Thread 713126203

Aren't these fuckers owned by CDPR? ?

>fund fixes, ports
These cucks just steal shit from the small niche groups that already did the work

Haven't been impressed with their work desu. They just fish for old PC ports of games and bundle them with community-made patches and resell them. I'd be more interested in their stuff if they actually ported things themselves, and for games that never got PC ports.

I'm doing my part in game preservation by seeding whole compillations of old game installers by year as well as whole console rom collections. Doesn't cost me a dollar. But if I were to spend money on it I'd fund pcgamingwiki and myabandonware. That's where GoG gets their games from and profits from so might as well support the people who actually do the preservation instead of just monetizing it.

>>713126447

especially if it were games that are mired in licensing redtape

GOOD news, you can BEE a BEE

>>713126203 (OP)
I wouldn't be surprised if this is going towards a bribe fund. They offer publishers cash up front to put their game on the store because publishers are scared of lost revenue or some meme shit

>>713126447
The ports of old resident evil and dino crisis are good quality. And them supporting mods through their store is a good change that takes away monopoly from tranny mod sites.
Also
>/v/ermin are so trooned out now that they will shit on gog for attention

>>713126447
Didn't they recently put out Breath of Fire IV?

>>713126708
Those ports don't use the good release that the modders used as a base

>>713126708
>dingy old ports instead of SourceNext ones
>good
Uhuh.

>>713126203 (OP)
How about no lmao

Everyone knows GOG is on life support. They also often just use community fixes (without attribution lol) and they need the funding because a company has a massive overhead compared to a dude doing it in his free time.
And then they often don't include fixes for games that need them like DMC HD Collection.
Truth is, people don't care about DRM. They want to play their game and that's it, Steam let's them do that much easier. Games are cheap and have no value otherwise so people truly don't give a shit about digital ownership.

>>713126797
That one already had a Windows port, you clod.

>>713126203 (OP)
>Aren't these fuckers owned by CDPR? ?
No, they aren't. Also i love how much GOG triggers steam trannies.

>>713127326
Yes, they are.

>>713126203 (OP)
It's for a good cause, if you don't want to donate then don't. Retard.

Why do they keep wasting money and time on console games when there's a ton of PC classics still missing?

>>713126308
>>713126447
I swear there was one game they fixed using files from the Xbox 360 version. A bad third-person shooter, I believe. But all mention of it is gone.

>>713127326
>No, they aren't
????

>>713126203 (OP)
Why don't they just crowd fund the preservation of specific ports on that site they just launched recently? Just asking for money looks like jewish wikipedia shit.

>>713127483
CDPR shills do not want you to notice this, stop it!

GOGs entire business is literally "remember that niche game from 1998? Well now you can slightly play it!" And then people act surprised that it's failing and the games they really want are under a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo that will never get legal releases.

>>713126203 (OP)
>enter custom amount
>-$1,000,000
>become millionaire instantly
so long suckers

>>713127567
Because they would actually have to do something once the goal is met.

>>713126203 (OP)
>Aren't these fuckers owned by CDPR?
Actually no

>>713127878
Actually yes.

>>713126203 (OP)
SAY IT

>>713127320
broken Windows port tranny

>vote with your wallet.
>All gamers pay steam for licenses instead of owning the game with gog.
You literally get what you paid for.

>>713127446
idk
Dino Crisis is the only one of them that looks even remotely interesting and that's just because I want more dinos and I'm sick of waiting for Compound Fracture.

>>713126203 (OP)
Why is /v/ suddenly pro-DRM?

>>713128210
Ok cool but where is Heavy Gear 2?

>>713128324
/v/tards associate the consumer rights and media ownership with the left and troons, hence the bizarre pro-DRM stance.

>>713128324
Corporate shills who hate anything that threatens the status quo.

>>713126203 (OP)
for-profit preservation is a joke and will never be taken seriously
fuck GOG honestly, all their efforts result in is bad precedents for monetizing old games

Based, just donated $100, only because that was the max it would let me donate with my purchase.

>>713128035
Rent free.

