6e7395 No.16177612
http://archive.is/CZ7Zi
https://www.gog.com/news/conclusion_of_the_bfair_price_packageb_program
>On March 31st we are going to discontinue the Fair Price Package program. Let us explain the reasoning behind this decision.
>We came up with Fair Price Package (FPP) as a way to make up the price difference between various countries. Some games on GOG.COM have regional pricing, meaning the price of the same game in one place can be higher compared to its price in North America. In countries where the game is more expensive, we give users the equivalent of the price difference in GOG Wallet funds. In actual numbers, on average, we give users back 12% of the game price from our own pocket. In some cases, this number can reach as high as 37%.
>In the past, we were able to cover these extra costs from our cut and still turn a small profit. Unfortunately, this is not the case anymore. With an increasing share paid to developers, our cut gets smaller. However, we look at it, at the end of the day we are a store and need to make sure we sell games without a loss.
>Removing FPP is not a decision we make lightly, but by making this change, we will be able to offer better conditions to game creators, which — in turn — will allow us to offer you more curated classic games and new releases. All DRM-free.
>We wanted to make sure you have some lead time to still benefit from the Fair Price Package. The program will last until the 31st of March, 2019, so if you would like to take advantage of it, now is the time. The funds you gather from the program will keep the 12 months expiration date from the moment you’ve been granted your last funds.
This is after they laid off some staff apparently due to money concerns, seems they're tightening belts across the board.
GOG.com Reportedly Lays Off A Dozen Staff Due To Financial Straits
https://archive.fo/GfwrC
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/02/gog-com-reportedly-lays-off-a-dozen-staff-due-to-financial-straits/77962/
5c7366 No.16177626
gog is probably going under. still gonna pirate all their shit, accelerate it.
d9eed1 No.16177641
>>16177612
>With an increasing share paid to developers
Thanks Tencent Kikery!
a67bd5 No.16177646
CDProjekt went to shit the moment it went public.
f3e5aa No.16177654
I wonder which gamers in which countries will get hit the hardest. I know America's safe for now because of the mighty US dollar.
a67bd5 No.16177656
>>16177641
Oh yeah, got to love that one as well
>Devs pay less to use a platform
>Customers still get fucked in the ass though
Makes retail sound like a fucking wet dream.
74187f No.16177673
Don't worry, the PR Guy of GoG says the future looks great! Just read his post in the forums.
1067e9 No.16177688
>>16177612
>Cucked out of goodwill from people who PAY FOR GAMES
>Galaxy Launcher went from semi-functioning to god-awful Windows 8 turd tileshit
>CDProjekt getting increasingly nervous about their top devs jumping ship and Cyberpunk 2077
GET FUCKED YOU INCOMPETENT CUCKS!
b798d5 No.16177699
That's rather sad, I'm still gonna buy games from them, because you know
>Not a smelly ugly euro with one of many poobutt currencies
But, yeah it's kinda sad that they're dropping the program
f21e79 No.16177807
>>16177699
Don't you see the second article about GOG laying off 10% of it's staff at the bottom of OP? Their financial losses is taking it's toll. Anyone who hasn't backed up their GOG shit is going to regret it soon.
b798d5 No.16177829
>>16177807
Why in the world would I not back up my GOG stuff. It's not fucked like steam where the backup feature literally is nonfunctional
That's like saying
<Anyone who doesn't have backups of their Playism games is gonna regret it soon
If you've already gone to a platform that actually, y'know, acts like you do own your games you bought eat a dick literally everywhere that tries that "Licensed not sold" horse shit You'd always have everything backed up, because ultimately that's a core perk of the storefront
390608 No.16177833
Cleve is probably jerking off to the GOG spectacle after they declined to sell Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar for being 'too niche' just a few weeks ago.
0e0633 No.16177846
>>16177833
The crpg thread introduced me to that man and holy shit. Reading through his posts/history is a wild fucking ride.
a67bd5 No.16177866
>>16177846
God bless that Cunt
c9326a No.16177928
>>16177889
Was that including exchange rates?
db1f85 No.16177953
>>16177612
I guess you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villian…
In a way this saddens me. For the most part they have been the most pro consumer storefront and have managed to gather quite a bit of good will but they've also made a lot of retarded decisions, however those never gave me the impression they would bite them in the ass.
>In the past, we were able to cover these extra costs from our cut and still turn a small profit. Unfortunately, this is not the case anymore. With an increasing share paid to developers, our cut gets smaller. However, we look at it, at the end of the day we are a store and need to make sure we sell games without a loss.
I'm certain a good number of indie devs are bullying them for a higher percentage and given how niche their storefront is, they can't risk having a smaller catalog… what a shitshow, Thank you Epic!
Despite my issues with GOG and CDPR I don't want to see them biting the dust… They sell a lot of the games I played to death when I was a kid but also went out of their way to make them work on modern systems.
Nothing lasts forever I guess…
1067e9 No.16177967
>>16177953
Their mismanagement of Galaxy, was a sight to behold.
6e7395 No.16177969
>>16177948
The THQNordic AMA drew a lot of attention.
>it is good that they will be purged
Leaving even greedier fucks.
GOG should've stuck to old games.
>>16177646
Yeah, (((market forces))) are terrible thing.
d1bf81 No.16177997
>>16177967
>>16177953
>…
>that misused comma
Thanks Mark.
db1f85 No.16178022
>>16177967
Same thing with Gwent
33a394 No.16178030
>>16178022
I thought Gwent was still yet to be released?
1067e9 No.16178042
>>16178022
>Instead of focusing on making a good platform launcher that isn't a shitty ripoff of the Bethesda Launcher, let's also focus on Gwent and several other projects!
Their priorities were up their asses.
>>16178030
It was released last year, October. 100+ employees working on that fucking trend-following bullshit, they also want the e-sports money, like what the fuck were they thinking?
db1f85 No.16178065
>>16178030
Gwent has been out of beta for a good while now and for a time it was a decent time sink but they just couldn't leave the meta alone, that and a small and shrinking playerbase with wildly different skill levels has made the game a bit of a pain in the ass to play. Plus the major change they made to the game a couple of months ago has been rather divisive. They'd probably have better luck putting the game on Steam, I'd imagine it would at least have better numbers than Artifact.
71319f No.16178081
Good thing I dont pay for games and neither should you.
d25692 No.16178107
>>16178094
>cuckime
You're never going to force this awkward meme, Rick.
b798d5 No.16178140
>>16178081
While there is absolutely an argument for why you should pirate anime (The situation with Bluray being a cucked optical media format, Funimation being faggots, distributors failing to pay entirely to overseas studios, Suboptimal rendering for DVDs, IN VIDEO BAKED SUBTITLES), especially if you're A dub watching faggot. The situation with videogames isn't as fucked as anime, and there straight up isn't enough good videogames coming out to justify piracy from a pricing perspective. Unless you're downloading abandonware, which is still illegal but only because some bread company bought the rights to a game and don't do anything with it.
2c9fcc No.16178171
It is very possible that GOG is sinking.
I'm saddened by this.
b798d5 No.16178175
>>16178152
Well, I mean I can think of a few, but still, with the fucked situation with distributors and bluray faggotry, you shouldn't buy anime.
