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GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
- bogzz 10mo agoIt's so nice to have these little oases of ethical businesses in tech. A shame that it feels like the desert is only growing exponentially.
- A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 10mo agoDoes anyone know the backstory here? Is CDprojekt not the right owner anymore? I am clearly not following the ownership closely here ( but maybe I should have ).
- embedding-shape 10mo agoIt's part of the FAQ at the bottom: > Why is CD PROJECT doing this? > Selling GOG fits CD PROJEKT’s long-term strategy. CD PROJEKT wants to focus its full attention on creating top-quality RPGs and providing our fans with other forms of entertainment based on our brands. This deal lets CD PROJEKT keep that focus, while GOG gets stronger backing to pursue its own mission. > What is GOG's position in this? > To us at GOG, this feels like the best way to accelerate what is unique about GOG. Michał Kiciński is one of the people who created GOG around a simple idea: bring classic games back, and make sure that once you purchase a game, you have control over it forever. With him acquiring GOG, we keep long-term backing that is aligned with our values: freedom, independence, control, and making games stay playable over time.
- A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 10mo agoApologies, I accept FAQ exists, but I am simply asking if there is more to the story than corporate release.
- ls612 10mo agoGOG isn’t as good of a business as CDPR’s development studios so it is getting spun off.
- Triphibian 10mo agoI wouldn't be surprised if this action was in advance of some kind of acquisition. GOG gets spun off as protection, so they can stick to their mission while somebody like Microsoft, Sony, Tencent or the Saudis add The Witcher and Cyberpunk to their portfolios.
- cherryteastain 10mo agoPlease release a Linux client or, even better, officially support and invest in developing Heroic Games Launcher so we can play our DRM free GOG games on a libre OS.
- A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 10mo agoThat and/or proper remote desktop implementation.
- embedding-shape 10mo agoLiterally sitting with Lutris in front of me downloading a game from GOG right now. Can Heroic Games not handle it themselves like Lutris? Seems easy enough for other FOSS projects to do, I'd rather GOG continue focusing on ensuring the games run on modern hardware, and acquiring licenses to good old games, rather than now expanding the support for their already mediocre launcher.
- sitkack 10mo agoExactly, or open the protocol and let the community write it. Third option is to ensure the downloader runs under proton, which I think it does but haven’t tried.
- shmerl 10mo agoProtocol is well documented already, GOG aren't really blocking community clients: https://gogapidocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://gogapidocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ The problem is mostly that their backend isn't wired for Linux builds so you can't use the APIs for native Linux versions.
- dundarious 10mo agoHeroic works perfectly, in a manner identical to Lutris (from a user perspective). I tested both several years ago and have been a happy Heroic user since. However, neither support 2 key features of GOG Galaxy: 1. cloud saves 2. achievements These are 2 of the most significant features of competitors like Steam, IMO, so missing them for GOG on Linux is unfortunate.
- golyi 10mo agoAwesome news really, I've bought countless games from GOG (more than Steam I think at this point) and it's a company I'll always support. Great business decision.
- brachkow 10mo agoIt is great because game preservation isn't what game industry shareholders usually interested. CD Project makes great games, but gaming industry is all-or-nothing. They already had colossal flop at their previous release. If another flop happens shutting down GOG is clearly would be on a table as a cost cutting measure.
- nicolaslem 10mo agoI don't think it's fair to call Cyberpunk 2077 a colossal flop. It had an awful release, but the company stood behind it and fixed everything that needed fixing. Five years later it is now an acclaimed game that sold 35 million copies.
- paxys 10mo agoYup, Cyberpunk 2077 has sold more copies in the same time frame than Witcher 3, which is routinely highlighted as one of the best and most successful games of all time. You have to give kudos to CD PROJEKT for not just abandoning the game after a bad launch (which is what every other major studio would have done in its place) but patiently fixing problems and constantly adding content over 5 years to get to the state it is in today. And the game has no online requirement, no multiplayer, no microtransactions. Just one paid expansion which added a ton of new content. Rare to see this behavior in the industry today.