>>713128692
>fuck GOG honestly
You are a retard.

>>713126203 (OP)
Didn't they get enough money from Cybertroon 2077 because it was a resounding success? Why are they asking for donations?

>>713127567
2 reasons
1. crowd funding requires a set objective and they know some (a lot) cases are bound to fail
2. whale fishing

>>713128908
A resounding success is only a success for a single success so you need more than one for more on more on

>gog is le bad because they... they include community fixes in games!!!
So they do much more than other storefronts?

>>713126203 (OP)
Arguably, all GOG purchases are donations anyway, because it's so easy to get the games for free with no legal repercussions. I'm not saying you shouldn't buy from GOG, because if you're only paying for games with intrusive DRM then you're actively contributing to the enshittification of gaming. But in a way, GOG was always begging.
As for their "game preservation" project, I think the way they present it is pretty disingenuous. To me, game preservation means making sure that a game remains accessible to the public, not just making sure that it runs well on whatever happens to be the current version of Windows at a given moment. Compatibility updates are fine, but if they're modifying a game to run on modern Windows, that's arguably the opposite of preservation unless the unmodified copy remains accessible as well. Fortunately a lot of their "game preservation" changes seem to be configuration file tweaks or even just "we verified that it still works :)" so it's not as if they're replacing games with remasters. But on that note, publishers do replace games with remasters all the time, and if GOG really cared about preservation then they would be doing whatever publisher negotiations are necessary to ensure that the original versions of these games remain available.

>>713128324
because the drm-free efforts are clearly working so well right? bwhawhwahwahhwahawhawa >>713126203 (OP)

>>713128324
/vpol/'s mask has fallen off to reveal they're proudly jewish.

>>713126308
They are billionaire poles, what do you expect?
We all knew gog can't prevail.

>>713129092
gog is le bad because CD Projekt is promoting the kike agenda

>>713129130
>to me, game preservation means just... acknowledging a game exists, not making sure people can actually play it
Why did you waste so much text on such a retarded opinion?

>>713126203 (OP)
>Aren't these fuckers owned by CDPR?
that's exactly the problem. publicly traded company = number must go up exponentially forever or the world ends

>>713129252
>I am brown!

>>713129269
That's not what I wrote.

>>713129198
well everyone who was paying attention should have known this alreay or at least from the leaks we got once 4chan was taken down, the people that hate GOG are jews

>>713129350
I know you are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU-db73BAFI

>>713128692
kill yourself entitled poorfag subhuman

>>713129398
>To me, game preservation means making sure that a game remains accessible to the public, not just making sure that it runs well on whatever happens to be the current version of Windows at a given moment.

>>713128324
I'm anti beggars retard

>>713126203 (OP)
I'll give them some extra cash on my next purchase if they promise to add Dark Messiah.

>>713129476
>makes troondditors mald and seethe
erm dare I say BASED

>>713126203 (OP)
It's over.

>>713126203 (OP)
Renaming themselves to dang ol games (DOG) would save their company.

>>713129491
Yes, that's what I wrote, and it's not the same thing the straw man greentext posted earlier.
Compatibility and preservation are both good but they're different things.

>>713129092
GoG is bad because it’s competing with californian tranny company which makes it RACIST and TRANSPHOBIC

>>713129654
You can't have preservation without compability.

>>713128324
why should people give money to a storefront for nothing in return

People pay for gog installers?

>>713127326
funny that you mention that, but for some reason trannies do hate steam with a passion. Can anyone redpill me why this is?

>>713129532
It's not up to GOG. Always check who owns the rights. At least they got EYE:Divine Cybermancy and Arx Fatalis.

i just want to own my damn games, steamtroons are peak goycattle, you fucks have constant steam profile threads no wonder you shit on drm free vidya

>>713127483
CD Project =/= CD Project Red.

Same company owns both GOG and CDPR. But the parent company doens't make videogames, CDPR does.

>>713129973
>trannies do hate steam with a passion
Steam is the most tranny infested gaming platform out there, what are you smoking?

