Instead of just kvetching about how they're taking your games away, why not actually support the one store that has had ownership as its big selling point this entire time? Put your money where your mouth is.
>>742408173I like these GoGchan pics, post more.But yeah, I buy on GoG or pirate these days.
Most people literally dont have the IQ to understand how digital DRM works and how GOG is different. Its an optics problem.
I've soured on GOG, the store about ownership and communities comming together to preserve games going in on the hallucination machine and using it to cut costs reeks of corpo fuckery, the clock is ticking for them.
No achievementsNo reviewsNo forumsNo mod supportNo holiday salesNo big picture modeNo trading market
>>742408324>the clock is ticking for them.Thankfully you don't have to worry about GOG servers going offline, SINCE YOU OWN THE GAME
I recently started buying my games there instead on steamgog also has less censorship for VNs
>>742408386I like gog and what they're doing, but burning your good will to cut costs with AI fuckery is not good for the game preservation scene.As much as it's nice to rely on community efforts having a group of paid professionals that speed things along is good for everyone, alienating the community that helped build your service is a terrible move just to cut costs on bullshit.
>>742408385>no tranny meta culture>just gamesDamn, finna based
>>742408385Only things that actually matters on that list is mods, but even then, I will always argue that mod workshop is a bad thing, because it causes modders to be lazy and never back up their mods on nexus, moddb and so on. Well, for certain games, at least.
>>742408234Based
>>742408173this would be great if storage prices werent getting out of hand. Most modern games are 50 to 100 gigs.
>>742408385it does have achievments, a ton of sales, reviews, and forums. some games dont support achievments and the forums are slow. they have an overlay too, though its shit. they really should have a steam input style solution to ensure compatability, but theyre broke and beg for patreon donations so fat chance.
>>742408385>Buy game on GOG>Click "Add non-steam game" on Steam>Get your Steam autism while also owning your gameAs shrimple as that
>>742408385>no sales!>have a sale RIGHT NOWCute retard.
GOGtrannies are very peculiar, they act as if Steamworks isn't bypassed by a simple download called goldberg emul, any game with real DRM isn't on GOG so what you get from GOG is also effectively DRM-free on Steam
>>742410259Well, that's kind of like piracy/cracking. Which is fine, I do both GoG and piracy.
>>742410259The DRM being easily bypassable is irrelevant, you're just doing the same "if you're not going to use steam just pirate it" which appears in every GOG thread.Buying on GOG is about supporting a company that has the slightest respect for it's costumers
>>742408173I have games from both Steam and GOG but I don't like that GOG pre-installs some fan patch from XxXfaglordXxX for some games. Steam gives me the raw files as they were on disc and I can install whatever I want with them.
>>742410454Goldberg emulation isn't piracy, it has legitimate uses, notice Valve has never gone after it, it's hosted for free on GitHubConcession accepted GOGtranny
>>742410259GOG is for people who want to legally own and support games, of course piracy and cracking is important for preservation, but that's an entirely different can of worms.
my main gripe is with physical disappearing. it used to have artwork and things like that.
>>742408173But if I buy games on GOG, it won't give me any XP! How do you expect me to decorate my steam profile with ecchi pics and h-game backgrounds without that sweet, sweet XP?
>>742410259Gog has 12,000 drm free games, steam has 1800 and you have to look up which ones they are, it's not even close
This is why pc players won't buy on gog. All their hours played are on steam and they want their bragging rights in one place
>>742410875Once you turn 25, this starts becoming a mark of shame instead
>>742410897I'm over 25 and I don't care.
I want to use GOG but seeing how devs treat it kinda soured me to the idea. There's an indie game I won't mention that I planned to be my first GOG purchase but then they delayed the GOG version despite releasing and updating on Steam and it only got a GOG version months later which isn't as up to date. Also the first game in the series still didn't receive the final bugfix patch on GOG despite the devs promising it over and over.
