Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I fail to see the problem with having modern games on there? It’s still the same DRM free platform regardless.

  Plus, for a large part those older games where also made by mega corps of the day, some still around others faded away, but hardly a collection of indi devs across the board.

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Stop, stop! He’s already dead!

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• dandi8@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What an unnecessarily exclusionary take.

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  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They can build a new platform to sell current games in a DRM-free situation. Good Old Games should stick specifically to old games.

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    • carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      and what purpose would that serve lol

      dividing resources and confusing people just for what? so you can feel good having a store with the 3 retro pc games that haven’t been gobbled up by microsoft, ea or atari?

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    • dandi8@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Why, given "Good Old Games" is no longer the name of the store?

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    • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Meh

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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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!’

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  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • tomalley8342@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They removed the explicit Good Old Games abbreviation back in 2012. It’s just GOG.com now.

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    • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Did you know that the Ronald McDonald House isn’t just one single house?

      How do you feel about that?

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      • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Good, they can help more people.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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      • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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