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General discussionI can't help but feel GOG has become a recycling centre(56 posts)(56 posts)
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Posted October 12, 2016
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Telika: 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 ?
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tfishell: Is that still the main reason to use GOG, though, since they seem to prefer a focus on DRM-free rather than "Good Old Games" nowadays? (I mean we are still getting old titles, but it's not really the main focus here anymore.)
By now they got almost all of the great ancients. They are slowly entering the "age of Steam*" generation of games starting about 10y ago which means games protected by weird methods from weird ppl.

*includes also UBI online activation, Origin online activation and similar smut
Post edited October 12, 2016 by anothername
Posted October 12, 2016
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tinyE: Go easy snowkatt. After all, didn't you just PM me last week shocked to find out Elvis had died?
Declan Patrick MacManus? Say it ain't so!
Posted October 12, 2016
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Telika: 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 ?
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Posted October 12, 2016
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snowkatt: and you only found that out now ?

an online store that came to being to resurrect older pc games ?
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tinyE: Go easy snowkatt. After all, didn't you just PM me last week shocked to find out Elvis had died?
Hey, snowkatt is actually using proper sentence punctuation for a change. Let's just be happy about that and not rock the boat. If we start up the Bigfoot/Elvis/UFO stuff she's liable to bust a spring and start yelling at us in Dutch.
Posted October 12, 2016
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Dralel: ...GOG is now the after-thought than driving force of DRM-free releases.
It defintiely isn't the after-thought. Where else can you buy so many games DRM-free?

Getting AAA games here always has been tough.
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eksasol: 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.
Protect the environment! Don't waste valuable resources inventing and paying for and playing new games when you can play old games instead. :)
Post edited October 12, 2016 by Trilarion
Posted October 12, 2016
Daedalic and THQ Nordic seem to be releasing their new titles here. Look at the upcoming tab (The Guild 3, Spellforce 3, Battle Chasers, Shadow Tactics - Blades of the Shogun, etc). Unfortunately they are indeed exceptions.

Offworld Trading Company for example has been quite some time on the upcoming tab of Gog. Released April 28th on Steam. Still nowhere to be found on Gog.
Posted October 12, 2016
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acute71: ...Offworld Trading Company for example has been quite some time on the upcoming tab of Gog. Released April 28th on Steam. Still nowhere to be found on Gog.
I would like to find out why in this case. GOG is incapable? They don't need the money? Devs are lazy and can't be arsed?

Does anyone know?
Posted October 12, 2016
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Dralel: ...
Why 'become'? That's what it always has been!
Posted October 12, 2016
Not recycling - distilling. :)
Posted October 12, 2016
I'm often surprised publishers are even releasing their new games DRM-free, whether on GOG or elsewhere.
The temptation to have a Steam-exclusive release must be very strong, since most publishers do just that.

Seeing other publishers release their games DRM-free seems to encourage others to do the same. Maybe it's just my imagination, but I do think that more and more new games are being released with a DRM-free version these days. So having more new DRM-free games on GOG is probably for the better in the long-run, even though they are guaranteed to not suit everyone's taste in games.
Post edited October 12, 2016 by Ricky_Bobby
Posted October 12, 2016
What number is on the inside of the triangle?
Posted October 12, 2016
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skeletonbow: What number is on the inside of the triangle?
It's not a number, it's just "beta".
Posted October 12, 2016
:\ Damn no one has ever mentioned the reality so brutally and so accurately ..... the feels....sigh i wish GOG still existed with their own awesomely unique library of games rather drm free has been used games....
Posted October 12, 2016
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liquidsnakehpks: :\ Damn no one has ever mentioned the reality so brutally and so accurately ..... the feels....sigh i wish GOG still existed with their own awesomely unique library of games rather drm free has been used games....
Are you against the idea of publishers releasing their old classics _also_ on Steam, EA Origin etc.? Things were better back when people could only buy them on GOG?

From my point of view though, the fact that all the releases on GOG are DRM-free (and are officially supported as such), makes them awesomely unique. Gimme gimme gimme!

What is even more, I can easily download them all with tools like gogrepo. I haven't seen similar mass-download tools for pretty much any other digital store (3rd party nor official). This also is a good reason for me to buy my (DRM-free) games specifically from GOG, and not from e.g. Humble Bundle, DotEmu, Desure(RIP) or what is there.

To each his own. :)
Post edited October 12, 2016 by timppu
Posted October 12, 2016
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Dralel: 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.
if at least it would work. but currently it feels more like a trash can, since recycling would imply that the games would be properly patched&fixed before they getting released on here.
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