Only games I bought from these guys are the games I can’t get on Steam.
If they abandon AI usage, I’d consider buying from them. Unless they give AI up and get a team of great humans at the helm to develop. They can get fucked, and I will spend my money elsewhere.
Do you feel you stand a chance in that fight?
Once the technology is there, and competition embrasses it, very few companies will actually have the capability of resisting.
In about 5 years I feel you’re literally just not going to be able to buy new games, or you’re going to abandon the idea of such boycotts.
But im curious. Are you concerned about the loss of human jobs from a game quality perspective or a human well being perspective?
GOG needs to copy Steam a bit more.
Give us game based discussion boards, a mod workshop, and most importantly a friends notification system. Steer into the social experience of old games.
It’s very sluggish compared to Steam; everything is slower in GOG client. I wonder if it is a server problem or my region.
game based discussion boards
These already exist, every store page has a “Forum discussion” link. You can also go here and you should find the “game specific forum” section where you can search for whatever game.
Its true, but also “please give the business more money” isn’t exactly the thing anyone but business owners and shareholders want to hear.
I care. Enough to abandon my qualms about AI usage? Not really, it just means GOG is not the answer.
If there’s someone else doing the same work, by all means give to them instead.
archive.org and their collections to the rescue!
The true GOAT.
Do you not but games anymore then, or do you think steam is better?
Though if you only play FOSS or self published games, that would be kinda based.
I’m guessing by your wording that you’re aching to bash Steam, so I’ll preface this with: no corporation is ever going to get this 100% right; the world is drawn in greys, and only a Sith deals in absolutes.
“Better” is not very useful without context. In the context of AI usage, Steam is better. In the context of GOG, their main claim about game preservation is “no DRM”, but there is an important point often missed: lots of games on Steam also do not have DRM.
I have no issues “buying” games on Steam which have no DRM. For others, I factor the DRM into the price I’m willing to pay for access. These tend to be larger titles anyway, so I’m not terribly worried about it long term.
Long term game preservation? More about unofficial channels than relying on yet another corporation. GOG wasn’t changing that before, and they definitely aren’t now.
Seems the new GOG owner doesn’t care as they push AI use in the company
Something tells me the “double down” is to distract from that fallout
I suspect so… But not everyone knows so it’s still worth mentioning.
I know it, but I’m not sure why one would affect the other. I still get DRM free games on GOG that I’m not going to find on itch.io or elsewhere.
Because supporting GOG now means supporting unfettered AI usage. If you disagree with such policies, the only way to voice that discontent is with your wallet.
I suppose so, but even if that bothered me, it would still mean I’m not owning the games I buy when I shop elsewhere.
Depends on the game. As I mentioned in another thread, there are many games on Steam which are DRM-free and do not require the client. GOG’s advertising suggests they are the only method for getting such games, but as always, the devil is in the details.
Mostly it comes down to how much you feel about one issue over the other, but I don’t see how they can be unrelated if there’s a monetary transaction involved.
Considering games with no DRM can have it added retroactively, that Steam pushes updates I may not want with no option to decline, and that that wiki can’t even load in its entirety without erroring out for me and comes down to user submitted data, GOG’s DRM free promise is more than just advertising.
“I care” … “Sorry let me check my latest game download from limewire.”
all this stupid publicity makes me feel dirty for buying there
