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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)

submitted 2 days ago by misk@piefed.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Would be nice if a company would try to actually compete instead of "attacking" each other for market share.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

GOG isn't "attacking" steam for market share though? It has a legitimate niche in the market: being a storefront that bans all DRM and also doesn't require a launcher/account to buy and install games. GOG's main competitor is piracy (because DRM free means trivial to pirate), so its main features to compete with that are ease of use, trustworthy installers, and consistent + easy access to game patches that pirates don't often keep up with.