>>713129476
"the community" is retarded and its contribution is counterproductive for the sake of preservation
if you can't comprehend the disconnect between preservation and selling products popular enough to turn a profit I don't know what to say, I'll take a guess and say that you never cared for any of it in the first place

>>713128324
False dichotomy. There are better ways to preserve games that don't involve paying a CORPORATION.

>>713130051
Your picture hurts my soul. Just finished watching oilhers playoffs, what a advertising diaheria mess.

>>713128324
People have been shitting on gog for ages and there are some genuine issues with gog but ultimately I think it's still great for gaming as a whole so I still support it. Obviously there will always be people who just pirate anything that shows up on gog or people who shit on gog for tribalistic reasons (mentally ill steam fags)

GOG is such a disappointment. They're basically just worse Steam
>>713126447
This, atop they take advantage of idiots who don't know that
>DRM
is not the same thing as
>game is offline with no services at all connected to it
The very same game on Steam does not magically include DRM somehow. Still, GOG dropped the ball on a lot of stuff over the years, and didn't even have a Linux client for Galaxy (or instead of Galaxy and especially Galaxy 2.0 they could have put resources into Playnite / Lutris adopting these FOSS clients etc). Steam offers more and better features not just for Linux but for the games themselves, mods on Workshop and a fuckload of other benefits and its all GOG's fault not really sticking to their old niche of old games and wanting to be Steam but not anywhere near as well.

These days, Itch.io does a better job of being what GOG used to claim to be, has a FOSS client, and often devs often sell their games there with Steam keys too. Its better to use Itch + Steam overall; itsa pity that GOG wasted all the time and effort.

whoa! thanks gog! thank you so much for preserving microtransaction dlc! 5 blue orbs for 2.99!!! what a steal!!!

>>713129749
So many of games in the GOG Preservation Program just have literally
>Validated stability
>Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11
>Added Cloud Saves support
or maybe
>Tweaked the DOSBox configuration for better stability and performance
under the listed improvements that yes, actually, you can have preservation without GOG's compatibility improvements, because these games were still playable before GOG touched them. Minor quality-of-life configuration edits certainly don't harm preservation but they also don't help with preservation unless you have such a skill issue that you needed GOG to put "fullscreen=true" in your dosbox.conf or some shit.
Even in general, you can have preservation without updating games to run on Windows 11, because you don't have to use Windows 11.

>>713128324
because cuckchanners enjoy id-less boards so that they can samefag like mad their ragebait since (you) are the tiktok/twitter likes of this website.

>>713130523
You think the store decides the pricing and DLC and not the publisher?

Holy fuck Steamdrones are retarded.

>Has such an overwhelming monopoly their competitors have to beg for donations or set their cut to 0%
Evil. Fucking. Company.

>>713130880
gabe literally worships the devil and drinks baby blood

>>713129476
Weird fucking angle but keep seething over whatever you think the problem is

I literally dont care what store i use anymore. Just which ever is cheapest is all that matters to me. Though if its older than 2009 minus 4 I will use gog because I hate fucking with dgvoodoo

>>713130682
>Holy fuck Steamdrones are retarded.
If they were not retarded they wouldn't be using Steam in the first place. Steamdrones are low IQ subhumans.

>>713130682
>but Steam!!!
What are you even talking about
Fuck your retarded shizo thread and fuck you

>>713128324
Why is /v/ suddenly pro begging?

>>713131219
You got any argument about your dumb claim or are you gonna just avoid the matter and move the goalpost?

>>713128324
Contrarianism

>>713131137
Oh you want cheap? Just pirate just steal like a thief like an animal

>thread about gog not doing well
>genuine criticism about why their vuisness model is failing
>STEAM!! STEAM!!! WHAT ABOUT STEAM!!! WHY DO YOU COCKSUCKERS LOVE DRM AND GABEN COCK SO MUCH?!?!
Who the fuck are you retards? Nobody was trying to pull console warring over pc storefronts 5 years ago

>>713128324
This anon demonstrates the brainrot that polarization does to you. You get so fucked in the head that you turn stupid, and see everything as black and white, us or them, 1 or 0.
You can hate both DRM, and ruseman snakeoil gypsy-thief beggars as well, both at the same time with no conflict of interest. And you would, if you hadn't let social media turn you into a retarded dumbshit.

