Thoughts on GOG?

[Chaosolous]

There's a game I'm interested in that's only available on GoG. I hate the idea of splitting libraries. If I buy a game on GoG do I have to log in each time to play it or will it just boot up? I heard they have no DRM or something.

Am I just buying the game at that point? With the GoG account just there for transaction purposes?

[crunchyfrog]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Crazy Tiger:

There are actually people who are "no Steam, no buy", so yeah, I can kinda see that "cult" thingy then. Never understood that, to be honest.

Yeah but I doubt they're that many in the grand scheme of things, like the person was saying. Or at least accusing the mass of being.

[SPG]

I do have a gog account with 40 - 50 games on it, but find in general that their prices are higher for games that are available elsewhere as well. This past sale I bought a few games, but none from gog because of price. None from Steam either as they also didn't have the best pricing either. However, the places I did buy from had the best pricing and offered steam keys.

So, the disadvantage gog has is higher pricing coupled with no Steam keys. The advantage they have is drm free, if you care about that, and older games not available elsewhere. That is not really a recipe for huge success, but they are managing to survive.

[Crazy Tiger]

Diposting pertama kali oleh SPG:

I do have a gog account with 40 - 50 games on it, but find in general that their prices are higher for games that are available elsewhere as well. This past sale I bought a few games, but none from gog because of price. None from Steam either as they also didn't have the best pricing either. However, the places I did buy from had the best pricing and offered steam keys.

So, the disadvantage gog has is higher pricing coupled with no Steam keys. The advantage they have is drm free, if you care about that, and older games not available elsewhere. That is not really a recipe for huge success, but they are managing to survive.

In the past they were equal in pricing, so then the no drm and the work on older games were their USPs that had value. Now with higher prices, less work on older titles and the fact that most devs/publishers throw the GOG modified versions on Steam, it's made them less relevant for me.

So yeah, seeing the same thing as you do.

Diposting pertama kali oleh crunchyfrog:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Crazy Tiger:

There are actually people who are "no Steam, no buy", so yeah, I can kinda see that "cult" thingy then. Never understood that, to be honest.

Yeah but I doubt they're that many in the grand scheme of things, like the person was saying. Or at least accusing the mass of being.

Yeah, agreed on that.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Crazy Tiger:

Diposting pertama kali oleh SPG:

I do have a gog account with 40 - 50 games on it, but find in general that their prices are higher for games that are available elsewhere as well. This past sale I bought a few games, but none from gog because of price. None from Steam either as they also didn't have the best pricing either. However, the places I did buy from had the best pricing and offered steam keys.

So, the disadvantage gog has is higher pricing coupled with no Steam keys. The advantage they have is drm free, if you care about that, and older games not available elsewhere. That is not really a recipe for huge success, but they are managing to survive.

In the past they were equal in pricing, so then the no drm and the work on older games were their USPs that had value. Now with higher prices, less work on older titles and the fact that most devs/publishers throw the GOG modified versions on Steam, it's made them less relevant for me.

So yeah, seeing the same thing as you do.

Diposting pertama kali oleh crunchyfrog:

Yeah but I doubt they're that many in the grand scheme of things, like the person was saying. Or at least accusing the mass of being.

Yeah, agreed on that.

9/10 times their prices match Steam, even during sales. .5/10 times their prices are higher. The rest is when their prices are lower.

At least from my experience.

[Crazy Tiger]

Diposting pertama kali oleh SlowMango:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Crazy Tiger:

In the past they were equal in pricing, so then the no drm and the work on older games were their USPs that had value. Now with higher prices, less work on older titles and the fact that most devs/publishers throw the GOG modified versions on Steam, it's made them less relevant for me.

So yeah, seeing the same thing as you do.


Yeah, agreed on that.

9/10 times their prices match Steam, even during sales. .5/10 times their prices are higher. The rest is when their prices are lower.

At least from my experience.

Not my experience. Both base prices and discounted prices are the vast majority of the time higher on GOG nowadays. It's something that changed around 2 years ago.

[Spawn of Totoro]

I honestly don't mind their priced, but they lack the games I wanted. Sadly, it seems they will not be getting them either as they may have turned from old games.

[crunchyfrog]

Diposting pertama kali oleh SlowMango:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Crazy Tiger:

In the past they were equal in pricing, so then the no drm and the work on older games were their USPs that had value. Now with higher prices, less work on older titles and the fact that most devs/publishers throw the GOG modified versions on Steam, it's made them less relevant for me.

So yeah, seeing the same thing as you do.


Yeah, agreed on that.

9/10 times their prices match Steam, even during sales. .5/10 times their prices are higher. The rest is when their prices are lower.

At least from my experience.

It really depends.

A lot of the games that I tend to look up are comparitive.

But if you take the time to have a wider look you can see there are these examples.

[Ionut Catalin Frasineanu]

Crap grey market.

[davidb11]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Ionut Catalin Frasineanu:

Crap grey market.

THat's literally not what GOG is.
It's 100% not a gray market.

[Ganger]

I have bought a number of titles on GOG over the years but the thing that I and many other gamer's want is the latest games. Something GOG doesn't tend to offer due to their anti-DRM stance.

Lets say for example... if in 2025, GTA 6 was also released on GOG at the same time as on steam and epic for the same price. I would 100% buy the GOG version but sadly this won't take place due to GOG pro-consumer approach, so we gamer's have less choice in my opinion.

[Aahzmandias]

GOG is necessary. Otherwise many games would have vanished.

Add to that they are DRM free. That makes the games your property, if you download and store them somewhere.

Their launcher can even automatically import and start Steam, UBISOFT, EGS and Origin games. Allthough the launcher is clunky and slow.

[crunchyfrog]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Aahzmandias:

GOG is necessary. Otherwise many games would have vanished.

Add to that they are DRM free. That makes the games your property, if you download and store them somewhere.

Their launcher can even automatically import and start Steam, UBISOFT, EGS and Origin games. Allthough the launcher is clunky and slow.

Very good point.

Gog have done an excellent job over the years not just getting the rights to sell old games and get them working on modern systems (ensuring that they weren't lost to time). But also because you can easily back them up without DRM, it means you get even MORE chance of them not disappearing any time soon.

I wonder if half the games that are older on here would be here if it weren't for them, or if we'd get half as much interst in remasters and reissues from the likes of NightDive.

[Start_Running]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Chaosolous:

There's a game I'm interested in that's only available on GoG. I hate the idea of splitting libraries. If I buy a game on GoG do I have to log in each time to play it or will it just boot up? I heard they have no DRM or something.

Am I just buying the game at that point? With the GoG account just there for transaction purposes?

Get it on GoG and then you can add it to your steam library as a non-Steam game. Or you can wait for it to hit Steam... what game ios it?

[Electric Cupcake]

Gog does a few things better than Steam.

Together, Gog and Steam are the only choices. And itch.io and Humble Store, occasionally.

Epic and Origin and uPlay are hot garbo.

[michamuzia]

lol yes yes