>>742410958>I won't mentionwhy not
>>742410573read that post again and try to rub those two brain cells harder
>>742410958Being a GOGfag is like being a Linuxfag, no one cares about you and your retarded platform and would probably prefer if you just shut the fuck up. Which is ironic since even GOG doesn't give a fuck about Linux lmao.
>>742410897>Once you're too old fo videogames you stop caring for themAmazing
>>742410875Steam tracks hours for non-steam games you add too
>>742408173i dont understand this image, whats the joke?
>>742408173Because that storefront is run by woke retards and insane moderators who delete user reviews if they criticize leftwing ideology.
>>742410830And out of that 12,000 maybe fifty are worth playing.
>>742410454>supporting a company that has the slightest respect for it's costumers.......CD Projekt?????
>>742408173>support the one store that has had ownershipso i'll support the company that actively tries to make free and open-source operating systems viable for gaming, gotcha
>>742411020>yes just keep on using Steam goy!
>>742411817Doesnt own gog anymore
>>742408385>No achievementsLie>No reviewsLie>No forumsLie>No mod supportThey host standalone mods and if you're too dumb to mod normally without the workshop you're hopeless.>No holiday salesLie
>>742412070naked child
>>742408173I always have >dont need to use some shitty launcher>just put the installer on an external hdd for archivingI wish everyone was this based
>>742408173>ownershipSorry sweetie, gog only sells limited use licenses, and if you're going to say that in practice once you have the files it's like owning them, then that's not functionally different to any other store for PC
>>742412360other stores force you to use their proprietary launcher or bake in additional drmand most games not on gog have copy protection to begin withso in 90% of cases it's very differentthe equivalent would be a pirated copy
>>742408892Is this an actual character, gog? I'd fap to this
>>742408173impossible...
>>742412456Ah so it's not about ownership at all then? That's curious, you were going on and on about how you own your games through gog all over the thread, but now is it not a big deal at all then? Also, did you know that it's possible to launch steam games without steam?
>>742412554that was my first postyou type like a 15 yo redditor
>>742409130Burn a bd-r
>>742412615>you're an asshatiayc
What's the point of owning games on GOG when you can just download them?
Where is the GOG version of MGSV and Monster Hunter World/Rise? Death Stranding? Nier?
It's funny how every argument against GOG ultimately always boils down to "But why not just pirate the game at that point?" proving that they are only willing to pay for stuff if they can't get it for free and thereby justifying DRM
>>742412768mhm
>>742412768>only pay for stuff DRM>wtf why is there more DRMONE NOTHING WRONG WITH ME
>>742408385Almost everything you mentioned is useless bloat. Only based thing Steam does is Steam Input. Steam Workshop would be based too if they forced more developers to use it.
>>742412813see>>742412690>What's the point of owning games on GOG when you can just download them?
>>742408385Switching to gog right NOW
>>742412876>every argument>one guyokaygoggies are like vegans of pc gayming
>>742410259Truth Nuke
>>742412917Post your own argument against GOG then
>>742412768gog makes the argument against themselves unfortunately
>>742412935https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/
>>742410653Game preservation is a reddit-tier concern. Games are not an important target for preservation. Far more historically important things are lost all the time and you people don't give a fuck because it's not some consumer slop you played with. They're demolishing churches, scientific history, opera houses and more and nobody gives a shit. Just fucking kys if video game preservation is a top 1000 concern for you, utter retards.
>>742410653gog is actually for people who want to purchase a license to use gog content, sorry but you don't own your gog games
>>742408173But I do. I've got more games on GOG than I've got on Steam. Wish they'd bring back the GOG Downloader to make downloading the "offline backups" easier because Galaxy requires and Internet connection and is therefore trash.
>>742412985>why do you care about video toys there are people STARVING in africa right now
None of you faggots were around when Desura was a thing so your dumb ass think GOG invented no-DRM installers.
