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GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” (gameworldobserver.com)
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[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

But the APIs are public, so they can be reimplemented in open source. There just hasn't been any reason for it since currently that would only be used for piracy (in fact some "cracked" games have a mockup of the steam API that just returns the expected things as if it had contacted the servers). But the moment steam goes away I give it a couple of weeks until there's a GitHub implementing most of the basic stuff.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

But the APIs are public, so they can be reimplemented in open source.

And have been since years: https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/