No, it's not. Pirated games are free, and they do not make any money for the publishers or developers.

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While I came for the classic games, these days the only thing keeping me here is the DRM-free. If that ever goes away, so will I. GOG is the only good DRM-free store option available.

No kidding. Browsing their website gives me a headache. Unless I know exactly what I'm looking for I might as well not bother at all.

Maybe it is like that Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) movie where he starts becoming younger and younger. Soon it will be all GU-GU GA-GA.

Weren't you married? :P

Reason for me to buy any Game possible on GOG even at a higher price: T.,Rump

I'm not sure that some of the OP's statements are valid. GOG has plenty of great RPGs and other games. Also I think GOG released more games the last 2 years than ever before. And imho curation is good.
And above all games are DRM free. I can load up my games anywhere at any time and they work. Regardless if I'm at home or traveling to some other country, regardless if I have Internet available or not.

nope i can't find any reason to buy here, but a lot of reasons to not buy here!

gog/cdproject managed to lower itself over the years from a bright drm-free star in the gaming industry that cared about its customers and had working games! now its just a scam-site, selling overpriced, broken, unfixed, abandoned, censored and malware infested shit. support doesn't give a shit also. thats all the magic of greedy pathetic shareholders, f*ck them! the only way to sanction such low behaviour is to stop buying games from here.

how do you know it's mostly gog's fault? developers aren't telling you the whole story.

so if you own most of them here and elsewhere doesn't that make the problem more that you're running out of titles that interest you and not gog's fault? play a different genre.

there's more than gog that determines sale prices. wait better sale or stop paying attention, do something else.

Gripes with GOG have been few for me. I admit, I'm popping a vein if I accidentally download another installer with Steam, oops, I mean Galaxy, on it. I admit one mod could stop the fuck with the twosidesing. Apart from that, I'm still OK with what they're trying to do and how they're trying to do it. And the wallet funds reimbursement, really, that has worked out for me more often than not.

I don't care when, how long, how many sales there are. These sales are something Valve has introduced to coerce their business clients into ridiculous price drops in exchange for an ounce of visibility. The practice has demolished price stability in video games, let gamer entitlement soar, and killed off budding indie devs while AAA companies have developed ever more "interesting" ideas to cash in the money otherwise. How about paying what the game is worth instead? So, yeah, sorry, not a big fan of sales. Not a big fan of "wishlisted!" as an expression of a mild interest for a game that's actually worth your dough.

But least of all I'm a fan of complete dunderhead gamers who, 11 months after a game releases, after half a dozen sales and free updates, voice their protest about low priced DLC they don't even understand by announcing they're removing the game off their wishlist. How pathetic can a person be, really?

The second thing that always, always seems to come up in these discussions is updates. Please do take a look at the whiner "Second class citizen" gogmix collection and imagine what this store would look like if all those games were removed (plus the games of the many devs that leave in solidarity afterwards). And that would indeed be the only other option, because no of course GOG can not coerce business clients into timely updates. They're in no position whatsoever to do that. When developers get 97 to 99% of their income from sales on Valve's platform, they honestly won't accept to be hassled in any way by some unknown Polish distributor who doesn't even put a proper copy protection on their games.

No, GOG isn't "responsible" for these updates not coming.

You can have your "GOG that doesn't take this update shit from developers any more" easily enough. Make your own website, call it gug.com ("good unavailable games"), hand craft the HTML and ta-da, it's exactly how this site would look if GOG ordered their clients to update their games at the distributor's command. And as many games would be up for sale.

This is, as always, way overblown and the foot stomping from people who haven't even been around for two years is a daily, hilarious routine. I mean, what's the alternative, for the OP and other folks here? Steam? Well, don't expect me at the pier waving you goodbye.

Some folks, including myself, do pay for the games afterwards.

There are a number of reasons why folks pirate software. As someone who has movement issues, I'd rather make sure i can use the software or play the game before hand.

I'm going to guess a smile.

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