Draegur

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. They were also NOT being first to market. They furthermore did NOT waste loads and loads of cash trying to push themselves onto people. Furthermore, 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.

oh snap. i only just made my lemmy.zip login recently but i might hop onto the piefed instance instead because of the feature set!

decided i’d emigrate from lemmee

sad to see it go but glad there’s someplace welcoming us.