original, I didn't notice a drastic difference when I played the version on gog.But I never played it's original PC release, so maybe that's what you're talking about?
Sounds great. Wotan bleas GOG.
>>730736316>GOG>launcher
>>730738197He touches on themhttps://youtu.be/0kZN5aRGkZ0
>>730736316Galaxy is optional, dumb cunt.
>>730738627>>730738984Don't care. If it's not on Steam you may as well pirate it.
>>730729298Replying to you a bit late because I had to go to the hospital.Most of the work has already been done by others, GOG should make it their business to talk to rights-holders like Sega, Capcom, Bandai, Konami, etc. and license old console games with an emulation wrapper. Not unlike what they did with Dino Crisis (other than the fact that that game was originally ported in 2000).There's no reason for Capcom Arcade Stadium and Sega Mega Drive & Genesis Classics to not be on GOG considering those are quite literally Good Old Games. Imagine extending that to more games and more publishers/developers. Maybe it's because the GOG staff are PC gamers but ignoring the huge console gaming market seems like leaving money on the table.
