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Posted April 02, 2025
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Dawnsinger: BUT GOG itself is listed as wholly owned by CDPR
I know it's pedantic, but I have to stop you there: GOG is owned by CD Projekt, not CDPR which is the game development sister company of GOG.

EDIT: Correct trading number though, you just fell into calling it CDPR, which is easy to do.
Post edited April 02, 2025 by Braggadar
Posted April 02, 2025
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Yes, indeed, it's too similar to distinguish for me as someone totally not interested in corporate structures (thanks for confirming the ISIN). I assumed it was abbreviating "CD PR(ojekt)", which may or may not be the intent. Sadly, this made me read up on them a little more and I found out about the 2021 breach and subsequent actions. I guess I'm both impressed (for not backing down to ransom) and displeased (for DMCA actions), so I guess it's neutral in the end.
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Dawnsinger: I assumed it was abbreviating "CD PR(ojekt)", which may or may not be the intent
Nah, in this case the R stands for RED. As in CD Projekt RED, the game development company.
Posted April 02, 2025
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Magnitus: If GOG is gonna be serious about putting in the work to really help preserve a big chunk of their catalog in the long run, especially if they port to Linux or make drm-free multiplayer work, as the catalog of games to maintain grow, they might not be able to finance it in the future with sale revenues alone.

Assuming that they do it right, for preservation and not to enshittify everything in their walled ecosystem like Steam does, I could see myself financing that work with a subscription. I'll keep an open mind and we'll see how it goes.
But we must remember that GOG is still a publicly traded business and not a charity. GOG may have lofty preservation goals, but they need to figure out how to do that within the boundaries of their financial means. It's no different from anyone's personal goals. We all may have hopes and dreams of things that we would like to do, but ultimately we have to do what we can within our own financial constraints.

If GOG's preservation spending is outpacing their income from the preservation, then they may need to reconsider their strategy. (Such as taking a larger cut of sales from Preservation Program games, charging upfront fees to publishers, etc.) Otherwise, it doesn't make sense for me to donate cash to GOG to they can accomplish their goals unless GOG is willing to donate money to my Ferrari fund. Fair is fair.
Posted April 02, 2025
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Catventurer: The Dragon Age: Origin situation is why absolutely nobody should support this. One of the perks is the ability to rollback to older versions. Buy the game and find that version 1.05 GOG 0.8 is broken? You just need to rollback to the prior version. Sorry sad person that isn't a subscriber, you're stuck with the broken build and no ability to rollback.

This is one game.

Now if GOG did this to literally every game, you would have no choice but to pay a monthly subscription just to get access to the build versions that actually work.... and naturally you'll have to use Galaxy to get those builds, which means that Galaxy goes from being something optional to something you're required. And you have to keep subscribing and keep using Galaxy if you want access to working builds because older builds are for subscribers and Galaxy is how you confirm that you are one.

I'm sure that someone will come along and tell me that I'm being hysterical and overreacting because let's just ignore how shady AF the whole Dragon Age Origin situation is on its own without any hypothetical subscriber program.
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Breja: I said it already in one of the other threads - it looks like the idea is to create a problem so that they can sell a solution. It's so shady you could use it colonise the Sun.
I would argue that it's so shady that albino vampires that explode in sunlight could safely colonize the sun.

I used to work as a game tester, until it became far too expensive to live anywhere near where those companies are located. GOG's preservation program release of Dragon Age Origin really is the one and only time that I've seen a version update break a game so badly that I really would say that the only valid solution is to just scrap it and revert back to the prior build.
Posted April 02, 2025
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Hooyaah: if you want to understand my position on this better, you have my invitation to initiate an exclusive conversation.
Behind a paywall? ;-D
Posted April 02, 2025
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Mobeeuz: The option to support GOG, and their interests in preserving games, is important to me.
Well then, buy more games. Make giveaways. Everyone wins. GOG gets money, you get to support GOG, people with less disposable income get free games. No need for a subscription at all.

There isn't a single good reason for adding a subscription model to GOG. But a lot of bad ones.
Posted April 02, 2025
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Funnily enough I still haven't received the survey.
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Breja: I said it already in one of the other threads - it looks like the idea is to create a problem so that they can sell a solution. It's so shady you could use it colonise the Sun.
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Catventurer: I would argue that it's so shady that albino vampires that explode in sunlight could safely colonize the sun.

I used to work as a game tester, until it became far too expensive to live anywhere near where those companies are located. GOG's preservation program release of Dragon Age Origin really is the one and only time that I've seen a version update break a game so badly that I really would say that the only valid solution is to just scrap it and revert back to the prior build.
Albino here..............it was funny though. The sun isn't a solid object though.
Post edited April 02, 2025 by RizzoCuoco
Posted April 02, 2025
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Catventurer: I would argue that it's so shady that albino vampires that explode in sunlight could safely colonize the sun.

I used to work as a game tester, until it became far too expensive to live anywhere near where those companies are located. GOG's preservation program release of Dragon Age Origin really is the one and only time that I've seen a version update break a game so badly that I really would say that the only valid solution is to just scrap it and revert back to the prior build.
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RizzoCuoco: Albino here..............it was funny though. The sun isn't a solid object though.
We'll send the theoretical vampires to the sunny side of Mercury then. <3
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