>>742412768>I pirate so it's DRM free>OK we will sell you drm free games>Nah I'm just gonna steal it anywayPirates don't have a leg to stand on
>>742412985>Appeal to worse problemsThe classic shill tactic when all else fails
>>742408173You're right, anon. Thankfully, I've been using GOG for years.
>>742413083>DesuraNever heard of it, but it looks like it launched in 2010? GOG launched in 2008.
>>742412985>They're demolishing churches, scientific historyGood>opera houses Good, real art needs to be more segregated and exclusive >and moreProbably good too
>>742408173If Steam and PSN are eventually forced to replace the "Purchase" button with a "Rent", then so will GOG. What they're selling is not legally different just because it's mostly not copy protected.
>>742408173Because GOG only sells digital licenses, same as everyone else
>>742413153They DEMOLISHED the Westinghouse atom smasher. What about the science toys?
>>742413192>>742413293You don't own the game on disk either, the difference is that you're free to do what you like with it and they can't take it away from you.
>>742413192Physical games are "just a license" to. You ever read the warning screen before a DVD? You purchased a license to view the DVD privately in your own home. Doing anything else with the DVD is illegal because you do not own it, and yet you didn't rent it from the store, you bought it.
>>742413381How is gog then different from other popular stores?
>>742413432It's not the most popular one and not universally hated like Timmy Tencent's store so it's perfect for contrarians
>>742413410They're a license I can physically hand to my nephew. You're using abstraction to conceal the tangible.
>>742408417I like GoG for their older games running fine out of the box but between the storefront bring fugly as shit and the poor selection I wouldn't really go to them for much else.
>>742413432Because they give you DRM free files you can copy and store. They cannot take them away from you the same way Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft cannot break into your house and take back your physical game collection because you said 'nigger' on the Internet, although Nintendo's trying real hard to make that a thing.
>>742413501Are you implying that I can't just hand a hard drive with a steamapps folder and a copy of goldberg to my nephew?
>>742413535any game that's both on gog and steam you can also copy and store the steam files and then use this https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/
>>742413432>How is gog then different from other popular stores?When you buy a GOG store you actually get the files for the game and you can do whatever the fuck you want with tem, you could make endless copies and put them on USB sticks and give it out in the streets, try doing that with a Steam or EGS game, they literally won't let you because you have to check with their online client ie DRM
>>742413570Not legally
>>742413570Yes, if you GOG'ify your Steam games, they will stop becoming Steam games
>>742408173i already buy all my games on GOG
>>742413501I shared my entire 300+ game GOG installer library with my nephew on a 2TB external SSD. He can play any of them without ever logging into my account. How is that any different than what you're doing with a DVD?
>>742408385oh no, there are no trannies with anime profile pictures to tell me if a game is good or not...
>>742408173she's cute. more stores should have cute mascots
>>742408173>Put your money where your mouth is.I'm already doing that.
>>742413827
>>742413029Anyone sane is using heroic games launcher instead of gog galaxy, lil bro.
>>742408385>No achievementsNot only false but also imagine caring about achievements in the first place. Have you tried finishing the game instead of crossing off a checklist?>No reviewsFalse>No forumsFalse>No mod supportNo workshop like Steam but it does have a curated selection of mods>No holiday salesThere's one right now
>>742412985>don't you know you should only care about what I personally care about?Fuck off retard.
>>742413031For starters, I can do something about toys while I can't do anything about Africa.
>>742408385Why do you feel the need to lie so boldly?
>>742413613You can do that with steam games just fine, most pirated releases are steam versions of gamesAlso what you're describing is technically illegal, gog doesn't give you permission to reproduce and redistribute games
>>742414263>most pirated releases are steam versions of gamesIdk if GOG offers refunds but the reason why games without any real DRM are steam releases is because you can buy the game, copy files, refund it, slap goldberg emulation to it and it just werks
>>742414263>You can do that with steam games just fine, most pirated releases are steam versions of gamesYou clearly have no idea how DRM works, the pirated versions are cracked with no DRM aka the fucking "GOG" version if you will, that's the entire point.