- mashlol 10mo ago> which is what every other major studio would have done in its place Afaik CDPR doesn't make many games. If one flops, that might be the end of them. I don't see abandoning a game as a valid option for them from a financial perspective. Makes much more sense to fix the issues and sell more.
- Aeolun 10mo agoI think it’s more related to their reputation? People will buy the next one if they trust CDPR will fix anything wrong with it even if it flops. Kinda how you trust paradox strategy titles to get several years of updates and expansions.
- embedding-shape 10mo agoFrom the FAQ: > Is GOG financially unstable? No. GOG is stable and has had a really encouraging year. In fact, we’ve seen more enthusiasm from gamers towards our mission than ever before. I'm really happy to hear this, as I always feared their hard stance on no-DRM would scare off publishers and developers, but seems that fear might have been overstated. This year I personally also started buying more games on GOG than Steam, even when they were available on Stream. Prior to 2025 I almost exclusively used Steam unless it wasn't available there, but now GOG is #1 :) Glad it's moving in even better directions, thank you Team GOG!
- eterm 10mo agoI had the opposite takeaway. Companies with strong financial performance don't tend to use words like "encouraging". That is the language you get from companies that are in trouble and hoping for recovery. Talking about people's enthusiasm for their mission is just straight up dodging the question itself.
- Ekaros 10mo agoIf I read their income statement from Q3 correctly it is comparatively not doing great. 01.01.2025 to 30.09.2025 net profit 910 thousand PLN I think. 01.01.2024 to 30.09.2024 net profit 32 thousand PLN. With "from 1 January to 30 September 2025: 4.2365 PLN/EUR and from 1 January to 30 September 2024:4.3022 PLN/EUR." It is not that much. So splitting it off probably make sense for the CD Projekt.
- apetresc 10mo agoI'm not sure I understand your figures. What is "32 thousand PLN", surely their entire annual profit for all of 2024 was not literally 32K PLN (approx. 9K USD)? Is this measured in millions? And whatever they're measured in, surely 32K to 910K in the span of a year is considered excellent progress?
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- roxolotl 10mo agoI always search GOG before Steam. It’s slightly less user friendly in the most minor ways and sometimes a bit more expensive. But getting DRM free games is worth every penny and extra few moments. Steam is really great for what it is but you’re not buying games you’re leasing them. Excited to hear GOG might get more focus and investment.
- SecretDreams 10mo ago> you’re leasing them For the duration of your life, to be fair.
- lotsofpulp 10mo agoFor the duration of the businesses’ life.
- Thegn 10mo agoFor the duration of gaben’s life, to be fair. Beyond that there be dragons.
- paxys 10mo agoNo, for the duration of whenever Steam decides to say "fuck you".
- mariusor 10mo agoWhich is the same as what can happen to GOG if you don't have the files backed up. And if you do happen to have them backed up, is there such a large difference between having the installer vs the full game installation stored?
- paxys 10mo agoYes there is a difference. Steam sells you a license that can be revoked at any time. The games have DRM, and rely on cloud servers to authenticate you. If you turn your internet off they will all stop working after a certain period, even if fully downloaded. And if Steam or the DRM owner goes out of business you will end up with nothing. If you buy and download something from GOG, it is yours. You can still play it in the next millenium as long as you have suitable hardware or an emulator.
- thomascountz 10mo agoIn case I'm not the only one who didn't know what GOG stood for: “GOG stands for freedom, independence, and genuine control.” But actually, it stands (stood?) for Good Old Games. :)
- kej 10mo agoIt was "good old games", then they announced that good old games was going away and after everyone panic-downloaded their whole collection they announced that they weren't going anywhere but they were just going to be GOG without it standing for anything.
- throwawaymobule 10mo agoThat was after they had new releases for a while.
