yea thats something i can get behind honestly! :D
Like i said i do really love their Installers but i just wish more People would use them over Steam or similiar launchers :(
Comment on Why is GOG not as succesful as a Gaming Alternative?
Draegur@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
i figure it’s a momentum thing.
Valve benefited from being First To Market with this model. They were already well established before anyone else tried to make their own.
epic games store, ubisoft connect, and also whatever used to be origin, all these launchers were HEAVILY marketed and users were shoehorned into them as a mandatory condition of playing a game, and they are all floundering.
GOG, though? No marketing. No coercion. Mostly it’s word of mouth and good will. And they are doing pretty alright. I’d say that, for NOT being first to market, and for NOT wasting loads and loads of cash trying to push themselves onto people–hell, you buy a game from GOG and you don’t even NEED to install their launcher! All their game installers function perfectly STAND-ALONE!
I’d say, with all that in mind, GOG is literally doing better than anyone that isn’t Steam.
And in my view, they are ever improving, even now.
RetroHax@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Rose@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
A while back, Tim Sweeney said the market share of the Epic store was 15%, while GOG’s was around 0.5 to 1%, which isn’t implausible. The players count of the Epic store has been significantly boosted by Fortnite, exclusives, and high-profile game giveaways.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I think this is missing one other crucial factor in GOG becoming established: they targeted a niche.
Seems like a lot of people don’t really know this any more, but GOG’s ‘thing’ didn’t used to be a focus on being DRM-free, it was a focus on making old games accessible again.
GOG used to stand for Good Old Games.
Until GOG came along, publishers had next to no interest in making their older games available - things like Doom, Monkey Island, System Shock, Star Wars Dark Forces, etc.
Hard to believe now, but none of these games used to be available to buy anywhere - if you wanted to play them you had to either find a torrent or visit a dodgy abandonware site. It was GOG who identified that gap in the market and established themselves as the store for legally owning digital copies of these old games for the first time.