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I can't 100% buy your argument wrt GOG.com and Steam because Steam is a massive behemoth compared to GOG.com You can't look at the GOG.com on its own because i
by nemothekid 11y ago
I can't 100% buy your argument wrt GOG.com and Steam because Steam is a massive behemoth compared to GOG.com
You can't look at the GOG.com on its own because its unclear if the non-DRM "benefits" of a site of GOG.com are being subsidized by Steam.
If Steam was vaporized tomorrow, would GOG.com be profitable enough to support the salaries of not just GOG.com, but the developers, producers, designers, and QA testers of the game studios? If not, it's not viable. Is it? I'm not sure because Steam is the main bread winner.
- Morgawr 11y agoWhile the size difference of Steam vs GOG is huge, GOG is still the second largest digital game distributor (at least it was last time I checked, not sure if there are newer ones, honestly) on PC. Is that enough to support main game publishers and developers? I have no idea but that's not the point I was trying to make. The point I'm making is that it's obviously profitable for the people working at GOG. Why does it matter if Steam disappears? Do you think people would just stop buying games altogether without Steam? People use Steam because of the platform it provides, not because of the DRM. If people wanted to just pirate games they could get the GOG version off a torrent site since that is already DRM-free, it's not like Steam's DRM is stopping anybody from distributing pirated copies.