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The gog wallet is where I keep my gog condoms.
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pimpmonkey2382: ah another suggestion to be steam lite.
Hitler ate sugar.

I have trouble wrapping my head around this sort of ignorance, but it appears that some people have trouble understanding that the reason many in a given field end up with similar solutions is usually not mindless admiration. Sometimes a given solution simply WORKS or MAKES SENSE, and you can argue all you want against it, you can find as many alternatives as you'd like, but in the end it just might empirically or apriori-ly be the most logical choice to make. THIS IS NOT BAD. Innovation isn't always a good thing - often times "innovating" simply stands for "fucking up until you figure out why the current solution IS the current solution".
Of course, for those binary-minded, this doesn't make the opposite perfect either. Not everything NEEDS to be identical, variety can be a nice thing to have.
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pimpmonkey2382: ah another suggestion to be steam lite.
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Vestin: Hitler ate sugar.

I have trouble wrapping my head around this sort of ignorance, but it appears that some people have trouble understanding that the reason many in a given field end up with similar solutions is usually not mindless admiration. Sometimes a given solution simply WORKS or MAKES SENSE, and you can argue all you want against it, you can find as many alternatives as you'd like, but in the end it just might empirically or apriori-ly be the most logical choice to make. THIS IS NOT BAD. Innovation isn't always a good thing - often times "innovating" simply stands for "fucking up until you figure out why the current solution IS the current solution".
Of course, for those binary-minded, this doesn't make the opposite perfect either. Not everything NEEDS to be identical, variety can be a nice thing to have.
And following everyone elses leadership is never a good thing.
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pimpmonkey2382: And following everyone elses leadership is never a good thing.
If "everyone" is doing something, that's not an example of leadership.
With that being said - doing things differently, JUST BECAUSE you don't want to act like everyone else, is (surprise, surprise) not really smart. I'm saying this as a person that goes against the tide whenever appropriate.
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pimpmonkey2382: And following everyone elses leadership is never a good thing.
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Vestin: If "everyone" is doing something, that's not an example of leadership.
With that being said - doing things differently, JUST BECAUSE you don't want to act like everyone else, is (surprise, surprise) not really smart. I'm saying this as a person that goes against the tide whenever appropriate.
If I wanted to shop at a place that was just like steam, I'd SURPRISE dumb shit, I'd just shop at steam.
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pimpmonkey2382: If I wanted to shop at a place that was just like steam, I'd SURPRISE dumb shit, I'd just shop at steam.
If I wanted to shop at a place that refused to follow good practices of being a shop just for the sake of not being like another shop... I would be a "dumb shit".

Your insults have been noted but not appreciated. I encourage you to engage people in a more intellectual manner. You'd make a better impression, and would get better understanding.
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pimpmonkey2382: If I wanted to shop at a place that was just like steam, I'd SURPRISE dumb shit, I'd just shop at steam.
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Vestin: If I wanted to shop at a place that refused to follow good practices of being a shop just for the sake of not being like another shop... I would be a "dumb shit".

Your insults have been noted but not appreciated. I encourage you to engage people in a more intellectual manner. You'd make a better impression, and would get better understanding.
Yes because just paying money, and getting a product isn't a "good practice". I have no need to have a good impression with you, with the way you acted upon your first post towards me. You are truly proof that abortion should not only be legal but encouraged.
I would really like this feature because my bank sometimes has issues when there is a GOG sale and I make a bunch of transactions in a short time period and then they revoke all of them.
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Gandos: You obviously haven't been around on the Internet for very long. =P

As for the Wallet idea...I personally have no issues with the idea, but it does raise a possible concern that GOG will start giving refunds with store credit instead of actual cash.
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zeroxxx: Not sure if you're sarcastic, but I've been on internet since I was 12, so it's 17 years already including this year.

