LOL.

I was unaware they'd actually released a game. Is it DRM-free on Steam?

But as for Steam...

... if you want to make money quickly...

... you have to go where the money is.

That's Steam ATM.

Otherwise it would be releasing a game that no one wanted (or knew to want) on a store that no one had heard about.

I'm sure ZOOM PLATFORM is looking to grow a reputation / share and then ultimately start releasing exclusives on their own store.

I'm continually amazed at how these devs / stores think they can build an audience for a store based on future games. Valve and Epic both came about the other way around -- through wildly popular games and engines that allowed them to create stores and throw around money. Basing store survival on sheer ego and ambition is gutsy, but...

... not the most stable of business plans.

Acting as publisher and selling a licensed game on Steam is on step further than selling games of the Epic Games Store with Galaxy.

But yes! The stellar 100%-free DRM store is trying to make money. Everything is fine.

GOG doesn't need much in the way of messageboards. Look at what people use them for.

GOG selling DRMed Epic games on Galaxy is worse than either Zoom-Plat or CDPR selling on Scheme, because Galaxy is part of the GOG store and associated branding wise with GOG. Thus, selling DRMed games on Galaxy (even if it is through "the new app" or whatever bs phrasing they tried to excuse it with) is "GOG selling DRMed games".

Btw I am with you in that I find "money" to be a lacking reason for Zoom-Plat to put a game on a DRMed store. Obviously they stand to make money by doing so. I am not part of the company though so I don't really care, and want what's best for the customer (i.e. pure DRM-free gaming and no concessions made to the larger DRMed gaming world).

Zoom-Plat as in just the store is still a stellar example of a 100% DRM-free store. However, re: releasing a game on Scheme, I can't speak for others, but I do not find this to be totally fine as it causes me to doubt how committed they really are to DRM-free gaming. Regardless, there are still other stellar examples of 100% DRM-free stores, like JAST USA, so don't think us boycotters will all come groveling back to GOG's arms just yet :)

You do know that your assumption doesn't make any sense, right? While gog is small compared to others, Zoom is even smaller. Why migrate to a smaller target audience?

Zoom needs to provide a unique selling proposition that trumps that of GOG's like better running games and games that are not available on gog or anywhere else for that matter.

It already has that. In fact, GOG liked Zoom's version of Killing Time so much that GOG now sells it. Before Zoom got it to work, GOG said it was impossible. There are some others they said the same about that Zoom now sells.

You are aware that JAST USA is a publisher on Steam, right?

It's different with every game on ZOOM, El Matador and Curse: The Eye of Isis is better on GOG. I have both copies. ZOOM could have done a better job with some of their games, like Order of war or Real Warfare: 1242, which are the same buggy mess on steam and Gamersgate. This is even more concerning than GOG doing a lousy job because ZOOM currently has a smaller category of games to deal with.

A few other games I tested with GOG and ZOOM were the same. They did do a better job on incoming force.

Does he show proof of GOG saying this? I have never seen actual evidence, just his word.

Yes (on GOG too for that matter), I may not have been clear enough in my comment but I view both Zoom-Plat and JAST USA as great examples of 100% DRM-free stores (unlike how I view GOG). However, I do not like any of these companies' action of releasing games on Scheme, but that is separate from the store experience.

The distinction is that the Z-P and JAST stores themselves contain no games with DRM or DRM-like methods (to my knowledge anyway) though on the larger subject of "furthering the cause of DRM-free gaming" I think it is counterproductive to release on a fundamentally DRMed platform.
Mileage may vary but their "About Us" page suggests some unique points that I haven't seen on other DRM-free stores; namely, Gen X appeal and connections to the entertainment industry.

For me, the lack of an "optional" client that the company seems to pour every resource they have into at the expense of the actual DRM-free offline installers, is good enough :)

some people consider keys for multiplayer drm and there are games on zoom that have them. selling games on steam is good actually for companies can make more money to continue their business. its very weird to think that is a negative(selling games on steam).

ZOOM is making a client for downloading and updating games. Which funny because the Twitter manager said they have no plans for a client launcher, but the CEO said they do.

What multiplayer games require a key? I have half of their multiplayer games and haven't seen a key yet.