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Posted June 04, 2014
All-new Witcher 3 gameplay trailer, pre-orders launch; GOG.com unveils GOG Galaxy, the DRM-Free Online Gaming platform!

All-new The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt gameplay footage, pre-order details, and a look at the exclusive content of the collector's edition. GOG.com unveils its upcoming new project taking a next step in the DRM-Free gaming revolution. All that and more in the CD Projekt RED & GOG.com Summer Conference. Watch it right here!
Post edited June 04, 2014 by G-Doc
Posted June 04, 2014
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IAmSinistar: Huh, I had nearly forgotten about GOG's partnership with Curse.
Oh, phuck! I had completely forgotten about that. A mandatory client (from a third party at that) would be a no go.
Posted June 04, 2014
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trusteft: In the porn industry they have an open mind. Most in the game industry are run by PR and DRM scum who are in power over the publishers.
Actually, some game companies (big ones) are usually run by people that have no fucking clue what the game industry is about. They usually come from a marketing background and sold everything from detergents, sauces to sugar water and ice-cream.

Exhibit A:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Riccitiello


Can't say anything about EA's current CEO because his CV starts with him working for EA... so... probably someone's protégée
Post edited June 04, 2014 by silviucc
Posted June 04, 2014
My money's on a client of some sort and a new big partner announced. It's been *forever* since they last had a live announcement.
Posted June 04, 2014
That clock is a great idea.Can't wait ...24 hours and 53 minutes counting.
Posted June 04, 2014
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Kaylakaze: I've never used Desurium, but I've never had any problems with Desura other than it not validating something that was already installed and needing to redownload it.
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HypersomniacLive: I tried it out of curiosity, it didn't survive 24hrs on my machine - it's a buggy piece of software that takes for ever to log you in, crashes constantly and does not respond to the options "restart/ force update" it gives you after it crashes.

What I'd like more info on is about the part I highlighted in your reply. Could you please elaborate on what and how Desura "validates" an installed game and give an example?
I reinstalled Windows. When I ran Desura on the new install (Desura and its games are on a different hard drive so they were still there from the previous install, but Desura apparently lost it's records as to what it had installed and what it hadn't, so I looked at my Desura games folder and told Desura to validate those that were installed, at which time Desura does like Steam and looks at the files and presumably their checksums and sees if it needs to update the game or whatever. Some games validated, after which Desura said they were installed, while others gave an error during validation and needed to be reinstalled.
Posted June 04, 2014
From GOG's Twitter:
"We had a dream.

Now we're making it happen!"

And a picture of the universe (again with the galaxies?).

https://twitter.com/GOGcom/status/474184306643189760
Posted June 04, 2014
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Kaylakaze: I reinstalled Windows. When I ran Desura on the new install (Desura and its games are on a different hard drive so they were still there from the previous install, but Desura apparently lost it's records as to what it had installed and what it hadn't, so I looked at my Desura games folder and told Desura to validate those that were installed, at which time Desura does like Steam and looks at the files and presumably their checksums and sees if it needs to update the game or whatever. Some games validated, after which Desura said they were installed, while others gave an error during validation and needed to be reinstalled.
OK, here's where I have trouble following you. In your initial post that I replied to you said that you've never used Desurium, yet in this post you state the parts I highlighted. It all sounds to me like you do have the Desura client installed and using it - maybe you just don't know it's called Desurium or what you call "Desura" is actually the client?

If that's not the case, could you, please, post a screenshot of what you call "Desura" running on your system?


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SCPM: From GOG's Twitter:
"We had a dream.

Now we're making it happen!"

And a picture of the universe (again with the galaxies?).

https://twitter.com/GOGcom/status/474184306643189760
GOG's such a tease ;-P
Posted June 04, 2014
Hopeffuly its a better dream then the one from february :) lol

PS: regional pricing ;)

Well eitherway we will see tomorrow. But I still think its going to be a new gog client since they are talking about technology and I don't seem them doing a Gogbox or something like that.
Post edited June 04, 2014 by Matruchus
Posted June 04, 2014
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SCPM: From GOG's Twitter:
"We had a dream.

Now we're making it happen!"

And a picture of the universe (again with the galaxies?).

https://twitter.com/GOGcom/status/474184306643189760
It sounds like something really cool, but they've kept hinting at a "project", not a new publisher. :(

Hopefully it really does lead to more great most-wanted games appearing. The universe picture keeps making me think of Homeworld, but perhaps not.
Posted June 04, 2014
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Matruchus: ...
But I think that the other question is - Why should the developers/publishers make a drm-free copy of a game that has drm? Obviously removing drm features costs.
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cal74: The question I'd ask is: why does a publisher make a DRM version of their game? Even early access games can be found without any difficulties. The usual answer is that it protects the first days when most of the sales are done but that's bulls*** because most of the cracks are 0-day one.

So DRM costs money, is useless and has the double effect of annoying the legit user and losing sales from the people (a minority I agree but additional sales anyway) who do not want DRM with their game. The only "positive" effect is that it calms the worries of the shareholders who, in the wonderful world we are living in, are a lot more important than the people who buy your product.
So very true. As a game player I always thought that DRM is the most absurd and stupid practice ever.
Since I was a little kid (and I'm in my 30's now) I used to play in pirated games. Heck, I even played a cracked Skyrim less than a month after it came out.

Yet, I never pirated a game out of GOG (and I could do it quite easily, just by browsing the net). But I consider GOG a fair company, worthy of my respect. As such I prefer to buy their games.
Posted June 04, 2014
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HypersomniacLive: GOG's such a tease ;-P
It would be nice for Judas to mark this as In Progress, just to make people go apeshit. :)
Posted June 04, 2014
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HypersomniacLive: GOG's such a tease ;-P
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IAmSinistar: It would be nice for Judas to mark this as In Progress, just to make people go apeshit. :)
Good one! ROFL :)

I actually voted on this long time ago :)
Post edited June 04, 2014 by Matruchus
Posted June 04, 2014
I've figured it out! All their teasing and [url=https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BpSkHJvCQAEH2rP.jpg:large]this pic[/url] can mean only one thing. Think about it.

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. And it's mostly full of...
Posted June 04, 2014
Hello everyone!

What's the current consensus on the "GOG new technology" thing from the email? Linux? Unknown target platform? New base platform? Something completely different?
Posted June 04, 2014
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stan423321: Hello everyone!

What's the current consensus on the "GOG new technology" thing from the email? Linux? Unknown target platform? New base platform? Something completely different?
Client I think. Somebody mentioned Nothing :) Buying EA and such :)
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