>>713126203 (OP)
>make website all around the concept of having literally zero DRM at all, not even something super basic and unintrusive, not even a quick online check to stop people from just putting all their games on flash drives to share, or dump files online, doesn't even have to be a torrent, just rawdogging the installer
>the majority of the site's funding comes from sales of the Witcher franchise (and taxpayer money, IIRC?), meaning they've got the same issue as Epic, at great risk of getting fucked due to one bad year or a failed launch
>The Witcher in general kinda lost steam after TW3 came and went, and CP2077 underperformed despite all the time/money put into it, but they're then saved in the nick of time by Cyberpunk Edgerunners and a tidal wave of weebs
>GoG starts to lean on the whole "game preservation" thing after the internet tried (and failed, IIRC) to do the "Stop Killing Games" thing, as if to say "hey guys we preserve games too just pay us the money, and no, none of the money goes to the companies that made the games lol"
>now that they're "saving games", they have to eat the additional costs for licenses to these older games
All this really just adds up to a lot of costs and an unstable budget. I don't envy them.

Really the only parts of GoG that I like are:
>old / DOS games run automatically, and come preconfigured
>tons of free games via Amazon Prime
>Amazon Luna, even the version that comes with Prime for "free", can link with GoG and let me do shit like play OG Oblivion streaming on my chinkheld (IIRC Saint's Row 2 is on there, I need to check. I just got that free on GoG so I hope it's on Luna)
>easy to get the installers online for free
>the installers work well in shit like Winlator

@713131147
>says "Steamdrones" while also replying to someone using the term "Steamdrones"
>neither anon offers any kind of alternative, not even piracy
>both probably the same guy that's spamming about Steam the whole thread too
Mmmh, delicious samefag.

>>713126203 (OP)
>Aren't these fuckers owned by CDPR?
They blew all of their money on Cyberpunk, and have constantly drained whatever profit they made off that on all the DEI garbage that's no longer getting blackrock funds from.

>>713126203 (OP)
The GOG store is just a legal front for their piracy operation.

>>713126203 (OP)
Poles only know two things: asking for gibs and taking credit for the effort of others

The fact that in their resent release of the DMC collection they've used godawfull hd demaster instead of original port for DMC3 says a lot about their so called "preservation"

>>713126203 (OP)
>rely on other people's work
>oy vey we can't do the work without your help dear suckers

>>713133080
Depends on the published, dumbass. GOG don't get access to all versions.

>>713133191
LOL kill yourself Steamtranny. Unlike most zoomers here i remember when the only way to play Fallout 3 was to buy it from GOG since the Steamtrannies could not care less to fix the game you paid for. That's when people started switching to GOG for the first time.

>>713133080
That isn't their call, Capcom might have only let them use the version THEY wanted.

Piracy is the best form of game preservation.

>>713131417
I do pirate retard but I support the things I like or my nigger friends like so they can keep getting gaymes

>>713133206
>>713133708
so it's just a port lmao

>UHH YEAH ALL THOSE OLD GAMES ALREADY WORKED JUST FINE!
>MUH PATCHES (they don't exist)
I need retarded steamfags to shut the fuck up about something they have no say in

>>713133994
Uh yeah? Like every other platform? Please don't tell me you expected GoG to make a brand new version of DMC1-3 from the ground up

>>713127208
>They want to play their game and that's it, Steam let's them do that much easier.
Until you want to play them without internet, and such a use case will become more common as handheld gaming PCs increase in popularity. Steam's offline mode is a hassle that requires you to set it up each time. GOG releases just have you launch the .exe and that's it.

>Zoomers are so retarded they GoG shouldn't even exist
Regardless of what you think about GoG or the way they run a business, the PC gaming landscape would be worse off,

>>713126203 (OP)
Definitely not going to all the gog meatriders on this board, they do it for free.