>>742414350that's just pirating with extra steps
>>742414350Gog does, just just everyone else the based Australians and new Zealanders forced their hand
>>742408173>Put your money where your mouth isDid that long ago
>>742414382You clearly have no idea what drm even is, or what a release is, maybe you should look that up before you embarrass yourself with any further posting
>>742408173>Instead of just kvetching about how they're taking your games away???>why not actually support the one store that has had ownership as its big selling point this entire time? Put your money where your mouth isI use GoG for games that aren't on Steam and older games which come with compatibility patches.
Steam for buyGog for pirate
>>742414425Nice license collection, bro
>>742414407That extra step being downloading one folder? It's against the TOS of any of these stores to copy and distribute games bought from there. Goldberg emu is also a legitimate program hosted on Microsoft's servers and Valve has never taken action against it
>>742414520yes that would be an extra step
Imagine being brown and supporting steam.
>>742414547Guess you'll just have to pirate the GOG releases without that extra step then
>>742414547Running games you bought yourself on steam without starting steam is not piracy and valve has not made any effort to stop anyone from doing it
>>742414601so then why is there DRM on all but 1800 of their games?
>>742412935I dont have one.its a decent store.
>>742414706because steamworks is technically drm? except you can just do what anon said and download legal program that makes the game work without opening steam. are you just pretending to be retarded
>>742414505>full backed-up offline installers publishers can't even touch >license collection
>>742414706Steamworks is not DRM
The truth the "PC master race" is not ready for is that most of them do not actually want the PC experience, they want the console experience on their PC, that is what Steam is. The reason Steam got popular is because they took PC gaming which is a very free and open ended and turned it into a walled garden. GOG sells you actual PC games which is why "PC gamers" don't like it. They want daddy Valve to dictate them
>>742414771i'm saying steam wants you to be using their client to run games
>>742414826Sorry honey, you don't actually own those games
>>742414878and i'm saying you can download a legal program that makes steamworks games work without using steam, and valve can't want it that much as they have no problem with goldberg
>>742414878Valve has never made any effort to force the use of their client on users though
>>742408173I was supporting gog games with my traffic but it is closing down.
>>742414969Steam is entirely about trying to force the client on users. Valve spent many years constantly trying to fight against the cracks for their platform but they eventually gave up because their devs are largely incompetent and they make so much fucking money anyway it's not worth the effort. Valve still to this day implements encryption in things like the backup feature just to force you to use the client.
>>742410095>add gog game as non-steam game>no achievements>no cloud saves>no items>no rich presence>no multiplayer>anyone who sees you're playing a game sold on steam as a non-steam game thinks you pirated itwhat do you think people use steam for? just showing the game they're playing and nothing else?
>>742415315Valve has never tried cracking down on people bypassing Steamworks you fucking moron
>>742415315literally just making shit up in your head huh
>>742410454how much respect did you feel as a consumer when they sold hitman with the same always online DRM it has on every other platform?when they said we're sowwy :( and delisted it instead of asking the developers to remove it, that instilled a feeling of respect?
What's with the subhuman urge to simp for a megacorp.I own 100+ games on steam but I can admit that GOG is superior .I actually regret not discovering GOG sooner. It's so easy to use and maintain. Steam is constant DRM cockslap in your face and hassle with the installer and updates. Many games won't even start after some time passes unless you re-verfiy online. I love GOG and their installers.
>>742415373>>742415429You're right. Valve never made any attempt to stop people from cracking Steam. They also never attempted to develop DRM before giving up and just telling devs to license third party DRM. We are all using the exact same steamworks bypass developed 20 years ago because Valve literally never did a single thing to try to stop it. Morons.
>>742408173They mostly sell double A games from 15+ years ago is the thing.
If it is cheaper and does not give me issues I will buy from there and that is all there is to it
>>742410958Fair, but that kind of thing sours me on the developers who are fucking me over rather than GOG as a store.
