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.
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.
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