- account42 10mo agoGOG marketing team at the time: "Now we do a little trolling".
- ragall 10mo agoDenoting a translation is not the only thing that "stands for" stands for.
- on_the_train 10mo agoNo, it literally doesn't stand for good old games. Not for a very long time.
- metadope 10mo agoI stand agog as I breathlessly await the next exciting element of this discussion.
- phendrenad2 10mo agoI'm waiting for MAGOG so the Biblical End Times can begin.
- paxys 10mo agoIt seems these days every video game publisher wants its own storefront and game launcher. Weird that CD PROJEKT is instead giving up a very popular one.
- add-sub-mul-div 10mo agoI wish you could always go straight to the publisher, I don't want an extra middleman in the transaction. GOG is fine because after the transaction you can download the install media and they're out of the mix, but the Steam/Epic model is terrible, it needlessly turns an open platform into a closed one.
- paxys 10mo agoAgreed. I know Steam has done some good things for the industry, and people love them for it, but they are also single handedly responsible for turning PC gaming from "buy and own forever" to a revocable license model. GOG is probably the last place remaining where you can actually buy games.
- shmerl 10mo agoI think it's good. CDPR essentially can be increasingly driven by shareholders. If they are making GOG private now, they can pursue their own vision without being pressured.
- crest 10mo agoIt's nice that it should be a non-event for users.
- Fiveplus 10mo ago> Can I still download offline installers? Yes. This is the only line I was looking for. I stopped buying on Steam sometime ago because I realized I was just renting licenses. GOG is the only major storefront where I feel like I actually own the product. As long as offline installers remain a core tenet, I don't care who owns the company. That said, it helps that it's someone returning to their roots rather than a private equity firm looking to strip-mine the assets.
- pjmlp 10mo agoI also refuse to install their shop, Web powered "native" apps only the unavoidable ones.
- yunnpp 10mo agoI think the only value it adds is cloud saves. The UI is otherwise the worst way to explore your library or the store, crawls to death performance-wise and isn't even a good UX in principle. For example, if you're on page X of a search, click on a game, and go back, guess where that takes you? Yup, page 0 baby, going to have to click next X times again (there is also only previous and next; you can't fast-jump.) There are many more examples like that, I have filed survey responses several times on issues like this. The real goat would be if GOG Galaxy were available for Linux and integrated with Lutris/Proton so that you didn't have to worry about setup. Currently that relationship flows in the other direction, which I always found odd: Lutris integrates GOG (and Steam) games in its UI.
- Noumenon72 10mo agoI've spent hundreds of hours on the GOG version of Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Every community recommends the GOG version over the Steam HD one. I didn't think how important GOG was to me, but now I'm going to find that patron program they're talking about. It would be great if in 30 years I can still play Master of Magic and that won't happen by itself.
- sevensor 10mo ago> Master of Magic I picked up a bargain bin CD ROM of this game in 1996 and it works under dosbox as well as it ever did. Which is to say mostly ok but sometimes hilariously crashy. I think what needs to happen for us to spend another 30 years crafting overpowered plate mail is for there to continue being good emulators for the mid 90s DOS environment.
- ByThyGrace 10mo agoDo you ever play online multiplayer HOMM3? Is it a thing nowadays?
- rascul 10mo agoYou might be interested in VCMI, which is an open source engine for HoMM3. https://vcmi.eu/ https://vcmi.eu/
- sergiotapia 10mo agoI can't remember but there have been two games where the "it's your game, offline installer" promise was broken on Gog. Have they since come out to restate that promise? I always felt a bit sad that before I could just KNOW that it'll work that's gog! but since that time I always have to double check and by that point why not just use steam?
- dmbche 10mo agoCan't find anything about those broken promises at a glance
- its-summertime 10mo agoGwent comes to mind as an undownloadable game, which must be run from the first-party launcher, it is a free game (not counting in-game spending) which is always-online, so practically the antithesis of GOG GOG and CD PROJEKT splitting up should ensure this is not going to happen in the future as much.
