what does /vr/ think of GOG and their goal of bringing Good Old Games™ back to the market and making them easily compatible with modern hardware?
>GOG>old gamesYou're like 10 years out of date, bro
For the games that get the proper attention, it's great. Their Resident Evil 1-3 releases are easily the definitive versions of those games.The games that don't are less great. Because they're "good enough", other people feel less inclined to take a crack at reviving them.Good and bad, same as every other service.
>>12256320>slop>soullessIts all your going to hear from this board
>>12256320I just wish they put the bare minimum effort into making all the other games not labelled with their "Good Old Games" brand name, actually run well. Feels like a crapshoot every time you boot up a game.
>>12256320I think repackaging poorly configured DOSBox packages and fan patched games and selling them is an example of how Polish people are creatively bankrupt and heavily interbred with gypsies.
>>12256467You want them to fix the games they did not work on? Do you also want cookies and milk? And an xbox?
>>12256320The only time I ever used the site my debit card information got stolen and the bank called me about someone trying to buy shit with it. Looked into it. Its happened to a few people. Downloaded steam and literally never looked back
>>12256432ah yes, the post complaining about something that didn't happenalways gotta be one
>>12256320>hey remember this free abandon-ware game? yeah pay up faggot >:^)uhh no? lol go fuck yourselves I mean what a scam oh wow it's patched for modern systems? yeah it already was before by the fans dum dum I don't owe you clowns dick and the best bit is pirating old games is well really easy actually so no I won't pay make your own damn game kek
The truth is that sales on GOG are abysmal. If something is released both on Steam and GOG it's going to be like 5% GOG, 95% Steam, which tells you just how many people buy games there. GOG made more sense back when Steam only released new games, but Steam made sure to rectify that and kill the competition.GOG is also severely understaffed, when a game releases an update it has to go through them and they can't release it directly like they would on Steam, and there have been stories of devs having trouble getting paid and when they did, GOG making mistakes on the numbers.At this point I'm sure more people pirate GOG than they do buy it, and I half believe the whole thing was originally devised as a scam to make piracy easier; but at least some devs got thrown a few pennies from games they made 30 years ago that they wouldn't have gotten otherwise which is still based in my book.
>>12256320I like them and I've bought a lot of stuff from them, currently I'm playing Blade of Darkness.
>>12256320>Good Old Games™ back to the market and making them easily compatible with modern hardware?worked fine for WinXP. then they got greedy.... and later Windows versions are ass for retros.
>>12256657GOG only exists as an excuse to re-release old games without DRM so people can easily pirate them.
>>12256716>5% GOG, 95% Steam,most gamers are morons if they love DRM steam and want more of it. those that aren't probably already pirated or actually wrote fanpatches for the games. they're just not rich enough to buy licenses to resell shit.
>>12257005>re-release old games without DRM so people can easily pirate them.thats what publishers and steamboys always say.
>>12257008I'm still getting the games for free, dude.
>>12256320Cool.Just bought Clive Barker's Undying and having fun.
>>12256320Yeah it’s a good model. The games are cheap and easy to run. I don’t have a problem with them. Very normie friendly. My wife plays their version of Roller Coaster Tycoon
>>12257071>My wife plays their version of Roller Coaster Tycoonwestoid moment
>>12256657>open rutracker>type "<game name> gog">download the best version>no fanslop needed
>>12256320I prefer Zoom Platform, they have the only good version of Duke Nukem 3D. GOG cucked out years ago and de-listed it from their store.
>>12256716there's over 50,000 games available on steam and around 5,000 on gog; of course steam is going to crush them in total sales. with 10x the games and many larger titles only releasing on gog long after they've reached their sales peak, steam sales better reflect it. anyway, they're still doing better than epic.
>>12256320I like it and its primarily the reason I support their service i just wish theyd release more stuff. They can take my money if theyd release more cool stuff
>>12257380They keep adding modern slop and doing the opposite of what their customers want. Meanwhile in their dreamlist section, it is clear people want games like: Freelancer, Black & White 1&2, NOLF and other old PC games.
>>12257387There's nothing they can do if the developers don't want their game in GOG.
>>12257387I mostly play on consoles now but I love GOG for having all the PC games I used to play back in the late 90's to early 2000's . They should just focus on being the retro PC store and not worry about new games. Trying to get old computer games properly running on new machines is always a hassle and I appreciate having a business that simplifies that process
>>12257118>he doesn't knowholy shit you're dumb
Take old game.Slap fan modification without testing anything.Force pirate sites to remove content you release.4chan zoomies scream SOUL to defend this garbage.Gog sucks.
gog galaxy 2.0 is equally as bad as steam
>>12257476no point in tipping off retards
The bar is very low. You're basically getting baited into supporting them because muh digital ownership, which is literally no different from downloading a ROM and patching it with mods.Some people can't let go of the concept of physical ownership. Piracy and the digital economy destroyed it. Either accept Steam's "rent" model or just pirate everything and put it on a hard drive. Your discs will rot, your consoles will fall apart, and your "legally purchased" digital file makes no difference to anyone.
>>12257527Software piracy exposed the fundamentally anti-human myth of IP. IP should not outlast the creator's working life and it should not be transferable.
Pay to play an old game
>>12257074ywnbj retard
who pays for gog?
GOG galaxy sucks and I get annoyed everything time they try to force me to use it.Expanding into modern games was okay but they do a very bad job at keeping games update if a game gets frequent patches.There's no way to download older versions of games like you can on Steam which is bad.Some of their compatibility patches suck and I think they should always offer unmodified versions of games as an alternative.They kind of poison the well at times in that sometimes a GOG release can make it very difficult to find actual original versions of a game after a while, like it's basically impossible to find a disk copy of Roller Coaster Tycoon online at this point every download is just the GOG version.
>>12257323GoG didn't have a choice. Zoom Platform is the only one who got them to sign a perpetual license, so they can't make them take it down.I also like Zoom Platform though. My game is on there :^)
>>12256320Wish they would stop focusing on their shitty Galaxy client, and actually get publishers to pack in extras like they used to a decade ago. I also think it's hilarious they prioritize "bringing Good Old Games™ back to the market and making them easily compatible with modern hardware" when that was always their original intent.>>12256645Shut up nigger, GoG used to prioritize compatibility when they started.
>>12256320I support anyone that gives DRM free installers you can back up.
>>12257590>disk copy of Roller Coaster Tycoon onlinearchive.org?Holly Molly this new captcha method is even worse that previous one.
>>12256320Shitty scam service run by poolacks, there is literally nothing wrong with Steam which is a much better platform, and American-made. Not only that, Valve is actively helping PC gamers by developing Proton, so games can run great on Linux. GoG has done jack shit.
>>12256716Yeah, but steam is annoying, locked down bullshit, while GoG offers drm free installers. Only issue is you have mods for the game and modders are little bitches and only use steam workshop. Although, there used to be a way to download workshop mods without owning the game on steam, not sure if it works still.