922916 No.16178228
>>16178175
What happened to Blu-ray? Did the consortium adopt a code of conduct or something?
7c41cf No.16178232
>>16177612
i'll do my part and buy more stuff from them.
632456 No.16178234
>>16177953
>In a way this saddens me. For the most part they have been the most pro consumer storefront and have managed to gather quite a bit of good will but they've also made a lot of retarded decisions,
I liked gog mainly that I am not forced to use a fucking launcher to play a game when I felt like it, like doing something that steam should have done long time ago. You are pretty much spot on.
b798d5 No.16178241
>>16178228
Technically speaking, the BDA and Sony think that you don't actually own any Bluray you buy and they go after attempts to opensource the encryption on blurays so you have to pay for "needed software" to use "unauthorized" bluray readers.
2c9fcc No.16178252
In retrospect, I wonder what would happen if GOG has gone the opposite way of Steam and decide to stick to their guns (i.e. anti-SJW).
54a5bf No.16178254
>>16177646
Yeah, exactly. That's true for basically all vidya companies.
278c3c No.16178271
>>16178234
> forced to use a fucking launcher to play a game when I felt like it, like doing something that steam should have done long time ago
not up to steam, devs can decide to use steamworks or not.
0416ec No.16178273
>>16178252
GoG could be the ones selling all the lewd Nippon games and Grimoire.
Instead they got furry staff and soygames nobody wants.
922916 No.16178277
>>16178241
So it's the traditional "you don't own shit goy" nonsense that home media enthusiasts have had to deal with since the days of filming your TV with an 8mm camera?
The BD encryption scheme was broken weeks before the official first movie release.
b798d5 No.16178278
>>16178271
Except Valve actively doesn't inform developers that you can have your games not require steamworks drm.
2c9fcc No.16178281
>>16178273
Man, the viral good news alone would have kept them up.
Too bad.
b798d5 No.16178297
>>16178277
Still, it's fucked that there's an optical media that has that shit baked into both the discs and readers.
It gets more retarded when you have to consider that to "violate acceptable use" of a bluray, you have to buy a Bluray reader and the Bluray to begin with.
d1bf81 No.16178305
I have been pirating games since 2007, get fucked.
278c3c No.16178306
>>16178278
what's there to inform? "you can upload your shit and sell it, or integrate different parts of steamworks for trophies etc, here's the list"
c97d16 No.16178310
>>16178252
I know I would have continued buying from GOG had they not been cucks.
Now I'm at the point where I figure I might as well just pirate everything.
b798d5 No.16178327
>>16178306
The issue is as a developer on steam, the information that you can have your game on steam, you can have steamworks not mandatory for launching your game, or have it set up to not run a check for the client and user data when you check leaderboards/multiplayer/Cloudsaves and not have it mandatory for unintegrated aspects of the game singleplayer, local games and things like that. Valve, doesn't inform you straight up you can do that, or their documentation on HOW to do that when you sign up for their development program, it's buried.
2c9fcc No.16178373
If GOG is down, man, I think I'm gonna go back to supporting devs on Steam.
But I hope it doesn't happen.
ecccfe No.16178387
>>16178384
>>16178373
Or you could just keep pirating and playing video games.
b798d5 No.16178407
>>16178387
>Developer/publisher does something that you find so objectionable you'd never buy their game
>play it anyway
ecccfe No.16178413
>>16178407
>Kike confetti meaning anything in life.
Yikes.
738a2f No.16178418
They need to seriously consider how their 'curated' offering of hipster indie garbage is affecting their image. I don't remember when I stopped visiting their frontpage to check out upcoming games, but at the time none of the titles in the tab were old or good. There were literal mobile ports. Oh yeah, and they stopped offering the original versions of baldur's gate I and II around then too. They're still fucking faggots for doing that, actually, there's a chance they might never get my patronage back because of it.
Their catalogue has improved since then but I still think some kind of re-branding is in order at this point. They need to regain an identity apart from other storefronts and shitty bundle sites by being a home for 'honest' pc gaming. Actual good old games, as well as modern AA stuff like KCD and darksiders. Not just focusing on the lack of DRM but the other values that such titles embody as well such as the lack of microtransactions and deceptive marketing.
b798d5 No.16178430
>>16178413
If by "Kike Confetti" you mean currency, and if you fundamentally believe currency to be meaningless, then rationally you don't have an argument for an objection to paying for a game. If you're going to try for a philosophical reason for piracy, at least pick one that isn't inherently based on cognitive dissonance.
ecccfe No.16178434
>>16178430
Copy of a copy bro.
2c9fcc No.16178435
>>16178387
But I want to support devs…
ecccfe No.16178441
2c9fcc No.16178444
>>16178441
That's rude, bro.
b798d5 No.16178447
>>16178434
Well then if that's the case we're just back to
>Playing games you have such an objection to that you wouldn't buy them
0416ec No.16178451
>>16178407
In this case it's more like every single storefront being objectionable, so where are you going to buy the game from?
ecccfe No.16178452
>>16178444
Then go play some Nintendo you fucking pussy.
>>16178447
>we
Nope.
0308ad No.16178455
>With an increasing share paid to developers, our cut gets smaller.
Maybe this share wouldn't increase if you stuck with the market you started with, that is:
>Good
>Old
>Games
But instead you went for new releases and sales because it seems that every single business has to expand exponentially and increase earnings every single year forever, turning you into yet another online storefront.
Treating your original core business like a bargain bin of 90s games didn't look like a great business move but then again I'm a peniless retard.
b798d5 No.16178457
>>16178451
Just don't buy the game at that point. Is this really that hard of a concept to grasp?
0416ec No.16178462
>>16178457
But I'm not going to buy anything. I'm going to pirate.
Maybe somebody should start an explicitly anti-soy storefront and see what happens.
1067e9 No.16178465
>>16178455
They had the manpower and resources to actually make a good competitor for Steam with Galaxy that would support old games that had multiplayer along with the new ones. But fuck competency, they went with the Gwent card game e-sports meme while being fucktarded.
2c9fcc No.16178467
>>16178455
They could have another online storefronts if they manage to release at least half the new games released on Steam but DRM free.
>>16178452
I don't like Nintendo tho.
ecccfe No.16178469
>>16178462
>>16178465
BUT STEAM FUCKING SUCKS AND I HATE IT
I love these threads.
>>16178467
No, but ur mom does.
815e7e No.16178470
I'm not familiar with GOG beyond it being a mildly shilled alternative to Steam a while back and it being the center of some typical SJW crisis. What happened?
2c9fcc No.16178476
>>16178470
They fired one of their staff for honoring GG.
Their inability to release new and old games in their store which means their library is lacking horribly.
7c41cf No.16178478
>>16178418
i got an email from them saying that they're going to allow third party key sites to sell their games through a connect feature like uplay.
ecccfe No.16178479
>>16178476
These kike lies.
1067e9 No.16178481
>>16178470
Mismanagement as always, they seriously thought Gwent would a break out hit and their Cyberpunk 2077 developers are jumping ship and getting poached by other companies, fucking Blizzard got their lead writer from Cyberpunk 2077, doesn't help they chose to appease a bunch of retards who only play flavor of the month shit, and there's been a slowdown in getting old game titles with problems in licensing shit.