- SXX 10mo agoIt was HITMAN released on GOG with always online DRM and removed after backlash. They obviously refunded to everyone. https://www.gog.com/en/news/release_hitman_game_of_the_year_edition https://www.gog.com/en/news/release_hitman_game_of_the_year_... https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_hitman_game_of_the_year_edition_11093/post1936 https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_hitman_game_of_the...
- sergiotapia 10mo agoYes that was the one! They ultimately just removed the game right? I can't find it. They cannot cede an inch otherwise the game store is pointless. I'm glad it's gone.
- dmbche 10mo agoThank you!
- Telaneo 10mo agoThe more things change, the more they stay the same? I rarely use GOG, but they're doing good work, so it's nice to know they'll be sticking around. I wouldn't have it any other way.
- fooqux 10mo agoI used to love gog. I purchased a bunch of stuff back when they were talking a big game around supporting Linux with their Galaxy client. But while gog was talking, Valve was actually doing. Building an actual Linux client. Making multiplayer actually work. Not to mention all the work they've done with Proton and upstreamimg graphics drivers. I hope gog succeeds. I just value Linux gaming support over not having DRM. It's kinda a idealist vs realist stance for me.
- pitched 10mo agoIt doesn’t look like GOG can afford to pay for that work. I think we all got very lucky that the success of the Steam Deck has put the incentives in the right place for Steam to be able to invest in Linux.
- SXX 10mo agoValve started to invest in Linux and open source 10 years before releasing Steam Deck. They started hiring OSS developers back in 2012 and Deck released in 2022: https://www.phoronix.com/review/valve_linux_dampfnudeln https://www.phoronix.com/review/valve_linux_dampfnudeln
- pitched 10mo agoThe Steam Machine (Steam Deck predecessor) had leaks/announcements in 2013 and shipped in 2015 so that lines up.
- PoignardAzur 10mo agoSaying "we're lucky" makes it sound like Valve's investment in Linux is a happy accident, but as you point out, the Steam Machine was announced in 2013, and back them gaming on Linux was seen as a pie in the sky dream. Headlines at the time said things like "Valve’s Steam Machines look dead in the water", there was barely any market demand, and they probably lost a lot on the initial release. The fact that they still doubled down and spent ten years funding the Linux ecosystem before it made them any money speaks of both a strategic incentive (they don't want Microsoft to hold a sword over their neck) and ideological vision (they want gaming to stay relatively open). Saying "we all got very lucky that the success of the Steam Deck has put the incentives in the right place for Steam to be able to invest in Linux" is getting the causality backwards at the very least. Valve investing in Linux is what made the Steam Deck's success remotely possible, and it wasn't a sure shot.
- GaryBluto 10mo agoI wish there was a general software equivalent of GOG that provided much older software with removed DRM.
- haunter 10mo agoThis a hundred time
- its-summertime 10mo agoWhat old software are you thinking about?
- Brian_K_White 10mo agoThey already told you exactly what software they are thinking about. Whatever software you have ever used, or that anyone has ever used, that's what they are thinking about. That's what "general software" means.
- its-summertime 10mo agoI was interested in learning about notable old software.
- GaryBluto 10mo agoAlthough it would never happen, the old Office suites and Adobe products would be nice. Not for any silly "retro" or "nostalgia" value, but simply because much software from around the time of the millennium is still incredibly useful. I use Photoshop 6.0 for all my image manipulation tasks.
