Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You
absquatulate@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m having mixed feelings about this. On the one hand it could be better for gog to break away from a stock listed company that has proved on occasion it still behaves like a stock listed company and likely still do in the future. Also it seems like they’re keeping their values.
On the other, gog has been fairly volatile and hasn’t always returned a profit. Without a big company behind, it may be just a few years of unprofitability away from from going under. More worryingly though, it doesn’t have the same staying power as steam or its infinite funds, so it might get harder to uphold those “no drm, independence” etc policies.
Time will tell I guess
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
I think Gog is more popular then ever, because people start recognizing that buying from GOG is like buying organic produce and has it’s worth - they are in a pretty good market position with this image, and i fully believe them when they write that “[they] have seen more enthusiasm from gamers towards [their] mission than ever before”.
GreyCat@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I just wish they had a native Linux client :/
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 13 hours ago
Well Heroic Launcher works fine for my GOG Library, so that’s not so much of an issue for me. What i miss much more is Playnite, which integrated pretty much everything from steam to GOG, Epic, Amazon and Emulators for pretty much everything.
mirshafie@europe.pub 1 day ago
I prefer GOG over Steam for the simple reason that I’m not forced to use a launcher if I don’t want to.
absquatulate@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I do too, but imagine the drop in donations/subscriptions if they were to pull a stunt like the one with steam/mastercard and porn games. Or if they were to not want to remove a game that features, say, the gaza genocide but on israel’s side, or some other extremely divisive issue.