>>713126203 (OP)
GOG’s main appeal was that they sold a lot of old games that weren’t on Steam, but most of those old games are getting remasters these days. I recently looked at my old GOG wishlist and all but one of the games on there has come to Steam in the last 3 years

>>713126447
GoG was created when Poland just became independent and everyone was used to pirate everything.
GoG was competiting with pirates that were used to not dealing with retarded DRM.

>>713126447
>I'd be more interested in their stuff if they actually ported things themselves,
They did that for Alpha protocol.

just donated $500.

Doing the right thing isn't a good business model. Raping your customers and vendors/suppliers is how you get ahead in life.

>>713130487
>GOG is such a disappointment. They're basically just worse Steam
The two stores are completely different and totally different ecosystems

>Thinking itch.io is the same as gog
You're insane.

I can already see the steamshitters spam this for the next few months

But whatever. All they have to admit is that CDPR betted everything on cyberpunk failed, and now doing it again with Witcher 4, which will also fail, but I guess being honest about your parent companies fuck ups wouldn't be a good idea.

>>713126203 (OP)
>Video game preservation
It is called piracy.

>>713130000
unf quads

>>713128096
Steam works and has games. GOG meets neither of those criteria.

>>713126203 (OP)
I’ve never trusted them since they did that April fools joke where they went bankrupt and site was shut down
If they would make that joke then it’s an idea in their heads for a reason, they didn’t think of it for April fools, they had the thought then decided it would make a good joke.
But why would they have the thought? Because it’s a real possibility.

>>713134884
>GOG doesn't work
User issue.

FLASH NEWS GUYS: OP found to be gay

>>713134892
no, you're just cynical

>>713128324
Who owns GOG?

>>713134308
There is no hassle at all. I have had steam in offline mode forever and have no issues

>>713134594
this but unironically and only $20

>>713134594
Just donated $1000 to own the chuds.

>>713134594
>>713135141
I just stole $1500 worth of GOG games.

>>713126708
aren’t they leftists themselves?

>>713135174
Bought $2000 worth of GoG games

Just donated $2000 to Steam.

>People have been asking for stuff like Mechwarrior or NOLF for literally years
>Only put out console games
Your store was founded on the idea of old PC games being playable without having to resort to piracy and fixes, I guarantee if THEY DID WHAT THEY FOUNDED IT FOR they would never have money issues again

>>713134849
>cyberpunk failed
Anon, it sold over 20 million copies.

>>713135535
>NOLF
You're a retard. NOLF is in IP hell. Same with older Mechwarrior games.

>>713135557
Only because they keep selling it for cheap and because normalfags loved edgerunners, But Cyberpunk's troubled development is the most well known thing about it.

>>713135627
Shut the fuck up retard. They're a company with the industry connections to make it happen. Fucking MS is selling MW2 RIGHT NOW THEY OWN MW you're telling me they can't be bothered to give out the fucking license? You're retarded, and being a bootlicker is why GoG is fucked.

yeah I've seen how they've "preserved" games like the first two Baldur's Gate games.

>>713135775
Beandog being retarded isn't GoG's fault and they still let you download the original versions.

>>713135831
>still let you download the original versions
yeah, if you can find it

>>713135775
You get the classic versions of BG1&2 bundled with the remaster. Beamdog owned the rights for BG1&2 and decided that they want people to buy their remaster since it makes them more money instead of people just buying the classic versions.

>>713135924
>yeah, if you can find it
You find them in your GOG library, dumbass. I personally bought the whole D&D collection on GOG years ago so i never bothered with the Beamdog remasters since i already have the classic versions in my GOG library.

>>713130487
gog has an unofficial freetard client with linux support
https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher

Well if gog goes caput I hope someone will obtain their store and just sit on what they currently sell. It is a good resource to get playable versions of many older games with minimal hassle.

>>713129973
>No, they aren't. Also i love how much GOG triggers steam trannies.
Sour grapes, they cucked to steam telling themselves it was the only option. Then when they see people on other platforms seemingly fine and happy they seethe because they see it reflecting back on them making them question their decision. They react by desperately trying to justify themselves.
>Those poorfags who aren't using steam must really be suffering, all their shit is broken and it must really suck. They'd be using steam like me if they could afford it. They are getting an inferior experience!

