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[–] atempuser23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

The launcher that they have is pretty rough. I downloaded it for Mac OS and it just wouldn’t run right. Kept closing down. If I could just download right from the website they’d have some money.

If they draw is drm free games why only allow purchase through a custom launcher like everything else?

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 2 points 21 minutes ago

Yeah galaxy is sadly a bit of a mess. Back when i was still running windows it just broke its own update capabilities once or twice.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 0 points 53 minutes ago

Can you not download from the site on mac?

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 13 points 3 hours ago

People talking about money kinda missing the point this is a culture issue. They need to sort themselves out clean house if people can't be reasonable for their staff.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 35 points 4 hours ago

There's nothing wrong with the business model of selling older games at affordable prices. This is about poor management. (Or deliberately bad management by a "CEO" who was hired to destroy GOG to remove a popular choice from us).

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 16 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Thankfully if GOG goes down I don't lose anything.

Now if Steam goes down, I lose my entire library

[–] aido@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Gabe Newell has promised that if Steam goes down you won't lose your library, but we only have his word as assurance.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

As great as Gaben and Valve are his word doesn't mean anything (it's not a personal attack either, it's just that it isn't anything binding). Luckily if they fail to keep their promises (or legally cannot) then the crack community will step in. I'm pretty sure they cracked Steam DRM ages ago. I remember a friend using it for Left 4 Dead back in the day.

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No doubt the corporate drones that take over after his death will shit all over his legacy.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago

It's one of my biggest fears, but I guess there's always piracy especially for old games.

[–] ugjka@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Anything that uses steam apis and services won't work without steam and steam offers a lot of that to game devs

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago

If steam goes down I'm sailing the high seas from then on.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of steam games dont have drm

You would lose only most of your library, not all of it

[–] OhYeah@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

If you can't play the game without the steam client then it still has drm. The main selling point of gog to me is the offline installers that don't require any client

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

But he's not talking about those ones.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

If you can’t play the game without the steam client then it still has drm.

Plenty of games don't rely on any Steamworks API at all. For the remaining goldberg_emulator exits.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

You can play the game without the steam client

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 hours ago

As a result, no one on the team has the courage to express their opinion. Under Gołębiewski, GOG typically makes business decisions that may be profitable in the short term, but may not contribute to the platform’s long-term growth.

Why half ass things when your the good guy?

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 17 points 5 hours ago

I hope they stick around they are great for gaming. I need to buy off there more often.

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 hours ago

The publication added that CD Projekt cuts jobs at its subsidiary every two to three years, with annual staff turnover reaching around 30%.

As summed up by another former employee, “GOG has been acting well tactically from a financial perspective, but poorly strategically, and the current business model is likely running out of steam.”

So nothing burger? Other than a corpo being anti-worker which is not news..

[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 6 points 5 hours ago

"no pun intended"

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 31 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I really like GOG so it would be highly unfortunate to see them go under. I guess we really can't have nice things in this day and age.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 32 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

GOG is a side project of CD Project, the makers of The Witcher and Cyberpunk. They are massively wealthy. If GOG goes down, it's because CD Project lets it happen, not because there is no other way.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Are they publicly traded?

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 20 points 10 hours ago

I see what they did there. groan.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 31 points 10 hours ago (18 children)

Too bad, I use Steam and it works wonderfully on Linux, but i don't want it to be the only option.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 26 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

i don’t want it to be the only option.

Neither do I but it is. GOG doesn't support Linux. Heroic is a 3rd party community effort. Valve is currently the only company making financial investments into Linux gaming.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 3 points 3 hours ago

Many more companies than Valve are making financial investments into Linux gaming, including companies that own various Linux distributions (Red Hat, Canonical, etc.), CodeWeavers (who amongst other things have been contracted by Valve on a lot of Proton work) and to a lesser extent Humble Bundle.

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It does support Linux: it lets you download Linux installer for games that have a Linux port.

The lack of GOG Galaxy on Linux just means you have to manually manage your games.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It does support Linux: it lets you download Linux installer for games that have a Linux port.

GOG lets publishers upload various installers but GOG does nothing to support them, let alone offer something like Proton (which is open source, so they could take and integrate it for free).

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

No one needs to "offer" Proton. It's available freely for anyone. I think some people think Proton is a Steam thing. It isn't. Yeah, Valve did a lot of work on it, which is great, but it isn't limited to them. Vlave has essentially unlimited resources, and I'm happy they spent some making improvements for WINE, but GOG does not have nearly the same resources. I wouldn't expect them to put their effort into that. Valve only did because they were building hardware that they wanted to run Linux.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

On steam I can click install and run and most games windows and Linux just work without further effort. This makes gog worthless to me. I could just use wine I don't know why I'd bother.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

No one needs to “offer” Proton. It’s available freely for anyone.

And that's how GOG does not support Linux: Paying customers need to figure it out on their own. They don't even value their customers to a degree to take and integrate existing open source solutions.

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