Posted June 13, 2022
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Tokyo_Bunny_8990: It is true that AAA gaming is killing itself with microtransactions, DLC, and other means to extract money by sacrificing good gameplay but that wont necessarily bring GOG to the forefront because even the very popular indie games arnt coming to GOG on release (Hades for example). That might change as the tides shift but who knows.
I dont think GOG will become a major player until there is a big shift in the landscape regarding DRM, some event where a ton of users lose access to a ton of games because of DRM limitations that causes such a stir that the industry needs to respond. Then again, there are still users who believe steam DRM is not intrusive.
I don't think there's anything that could happen that would make GOG a "major" player in the industry. Even if you had a out of the blue Denuvo shut down, causing people to lose all their Denuvo games until the companies patched them, I still don't believe that would do much of anything for GOG. I dont think GOG will become a major player until there is a big shift in the landscape regarding DRM, some event where a ton of users lose access to a ton of games because of DRM limitations that causes such a stir that the industry needs to respond. Then again, there are still users who believe steam DRM is not intrusive.
I mean, you mention Hades, which is from a developer that had all their games on GOG previously, but they just don't care about the platform anymore and the game is already "DRM" free elsewhere. GOG's "big" Summer sale new release was 'Alien: Isolation', a game that is basically eight (8) years old, and was sold on Steam several years ago for a single United States Dollar during "Alien Day".
Maybe if Gabe Newell or Steam itself was involved in some heinous scandel / crimes then you'd see studios start to pull out and no longer support the platform. That could open it up for GOG more, because people do like GOG, but GOG just doesn't have the big games (they even get even less and less indie games now), and it's not Steam where everyone wants all their games on a single platform with their little "Steamspace" social page that they can decorate with free stickers, achievements, cards and all the other crap Steam kiddies seem to eat up.
GODINHO93: Do you think GOG will become like steam and Epic and use DRM and DRM-Free?
If they become the two will get more people i think.
No. There'd be no reason for GOG to even exist at that point if they did that. GOG would just become another "Steam" without the userbase and market share. If they become the two will get more people i think.
What I'd like to see would be CD Projekt being bought out by Epic, and then Epic and GOG being a sort of combined platform. Games could be DRM'd initially and after a year or so would be fully removed and have downloadable installers be available. If something like that was available I'd certainly jump in with Epic and buy these bigger DRM'd games while knowing that after that initial release I will have a DRM-free installer available to me down the road.
Probably would never happen, but neither Epic or GOG will compete with Steam as it stands currently, and becoming another "Steam" wouldn't be helpful or work in eithers favor.
Tokyo_Bunny_8990: Again, the only advantage GOG has is its niche of DRM-free. I do think GOG and CDPR should capitalize on this more by adding DRM to their steam and possibly Epic versions, making it such that if you want a DRM-free version, come to GOG. Hell, if they made Cyberpunk GOG only, that would have been a huge boom to GOG numbers given how hyped CP2077 was (although the fallout would have been even worse so maybe good idea not to).
That wouldn't be a smart idea. Remember, we're dealing with DRM-free software here. "Punishing" other stores users for not buying on your own is probably not a wise thing to do, when again, you're dealing with DRM-free software. CD Projekt has already tried GOG exclusivity with 'Thronebreaker' and the game flopped, and was released on other platforms. I'd be curious to see them try it again with a major "AAA" title, and I hope they will make 'The Witcher 4' or whatever it's called exclusive to GOG and Epic Games Store, based on the reported partnership between the two.