BoycottIsFutile2: Blah blah
So you freely admit you have created alternate accounts simply with the purpose of spamming this thread. Hence the assumption that zero games, just joined is a spammer account is perfectly valid.
Yes, rep is just as broken as the rest of the website and forum, has been for years now.
I don’t have a movement, or members, in fact I don’t care at all for anyone’s opinions. I only talk from my side.
Galaxy is not optional. Just ask a gog representative about anything, for example, “what is the weather like on Thursday?”, response “use galaxy our optional client”. It’s the same response for anything. Also most installers are now galaxy style installers, offline or for galaxy (there is another thread on it). Also most installers now contain galaxy components, some of which are required for the product to work.
As for drm in games, it doesn’t matter how many games there are, most are old games which were never designed with online in mind. A lot of the new games are, as per your previous text, gog have changed their business model to push new games, and this means more and more games which require online to varying degrees. They are also profiting from selling drm games through epic, and them and their parent company CDPR profit from microtransaction online only titles like gwent, and this is what cyberpunk was designed for also.
The broken website and forum has been around for years, there is no intent to fix anything, only to push galaxy. It has nothing to do with revenue, why fix something you don’t want people to use.
Lack of change logs IS gogs responsibility, they are selling a product, it is for them to chase this information. Yes it is also the responsibility of dev/pub, but it certainly is not the responsibility of the consumer. Of the 23 updates I looked at last month, half had no changelog at all, most had last changes from years back, nothing on recent changes (even a link or indication of where to find changelog), and 1 had a link to a third party website. It is not my job to chase this information down.
Lack of parity, i.e. not as up to date with patches, content, etc. But yes, there are some with higher pricing here, in fact gog often is more expensive if you factor in the key market steam has.
As for the rest of it, too much social media nonsense for me to reply to, I have no idea what things like strawmanning is.
As far as I am concerned, the store is garbage, has been for years, galaxy is being forced, drm is creeping in at at angle. And no I care nothing for other people, if they don’t back up their titles it’s their fault, take some responsibility for your own existence! Gog are not getting a penny from me whilst this all remains, and CDPR certainly are not getting a penny from me after their actions. I applauded and encourage anyone who chooses to do similar. I am not here to “support” or be friends with commercial ventures, they provide what I want, or they get nothing from me, no money, no support, no recommendations etc.
nightcraw1er.488: So yes, all being said, zero point in GOG even existing at this point it is so far removed from what it was originally and no different to other stores, so as you say, just accept what is and go buy on steam for cheaper prices, larger catalog, and actual working functionality.
Magnitus: I wouldn't go that far. I think for the DRM-free crowd, GOG is hard to beat (all their games have a downloadable installer that will work independently of their servers... it may not have all the features or multiplayer, but you'll get something).
Otherwise, I agree with the rest of your statement. Other than the baseline behavior of providing an offline installer for all the games that are added to the store, I don't believe GOG is doing much to promote DRM-free anymore. They chose to follow, rather than lead.
Unfortunately I have found changes made to older installers to include galaxy has started to break them. Wizardry 8 for instance is broken for some users whereas the old installer works fine (also there was content removed from the new installer):
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/provide_a_full_and_complete_changelogged_download_system/page1 Unfortunately going back recreating old installers in the galaxy way (there was a thread about this a while back, can’t find it as search is broken), and adding in galaxy features - labelled as generic [WIN] internal changes, can break things and puts extra requirements on alleged offline installers. Has this been addressed, nope, there has been nothing for years now. The only thing that gets any resource or attention is galaxy. And with CDPR wanting a platform for microtransactions/online only (with the success of gwent, and with cyberpunk squarely aimed at that market) that is the way it’s going to go.
