Posted October 20, 2018
jDr0id: It's very hard to stay grounded in this business. I believe Galaxy is an attempt at modernizing GOG that turned out great. Before the recent new website fiasco, I would only use Galaxy at home... I would never even touch the website except when I would open a ton of game tabs from Galaxy.
They want you to use it for various reasons which I assume are along the lines of:
Telemetry. It helps focus attention where it's deserved.
Transitions made easy. If you tell a die-hard Steam fan to give up his "ease of use" for 1990's habits of downloading files then installing them, your battle is already lost for the vast majority of them.
Image. It's a great way to help influence buyers and sellers that GOG means business.
And the most crucial one in my opinion, and it's exactly what they've been doing from the beginning, providing us with what we want, a DRM-Free experience. For those interested, they get an amazing platform for their digital libraries. Granted there's a lot of things I would change on Galaxy or do differently, but in my opinion it's a fine product as it is.
You may not like Galaxy and that is fine, but linking this to a way to move into "DRM" is absolutely absurd. The only tangible goal I can imagine in that regard is they could be trying to bring multiplayer to GOG and Galaxy could be the answer to that. And for all I care, as long as my games remain available & playable outside of Galaxy and with DRM-Free backup installers etc. I have no reason to complain.
Moving into DRM would ring the end of times for GOG as they simply can't compete in that market. They are comfortable where they are. Now if you were at the head of GOG, how would you plan things moving forward? Business is not a stationary journey, you need to adapt and evolve constantly if you wish to remain relevant. Look at the hit Microsoft got recently, they had to embrace developers and Linux to slow down the crash. Or look at Intel's current condition. It's too easy to make mistakes, very hard to excel.
So long that whatever they do keeps things open and consumer oriented, I will always support them.
Whatever... my 2 cents... sue me!
It's a semantic argument. Use the term drm and people will have different views on what that means. To be honest drm is bad, but it is nothing compared to always online, drm can be cracked, but if you have nothing of the product then not. Hence the focus on multiplayer, mmo, and streaming. Drm is merely an intermediary step on the path to total absraction of conte t from users. Which makes perfect buisiness sense in many ways, and for most people no problems at all. So this is the way of the future.They want you to use it for various reasons which I assume are along the lines of:
Telemetry. It helps focus attention where it's deserved.
Transitions made easy. If you tell a die-hard Steam fan to give up his "ease of use" for 1990's habits of downloading files then installing them, your battle is already lost for the vast majority of them.
Image. It's a great way to help influence buyers and sellers that GOG means business.
And the most crucial one in my opinion, and it's exactly what they've been doing from the beginning, providing us with what we want, a DRM-Free experience. For those interested, they get an amazing platform for their digital libraries. Granted there's a lot of things I would change on Galaxy or do differently, but in my opinion it's a fine product as it is.
You may not like Galaxy and that is fine, but linking this to a way to move into "DRM" is absolutely absurd. The only tangible goal I can imagine in that regard is they could be trying to bring multiplayer to GOG and Galaxy could be the answer to that. And for all I care, as long as my games remain available & playable outside of Galaxy and with DRM-Free backup installers etc. I have no reason to complain.
Moving into DRM would ring the end of times for GOG as they simply can't compete in that market. They are comfortable where they are. Now if you were at the head of GOG, how would you plan things moving forward? Business is not a stationary journey, you need to adapt and evolve constantly if you wish to remain relevant. Look at the hit Microsoft got recently, they had to embrace developers and Linux to slow down the crash. Or look at Intel's current condition. It's too easy to make mistakes, very hard to excel.
So long that whatever they do keeps things open and consumer oriented, I will always support them.
Whatever... my 2 cents... sue me!