Pushing a shitty launcher, selling abandoned games, selling incomplete games, putting DRMs on multiplayer, selling a lot of low quality games, not expanding their overworked team despite the profits they make, etc.
It got much worse with the success of the Witcher3 and has kept on going down.
I think there’s even a browser extension that is used to mark shitty games on gog, that have missing features or DRMs.
Funny for a platform that has the motto of selling hand-picked, DRM-free games.
And then I learned that Steam actually has a (to me at least) surprisingly long list of games that are either DRM free, or have unimportant DRM that can be easily circumvented.
Did you even glance at this before posting? It’s titled “games that treat GoG as second class citizens”. Not “GoG treats customers as second class citizens”.
That’s a title. Gosh people really are GoG fanboys.
GoG always claimed that they hand-pick only quality games, that they personally negotiate with game companies, etc.
If a game treats gog customers as second class citizens, it means that GoG allows it. The existence of this link on the gog website also means that GoG is aware of it and doesn’t give a shit.
The first page contains a google doc summarizing all the issues that were reported.
I called you a fanboy for attacking what I said out of superficial points that proved you didn’t bother reading what I linked, all it would have taken was to read the first post.
GoG advertises hand-picked, high quality games (or at least did) so they’re the ones claiming to have the ability to select.
This post is enough for anyone in the gog team to contact the companies of the concerned games and discuss those issues. Pretty easy fix if you ask me.
The first page contains a google doc summarizing all the issues that were reported.
Irrelevant issues.
I called you a fanboy for attacking what I said out of superficial points that proved you didn’t bother reading what I linked
Because they’re irrelevant.
This post is enough for anyone in the gog team to contact the companies of the concerned games and discuss those issues. Pretty easy fix if you ask me.
Well the people reporting these issues don’t seem to think they’re irrelevant. You do sound like quite a fanboy, frankly.
If they have done that, then they didn’t fix anything and didn’t do their job. On the contrary, new games being published on GoG have more of the same kind of issues. You’re just defending GoG irrationally.
Wow, instead of being a jackass try checking your ego.
Did you read the 277 pages of the link? And the Google docs summarising everything?
This is a comprehension issue indeed, your little ego prevented you from even looking more than 5 seconds at what I linked and understanding what it was.
Why is this a problem? It’s literally a good that those games aren’t being lost to oblivion
selling incomplete games,
As in unfinished? That’s the devs’ fault.
putting DRMs on multiplayer,
Without that there will be a humongous rise in cheating in online games
selling a lot of low quality games
Literally not an issue. They are a marketplace and frequented by indie devs, they can sell as many shitty games as they like. In fact I would like them to be more of a platform like itch.io
not expanding their overworked team despite the profits they make
You have no idea what you’re talking about, their org structure and project setup is not public and there is no way to know how “overworked” any team is as an outsider. You don’t even know what teams they have.
The problem is not abandoned games, but selling them.
The devs can only publish on GoG if GoG lets them.
Multiplayer games existed long before DRMs and it worked. There are many solutions against cheating.
Quality is an issue when GoG advertises hand-picked, high quality games.
If the team is not overworked then it is not working, which is worse. I’d rather assume a lack of means than a lack of work, it’s the charity principle.
Pushing a shitty launcher, selling abandoned games, selling incomplete games, putting DRMs on multiplayer, selling a lot of low quality games, not expanding their overworked team despite the profits they make, etc. It got much worse with the success of the Witcher3 and has kept on going down.
I think there’s even a browser extension that is used to mark shitty games on gog, that have missing features or DRMs. Funny for a platform that has the motto of selling hand-picked, DRM-free games.
And then I learned that Steam actually has a (to me at least) surprisingly long list of games that are either DRM free, or have unimportant DRM that can be easily circumvented.
Subnautica, for instance.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam
Subnautica is DRM free on steam? Nice! I wanted to give it to try to my father, but he doesn’t want a steam account.
Most games on steam can be played without steam.
Amen to the DRM part, that was really a stab in our back by them
Can you cite some examples? It’s the first I’m hearing of any of this.
Here’s one: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_that_treat_gog_customers_as_second_class_citizens_v2
Did you even glance at this before posting? It’s titled “games that treat GoG as second class citizens”. Not “GoG treats customers as second class citizens”.
That’s a title. Gosh people really are GoG fanboys.
GoG always claimed that they hand-pick only quality games, that they personally negotiate with game companies, etc.
If a game treats gog customers as second class citizens, it means that GoG allows it. The existence of this link on the gog website also means that GoG is aware of it and doesn’t give a shit.
And that was just one example.
Titles are typically indicative of the content of the post…
Do you want to provide evidence that isn’t literally just a link to 200 pages of irrelevant user comments?
So you provide irrelevant evidence and that makes me a fanboy? Okay sure.
Is that so? What is it that you expect them to do about this?
The first page contains a google doc summarizing all the issues that were reported.
I called you a fanboy for attacking what I said out of superficial points that proved you didn’t bother reading what I linked, all it would have taken was to read the first post.
GoG advertises hand-picked, high quality games (or at least did) so they’re the ones claiming to have the ability to select. This post is enough for anyone in the gog team to contact the companies of the concerned games and discuss those issues. Pretty easy fix if you ask me.
Irrelevant issues.
Because they’re irrelevant.
And what makes you think they haven’t done that?
Well the people reporting these issues don’t seem to think they’re irrelevant. You do sound like quite a fanboy, frankly.
If they have done that, then they didn’t fix anything and didn’t do their job. On the contrary, new games being published on GoG have more of the same kind of issues. You’re just defending GoG irrationally.
The comments are claiming that game publishers are giving versions without controller support, etc. included.
This isn’t a GOG issue, try reading comprehension next time.
Wow, instead of being a jackass try checking your ego.
Did you read the 277 pages of the link? And the Google docs summarising everything?
This is a comprehension issue indeed, your little ego prevented you from even looking more than 5 seconds at what I linked and understanding what it was.
Geez, ive been out of the loop. Thanks for the write up friend
Fuck them. That’s horrible.
Why is this a problem? It’s literally a good that those games aren’t being lost to oblivion
As in unfinished? That’s the devs’ fault.
Without that there will be a humongous rise in cheating in online games
Literally not an issue. They are a marketplace and frequented by indie devs, they can sell as many shitty games as they like. In fact I would like them to be more of a platform like itch.io
You have no idea what you’re talking about, their org structure and project setup is not public and there is no way to know how “overworked” any team is as an outsider. You don’t even know what teams they have.
The problem is not abandoned games, but selling them.
The devs can only publish on GoG if GoG lets them.
Multiplayer games existed long before DRMs and it worked. There are many solutions against cheating.
Quality is an issue when GoG advertises hand-picked, high quality games.
If the team is not overworked then it is not working, which is worse. I’d rather assume a lack of means than a lack of work, it’s the charity principle.