- frenzcan 10mo agoGOP
- super256 10mo agoI bought from GOG once, and downloaded their launcher. Then, I started the game, played for maybe an hour, put my PC to sleep and went to bed. Then, the next next day, I resumed my PC from sleep, closed the game, and because I didn't like it, decided a few days later to request a refund. The game had 26 hours or so logged, because Galaxy has a poor way to log hours. Apparently the interval between game start and game end is the time you played the game. The support declined my refund request, I tried to explain that I didn't even get the achievements of after the tutorial and that I could impossibly have played that many hours because I was simply not on my PC. The gist is: If you buy a game from GOG which you might won't like: NEVER download galaxy, only the offline installers! I didn't do that because it was too convenient to download their launcher, as the offline installer of the game I played (Baldurs Gate 3) was split into many, many files, which I would have to download one by one and install them all by hand. Still sour to this day that I have not gotten my 50€ back. Steam never had such issues for me, and even if you can at least ask their support to escalate the ticket so someone from L2/L3 or even engineering looks at your ticket.
- d-lisp 10mo agoYou do put your PC to sleep without closing your programs !?
- 101008 10mo agoFirst time I heard about GOG. Is like Steam but you download the .exe installer (or wahtever format it is) from the game you purchase? Like Kazaa/Ares but paid? I love it to be honest, and I think that's how it should be, but how do creators (and GOG) fight piracy? What's preventing me from buying, getting the offline installer and then sharing it later? If I am wrong and GOG is something completely different, then let's build something like this together! (a marketplace of offline installers!)
- skotobaza 10mo ago> What's preventing me from buying, getting the offline installer and then sharing it later? Nothing. People already do that. GOG does not fight against this, to my knowledge they believe that people will willingly pay for good games. It worked with Witcher 3 10 years ago as an example.
- 101008 10mo agoI love this, to be honest. Glad to learn that this is how the operate!
- g-b-r 10mo agoGod, that's how today's kids see drm-free software? As something hard to wrap your mind around?
- kgwxd 10mo agoI bought a lot of stuff from GOG a long time ago, but the only thing I've use them for in the past 5 years is claiming Prime Gaming rewards on Twitch. I don't think I've even downloaded a single one of them. I'm curious if that agreement with Amazon might have hurt GOG. Did it cost them some money when people like me to claim all those games without ever converting to a paying customer?
- Jach 10mo agoI also have wondered about the Amazon/Twitch deal. I suspect it's all net-positive income for GOG but much like Google funding Firefox, if Amazon ever decides to take it away I wonder how much damage that would do to GOG. Certainly some damage of awareness. I think the only thing I've bought on GOG was the Yakuza 0-6 collection, the other hundred+ games were free. I've at least downloaded and played some of them, Lutris on Linux works fairly well. (Many were ones I already bought and played on steam, which is kind of annoying, but some of them were ones I was planning to buy if they went on sale, so whatever. I'm more mixed about how it, plus Epic's game giveaways, can damage the entire concept of paying for games. Gamepass factors in too, but Steam's routine sales also ruined me from the idea of paying "full price". I can't look at Switch or Oculus/Meta pricing and think it's worth it.)
- closingreunion 10mo agoFor self-hosting nerds, I can recommend looking at Gamevault (https://gamevau.lt https://gamevau.lt) Passionate people working on creating a self-hosted game library. They deserve attention and support!
- lossolo 10mo agoMichał Kiciński (the co-founder mentioned in the article) also funded a Vipassana retreat in Poland. You can go there to meditate for around 10–21 days, it's completely free, and people from all over the EU attend. I know because someone I know goes there regularly.
- amelius 10mo agoFor anyone else wondering what GOG is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com
- nirv 10mo ago> he believes GOG’s approach is more relevant than ever: no lock-in, no forced platforms, sense of ownership I really hope that we'll be freed from the forced Windows platform. Sure, you can download and install GOG games today using a third-party client, but it'll never be as good as official support. There's also the issue of syncing saved games and achievements, not to mention the additional friction for less tech-savvy users.
- badsectoracula 10mo agoTBH Heroic Launcher isn't particularly hard to get. Just download and run the AppImage file from their site, login to your GOG account and it'll download any dependencies automatically. It isn't any harder to use Heroic Launcher than it is to use Steam and some distros have both in their repositories.
