GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What it means for you | GOG.COM
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Hey everyone, GOG Team here.

So… Is this a good thing? Bad thing? Gut reaction says that probably not the greatest for GOG, being detached from a huge publisher like CD Projekt probably isn’t great for a niche marketplace. In their faqs it states that GOG had a strong year financially but they would of course bill it that way. The question about why the new owner did so also just sounded disingenuous.

Interested to see where this goes from here. While I love gog and am a patron, their Linux support leaves a lot to be desired. The sole fact that cloud saves are such a pain to get working has led me to switch back to steam. I hope with these changes they can maybe get some support on Linux.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 hours ago

    So your issue is drm free games that are… still currently popular? Oh, the horror. We must shield this child from the passage of time, for they believe ‘things were better when’ and ‘I already took my pills!’

    • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
      16·
      3 hours ago

      The name of the site is Good Old Games. I have no problem with a separate marketplace for Non-DRM current games. I don’t see a reason to give a large company money - especially in a world where eXoDOS and eXoWin9x exist.

      • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        So where are you getting your current (let’s say released in the last decade, just to be generous), legal, AA/AAA, drm-free games from?

        The answer ‘nowhere’ means that you have no viable argument.

        • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
          1·
          15 minutes ago

          I have no interest in A/AA/AAA games in the last decade or so. I also truly don’t give a single crap about “legal”. Copywrong should be fought and all information should be made free at all times. I mean, technically I play games that are current, like Luanti, OpenTTD, Battle for Wesnoth, Mindustry, and Endless Sky. So I’m not in the same sphere.

          Hell, as I said above, in a world where eXo exists, GOG needs to do a lot more to justify financial investment.