You see the same thing with Nvidia fags, iPhone fags, high-end car fags. They have to convince themselves everyone else is suffering to justify their decisions to be impulsive cucks who followed the advertisements and chased the dragon.

>>713126203 (OP)
Sad!

>>713126558
>Doesn't cost me a dollar
electricity

>>713134364
No, I just fucking hate Steam that much

>>713135642
>b-b-buh only because
it made a massive profit, everything else is just cope
and its post launch support has normies thinking of the game as fixed, the narrative surrounding it now is entirely positive
they've won back like 99% of the short attention span normies' goodwill

>>713126203 (OP)
When they bring recoil back then I will donate.

>>713136752
It's still a rushed buggy pile of garbage, it took years to fix to an acceptable level and it's still shit.

>>713126447
Gog is weird because they actually aren't very good at preserving old games. Two that I can think of that I found recently are the original Rainbow Six, which the gog version does not include the Eagle Watch mission pack for; and Dungeon Siege 2, which doesn't have the Broken World expansion (which is huge).
You're better off tracking down releases from an actual preservation project like Redump instead of paying for half-assed releases packaged with a community crack that Gog didn't make to begin with.
Oh, and
https://youtu.be/QU-db73BAFI

I remember everyone said these guys were game preservationists back in the day and then the game I bought from them stopped getting support.

>>713134892
Same. Any sites that wanted my money and taking part in April Fools with bankruptcy prank is a red flag for me.

>we care about preservation
>VTMB is bundled with the shitty community patch version full of OC
yeah right

>>713130487
at this point i buy gog games so they don't clog up my steam library

>>713137110
except it's not
they use the basic patch not the plus patch

>>713126203 (OP)
Played phantasmagoria through gog (pirated). They are alright

>>713137110
VTMB only uses the bug fixes version of the patch.

The full community patch is an optional mod.

>>713126203 (OP)
i'm happy to support gog, but why wouldn't I simply just buy games from their platform instead of donating and getting nothing out of it?

>>713137187
>>713137242
people had to complain for years for them to change because they didn't even know the difference

>>713126708
>LEAVE THE CORPORATION ALONE
ok, fag

Why can't Gabe just donate some of his infinite wealth to gog so it remains in the market?
Google donates to Firefox for that reason alone.

>>713136902
because all that extra shit frequently was not made by the original company so it has additional rights that need to be cleared before it can be included

>>713126203 (OP)
GOG going broke? Who was finding the platform?

>>713128324
you know you can get DRM-free games without paying for them on GOG, right? they didn't invent DRM free games.
>BRO YOU DON'T PAY FOR PORN? SINCE WHEN ARE YOU PRO-HIJAB'S

>>713137110
paradox games still have the DRM launcher on them
deus ex human revolution DLC is locked behind having an account
cyberpunk dlc was locked behind using gog galaxy
half the library have old version of games because they don't force the devs to update and are pretty much abandoned now

>>713128324
Because /v/ is filled with morons. It's the lowest IQ board on the website for a reason.

>>713137256
Why would they even ask for free money when selling a copy of software costs them literally nothing

>>713128324
There doesn't seem to be a middle ground on this board. Either you pirate or you use Steam

>>713137426
>half the library have old version of games because they don't force the devs to update and are pretty much abandoned now
That's not GoG's responsibility, if a game is on there and doesn't have patch updates that's completely on the publisher/devs side of things, the best GoG can do is just fix up the game so it works on windows

>>713134547
Meh not really, the restart from checkpoint bug is still there, they just put meager fix for compatibility and screen size issue instead fixing bugs

>>713136482
Yeah gog fanboys must have intense mental gymnastics sessions. They believe somehow downloading a installer is better than just downloading the game files. Or game files can't be stored like a installer because they don't know how to tarball.

>>713137380
CDPR

>>713128324
Contrarians

>>713126308
>fund fixes, ports
Oh so since that's being covered by the begging the games are free then?

