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GOG's new owner says Steam is winning due to ease of use, not quality, while criticizing the platform for releasing hundreds of games daily that are "not super high quality"

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  • wer2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    GOG, please make a Linux version of Galaxy.

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  • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    To be fair, Steam/Valve shouldn’t be the one that judge the quality of the game, it should be the customers by voting with their wallets.

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    • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      While I agree there are people who still buy those crap, so gotta put this here:

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      • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        And they’ll enjoy the game or refund it, since both options are incredibly easy to do.

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      • purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        nice slur you got there…..

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      • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s true, but so are those that run things. Billionaires, politicians, CEOs, they are all.

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      • NachBarcelona@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        What a complete and utter idiot this piece of crap is.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I would guess that he’s looking for a response to someone pointing out that Steam has a larger game library than GOG.

      Like, he’s gonna say “yes, but a higher proportion of the excluded games aren’t good”.

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    • M1ch431@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Agreed. Open publication, as opposed to gatekeeping publication, is desirable for creative expression in society.

      Just imagine how many great works never saw the light of day or reached completion because publishers didn’t bite.

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    • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      However they’ve banned games without reason many times. Wanting to be a broad marketplace is fine, but I just wish they were either committed to the bit or went back to curation because they had a higher density of good games back in the days of Greenlight.

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    • purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah yes, the market will decide. And famously, the market has always been good at deciding.

      No, I think that’s bullshit. I think Valve should curate more of their games. I don’t think they should allow Nazi trash and fucking hate crime simulators on their platform.

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      • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Don’t those games largely get removed from the platform?

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      • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Steam has more trash than games nowadays. I wish they never stopped curating games. At least to some degree even if not fully.

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  • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Didn’t Gabe say this like 15 years ago?

    Piracy is not a price issue, it’s an availability issue. Steam makes it so easy to just… buy a game.

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  • Sharkticon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’d argue that ease of use is a major component of quality.

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    • bountygiver@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      this, valve did not make those games. So the quality of steam is the ease of use

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean, it’s true that there are lots of games sold on Steam that aren’t great games, but that doesn’t hurt me much.

    There are lots of products on Amazon that aren’t that great.

    There are lots of websites on the Internet that aren’t that great.

    As long as I can get to the stuff I want, all good.

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If the dev isn’t a bastard they can make different versions available through steam. Rocksmith found the last shred of decency in their body after breaking cdlc and put the previous version up. Outside of that, yeah it can be rough.

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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The publishers can do it via uploading beta branches, but there’s also a way to tell the Steam client to fetch old versions independently of that. I remember it coming up specifically with Skyrim, because updates broke a lot of mods environments, and it takes a long time for a lot of mods to be updated (during which time people couldn’t play their modded installs).

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        steamcommunity.com/app/…/4032473829603430509/

        The download_depot Steam console command.

        The linked (non-Skyrim-specific) guide talks about how to obtain manifest IDs for versions of other games.

        But, yeah. It’s really not how Steam’s intended to be used, and I imagine that hypothetically, one day, it could stop working.

        There are also IIRC some ways to block Steam from updating individual games, but again, not intended functionality.

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        steamcommunity.com/…/3205995441631274440/

        If you specifically want control over game updates for some game, then GOG can be a major benefit for that.

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  • ieGod@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Valves competitors love to complain. Compete or don’t, the whining is lame as fuck.

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    • Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s specifically what he’s aiming to do.

      GOG has a new owner and CEO and he’s read the room in gaming journalism. He needs to make sure people understand that this isnt some Embracer Group buyout situation, and he’s doing that by specifically targeting Valve’s shortcomings:

      • DRM and questions of ownership
      • Contracts starting at 70/30 split
      • Censorship of adult content

      This is exactly what competing with Valve looks like. They just need to stick the landing.

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  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m trying to buy around 50% of my games on GOG and the other 50% on Steam.

    Clearly the ease of use award goes to Steam, especially on Linux.

    Gog is still okay thanks to Heroic but it is a commitment with no background downloading on Steam Deck and slow downloads.

    I guess we, gamers, only have to make sure that Valve still has competition so that they can’t just turn evil.

    For now, I really appreciate how Valve is supporting Linux and I appreciate how GOG understand that we want to own our games and play them forever.

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  • leave_it_blank@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gog has one fantastic advantage over their competition. You buy it, you own it forever if you download the installer.

    At least for me that’s the thing that counts. And the reason my money only goes to gog.

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    • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      … If it requires an installer, then it it not your forever. That’s one hostile take over away from losing your ability to play a game

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      • oblomov@sociale.network ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        @Jarix @leave_it_blank offline installers (what you get from GOG) are forever. Ask my library of archived GOG installers.

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      • TuxOnBike@norden.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        @Jarix

        Can you please elaborate on that? The GOG installers work offline so as long as as you keep your downloaded installer around and an iso of the OS it’s compatible with, it’s yours forever by my definition. But would love to hear your take on this.

        @leave_it_blank

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  • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gog added daikatana to their library the same day they changed their name from good old games they have absolutely no fucking room to talk.

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    • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I didn’t quite follow, do you mean Daikatana is so bad they didn’t add it before because they were called ‘good’ but not anymore?

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      • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        More of the coincidence that they did the two things on the same day. It was like they were proving something.

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  • sj_zero ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I dunno, some of the games I've bought on GOG just aren't very good either. Especially stuff on gog that isn't good old games.

  • BigTrout75@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    GOG didn’t become dumpster fire.

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