2c9fcc No.16178482
2c9fcc No.16178487
>>16178481
I bet CDProjekt Red think they are really fucking cool with keeping Cyberpunk never ever released.
Right into the graves.
278c3c No.16178488
>>16178327
because most devs go all in cuz MUH piracy and when they implement online stuff why take out other stuff on purpose which is even more work?
still on the developer, valve doesn't enforce steamworks.
b798d5 No.16178489
>>16178462
Maybe I can better describe it in the form of a diagram
2c9fcc No.16178493
>>16178488
>still on the developer, valve doesn't enforce steamworks.
Do they even tells devs that you can enable DRM or not?
Or is it a default thing?
ecccfe No.16178494
>>16178489
Why do you have to apply a monetary value to a personal value. Are you a kike?
b798d5 No.16178496
>>16178494
Monetary value is a nonfactor in the comparison
0416ec No.16178504
>>16178489
>Explicitly say my problem is the storefront, not the game
<but then why are you copying the game
Learn to read before coming here.
ecccfe No.16178505
>>16178496
Why do I have to pay for a game that I like and can't pirate it instead?
b798d5 No.16178512
>>16178505
Technically you don't, I'm just saying from a moralistic perspective you don't have an argument to Purchase nor Pirate a game you have an objection about on the grounds of its means of distribution or other factors. My argument is of total abstinence from conditions you find unacceptable
ecccfe No.16178530
>>16178512
Technically I do pirate every game I play and there is no argument about morals cause pirating isn't morally wrong.
b798d5 No.16178535
>>16178530
So you're dishonest then?
ecccfe No.16178540
5a9a01 No.16178542
>>16177646
Don't worry, they'll be bought out by a bunch of juden, and then it will be turned into absolute poison.
f2a6bd No.16178552
>>16177654
Poorfag countries. Who cares really? If you live in Romania or Brazil just pirate.
This industry is kept alive with euros, dollars and yen.
5a9a01 No.16178555
>>16178552
pounds sterling is the only legitmate currency in the world. banking kikery was founded in london, after all
fb57e4 No.16178562
>>16178542
Only if 2077 isn't woke already, and there's a big chance it is.
2c9fcc No.16178573
>>16178562
Provided it fucking comes out.
0e0633 No.16178583
>>16178554
They certainly keep p2w, gacha, mtx games alive.
5a9a01 No.16178612
>>16178562
Looked cool at first, gameplay looks good too.
The problem is that it is likely to be filled with absolute cancer. Early on the development cycle there were already 'changes' to include more females and other sjwness.
1067e9 No.16178620
>>16178562
People should be more worried about the state of the game and the studio making it, several high-profile departures is not a sign of confidence. Investors must be freaking out.
278c3c No.16178929
>>16178493
I'd assume they go the least effort way and just put in the whole default package without looking deeper into it. sure, you could argue that valve should make it more obvious, but either way it's more work for the developer and when push comes to shove might as well save the time and go with it since it has more advantages.
still, it's not a requirement, valve simply makes people use it because of the perks etc.
278c3c No.16178932
>>16178555
weren't the babylonians of old already complaining about jews?
808e00 No.16178977
GOG is the only digital storefront I actually like, shame they aren't doing that well, but I guess going full kike is the name of the game when it comes to business in general and people will happily buy an ass pounding of a game rental on say Steam if it has multiplayer, but buying a smaller SP title on GOG?
>Nah, no way man, yoho, pirate4lyfe.
>Why do games suck and pander to always online shit btw?
I know if I was a game publisher guy or dev I'd go full Bobby Kotick, that's the only business model that works. And despite some whining from the ususal suspects it's not like it's ever going to be good enough for them or like they will ever buy games. Nah, even if you literally give them money they will complain about your shit and think they are edgy for pirating your releases.
78f9d2 No.16179011
808e00 No.16179015
>>16179011
The Witcher, the first game.
62aa8e No.16179086
>>16178455
> Maybe this share wouldn't increase if you stuck with the market you started with
They ran out of old games to sell. There is still plenty of old games, but they are either a) forgotten by everyone, or b) impossible to strike a reasonable deal for. Adding newer games to the catalogue was going to happen sooner or later, a digital store has to keep adding new products.
14b9f0 No.16179095
how about you just fire those useless bluehaired progs you have employed.
7c41cf No.16179096
if you buy games , make sure that they're physical. if you buycrigiral, make sure that it's DRM free.
78f9d2 No.16179130
>>16179086
GoG have been selling new games for ages now. It's just not the Triple A titles like RE2 or whatever. Gogs in the position where people only buy from them out of charity. They give people exactly what they ask for and that makes them a primary source of piracy.
Gog won't get support from big devs due to piracy and won't get as many sales off of smaller games because people are more likely to just pirate them from being on GoG. They're backed into a corner where being consumer friendly has made them anti-their own business.
Especially now the Epic store is coming along marketing how dev friendly it is and stealing some of gogs "friendly" market. Like an organic food producer there's only so many ways you can virtue signal.
ab3c71 No.16179140
>>16179096
But nigger, physical disc has DRM too.
808e00 No.16179142
>>16179130
>They're backed into a corner where being consumer friendly has made them anti-their own business.
Yeah, I wouldn't blame them if they went full DRM mode tbh. The only thing I keep seing when they are brought up is that they make games so easy to pirate. I've never seen much support for what they do, not here on /v/ and not anywhere else. Giving people what they say they want or pretend to want never ever works out. Not in creative endeavours, not in business and not in politics.
The no DRM policy makes devs release it very delayed on GOG, after all the hype has died down. It's just no good.
b42860 No.16179143
>>16179140
In some cases the disk is also the drm
ab3c71 No.16179147
>>16179143
That's IN most cases.
>>16179142
If they went full DRM mode, they are literally a shittier Steam.
cbdd2c No.16179159
>>16178081
Not all of us can be cuckime watching retards leeching off others anon
808e00 No.16179160
>>16179147
>If they went full DRM mode, they are literally a shittier Steam.
A less shitty steam with better maintained old games actually. But I'm thinking even a shittier steam would be more profitable than being the Sweden of digital storefronts, doing whatever others want and geting raped for it.
ab3c71 No.16179163
>>16179160
The LOL thing is that most of GOG old games are actually on Steam too, with some have switched places to Steam permanently like Original War or Operation Flashpoint.
78f9d2 No.16179166
>>16179142
If they go full DRM mode they will die within a week. That's their gimmick and they live and die by it. The only possible way they could get away is using GoG galaxy the same way steam is used, but make it only on some titles.
Games also don't have much value any more, too many bundles. DLCs and grey market sellers make games have very limited life spans in terms of profit. I'm not going to buy from GOG when I can get it on g2A for half the price. I already have a large steam library and I'm never going to replay these games so why bother?
808e00 No.16179175
>>16179163
>The LOL thing is that most of GOG old games are actually on Steam too
With shit tier support.
>>16179166
>If they go full DRM mode they will die within a week.
Really doubt it tbh. People use Steam, Origin and now Chinese malware thanks to Epic. If they make Cyberpunk 2077 exclusive and get some other exclusive deals people will lap that shit up. They always do. I doubt DRM free games are as profitable as you think.