>>742408173They don't use GOG and complain instead because they got denied entry.To use GOG, you must be:>120+ IQ>White>Straight>Male>7+ inch cock>high test It literally says so on the account creation screen.
>>742408173I've tried this once with Gloomhaven and then I was told I need Galaxy so it can verify that I actually own the game before letting me play onlineYou wont fool me twice, Mr Shill
>>742408173I do, not a gog supremacist but if the game is on gog I'll buy it on gog
>>742408173>why not actually support the one store that has had ownership as its big selling point this entire time?Because that's not true, you fucker. People need to stop lying and being anti-consumer.Digital games are products, and they should be treated as such, regardless of whether they were delivered to you on a disc or via the Internet.It turns out that EVERY store that sells digital games says the same thing:"We may revoke your license to use this product for any reason, at any time."This literally means that you don't own the PRODUCT you bought.If you buy a chair, and the store says, "You can take it home, but I reserve the right to come get it back at any time for any reason", would you consider yourself the owner of the chair? Of course not, so why do you consider yourself the owner of the game from GOG?If the idea is that even if they revoke your license, you can still keep using it, then guess what, you can do the same on Steam too, but that won't make the problem disappear overnight.>The moral of the story:the concept of owning a digital product is directly linked to perpetual licenses that cannot be revoked (unless through a legal process where you have every right to a defense with a lawyer and an impartial judge to rule on the case). Until people understand that the fight must be for perpetual, non-revocable licenses, we won't move beyond our current stage.
>>742419685>"We may revoke your license to use this product for any reason, at any time.">This literally means that you don't own the PRODUCT you bought.Explain how I own Chronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena on GOG then, despite literally being abondonware that can not legally be sold anymore, my copy is still there, I can still download it.
>>742420107You own these games because GOG hasn't revoked your license.Once they revoke it (which they say they can do at any time, for any reason), the game you have on your hard drive becomes indistinguishable from a pirated copy. Your only consolation now is that you can't be arrested or anything like that, so you can continue playing your pirated copy without consequences. but even that is questionable these days. Nintendo, for example, is already able to detect unlicensed games being played on the Switch 1 and 2, and they can ban your console for that reason...Summary: Digital game licenses should be perpetual and non-revocable. Once they are, then you finally own your digital game.
>>742420867>Summary: Digital game licenses should be perpetual and non-revocable. Once they are, then you finally own your digital game.They are. The law, even in the US, is you own a digital copy of the game and you can use it, back it up and even defeat the copy protection so long as it's for personal use.The license stuff was settle long ago in law. How these companies get around it is with "services", i.e. Steam & GOG don't have to let you download the games from their servers anymore but that says nothing about your ability to keep and use a local copy. For the game itself you can make it so that without a service the game is practically useless, e.g. online only, but technically in those situations you still have a license to use the product. Just not the service.
>install game, go online>2 weeks later: cannot start game, go online>steam/windows/retard dev update happens>game doesn't work anymoreYeah, fuck DRMcuckoldry. Thanks Polebros for GoGchan.>Install game>stays on your hard drive untouched for decadesBasowo
>>742421858she's cuter on the leftt.yellow fever enthusiast
gog's concept is fundamentally flawed. if i wanted a game to be drm free i would just pirate it. thats it. thats all gog offers and that already exists through piracy and for free, so gog is effectively uselessgalaxy is a terrible launcher. it doesnt register achievements half the time, its sluggish and as barebones as possible. gog community features trail significantly behind steam. mods are not a thing. i really cant think of any single thing gog does better than steam.it all boils down to this:if you want to pay for a game youll get it on steam because the experience is just betterif you want drm free games youll just pirate them and you wont even have to pay some jew for you digital cracktldr gog has no reason to exist
>>742412768Usual person buys games/movie/CD to support the creator and platform even though he could get it for free. These fags buy games only for personal gain (to boost their steam profile stats etc.) and can't comprehend the bigger picture. Newell surely knew how to tardwrangle these spiritual niggers into spending money.
