Official integration with GOG Galaxy.

[Mendax]

Microsoft has and this wiould be a good way to show that Steam's better than Epic.

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whY?

[Crazy Tiger]

I'd say Valve wants their users to be on the Steam client, not the client of a competitor.

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Also consider that Valve gains nothing from such an arrangement. <icrosoft did because of all the storefronts they're kinda the weakest.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Officially, probably not.

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

Steam is already better than not so epic game store and this would do nothing for Valve.

[Gwarsbane]

Valve is 1000 times better then epic already simply because it has a shopping cart (like every single other store out there already) and could preload any game since like 2004 or when ever HL2 came out and also didn't need some other game company to build the preload system for them.

Valve gains nothing from this as has been mentioned. If you want to be able to add gog games that you bought there into steam for free, go ask the developers of the games to provide free steam keys, its not up to Valve to give you free games. Even the ones you get on gog for having them already on steam are limited in number and its 100% of the devs to allow that.

[Garou]

There's https://www.gog.com/connect but it hasn't had any new games eligible for a while.
There's also Gog Galaxy 2.0 coming. It is supposed to unite all your launchers (Steam, Origin, Uplay etc.) so you can start your games and keep stats in one place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIiTdwk_yBw

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There's https://www.gog.com/connect but it hasn't had any new games eligible for a while.
There's also Gog Galaxy 2.0 coming. It is supposed to unite all your launchers (Steam, Origin, Uplay etc.) so you can start your games and keep stats in one place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIiTdwk_yBw

And that assumes none of the launchers alter thier method of operatgion.
Though honestly i can say from Battle.net that it won't matter much.

[Satoru]

note the xbox integration for gog's galaxy 2.0 is 'kinda sorta' working but not really

especially if you have the xbox pc game pass, its all over the map with if something may or may not show up in gog galaxy 2.0. Like 90% of the games i currently have installed on the xbox pc app refuse to show up in gog galaxy

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There's https://www.gog.com/connect but it hasn't had any new games eligible for a while.
There's also Gog Galaxy 2.0 coming. It is supposed to unite all your launchers (Steam, Origin, Uplay etc.) so you can start your games and keep stats in one place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIiTdwk_yBw

And that assumes none of the launchers alter thier method of operatgion.
Though honestly i can say from Battle.net that it won't matter much.

You still need the launchers for everything which kinda makes one wonder about like why

[wuddih]

ask gog/cdp, nothing technically prevents them from shoehorning Steam into their client.

gog galaxy is a massively overhyped playnite clone.

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And that assumes none of the launchers alter thier method of operatgion.
Though honestly i can say from Battle.net that it won't matter much.

You still need the launchers for everything which kinda makes one wonder about like why

Like most of what GOG does... PR. Honestly if they actually spent as much effort on improving their offerings they might actually do better.

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You still need the launchers for everything which kinda makes one wonder about like why

Like most of what GOG does... PR. Honestly if they actually spent as much effort on improving their offerings they might actually do better.

I mean the new galaxy 2.0 'works' but im not sure how its gonna actually convert over users to actually buy stuff on GOG. the store isa ctually so well hidden you might miss it. The new UI is nice since gog galaxy before wasn't that great, but I dont see this other than people who are already invested in GOG being excited for a new UI, vs the actual problem of "how do we get actual new customers to buy stuff from us" which the new UI doesn't actually incentivise

TBH I feel like they copied itch.io's UI paradigm......

It also doesnt even import gog's own genre or style tags? Like that seems like a no-brainer for a default setting for tagging/searching? Ok sure dont import steam's tags but why aren't you doing your own genre/style tag imports?

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Like most of what GOG does... PR. Honestly if they actually spent as much effort on improving their offerings they might actually do better.

I mean the new galaxy 2.0 'works' but im not sure how its gonna actually convert over users to actually buy stuff on GOG.

Association and habitualization.

the store isa ctually so well hidden you might miss it. The new UI is nice since gog galaxy before wasn't that great, but I dont see this other than people who are already invested in GOG being excited for a new UI, vs the actual problem of "how do we get actual new customers to buy stuff from us" which the new UI doesn't actually incentivise

- Habitualize people into using your client to ruin All their games. Your client with your branding, etc.

- They then association your client and branding with their games.

- A few client redesign after starts pushing their store front more and more even while you're launching games from other services.

GoG loves using psych-hacks . It's one of the things that turned me off from them. That and the crap discounts and lack of actual older games that I'm interested in.

I wonder hopw many people remember that GoG has an Early Access Programme?