>I'm not going to buy from GOG when I can get it on g2A for half the price
If you get it on g2a you should just pirate it instead.
ada4f1 No.16179179
>>16179142
Personally if I buy games I buy it from GoG. I don't care about playing the latest games ASAP so waiting a few months isn't a problem for me.
Sad that they're not doing well.
808e00 No.16179186
>>16179179
Ditto, but I know that the majority of purchases happen early on during and shortly after release. And in some cases the delay is years, like with Bethesda's titles. You won't see Skyrim there for some time, nor any of the newer Anno games.
>>16179184
>DRM free hasn't meant fuck all almost since around that wording as the antithesis of DRM.
What?
2b1e82 No.16179188
>>16177626
Tell me were do you get their shit anon, since god went down i can't find 1 fucking good site
808e00 No.16179193
>>16179187
What the fuck are you saying? What wording?
78f9d2 No.16179194
>>16179175
Sorry to hear you're clinically retarded. I guess hat's why you spam jewish images all over a video game board.
GoG's only difference from those platforms is it's DRM free. Most old game releases hit all the platforms. Gog gets support from the Linux crowd who hate DRM and want everything as open as possible. They have disposable money to spend on old games and like supporting a DRM free platform. I know this because I'm in those circles and I will put GoG above Steam when I have the option for those same reasons.
0416ec No.16179202
>>16179175
>wanting more exclusive deals
Go buy an XBone and then kill yourself.
ab3c71 No.16179216
>>16179175
Sorry friend but I hafta say Steam has better support for games, even old games.
808e00 No.16179218
>>16179194
>GoG's only difference from those platforms is it's DRM free.
Right now it is, yes.
>Most old game releases hit all the platforms.
No, only the biggest do. GOG has tons of more obscure older games.
>Gog gets support from the Linux crowd who hate DRM and want everything as open as possible.
An extremely tiny minority, the majority of which are proud to never pay for anything. That can't be worth much in terms of profit. I mean, it's nice if some linux lads and you support DRM free games, but in the bigger picture I can't imagine catering to linuxfags can have a huge positive impact on your bottom line.
>>16179202
You're retarded if you don't think this is how it works. Gaben forced Steam onto people with Half-Life 2, EA did so with Origin and their new releases, Epic did so with the Tencent Bitcoinminer and their zoomer cancer. If GOG wants to become one of the big guys they would just have to do the same. It's not about what i want, it's about what works. I want all games to be DRM free and physical, but the market just isn't going to give me that. I don't expect the guys at GOG to bend themselves over backwards to give me what I want, especially when the majority of the guys on this board never buy anything anyway.
f69042 No.16179255
>>16179218
You're coming up with excuses to justify fucking customers in the ass. You're pure filth.
>but hurrr you don't buy games
Because they don't deserve to be bought. Do you even fucking understand capitalism? As a potential customer, why should I buy a low quality product and service? I shouldn't. I've bought several games on GoG, yet with their increasingly shitty treatment of their customers, I have less desire than ever to keep buying from them.
Essentially, what you're saying is this: "they should throw away all their principles and sell low quality garbage to make more money". And that's why you're a barely human piece of filth that would make the world objectively better through a suicide. The fucking point of capitalism is to weed out the garbage and support the good products and services, but filth like you and your fellow normalfags decided that it should be about using the scummiest ways you can come up with to make more money and kill off quality competition.
7227e3 No.16179273
>>16177612
I like GOG and while this might seem bad it might actually be a good kick in the balls. They've been doing repeated managerial and PR mistakes in the last 6-12 months, this coupled with the decline in the videogame/tech markets and Epic's kikery is the reason this is happening. They ain't going under yet, they just need to do a bit of restructuring and stop doing retarded shit.
ab3c71 No.16179278
>>16179255
How do they treat their customers like crap?
They sell DRM free games.
808e00 No.16179286
>>16179255
>You're coming up with excuses to justify fucking customers in the ass.
No, I'm not. I'm saying it's smarter to fuck customers in the ass since it doesn't pay being nice to them. Why does truth make you so mad?
>Do you even fucking understand capitalism?
Yes. *Rubs hands*
>Essentially, what you're saying is this: "they should throw away all their principles and sell low quality garbage to make more money"
No, I'm saying I'd understand if they would change their business model since this clearly isn't working out for them. Fucking customers over do work out, this has been proven again and again. The problems of say EA isn't fucking over customers but internal managment. Ditching DRM and going for big exclusives also has nothing to do with flooding the store with poor quality games, the opposite is true actually. The only reason they have so many shittier indie games right now is that none of the big devs want to release their games DRM free and that's all GOG has to work with.
>The fucking point of capitalism is to weed out the garbage and support the good products and services
Yes, I too love Monstanto, Apple and Alphabet. The economy isn't there to serve the people, the people are there to serve the economy and in charge of the economy are the chosen ones.
>but filth like you and your fellow normalfags decided that it should be about using the scummiest ways you can come up with to make more money and kill off quality competition
This is just how the free market works, you do whatever you can get away with. And in video games that is a lot. Customers have voted with their wallets and decided that DRM just isn't worth it, but it is worth an assplowing to get to play the latest games on release, even if you have to install Chinese malware.
>yet with their increasingly shitty treatment of their customers
What has GOG done? See, it clearly doesn't pay off catering to people who are against DRM. It's much smarter to lock a game people just have to play behind your client and DRM.
78f9d2 No.16179292
>>16179255
if you play a game without buying it you're not saying it has no value. You're just justifying taking it for free.
Just admit you like shit and can get it free so you do.
35b66e No.16179298
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/gog-turns-down-grimoire-for-publishing.126050/
<Cleveland Mark Blakemore
>After four different representatives of GOG have written me once a week for over three years asking to publish Grimoire when it was ready, they have turned it down for publishing.
>It appears the endless action of SJWs on GOG have succeeded in making it verboten there.
>I got a private email from somebody else at the company who told me that management has changed dramatically there and political viewpoints are a prime driver of decision making now, whereas in the past they just cared about publishing good retro games. I also learned that all the people I have dealt with in the past no longer work there.
>GOG was just the first on my list of 18 other digital distribution platforms I am taking Grimoire to this month. Because staff there had been begging me for three years to publish it, I thought I'd check them off first. I am just continuing from there but it was sort of a surprise. GOG was originally started to publish games exactly like Grimoire before they became so successful.
GOG was the only game store I ever tolerated, and they've decided to poz themselves. God fucking dammit.
5c7366 No.16179306
>>16178977
they're only liked by pirates, that's the only purpose DRM free software satisfies.
808e00 No.16179314
>>16179298
This might be bullshit, but Cleve has been right about too much in the past, so I'll believe it. Entryism and then several purges are very likely lie behind some of the shitty games that have made their way to GOG. Real shame. This is why you never hire leftists, not a single one.
0945a5 No.16179325
>>16179314
They started losing money since the scandal last year. If the higher ups have any brains they'll realize that the PR team is dead weight and do some "restructuring". They fired 10% of their employees already, most likely the expendable ones.
d740ac No.16179335
>>16179298
If a castle is taken by guile and infiltration in the dark of night, it's not the Castle (and its original inhabitants) that chose to be conquered.
