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The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps (www.gamesindustry.biz)

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Steam is winning with its ease of use," he says. "In that regard, I think much can be done in GOG without losing its core values and the way it operates in general."

Yeah, not really. Ease of use is part of it but I would argue GoG is equally easy. Steam also has a breadth of features for users.

More importantly, as it pertains to GoG, Steam allows DRM.

This is a fundamental problem for GoG. Publishers want DRM. Consumers largely don't care. For that reason, Steam has a much larger library, especially for big AAA titles. Every game that's on GoG is also on Steam. They'll always be the little guy catering to a niche market of consumers who demand DRM-free games. Get rid of that and we can start talking about ease of use and features.

Obviously, that's not what I want, but if they want to compete with Steam, it's what they'll have to do.

[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I agree with you on it needs more than just ease of use, other comments talk about these other features more.

I disagree on the DRM portion, just as much as I don't think kernel level anti-cheat has any place on Linux. If publishers want that, they can limit themselves to other systems/stores. The main reason I use GOG is I know every game is DRM free, I just wish it had some of the other good stuff Steam has.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

We weren't talking about Linux and we weren't talking about your personal preferences. We were talking about the success of GoG, and competing with Steam.

If publishers want that, they can limit themselves to other systems/stores.

They will. And they do. That's the point.