On GOG though, well. only 2 years.
I was being facetious. The point I was driving at was that Steam users have very much crapped on GOG, you just didn't have the (mis)fortune of seeing it. For example, some Steam users have commented how GOG "sells abandonware" and that anyone who wants a GOG version of a game just wants to pirate it.
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Gandos: I was being facetious. The point I was driving at was that Steam users have very much crapped on GOG, you just didn't have the (mis)fortune of seeing it. For example, some Steam users have commented how GOG "sells abandonware" and that anyone who wants a GOG version of a game just wants to pirate it.
Selling abandonware or old products aren't a sin. As long as there's a demand, there'll be supplies.

Likewise, Steam games can also be pirated. I can't count how many people pirating Football Manager series (being Steam exclusive). It doesn't matter if there's DRM or DRM free, as long as we have Internet, it's easy to pirate literally anything.
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zeroxxx: Selling abandonware or old products aren't a sin.
"Selling abandonware" is simply a contradiction. "Abandonware" is stuff that is no longer sold.
The moment you start selling it, it's no longer abandonware ;P.
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Gandos: I was being facetious. The point I was driving at was that Steam users have very much crapped on GOG, you just didn't have the (mis)fortune of seeing it. For example, some Steam users have commented how GOG "sells abandonware" and that anyone who wants a GOG version of a game just wants to pirate it.
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zeroxxx: Selling abandonware or old products aren't a sin. As long as there's a demand, there'll be supplies.

Likewise, Steam games can also be pirated. I can't count how many people pirating Football Manager series (being Steam exclusive). It doesn't matter if there's DRM or DRM free, as long as we have Internet, it's easy to pirate literally anything.
I know those things very well, you don't have to tell me. XD I just said that some Steam users have brought such arguments against GOG; I never said those arguments were well thought out. =P

But regarding the abandonware point, those Steam users missed two even more important points than that:

1. The term "abandonware" is used for games that are commercially unavailable and have been ignored/neglected by their copyright owners. If a game becomes available for purchase again, then it ceases to fit that criteria and thus no longer qualifies as abandonware. So by definition, the games that GOG sells aren't abandonware, since the very act of selling them disqualifies them from that status.

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2. Abandonware is an informal term that has no legal significance. As far as the law is concerned, a copyrighted game can only be distributed with the permission of the copyright holder. So the free distribution of "abandonware" titles is actually illegal and essentially qualifies as piracy. Services like GOG make it possible for people to acquire older titles without resorting to illegal means.

On that note, it's funny to think how the Steam users who accused GOG of "selling abandonware" must have felt when some of those same "abandonware" titles started to appear on Steam. =P
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zeroxxx: Selling abandonware or old products aren't a sin. As long as there's a demand, there'll be supplies.

Likewise, Steam games can also be pirated. I can't count how many people pirating Football Manager series (being Steam exclusive). It doesn't matter if there's DRM or DRM free, as long as we have Internet, it's easy to pirate literally anything.
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Gandos: I know those things very well, you don't have to tell me. XD I just said that some Steam users have brought such arguments against GOG; I never said those arguments were well thought out. =P

But regarding the abandonware point, those Steam users missed two even more important points than that:

1. The term "abandonware" is used for games that are commercially unavailable and have been ignored/neglected by their copyright owners. If a game becomes available for purchase again, then it ceases to fit that criteria and thus no longer qualifies as abandonware. So by definition, the games that GOG sells aren't abandonware, since the very act of selling them disqualifies them from that status.

and

2. Abandonware is an informal term that has no legal significance. As far as the law is concerned, a copyrighted game can only be distributed with the permission of the copyright holder. So the free distribution of "abandonware" titles is actually illegal and essentially qualifies as piracy. Services like GOG make it possible for people to acquire older titles without resorting to illegal means.

On that note, it's funny to think how the Steam users who accused GOG of "selling abandonware" must have felt when some of those same "abandonware" titles started to appear on Steam. =P
I've seen some posts "Steam is dying, this game is OLD!"
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pimpmonkey2382: I've seen some posts "Steam is dying, this game is OLD!"
You know, somehow, that doesn't surprise me in the slightest. XD