7227e3 No.16179338
>>16179280
Let's hope they listen. In the current market mistakes are expensive as fuck. Just ask EA, Bethesda and Activision/Blizzard
808e00 No.16179365
>>16179335
A publisher can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very boards of directors itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a company, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the digital store, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
35b66e No.16179389
>>16179335
Irrelevant, whatever it was it's now enemy territory and there's fuckall I can do about it other than stop going there.
d740ac No.16179397
>>16179389
Would you not rather retake this hypothetical castle, either with guile or force?
I think in this culture war the biggest problem is that while one side pushes, the other keeps retreating, running away, abandoning the defense. Eventually there'll be no place left.
fb57e4 No.16179426
>>16179397
>the other keeps retreating
Centrist cucks are not on our side. Never mistake those snakes for allies.
>Eventually there'll be no place left.
That's why I keep telling fence shitters to pick a side before the choice is forced on them, but those fuckwits never listen.
7c41cf No.16179438
>>16179365
these trannies have no idea about what they've done by poking the hornet's nest. they better watch out.
e3988f No.16180686
Did gog.com just stop working well for anyone else a few months ago? Used to work perfectly fine even on my hick ass rural internet, then one day slowed to a crawl and won't even load properly
5ae501 No.16180790
Get woke. Go broke.
>>16180686
Nothing to do with your internet, they just redesigned the page layout and didn't optimize it.
f21e79 No.16180803
>>16180686
Yeah it works.
IN GOOGLE CHROME
b4d7aa No.16181044
>>16178107
isn't cuckime any anime where the protagonist is a beta bitch that still somehow gets the girl he wants?
edb6dd No.16181347
Pirate everything and only "buy" games to donate to the developer. Almost all of the best games are made by autistic dudes for free and if there was no vidya industry I bet most of the good devs would join them. Market forces do not encourage the creation of good games, they never have and never will.
808e00 No.16181371
>>16181347
Yeah, if you just don't buy their games we will suddenly have a flood of good games. It's like a magic spell or sumfin.
f21e79 No.16181423
>>16181371
>It's like a magic spell or sumfin
Pirates play the game first, or in case of games that people aren't willing to install Denuvo, will get to play it at all. Spread word of mouth, interest to people who won't pirate increases, more likely to buy it. Unless it's leeching but that's being a parasite.
a6ad31 No.16181592
>>16181371
Coincidental creativity because of environmental conditions does not reappear just because you pay for it. The developers behind both these studios went on to make other games, and they suck. Kickstarter, Early Access, and the rise of nostalgia bait has proven that those people didn't really know what they were doing, they were just lucky and constrained by the standards of the time and the tastes of their niche.
bab239 No.16181649
Seems like bowing to the SJWs didn't get them a wider audience, who would've thought.
fe41dd No.16181931
>>16178305
I started almost exclusively pirating when PC went digital only. The only time I pay for games now is when I pirate an old game and like enough that I buy a physical copy off of ebay just to have it. Every now and then PC will get a new physical release, an actual physical release not a download code in a box, and I buy it if I like the game. Not to support the developer though, I don't give a fuck about supporting the develpoer.
GOG had a hand in making PC digital only so I hope they shut down.
Death to Steam. Death to GOG. Death to Origin. Death to Epic Games Store. Death to battle.net etc
>>16178310
You shouldn't have been "buying" from GOG to begin with, just pirate.
Charging for digital distribution should not be a viable business model. A download is worth absolutely nothing, the only reason they can get away with it is because there are enough mentally ill people to give them money for a download.
>>16178373
>supporting devs
They are a company, not a charity, and should be treated as such. Just pirate, giving them money for a download is giving them a donation yet they won't even admit it.
>>16178418
They aren't honest though.
>>16178407
I find it immoral and unethical to charge for a download. Luckily piracy is a thing.
>>16178462
All these digital storefronts are inherently soy and SJW. Charging for a download is the SJW and soy of game distribution.
>waaah that developer made something so they deserve to eat!
>don't you dare pirate!
>support the developer!
I don't even call them stores, I call them donation payment processors
>>16178977
GOG gives you just as much of an ass pounding. You only get a download license the same as Steam gives you.
>>16179130
>They give people exactly what they ask for and that makes them a primary source of piracy.
They don't give me what I ask for which is why I pirate.
>>16179142
They don't give a fuck about being DRM free, they only use it as a marketing tactic to try to separate themselves from the others. The vanilla physical release of W2 on PC had Securom and the launch day physical release of W3 required a download as a form of DRM to prevent people from playing before the release date.
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/witcher_3_official_retail_pc_faq
"Since we have no DRM in the game" even though that download is a perfect example of DRM
The Enhanced/Complete editions are DRM free, but not the first releases.
>>16179096
You shouldn't buy digital, if you don't want a physical copy or one isn't offered then pirate.
>>16179140
>>16179143
Only if the DRM is intentionally added in.
A disc is only DRM if they make it so. GOG has more DRM than a DRM free physical copy
>>16179218
>I want all games to be DRM free and physical, but the market just isn't going to give me that.
That is what I want too, and it isn't offered so I pirate. There is no way for me to "vote with my wallet"
>>16179278
Charging for a download is anti-consumer.
>>16181371
>Troika
I love Arcanum and VTMB, in fact I have a physical copy of Arcanum and 25 of VTMB, but they deserved to go bankrupt for releasing VTMB in such an unfinished state. You can blame the publisher all you want but that is the power and beauty of games being physical only, they went bankrupt when they deserved it. They would have been able to get away with it today.
0e0633 No.16182353
>>16181931
Licenses are not DRM. GOG is DRM free. Feel free to disagree, but don't spread stupid lies that make you look like a retard.
0e0633 No.16182357
>>16182353
>feel free to disagree
feel free to disagree with digital distribution
c76e75 No.16182374
e1d574 No.16182474
honestly for what they do, GOG has way too many employees. 100+ IIRC and they had to move their operations from Cyprus to Poland which is way more expensive in terms of operating costs
they've also seemed to suffer with a lack of direction in terms of getting games on their store and some really fucking weird curating procedures
That said we'll see what happens, they were losing money all year and it doesn't look great
e1d574 No.16182518
>>16178418
>original versions of baldur's gate I and II
that's outside of their power, Beamdog and co got the rights and made every storefront yank the originals
a59e92 No.16182629
>>16178030
Has been out for a long time, they have just been experimenting a lot making people (sometimes unreasonably) mad with each big change.
It's also very f2p friendly for a card game.
>>16178065
>it would at least have better numbers than Artifact.
Pretty sure it already has better numbers than Artifact. Not that this is all that impressive.
Also people calmed down and seem to be pretty happy with the current development, so things might start going up again with the 100+ new cards that are supposed to come at the end of march.
>>16178042
>like what the fuck were they thinking?
That people really liked Gwent in TW3?
The better question is what they were thinking with their single player standalone Gwent campaign they released, which was also the reason for the massive team size.
808e00 No.16182677
>>16182629
>The better question is what they were thinking with their single player standalone Gwent campaign they released, which was also the reason for the massive team size.
I liked it.
a59e92 No.16182685
>>16178476
>They fired one of their staff for honoring GG.
You mean this guy?
I don't think he was fired for any specific political reasons, he was just stirring up shit with everybody he could find.
e1d574 No.16182708
>>16178476
>old games
The problem here is I think they've gotten most of the low hanging fruit that they can
A lot of other older games are either not worth getting since they won't sell/weren't big back in the day, or they're stuck in licensing hell or even just in a grey zone where publishers and devs are out of business or even dead
8ad4c7 No.16182817
>>16181931
Get digital game
Burn it to disc
???
