I know, hence the ":P"

But they don't want to do that anymore. This is not about principles, it's about money; Gog has made it abundantly clear that whatever values they may have had in the past are not as important as growing.

Not wanting to raise prices (I assume you're talking about Nordic) is not a principle. Several classics (Interplay) have had a price increase at some point in the past (just as some had their price decreased too) for that matter.
Nordic wanting regional prices for their catalog in a store that just allowed regional prices isn't simply a case of terminal greed either: because while they'd charge more in Europe, it's also true they'd charge less in South America and Russia. It's all relative.

Now, if we're talking principles, you either believe regional prices are bad for your customers (that was their old reasoning, wasn't it?) and refuse them, or you don't. There's no middle ground here. Saying yes for new games but no for classics (which is meaningless anyway as long as they don't tell us their definition of classic) makes no sense, because as far as principles go, they threw everything out of the window the moment they chose to adopt regional prices for the first time (emphasis on chose, and not counting TW2 obviously).
They're just trying to stand with the feet on two boats, throwing a bandaid fix here and there. Remains to be seen if the risk of alienating the old consumer base is justified by the potential gains, but that's not something that can be judged in the short term.


That's totally up to you to decide. If you feel so strongly about Gog's new policies, by any means, let them know in whatever way you deem appropriate. Tbh, if I were here for their principles, I would have stopped buying anything long ago. Mind you, I hate throwing the "vote with your wallet" card, it almost never works... still, it may be the one language Gog understands most at this point.


Let's just say that if and when the client works properly, it's completely unobstrusive. Problem is, it's a bugged POS and rarely does. When I registered in 2011 it was impossible to access offline mode without an internet connection. They finally managed to fix it in... 2012 or 2013 I think? Still a pain in the ass for many other reasons though. :\

Don't be fooled. Moderators can not ban your account, only your FORUM account. Why are you taking everything for granted? Do a bit of research.

Steam do NOT ban account, only when you do serious offense e.g Real Life Threat, included in terrorism etc. Steam only LOCKS your account from trading, gifting, activating new games or buying from stores if you commit things like fraud or scam.

If you don't believe me, ask them: https://support.steampowered.com/

Tell them if Mods can ban account as a whole or not.

No one gets banned. You're very biased because you don't have enough info about Steam. See my quote before.
Delete EVERYTHING from your steam folder except steam.exe and steamapps folder. That'll settle your problem.

On the very few occasion I had to ask for after-sale service, GOG was top notch for me. Don't sure about Steam.

Something I would like to see on GOG is the ability to flag games as "not interested". If you have games on Steam or GamersGate or whatever, it would be very convenient to tag same similarly as those owned.

I don't care about movies AT ALL, it is more of a nuisance for me. I would like a preference option to restrict GOG to " Games only.

Steam forums are the worst I ever met. Many peoples turn to insults right away (I wonder how old they are ?)
For sure they are plenty of helpful and nice peoples, but all those insulting ones are really boring.
Gog Community is much better.

Other issues with Steam for me:
- I want more privacy settings control.
- Login in when there are connection or server issues is sometime a pain.
- You can't install, and have functional games on 2 computers at once. Switching to your Desktop to your laptop (for example) is not very convenient if you want to do it everyday. Especially if your connection is down. If you have 2 computer at home you cannot play local multi, without purchasing the game twice.
- I wonder what will happen the day Steam will close!
- The new recommendations system, is very poor. It recommends me all games on my wishlist for example, (hey, thank you I could have figured this out myself).
- For 2 years in a row, I found better offers for my taste during GOG winter sale than during Steam's ones. For Steam 2014 winter sale after 8 days, 2 Euros spend.

Biased no,ignorant maybe but that's only because I honestly do not like being under the thumb of something like Steam after paying for games and then them sitting on my shoulder watching me.Tell me if you purchased a new TV and every night the shop keeper came to your place to watch your TV what would you think?Steam is doing the same thing,the scenarios may be different but it's still the same.I know about offline playing but when I wan't to go online there seems to be a lot problems,so I stay online.
The bottom line is that people nowadays are treated like Thieves,just the same as if we were all Pirates.
That's my whole point...

Let's make it clear.

Steam makes DRM with its API.

Steam offers it for free for developers. It is up to the Developers to decide to use it or not.

Bunch of Developers like Steam's DRM and decided to use it.

Question is, problem is with Steam or Developers?

Kind of both, what I like about GOG is they actually stand up to this crap. If Steam DRM was the only DRM on Steam it wouldn't be so bad... but the third party DRM allowed on Steam is ridiculous.

While I think the authors should do as they wish frankly I see DRM as a failed state. It's even a worse effort than the "war on drugs". All it will do is create an arms race, of which, the DRMers will ultimately lose. It is a sad state of affairs when a country takes their only route of preventing "bad things happening" as oppressing their citizens *cough* users *cough*.

The analogy is accurate. The result will always be the same. Users lose at first. The regime completely loses and falls into failure in the end. Users, citizens, consumers, etc. They *ARE* the foundation.

Stop buying their crap and they will change or stop producing it because they fail.

There is a saying that some what escapes me at the moment but it goes akin to this, "Like sand the harder you squeeze the more it slips through your hands.".

I became one of those grains on music about fifteen years ago. Gaming about two years ago. Books, I never buy drm books and any I consider of worth I want in "dead tree format" (note Gutenberg project is great). The day you take information from my hands is the day they are dead.

This isn't true at all. I was able to disable my internet connection and switch Steam to offline. You have to have a valid login to do so, but you don't have to be currently online. After some testing, If I log off in online mode it asks me if I want to start in Offline mode if I start it up with no internet connection. So it's not like you have to have a constant connection. You're either doing something wrong or just trying to be difficult.