- doctorpangloss 10mo agoit's really hard to say. the games industry is huge. it is significantly more diverse than video, where people have been making the same arguments and have gotten absolutely zero traction, so it's hard to say there is a lot of demand for what he is saying. there is space for the specific thesis he is talking about, but it isn't necessarily the biggest opportunity in, whatever niche, which is to say, the line is probably going to keep trending down.
- shevy-java 10mo agoHope for the best, fear for the worst.
- pipes 10mo agoGog is great and I've been a member since probably 2010. The one feature that would encourage me to buy more of their games is a "install into steam" script with each game. It's a massive pain in the ass making my gog games run on my steam deck. I keep meaning to write a script to do this to ease that pain.
- citrusybread 10mo agoHave you tried using Heroic? I don't use it on the Steam Deck so maybe I'm missing something, but I use it on desktop linux all the time and it's been seamless for me.
- jpetso 10mo agoThe Steam client has to restart in order to pick up the newly added external titles, at least last time I tried. In gaming mode, restarting the client means restarting the system, which is ever so slightly annoying. Apart from that though, it works just fine on the Steam Deck.
- citrusybread 10mo agoI just tried it today actually - I just had to exit the steam deck UI mode, enter desktop mode, add them with Heroic, and then restart the deck UI mode from the desktop shortcut and it worked!
- pipes 10mo agoLutris and when that fails, manually doing it myself. One big annoyance is that to browse community controller configs you need to change the name of the game to it's steam numeric id (which can be found in the URL for the equivalent game on steam website). I'll try heroic. I try to buy gog versions but sometimes I just think "when will I get time to configure this, I could just buy the steam version"
- citrusybread 10mo agoThat's interesting, I'll keep it mind. I also got sucked into steam defaultism, because they do so many things right.
- gamesieve 10mo agoI suspect this has been in a vague planning stage for the last few years, as various integrations between GOG and CD PROJEKT RED were slowly dismantled over that time (I particularly recall a GWENT account migration away from GOG). Also, I guess this is as good a place as any to plug my GOG game discovery service and price tracker: https://gamesieve.com/ https://gamesieve.com/ - basically a more full-featured way to explore GOG's catalog.
- Ekaros 10mo agohttps://www.cdprojekt.com/en/investors/regulatory-announcements/current-report-no-20-2025/ https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/investors/regulatory-announceme... >Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, on 31 December 2025 Michał Kiciński will acquire from the Company 2715 shares in GOG, i.e. 100% of the shares in GOG representing 100% of the votes at the shareholders’ meeting of GOG, for a price of PLN 90,695,440.00 >In accordance with the arrangements of the parties to the Transaction, prior to the execution of the Purchase Agreement, an amount of PLN 44,200,000.00 (forty-four million two hundred thousand zlotys 00/100) was paid out to the Company as distribution of due – as the Company was thus the sole shareholder of GOG – profits of GOG from previous years. 90 million PLN being ~21,5 million euros. Seems like some money was also held there.
- stego-tech 10mo agoI am wary of the long-term prospects of GOG, but then again, I've always been wary of that since they launched - and they consistently prove me wrong. GOG remains my first choice when I go looking for PC titles. I think it should be everyone's first choice, if I'm honest, even if Steam currently operates in a relatively consumer-friendly way. Having those offline patches and installers is a freedom you just cannot match on Steam or any other platform, and they're highly relevant to households like mine where game sharing is being cracked down upon by major publishers (looking at you, Nintendo). Keep on keepin' on, GOG. I'm rootin' for ya.
- charlieyu1 10mo agoAt least it’s not another Chinese firm
- sngz 10mo agodoes this mean we will finally get more games on it instead of sitting on the dreamlist for years with no change?
