Yes, I know, GOG is not literally a recycling centre; but metaphorically, I think it has. I mean with all these indie games coming to GOG now is great and all, but I can't help but shake they are here as a result of becoming an after-thought rather than priority release. Most of these indie/EA releases are released here long after their Steam counterpart, or get taken down only to be put on Steam.

There aren't many developers who "dare" release simultaneously on Steam and GOG unless it's part of a promised crowdfunded tier, so it brings me to think GOG is now the after-thought than driving force of DRM-free releases.

GOG has probably always been an after-thought given how much bigger Steam's userbase is.

But isn't "recycling" the roots of GOG ?

The main reason why we use GOG is because it gives a new life to old discarded games, "treating" them to make them reusable in our legal/technological environment. Isn't it ?

Welcome to GOG.

I'm mainly talking about indie/EA/new game releases here.

I don't see a reason to care unless you feel like you're missing on community interaction by not having access to new games when everyone else in your social circle is playing them. GOG generally knows better what they should and shouldn't sell (even if you could design a better recommender system, it just won't work without the confidential data they've collected).

GOG is eco friendly, while the competition is still steam powered.

Since I don't use Steam or another similar service and I seldom buy retail copies nowadays (most modern titles require a client & most older secondhand titles I'm interested upon are ridiculously priced on eBAy), every game that has been released in the past and just found its way to GOG, is a new game release to me. So, it wouldn't be a hyperbole to say: "moooar recycling please!". ;)

Still beats being a garbage bin where any trash can be thrown. Metaphorically of course.

For some titles it is indeed that, however.
Like those games who come here exactly when the official servers are going to be shut down.. -_-'

lol

Hate to nitpick, but Steam powered can be eco friendly. :P All you need is a little heat and that doesn't need to come from coal or nuclear fission.

Liar. :p

Well Dralel, I think that overall you're right ("recycling" or not - it's the matter of semantics). Even if it's almost never directly admitted, quite a lot of releases of indie games and titles from "big developers" on GOG are real at the point, when developer/publisher pushed their game through every possible discount, bundle etc, and he comes to the point "yeah, it will be pirated*, but whatever", we've milked that game in every possible way, so now let's throw some leftovers to those weirdos who are buying games on GOG". It's quite sad, but I feel VERY strongly, that people like us are not threaten as some serious part of the market. Just try to count many developers/publishers, who could publish there plenty of their old games, but they will (probably) never do it, 'because steam'.

(but well, at least there are still releases of classics from 90' and beginning of 2000', can't say how happy I'm whenever I see one of these on GOG).



*Big developers up to this day believe in magical efficiency of DRMs, especiall japanese

Recycling is good. I'm glad there are stuff like Krondor, System Shock 2, Ultima, etc. Without GoG I would never put the effort or be able to get those things running on a modern system to play them again.