Profit
b1764c No.16182841
>>16181931
Oh is the physical fag again.
Again and again, I tell you physical disc has DRM too.
inb4 somehow not count
dd249c No.16182899
>>16181931
I'd love to point to the massive holes in your logic but I don't have the energy and I really don't care so here is your (You)
>>16182629
I liked Thronebreaker but I got the impression that game wasn't supposed to be that long. I also find kinda funny they wanted the game to be a GOG exclusive but had to cave and put it on Steam, I bought it on GOG but what were they thinking?!
40afae No.16183255
18f00f No.16183950
>>16179218
<An extremely tiny minority, the majority of which are proud to never pay for anything.
meanwhile any cross platform humble bundle has linuxfags pay more on average.
40afae No.16187597
>>16177612
Wait… guys… March 31st. Is it possible we're being rused for April Fools?
5c7366 No.16187646
>>16183950
if 1% of 30,000 people pay $1.50 and the rest pay $1 who ends up making a bigger impact?
359cba No.16187649
>>16177612
>they spent shekels of their own pocket to help goyim buy games at a fair price because "poor goyim they must be treated like people"
>reality hits
>the stupid goyim buy their games from (((steam))), (((EA))) and (((others)))
>they announce that they are going to stop doing it due to losing too many shekels
>the dumb goyim call them evil even knowing they never spent a single cent on their store
[laughs in hebrew]
359cba No.16187685
5c7366 No.16187692
>>16181371
john romero killed LGS
40afae No.16187738
>>16187682
>>16187685
No, two seperate studios.
5b3272 No.16187746
>>16187649
Why would I buy from GOG when they don't even have any exclusives? They should have been spending that money to bribe publishers to not publish on Steam.
d6f178 No.16187792
>Witcher 3 four years ago
>cyberpunk delayed until next gen probably at earliest
>pay out settlement to Sapkowski
At least they're not closing/going bankrupt, having assets sold. Yet.
be8bf6 No.16187802
>Get Woke
<Go Broke
Who could have anticipated this? Their target demographic was gamers who care enough about DRM to check and use a separate service, just how much crossover do they think that has with social justice fags? It doesn't matter how many Good Goy points they score, NPCs will keep using steam because that's what they're told to do.
b33310 No.16188533
How is GOG losing money, I always thought they were successful.
db0743 No.16188595
>>16188533
Mismanagement, devs asking for a bigger cut thanks to Epic's kikery but generally speaking they've made a couple of really bad calls since last year, with Galaxy being their biggest fuckup.
345efc No.16188600
>>16181044
Cuckime is just /tv/ retard lingo. Ignore it and don't bother replying to anyone who uses it unironically or otherwise.
f21e79 No.16188616
>>16188533
They're trying to be the new Steam and obviously failing. Months ago they broke their site trying to make forced ads which then redirect you to the site, they didn't fix the page loading after removing the failed ads, trying to phase out the DRM free installers and hoping you don't notice, etc. For all the shit Steam is pushing GOG only has it's DRM-free thing going for it and nothing else.
68088c No.16188641
>>16188533
>>16188595
Discord is probably going to be the future. It's Israeli based, has a huge amount of integration to monolithic websites (eg every developer has a discord server), or curse-based wiki integration, has generally a lot of sleekness to the UI, "just works", etc. It's replaced shit like Vent except for like niche groups. It's legitimately a good program, but it's a shame that it datamines you so fucking hard and you know it's being used for surveillance, so I cannot honestly recommend it to anybody.
Now that it's so widely integrated, it's so trivial for them to just say "oh by the way we have a game library now and it's replacing Steam and GoG and you don't even have to do anything!" Also it has integrated fucking memes in the patch notes. Disgusting
68088c No.16188647
>>16188641
And please don't mistake me for a blackpill fag or a shill, I'm just trying to be realistic. Normalfags are simple, they're going to lean towards convenience and ignore the bad parts of it. It's very likely that it's going to improve, unless we do something about it.
b33310 No.16188688
>>16188595
How is Galaxy their biggest fuckup, it's an optional launcher for managing your library, is there something hidden there, or did it cost so much to develop that they haven't made back the investment?
>>16188616
>trying to be the new steam
Isn't that what Epic is doing and succeeding at doing. Oh well it was good to have a storefront that sold games without DRM, and distributed offline installers for their games too.
>>16188641
I thought Discord's gaming front was doing poorly.
dcd99d No.16188732
>>16179286
you really fell on the floor when you were baby didn't you? DRM-free games are the only thing GOG is exceptional at. If they go full DRM, they will be LITERALLY worse version of Steam and nobody will have reason to buy anything there.
9c1a5c No.16188747
>>16181931
>don't pirate good games
Faggot, my already empty wallet is more important.
e138da No.16188774
>>16179188
thepiratebay you fucking dolt
20bfd2 No.16189409
I think that GOG should stick to the No-DRM policy, even if that makes them not sell a lot of AAA games, but in exchange they should be less demanding when making games available to the store, and not having to wait months to a game to release on GOG. Standards are important, but they cant be that demanding, and just make sure that complete unfinished shit appears on the store, and also forbid that early access shit. Is also true, devs & publishers should be more conscious of GOG, specially when other alternatives to Steam is appearing already. Maybe we dont get Dark Souls there because the devs dont know (And wouldnt care much) about GOG.
5c7366 No.16189587
>>16189583
that's a weird thing to ask someone to do to you
9cb1d5 No.16189596
>>16189583
Hang yourself, 5bux
60a170 No.16189602
>muh cuckime
Go back to /tv/ and stay there faggot.
cee24b No.16189644
boy, someone is going to commit suicide if they go under
d25692 No.16189648
>>16189583
2nd pic made me kek, but pic related.
c3c685 No.16189659
>>16189583
>MGQ in the second pic
Woah nigger you better delete that.
808e00 No.16189914
>>16188732
Yet people use Steam, Origin and Epic's chink malware due to exclusives and new games being on there. If GOG did the same they would be able to compete and not lose money trying to appease people who don't pay for games anyway. I mean I do, I buy DRM free games or not at all, but this is clearly not a big part of the market. Prop up your relevance all you want, but it won't make you a juicy profit giving market.
I mean you probably would get mad if I said phone and browser gacha games with microtransactions out the ass are a lucrative market and catering exactly to /v/'s taste will make you go bankrupt, but it is true. I don't like it anymore than you, but it is.
afa092 No.16190268
weird it's almost like if you shit on your audience and side with people who hate your audience on multiple occasions your audience will stop giving you money
62aa8e No.16190292
>>16189914
> Yet people use Steam, Origin and Epic's chink malware due to exclusives
> due to exclusives
That's the thing, exclusives. What does GOG have they could make exclusive? The Witcher series and the Dungeons & Dragons Archive collection, that's it. People started using Steam because it was forced down their throat by Valve, not because of the service itself. Eventually they got Stockholm syndrome from the large number of games they have on it and because having on unified DRM is still less bad than having each publisher make his own shitty DRM.
