Posting this as a user, not anyone connected to Zoom etc

Posting a view that makes people reply in such way is not a problem. You've got a reason for feeling in such a way, there's no reason not to express that.

As someone connected to Zoom (no, not that one) it's our job to switch the gut feeling. Though, i would say Itch is not the best example to compare as we fix up older titles rather than simply just host games. But like i said, hopefully one day the gut will turn to a positve feeling!

As I see it, one DRM-free store is enough.
— this is ok as long as that store is doing what you want, remains open, and releases things you are interested in though. If you were happy with one status quo, why not stay with steam, bigger catalog, more established etc…

And you might as well stick with the established one that more or less pioneered the whole thing and despite the few questionable decisions/gaffes/shortcomings over the years - that have yet to significantly affect my personal experience with GOG and make me leave for greener pastures - still has the necessary reputation making it more likelier to stay around and continue to slowly but surely grow for years to come.
— well, not sure they pioneered it so much. Some a niche and exploited perhaps. DRM is something which gets added to a product, products were available before without drm. And lots of other work had been done on compatability before gog, dosbox for example, drm removal patches etc.

As long as there are offline installers, a continuous influx of new as well as old classic games and Galaxy staying optional and the fuck out of my singleplayer experience I'm sticking around, exclusively.
— it’s not optional in an increasing amount of instances, even offline installers contain parts of galaxy.

Especially now that GOG seemingly continues to make an effort to make good on and correct past mistakes by bringing formerly rejected games such as Agony on board.
— could you give one example of where gog has made an effort/fixed something. I can off the bat give you quite a few where they did not. Forums, broken, search, broken, changelogs, not present/not update/obfuscated, no ability to download older versions or patches, removed content and compatability from newer versions, feature parity withother stores lacking, poorly optimised installers lacking decent compression, dreadful communication, “galaxy day”, the list goes on.

Sorry to seem a bit harsh, but you have only been here a year, and surely you must have seen all this already?

Indeed.

Any store that provides proper DRM-Free, should get encouragement and support for doing that.

This one?

So new games suck now huh?

what do you mean?

That guy posted in other threads contradicting the op of those threads that games were bad now or boring, by saying they were good.....now here he is saying DRM which is a core feature of new games, is not good. This contradicts his point that new games are good.

To be fair not all new games have drm. It's mainly the free to play games or if it's straight up an online only game. Many new games are drm free.

All I see there are around ten examples of games needing third party accounts, anticheats, cosmetics, rewards and some bugs.

Is it an enough reason to create debate every day?

Sometimes I see DRM.

Hard to say. Succubus was supposed to be released later this month but now it's been delayed until September. They might have been planning to release both here at the same time. We'll either get Agony this month or they'll possibly release both as a bundle in September.

Agreed/well said

But GOG can still(and in some ways has) become more corporate over time(in it's decisions/stances/etc).

Well Zoom has been independent for several years now(it's been around a lot longer than some think), and that's without a parent company boosting it with capital(like CDP/CDPR does for GOG).

That said, yeah...many companies go corporate....which is why imo the best time for others(generally speaking) to make use of them is early on.

Also: JFG?


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That seems to be it...thanks for linking it.

Control is DRM-free on Epic i believe? DRM is in most releases, but not all. Gotta *cough* protect those *cough* week one sales!

Interestingly that shows I'm right and newer games suck, because no one is bothering to priate them since the DRM isn't being used.

I'd just ignore him. This is a thread about a proclaimed development at the ZOOM Platform and some DRM-Free aspects.

He's clearly bored and attempting to stir up ill conceived controversy ... much like a troll.

If you hadn't quoted him, I wouldn't even know what he wrote.