>>742424026Nigger mentality.
I put my money where my mouth is yeaaaaaaars ago and still do
>>742426069lol
>Give my money to the Polish.Why would I ever do that willingly?
>>742426569good questionuninstalling gog galaxy
it's easier for you to convince a steamie to eat shit than buy a game in another store
>>742426676...and installing the superior heroic launcher?
gog is worse than pirating
>>742408173>sends a newsletter to everyone with nazi symbols
>>742421858you can tell steam not to try to update and offline mode will last indefinitely
I buy all singleplayer games from GoG, if possible. It's also usually the best option for older games, coming preloaded with the correct patches and bugfixes.
>>742426569And what Polish did to you?
>>742410456she should be my gf and cosplay Heather Mason every day
>>742429202They have a very strong anti-immigration stance
>>742414969then why do you have to install the client to access the games you bought instead of being given a standalone installer?
>>742430243>anti-immigration stance...for people entering the country illegally. Nobody cares if you're a shitskin if you follow the law and make an earnest attempt to integrate into the society.
>>742430243This is actually where things get funny. Sure, your average Pole might react negatively to mere idea of some Indian or Arab coming to their country... but don't you dare to shit talk about their neighbour Ahmed, who runs local kebab point, it's THEIR Ahmed, whole different story.
>>742408385>achievements being the first on the listMicrosoft really fucked up an entire generation of gamers thinking taht grinding 10000 kills for something that affects nothing in game is worth something.
>>742420107>rid dick>have no more dick
>>742408173GOG has been around for years and it's always been based when it comes to ownership/licenses. Many tranny devs refuse to even release new games on there because they cannot block files or limit ownership license behind some pozzed encoding/terms of servce, and only release there like 5 years after release or not at all. GOG also has way better sales than steam from what I've checked from time to time, and it's also the best place to legally get old classic games that nobody sells anymore.All these twitter and eceleb cucks whining about ownership of games and so on should start talking good about GOG, but they all pretend it doesn't even exist so they are all just poseurs. GOG is also privately owned by the OG founder of CdReds so you know it's not cucked.
>>742435601>Many tranny devs refuse to even release new games on there because they cannot block files or limit ownership license behind some pozzed encoding/terms of servceName devs/games that have done this>GOG is also privately owned by the OG founder of CdReds so you know it's not cucked.Valve is also privately owned
>>742435783>Name devs/games that have done thisRockstar, Ubisoft, basically most of NA/western EU studions/devs and those that isntall denuvo into everything. You can go to GOG library yourself and try to search for most popular normie games>Valve is also privately ownedI know, that is why it's also decent, but it has DRM and shitty stuff on some games tho.
>>742408385Maybe you should stop worrying about any of that slop and just play fucking video games then.>nooooooo I NEED 10000000 features to enjoy muh vidya!!!!!Fucking zoomer ass brainrotted retards. The only relevant thing in that list is modding but if you can't do that without clicking a shiny green button then you're genuinely mentally handicapped and should ask a doctor to euthanize you for the good of mankind.
>>742408173I'm not gonna fund more tranny propaganda from cd project red. GOG gets the rope too
>>742437072GOG was sold by CdRed to one of the original founders like 5 months ago tho
>>742427078Retard. Games with DRM, especially Denuvo cannot be launched after a while, regardless of the online status of Steam. You can continue to stay offline but without access to many of your games.
>>742408173Not a chance they take 30%. I head that's greedy as fuck because Gaben also takes 30%.
>>742408173>ownership>GOGNah, what you get is a right to download once.And if you lose your digital download, you are fucked.>license bad!License aren't bad in themselves, they are the proof that you are entitled to have the right to always have a game, no matter where you connect from, and it works offline.The problem is the lack of laws regarding end of service, which ALSO affect any game bought on GOG.
>>742438489>onceThat's not how it is at all.