21c60a No.16190300
Maybe GoG will learn after they got a shit ton of flack from most of their fans for throwing the postal devs under the bus and firing their only good PR guy.
808e00 No.16190323
>>16190292
>What does GOG have they could make exclusive?
Cyberpunk 2077 and if they sign deals with other devs then other games, which will never happen as long as they have their no-drm policy. There's no reason they couldn't pull a Metro Exodus like Epic did. I'm not arguing what's best for the customer, I'm arguing what makes the most pragmatic sense if the idea is to earn money and being competitive.
7e291c No.16190331
So legally if gog goes down do they have to reimburse customers for there lost games or will they have to set up some trust to keep the old servers going i don think there has ever been a president set for this kind of thing.
afa092 No.16190337
>>16190331
they don't have to do shit and won't, every retard who bought from them will get scammed.
808e00 No.16190343
>>16190337
Same thing with steam and any digital service really, but in GOG's case you can actually back that shit up, unlike on steam. If you aren't backing up your data you're a moron.
8df10b No.16190439
>>16190300
>>16190323
Just a friendly reminder Steam has no exclusives or at least they are not holding any publisher/developer from putting their games on other store.
Also even if it kills them GoG will probably not make Cyberpunk 2077 an exclusive to their store (because it might kill them) and it will be again on Steam and perhaps even on Epic, because why not. The only reason for them to not put it on Epic if they had the balls to start shitting on them actively and also on Steam at the same time, though that is unlikely to save them. Actually being two-faced and betraying their supposed morals is the most likely way to make them the most money as people might very well not care enough for it to matter. So really they are at the point of throwing a coin and risk it all on luck.
808e00 No.16190462
>>16190439
>Just a friendly reminder Steam has no exclusives
It has, plenty of them in fact.
e2fad9 No.16190467
Post your face when Epic buys GoG and puts all the games in their cancer store.
8df10b No.16190491
>>16190462
Oh, right, my bad. It has old games and two online shitters. But that is Valve's games. No one is going to fight them over it. Actually technically it just might be the DOTA and CSGO. By doing a quick check it seems like on Amazon for example you can buy physical copies of their old games, including TF2, and Valve are the ones that provide them, including third parties.
808e00 No.16190502
>>16190491
>By doing a quick check it seems like on Amazon for example you can buy physical copies of their old games, including TF2, and Valve are the ones that provide them, including third parties.
Have you never used steam? Physical copies are just serial keys that go into steam. Many games have only been released on steam when it comes to PC, not just Valve's own games, which were what suckered people into using their shitty game rental system in the first place. By doing this you tie people to your platform and make them more likely to buy more games from you in the future. GOG doesn't do this and it hurts their finances. You just get an installer from them and that's it.
be17f6 No.16190519
>>16177612
I wasn't going to support their storefront anyways for the broken promises of a Linux client.
8df10b No.16190554
>>16190502
Yeah, all damn keys for installing steam on the xbox and the playstation. All of Valve's single player games have been released for consoles. Valve hasn't hold any publisher/developer's game hostage. They don't have exclusivity clauses. Have never done it. Any publisher is free to release on steam and any other place.
You don't have to be rambling explaining simple shit about bisness practices as if you are some smartass that knows so much and no one else does. I don't even like Valve and Steam, but you are just speak retard.
808e00 No.16190571
>>16190554
>All of Valve's single player games have been released for consoles.
Sure, but I was talking exclusives for the storefront, not the platform. Those are very different things.
>I don't even like Valve and Steam, but you are just speak retard.
🤔 Thanks THQ.
8df10b No.16190608
>>16190571
Well, sorry, but in general there is not much heat for PC online "store" owners releasing their own games only on their PC store. Sure people will bitch about having to open a second launcher through Steam, or that they can't add the newest AAA game on their Steam store, but they still go and buy it from Origin, Uplay and whatever. The heat has never been as much as the Metro Exodus one, because it was never making a deal with a third party game being exclusive, not that it will matter enough most likely, because people as a whole never care enough, never are responsible consumers in masses and never make a difference.
Half Life 2 already a relic. Modern generations mostly don't even care about buying it to play. It is highly unimportant. Yes, Valve's game played an important role in making Steam, but that's far in the past.
Valve have no exclusive deals. Comparing them in Epic and pointing out to some indie trash that the developer just didn't bother releasing anywhere else is not an exclusive
All that I am saying is that if you are going to shit on someone, shit on them for the right reasons and without bending shit.
8266d5 No.16190622
>>16190571
You're really retarded. Steam has Valve games, Epic has Fortnite, GOG has DRM-free, enable DRM and GOG is just another shitty Origin, they don't have budget for getting good exclusives so they cannot compete with bigger players in "your average game store" category. They should keep doing what they can compete at - selling DRM-free games.
8df10b No.16190636
>>16190622
Epic actually has Metro Exodus and some indie trash too. Actual exclusives.
808e00 No.16190685
>>16190608
>Yes, Valve's game played an important role in making Steam, but that's far in the past.
It's not unimportant, since that's obviously a viable pathway to getting bigger on this market. Epic is doing it this very moment to get people to their storefront and software. Nothing says GOG can't do the same with Cyberpunk 2077.
>Comparing them in Epic and pointing out to some indie trash that the developer just didn't bother releasing anywhere else is not an exclusive
There's plenty of big games that were exclusive to steam (on PC, if that wasn't already clear, again, thanks THQ.), a majority of them were for a time before publishers realized they could just create their own services and stop giving gaben money. Sure, they didn't sign a deal saying they couldn't sell their game anywhere else, but having steamworks as a DRM made them exclusive to steam in practice.
>All that I am saying is that if you are going to shit on someone, shit on them for the right reasons and without bending shit.
I'm not bending anything. Epic's store is just a retread of what Steam used to be like before it got big, some things are different due to Steam being established and that's why we see stuff like the Metro stuff but in principle it's exactly the same strategy. Force people to use your service if they want to play big games, you get a customer base chained to you and if everything goes well you keep expanding from there.
See this is where GOG has failed due to no DRM, they can't chain people to their service and judging by their finances this doesn't seem to be enough of a positive for customers to pick them over the competitors. If you already have Half-Life 2 on steam then you'll want to get your next game on steam too, because why not, and they're not selling it on GOG anyway, maybe in a year or so, if you're lucky, and you want to play this game now.
But let's imagine that GOG made Cyberpunk 2077 exclusive to GOG on PC and required their Galaxy launcher to run. Right there you get a huge influx of customers using their service and installing their software. This means people who are more likely to spend more money on their service even if the next game they buy isn't an exclusive. Because they already have an account and the software, so it's easy to just get another game there.
This requires 1. new games and 2. something tying those games to your service. Which GOG currently doesn't have.
8df10b No.16190739
>>16190685
Who are you even arguing with at this point and what are you acting so high and mighty wasting everyone's time explaining dumb shit everyone knows, yet still missing half of it. Jesus Christ.
Shit like this really makes me think I am talking with 13-year-olds sometime.
e91b8c No.16190740
>>16188774
>pirate bay
May as well announce you're pirating shit to your ISP up front, it'll have less noticeable consequences that way.
808e00 No.16190815
>>16190739
>wasting everyone's time explaining dumb shit everyone knows
If you already know this then why do you pretend to be retarded?
8df10b No.16190826
>>16190815
I could ask you the same.
