Comment on CD Projekt Red are splitting from GOG somehow?

• picnicolas@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I understand your concern based on how corporations tend to run these days, but this is a lot of speculation. It’s good to be skeptical though.

  My guess is that they want to use a single account across more services unrelated to GOG, akin to the way google SSO works for gmail, YouTube, drive, etc. If the account is owned by a subsidiary that might not be possible for other subsidiaries to use the same account per data regulation rules.

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  • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d like to think I’m not so much speculating, but rather concerned about what this might mean. There’s certainly no apparent reason why splitting CDPR games away from GOG would be good for consumers.

    My guess is that they want to use a single account across more services unrelated to GOG

    The specific reasoning they’ve given is pretty clear:

    You are receiving this email due to your use of online features, including Cross Progression and My Rewards, in CD PROJEKT RED games, as well as your participation in platforms like the CD PROJEKT RED Forums.

    None of these things have a clear advantage in being separated from GOG. GOG is owned by CDPR, GOG is a CDPR subsidiary. CDPR have full authority to dictate how their games are sold on the GOG platform. The only unique thing about GOG is the DRM-free position.

    By separating CDPR games from GOG, they can separate CDPR games from the DRM-free position, without facing the inevitable backlash that doing so would normally face. Then, newer CDPR games won’t be bound by the GOG philosophy, while GOG can die off somewhat naturally and without such significant backlash. This could be seen as commercially preferable over the current situation for a publicly traded company such as CDPR.

    I am making assumptions, but that is the very nature of future predictions. I ask if you could make any other assumption that really challenges mine.

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• doctorzeromd@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t see any reason to believe that it would be different from the rockstar launcher. You can still buy rockstar games from steam.

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  • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Their games might end up on both, but when it comes to a new 3rd party game being put on CDPR store with DRM or GOG store without DRM, which do you think will happen? Long term, do you think GOG would survive if CDPR shift their focus to another store?

    It’s not really the same as Rockstar Launcher and Steam, because Rockstar don’t own Steam.

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is probably more the opposite way round than you’re thinking of it.

      A CDPR launcher can be bundled with steam games, perhaps they have tried and been stopped from bundling GoG with CDPR games.

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      • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Possibly. However, that still doesn’t really fit in with the way CDPR have worked up to now.

        Since Cyberpunk 2077 their behaviour has changed.

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