Well, for now I was just trying it out, to make sure it works. I'm not planning to actually play it through right away. Thanks for the tip though.

Ok, that one looks interesting. Thanks for the tip! :-)

Good to know...thanks for the info.

To be fair, they cannot likely afford to give sales like gog and steam and etc can....which most of us have grown accustomed to.

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Also check out HRP(high resolution project) for Duke Nukem 3D.....it makes the graphics and textures more high def while staying true to the original low resolution versions as much as possible.

(they do include 3d models for enemies, but you can disable that and use the old enemy stuff)

Note: It is mainly keyboard only(though I think you can turn and aim with mouse).....and also there are save points and you can only save at them....but you don't need ribbons or etc to use them, and can save as many times as you like.

I guess there was a separate thread talking about Zoom trying to get Devotion onto their service? Dunno if it'll actually happen but that would big PR and headlines for them.

Over here. And seemed to say they were willing to add it to the backlog, and will get to it when they'll be done with those they already mean to release. So not trying, more like willing, if the dev would try.

By the way, a good number of the games they have, have appeared as free games at IndieGala, certainly in 2020.

Of course, if you grab them for free somewhere else, you're not supporting Zoom Platform and helping them grow.

Not really, as some are no longer free at IndieGala.

And I never said Zoom's games, but rather games at the Zoom Platform store.

All about semantics ... ha ha ha.

True, but who says we have to do that. And who provides them to IndieGala?
The same could be said about GOG for games that turn up free at Epic or Steam or Itch.io etc.

A free game is a free game in my book, and in any case, I never knowingly grabbed one at IndieGala that I knew was on the Zoom Platform, which is a recent revelation to me. I also don't like many of their prices.

I'd much rather support GOG in any case, certainly at this point, but handy to know about the Zoom Platform and give them my patronage where warranted.

Can never have too many DRM-Free stores.

P.S. It doesn't seem like they have put much money into the place yet, and I wonder why that is ... does kind of make me a bit suspicious. It is hard to know much about their games without going elsewhere, which is a pain.

I'm not saying you have to do anything. It's obviously up to you what you do with your money. But, much of this thread
has been about discussing Zoom Platform as a possible alternative to GOG, so I am just pointing out (the obvious) that they aren't going to grow into a viable alternative if people don't buy the games they are offering.

Imo, competition is a good thing. A viable DRM-free alternative would help keep GOG on the straight and narrow and might dissuade them from straying too far away from DRM-free. It would also be good to have in case GOG do at some point ditch offline installers or go under (or both). So, I really think Zoom Platform is worth supporting. A small investment now can pay off later on.

About their website being bare-bones, there's a chicken-and-egg dilemma there. If no-one buys from them because their store is more basic, they won't have much incentive to put in the work to improve it.

So does that mean you're no longer mad/upset about the removal of GOG DLer? So what changed that put them back in a favorable light with you, if I may ask?

Suspicious of what exactly?

Right. I have purchased 3 games on there so far, downloaded them and they all work great. I bought a $3 game as a test case first, to make sure it was legit. I have the offline installers backed up - if ZP ceases to exist tomorrow, it will have no impact on my ability to play the games I've bought. That's what DRM-free is all about.

There is really no risk whatsoever in giving them a try.

Several people are saying similar things....to me it seems to boil down to the seeming/actual general mistrust that a good number of people seem to have for things in general in the last several years.

Well that combined(in some cases) with some possibly not wanting to bother checking with ip holders to see if their worries and suspicions are valid or not.

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I assume some of them might feel bad(morally speaking, etc) if they bought a game and it somehow turned out to be non legit later...that or they fear what might happen if they buy a game and the same turned out to be true.

Of course that could all be cleared up if they simply contacted the rights holders....but a good number of those who voice such suspicions don't seem to want to bother taking the time to do such things for one reason or another.

It's more a feeling than anything concrete or I would have mentioned it.

Like I said, it seems odd or strange that their website isn't better than it is, when they should have every reason to make it so. Unanswered questions like that make me suspicious ... but it might be unfounded.

I've joined and gotten the 8 free games and bought 4 more, and have been considering others.
So I am not worried about malware or anything like that ... and I always download immediately so no concerns there either.

And anything there might be a reason to be suspicious about probably doesn't impact me personally anyway.
But it could be something to do with the industry and maybe an impact on a DRM-Free store like GOG.
I don't really want to say more, because it would be heading into conspiracy territory, so all I am doing, is saying I have a feeling of suspicion ... I sincerely hope it is misplaced.

The more DRM-Free stores the better, and as Time4Tea say, it may help keep GOG on the straight and narrow.

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