808e00 No.16190850
>>16190826
>GOG could never do what Steam has done and Epic is now doing!!!1!
<Yes they could.
>No, no way, Steam doesn't even have any exclusives!
<Yes they have.
>Uh, but, uh, GOG can only sell DRM free games and do nothing else!
<Actually that's one of the reasons they are doing badly financially right now and can't really break into the market.
>Why do you explain what everyone already knows?
8df10b No.16190879
>>16190850
You are not good at reading comprehension are you. Or is this just your plan to pretend it was all just a big misunderstanding. Sorry, that still wouldn't explain how the stupid shit you have said.
c177c6 No.16190933
>>16190850
>Yes they could.
No they can't because they don't have money for good enough exclusive. Cyberpunk 2077 isn't enough. Even if people would actually install GOG to play that game, they would buy non-exclusive games on Steam, because of stuff like achievements, workshop etc. and also because they have most bought games already there. You're very naive.
9a7ada No.16191169
just make a point to buy more games from their store. money talks .
404010 No.16191185
>>16177846
Cleve is the man we need but not the one we deserve. Pure Aussie piss and vinegar that is channeled into video game development.
172ad3 No.16191202
>>16190740
>>16179188
bumping this. for older stuff I have god links that work but if its not repacked from fitgrl I dont know where to look up for stuff since igg are cunts
22640a No.16191998
>>16177612
>went woke
>started alienating their customers
>drove off developers
>lost a shit ton of money as a result
>need to stop the bleeding but won't reverse course.
Rest in Piss.
000000 No.16192016
>>16191998
>went woke
[citation needed]
22640a No.16192103
>>16192016
See their twitter drama and firing their manager.
2e9e7c No.16192259
>>16192016
>torfag doesn't know how GoG rolled over and asked resetera to fuck them up the ass
Let me contain my shock.
40afae No.16192372
>>16192259
Unfortunately these companies have PR departments which greatly encourage such behavior, I would hardly call it "going woke" though. As much as I agree with the sentiment "Muh PR", as a company which caters to such a wide audience they see themselves as having responsibilities not to piss anyone off and jeopardize, what they view as, the bottom line.
f21e79 No.16192725
>>16192372
The PR department in a company is always prime material to become a cess pit for SJWs because they have worthless skills and are just put there where they can't actually touch any projects. Since they don't care about anyone who doesn't spout progressive views they will snuff everyone's opinions out and never bring it up at the board meeting. Which is exactly what's happening here since despite their good January sales they still had to starts layoffs, because surprise everyone is sick of SJWs and their values.
a46b1c No.16195293
>>16177612
>buying games
Who cares?
40afae No.16195945
>>16192725
But what could the solution possibly be?!
000000 No.16197305
>>16195293
>games
lol what are you child?
000000 No.16197743
>>16188533
GOG got too big for its own good, hired retarded managers, decided it wanted to be Steam, pushed Galaxy super fucking hard, started promoting indieshit, and fucked its storefront with the removal of features people didn't want and the addition of shit ads. So they managed to harm their own income with unnecessary costs and failed changes.
>>16188641
I don't think discord store is going anywhere, honestly. Seems to be a bigger dumpster fire than the Windows Store. I'd sooner expect Amazon to successfully muscle into the digital videogame distribution market.
>>16190685
CDPR games have always been a big boost to GOG, yes. Although I'm still leery of what the fuck Cyberpunk 2077 is turning into. I'm sensing some design-by-committee kinda-soulless shit. They really shouldn't make the mistake that Anthem did that just because you have production values, a big staff, and some media hype it'll turn into a big success even when you fuck up player choice, meaningful writing, and eschew engaging gameplay where you have to use your head in favor of pretty numbers, special effects, and stand and shoot health bloat where you just wait for the boss to die.
282d61 No.16198423
>>16197305
>torpedo posting nothing useful again
a06e41 No.16198435
>>16195293
GoG releases are the easiest to pirate as they dont have any DRM and dont need cracks.
No-GOG = Only shitty Steam cracks.
So you should care. Unless you dont pirate that is.
0f5b9d No.16205141
>>16179298
This game is good btw
a82519 No.16206114
>>16191202
dude all hackers are cunts
62aa8e No.16206187
>>16197743
>GOG got too big for its own good, hired retarded managers, decided it wanted to be Steam, pushed Galaxy super fucking hard, started promoting indieshit
Indie games were a necessity because eventually they would run out of old games for which a license could be acquired. As for Galaxy, that was a necessity as well due to retarded developers embedding Steamworks so deeply into their games that it was impossible to remove it. Galaxy is like a substitute for Steamworks because you cannot just rip out a bunch of code and expect it to still compile. Since Galaxy is not available on GNU/Linux there are a number of games which have Linux versions on Steam but not on GOG.
2cff2e No.16206230
000000 No.16212508
>>16206187
>Indie games were a necessity because eventually they would run out of old games for which a license could be acquired.
First, there are still tons of classics not on gog. Second, they could just advertise a lot of their classics to new generations of gamers if they want more sales. Third, you seem to have misunderstood me. GOG is shying away from old-school games (whether actually old or merely old-fashioned) and moving into more IGF hipster type indie shit like Gone Homo or Cultist Simulator (which is basically a facebook clicker) or Hidden Object Games. Crap like this takes an odd swerve away from the sorts of games GOG built its brand upon and is moving in the direction of shovelware games people don't really like. It diminishes the appeal of GOG as a curated storefront. GOG is increasingly not about Good Old Games.
dcd99d No.16212654
>>16206187
wait, are there any games not working without galaxy? if not, then your statement is bullshit.
0106f4 No.16212686
>>16212654
I think Dragon's Dogma's online features don't work without it. There are probably some other games that have some online features that rely on it or integrate it in some way. I'm not aware of any game that requires Galaxy just to be played though, and as far as I know, they've always insisted Galaxy will always be optional and never required to play a game.
dcd99d No.16214176
>>16212686
a lot of games have features not implemented in GOG version, but you can play all of them. I really don't think galaxy can work as steam framework replacement, it just keeps games updated.
13efb2 No.16214914
>>16214911
Can't wait til this niggerpill faggot doxes himself just like Aaron and the "murder all leftists now" TORpedo.
43b06d No.16215000
Since GoG is going woke. How long until GoG starts using Galaxy as service based DRM like Steam?
4d876a No.16215002
>>16214911
Fuck off asses and elbows
0a26bf No.16215023
More stuff about GoG turning Cleve down
de741a No.16215028
>>16198435
>No-GOG = Only shitty Steam cracks.
GOG literally steals cracks from dev teams and removes their credits.
94e11f No.16215106
>>16215023
Not this fucktard again.
8007f6 No.16215124
>mfw everything i once loved has died to politics
4dc332 No.16215129
>>16215124
Exxpect some blackpill-tier depression to set in at some point, then quiet anger, and then sad wistfulness
c7b494 No.16215298
43b06d No.16215513
>>16215298
GoG threads have been shilled left and right today. 4um shitposters are taking over those threads. A guy who got his game rejected was a lol cow with baseless accusations of SJW fuckery. My guess.
000000 No.16226548
>>16215298
Because mark can get like imkampfy sometimes and delude himself that people with opinions he doesn't like must be shills.