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General discussionYakuza / Like a Dragon series on GOG - what happened?(19 posts)(19 posts)
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Posted February 27, 2025
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Timboli: They've really only got themselves to blame.
They've gone out of their way, to encourage folk that would not normally do business with pirates, to do so.
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botan9386:
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UnashamedWeeb: I blame Netflix seeing major profits after limiting account sharing to one household per subscription as a case example for other companies to start cracking down on sharing access.
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botan9386: When companies begin behaving like this, I endorse pirating as a means to avoid supporting anti-consumer practices.

For example, I regret ever paying for Spotify and have been using cracked versions of the app for years now. Why? Because Spotify is a so-called "music player" that does not allow a free account to: skip a track, select a specific track within a playlist, or even adjust audio quality (amongst other things). Any company that would hide such basic functionality like this behind a paywall can go to hell.

I also used to defend YouTube running ads until recently, where ads pop every couple of minutes, and are often longer than the portion of actual video that you just watched. They even amplify this on systems where ads can't be blocked (phones, TVs, consoles). Nope, won't support it. I no longer care if people bypass these things.

Then you have games studios reducing people's ownership of the things that they pay. Eventually the attitude becomes, "you know what, I understand why people don't bother paying for this".

I can also admit to being slightly hypocritical as I used to make arguments in favour of Gamepass, but it's all a slippery slope to the same end-point. So I no longer support that either.
You forgot that Disney Plus now revoked their ad free tier being completely ad free. There is also the fact that most of the Originals have NO path to now avoid said ads, INCLUDING a physical version. If you don't want ads there is NO legal way to avoid them. Hate to break it to them but they are asking for it from those who paid for ads. I HATE ads on content I pay for that said they would NOT have filler.
You also won't let me buy the content on physical media, digital doesn't count as you can alter it.
Posted February 28, 2025
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Sarang: You forgot that Disney Plus now revoked their ad free tier being completely ad free. There is also the fact that most of the Originals have NO path to now avoid said ads, INCLUDING a physical version. If you don't want ads there is NO legal way to avoid them. Hate to break it to them but they are asking for it from those who paid for ads. I HATE ads on content I pay for that said they would NOT have filler.
You also won't let me buy the content on physical media, digital doesn't count as you can alter it.
The only reason I'd even pay for a subscription on a streaming service is to not get ads...What a joke.
Posted February 28, 2025
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petravonkant: All mainline Yakuza games appear to be on GOG up to Yakuza 7. But several of the spinoffs have yet to appear, and 8 has been out for over a year with no GOG announcement.

How did the Yakuza games arrive on GOG originally? Spread over a period of months/years? All released simultaneously and then nothing more?

Pirate Yakuza is out today and I'd really love to play it, but Sega doesn't seem to be giving us love lately. What are people's thoughts on the likelihood of Pirate Yakuza and 8 arriving here eventually?
Since some SEGA stuff is here - I think they'll do the old "double-dipping."

1. Get gamers to be impatient and "buy" (and I use that term loosely here) the game on Steam, Epic, and any other DRM-allowed gardens first.

2. They know some gamers - like me, for certain games - will re-buy said game when it's DRM-FREE on GOG later just to get it to work offline and without a client-app running in background for whatever reason, to get away from DRM-laced Steam, Epic, etc versions. So, when the game's often dirt-cheap, old, or whatever - and they feel like re-working the game bring it here once they're done updating DRM-gardened versions (to avoid GOG's patching/curating process), they'll drop it here in ONE BIG SWOOP.
Post edited February 28, 2025 by MysterD
Posted March 07, 2025
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Sarang: You forgot that Disney Plus now revoked their ad free tier being completely ad free. There is also the fact that most of the Originals have NO path to now avoid said ads, INCLUDING a physical version. If you don't want ads there is NO legal way to avoid them. Hate to break it to them but they are asking for it from those who paid for ads. I HATE ads on content I pay for that said they would NOT have filler.
You also won't let me buy the content on physical media, digital doesn't count as you can alter it.
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botan9386: The only reason I'd even pay for a subscription on a streaming service is to not get ads...What a joke.
Yeah this is what I think some of them don't get. They think they are going to have this like a Cable model. IF people get the option to opt of ads as a tier then fine but I sure as shit am not going back to Cable especially since for what people are paying you get less content. For me paying extra is conditional on having no ads.
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