- trvz 10mo agoI started building up my digital game library on Steam. I then gradually switched to GOG, sometimes buying things again (it's not that bad with the identical deep discounts for most games on all platforms), because of the better DRM situation and because I like to be in relationships with public companies, so that I can buy their shares. When GOG messed up their cloud saves functionality (reduced the granted storage to the point where I had to delete old saves – sure, I'll never need them, but I still want [someone else] to keep them), I switched back to Steam. When I got tired of sitting at a desk to play I ended up switching to the Switch. Switch 1 games running on the Switch 2 have bad resolution, the Steam Machine is interesting, and hopefully there'll be a lighter Steam Deck – I might end up at Steam again.
- hamonrye 10mo agoPreliminary research suggests that old DOS libraries contain graphics engines for GOG. DRM libraries, whether DMCA or copyright law protects it, is an anomaly to include the part about the Projekt.
- Hobadee 10mo agoGOGs biggest problem is they don't have enough new titles. I've gotten all the old titles I want... Now I want new stuff! (There are even plenty of recent games I would pay for again just to have a GOG copy. I don't mind rewarding good developers by purchasing multiple copies.)
- codethief 10mo agoNever heard of gog.com before (not much of a gamer anymore these days) but it looks really cool! I wonder, though, how exactly do they handle the copyright and licensing topic? Do they negotiate terms separately with every copyright holder? Do they get access to the source code in order to preserve the games and make them fully offline-compatible?
- Macha 10mo ago> Do they negotiate terms separately with every copyright holder? Yes > Do they get access to the source code in order to preserve the games and make them fully offline-compatible? Sometimes, sometimes their role is just packaging the game with a dosbox config too, or a developer provided drm free build
- WorldMaker 10mo agoSome games get packaged with other emulators beyond dosbox as well. GOG includes and configures ScummVM for some applicable games, for instance.
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- rasyidi 10mo agoEven google I hacked
- rasyidi 10mo agoGOG is getting acquired by it's original co-funder
- sylware 10mo agoIf they can manage to deliver a client which is less technically amok than the steam client... But steam is a worldwide payment system, I can use wallet codes nearly everywhere without inputing my credit card info and that require a lot of international work to match. The steam client requires linux "user" containers(jez...), the launcher is a 32bits binary hardcoded on x11 and GL, all that because they are unwilling to engage in the significant amount of work (because of their technical debt and poor technical choices) of generating 'correct' ELF64 binaries for broad elf/linux distro support.
- eleveriven 10mo agoGOG talking about preservation and ownership has always sounded sincere, but backing that up with independence from a public company structure makes it much more credible
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- BirAdam 10mo agoCompletely anecdotal, but… I spend quite a bit of time reading and writing tech history. I am not academic in this pursuit. I read old newspapers, magazines, websites, books, and interviews. Take some notes along the way, and then write an article. Usually, each article is a short history of a company that made significant contributions to the industry. For companies that still exist today, the end of these are articles are significantly more difficult to write (I usually write entirely in chronological order). Original sources are impossible to find, many news stories simply no longer exist, and I often find that I can only really rely on the company’s own quarterly or annual reports. This has only become worse over the few years I’ve been engaged in this hobby. As my publication has grown, I’ve had the privilege of communicating directly with people present at the companies I cover, and this has been valuable. The problem is, many of these people are elderly and they won’t be around forever. For example, I wrote about PARC but was too late to interview Lynn Conway whose work is partially responsible for the entire world of processors we enjoy today. Efforts like the archive and GOG are absolutely essential to the preservation of our history. I hope they manage to continue.
- ekjhgkejhgk 10mo agoI love the genre, if you can call it a genre. Share please!
- BirAdam 10mo agohttps://www.abortretry.fail https://www.abortretry.fail
- burnt-resistor 10mo agoNot sure how to read this. But what I do notice is big publishers often put less effort and attention into GOG releases (fewer platforms, older releases, incomplete offerings), with the net effect of sabotaging the platform. It seems intentional in many cases rather than omission.
- MomsAVoxell 10mo agoGOG is like, hope for the universe. It’s such a great purpose and goal, to keep these games playable, and it .. is just great.