You don't compete by offering what everyone else is offering; you are small player, new to business, you don't have 30 million customers, 5 millions online at the same time, a storehouse full of of pogrammers.


Not about gettin new games but about not gettin enough love for old games.
And the fear of turning into just another digital distributor. Yes, including a client.

We have gifting, I don't want any additional client. EOT

+1

And it would even be part of the inventory as the OP requested. See MyGames/Gifted. Together with sending PMs that should be very convenient. The client would be the browser in this case.

I'd prefer it if they kept things simple, like they do now. Besides, trading games seems very silly, why would I buy a ton of games I don't want, only to trade for games I do want? Why not just buy the game I want?

GOG is well known for keeping things simple and for the most part, user friendly.

I don't understand this trading thing. The only practical way you'd acquire a GOG is to buy it. So why would you trade it?

Exactly. Why would you want to buy a GOG you don't want, just to trade with somebody for the game you do want?

Isn't it easier to just buy the game you want?

What would be nice, though, an ability to set your wishlist public.

Heh.

This is a really silly idea. After thinking it through, I believe the end result would be cheating people or piracy.

1: Cheating

I buy a $5.99 GOG when it is on sale for $1.50. It shows up on my hypothetical "trade shelf" and someone offers to trade me a $5.99 GOG for it. I just cheated them out of $4.50.

2: Piracy

I'm giving the OP the benefit of the doubt and assuming he did not mean trading games we already own, but for the sake of argument: If it is a game we already own, we've had access to it to download a DRM free installer. Allowing someone to trade a game that has appeared on their library shelf is giving a free pass to pirates because the installer they already downloaded is not disabled.

To avoid these problems, all GOG games would have to be tied to a client that would need to run whenever we played. Oh, hey - that sounds a lot like DRM!

We don't like DRM, and the games are already ridiculously cheap. This is unnecessary and silly.

Now, back to my homework.

All I want to add is that I do not want a gog client at all. There is literally no benefit to having one. There are only reasons to not have one. I am being honest when I say that I can not think of one good reason to have a gog client.

Why would someone buy a $5.99 and trade it for another though? As I said, the lack of price points means this scenario doesn't happen in the first place.

Sorry, but I have to agree with all of the above. Also, while the current GOG Downloader works fine in Linux with wine, there is no guarantee that this so-called client, if ever developed, will also do so.

Emulating Steam won't help them stand out. Continuing with their core philosophy on new games will.

Personally, I believe a trading system within GOG would make very little sense.

First, GOG products adhere to one of two price points. You will not really be getting any "deals" through such a system. The only way I could see this being beneficial to users is those who buy games on sale in bulk, and then look to trade them away for higher priced games once the sale ends. While not illegal or wrong in that sense, I would (personally) consider that to be unfair towards the great guys at GOG, who are already offering games at pretty low prices.

Secondly, this system works on Steam because Valve enjoys throwing a lot of useless crap at users as well. They have created a massive amount of virtual items that people believe have monetary value, and are now fostering this community further by having created a trade system for games, hats, weapons, and whatever else they have overloaded their games with.

GOG is a service that focuses on games, not peddling a lot of useless virtual items to its users. A trading system would make no sense. Who is going to trade a $5.99 game for a $5.99 game, or a $5.99 game for a $9.99 one? I only see it being beneficial to people who buy in bulk during sales in hope of a bargain later, and in that case, I hope we never see a trading system.

The only thing right now that I would love from GOG more than anything is public wish lists. I would love to buy friends games they would enjoy having, and make it more of a surprise than having to ask them ahead of time and spoil a bit of the fun.

So after you beat a game you can trade it with someone for a different game?

Then GOG.com will see a decrease in sales.

Is this how it works on Steam?

Also I got my Dad Skyrim for Christmas and he got me to return it because he had to be connected to Steam... so I officially dislike Steam