>>713137629
>did you buy your game on our store?
>though luck goy your game is forever stuck on the shitty bugged version while steam is on the latest and even have new DLC

>>713137679
Then file a complaint about it and let them know, but that's their port.

>>713137361
Firefox is actually good though.

>>713126708
>The ports of old resident evil and dino crisis are good quality.
REBirth fan patches utterly fucking destroy them in comparison, adn are the superior SourceNext versions to boot

>>713133867
This.

>We care about game preservation
>But only on games that already have community patches and windows versions
>You will have to use our shitty launcher if you want an older version of the game

>>713136578
I'm using my PC while doing it anyway. It's not like a dedicated machine for seeding or anything.

>>713137739
You do realize steam is also hands off right? There's tons of old broken games on steam that doesn't even work and never been updated for years

>>713130053
Oh so I guess Youtube and Google are entirely unrelated and should never be conflated together. After all, they're both just property of Alphabet, which means they are totally unrelated.

>>713137883
you do realize you don't even understand the problem?

>>713126203 (OP)
Never downloaded anything from GoG. So no thanks.

>>713128324
I'm anti-thieving kikes selling community fixes

>>713137943
Are you ESL? Or retarded

>isreal
LMAO

>we will never support linux
>we will force our shitty launcher and abandon it 6 months later

Your samefagging is really obvious sis. Just sayin

>>713137983
You clearly are because you support a store where you buy inferior version of games and they will never fight for them to be on par with other stores.

>>713137862
GoG shills always parade owning and preservation as their main points but neither of those actually require their middleman.

>>713134657
>The two stores are completely different and totally different ecosystems
Its really not. Its not like the old days of GOG which actually focused on "old" games near exclusively. Now, they're selling many of the the same recently released games on Steam, but often with a worse experience, without Steam's functions (all the various social, guides, workshop, etc) and for many years, didn't get the same kinds of updates and features that the Steam version did because publishers couldn't be assed to do so., and sometimes a non-interoperable online playability. The latter is better now, but still I'd rather buy a game on Steam than GOG by far, atop the fact that Steam has native Linux support , invests in Linux, drivers for SteamInput that makes everything work comprehensively, the whole SteamVR/OpenVR, Proton, and other elements of FOSS development.

>itch/gog
Itch does smaller, low profile niche stuff the way that GOG used to do so when it focused on old games. However it does it better in that Itch has its own FOSS client, many vendors offer Steam keys if you buy through Itch in addition to direct downloads or Itch client use, and other factors.

>>713136114
Oh I know. That's another good one they could have put their effort behind adopting and putting resources into its improvement the way that Steam does with Wine, DXVK and the other Proton related components. Its one reason GOG is so disappointing is that they could have chosen Heroic, Lutris, Playnite, or other existing multi-platform clients including Steam and GOG, rather than flush money into the proprietary Galaxy 2.0.

>>713137143
Heh, makes sense I suppose. Then again both Steam and a number of 3rd party clients have pretty good filtering so I've never felt that things were clogged up to the point I couldnt find games I wanted

>>713138118
> inferior version
Not all patches are good. Not that I expected a good retort from a retard.

>>713126203 (OP)
as if getting nazi germany to surrender wasnt enough, the jews have to beg some more

>>713126708
Can't speak for RE but I played the GOG DC release and it was full of issues.

>>713138181
you clearly don't even use GoG so why defend them, if you owned 10 games on GoG you would know

I love GOG no matter what /v/trannies or steamtrannies say. Playing old games that work out the box whithout mods and no launcher is awesome.

>>713138239
I own a lot of games via gog and most of them work out of the box without even much effort if any.

>>713126558
Link???

>>713138239
I actually find they keep their games more up to date than Steam

>>713130551
I actually agree with you.
Having access to unmodified disc data is important for not just preservation, but it also allows for working with the original material and tweaking it how you see fit.
Monitor resolutions, framerates and many other things keep improving and if a game out of the box supports 800x600 res and 30fps at most, in my case I'd love a simple small patch that allows me to run the game at 4k, unlocked fps, msaa, hud stretching fix for widescreen, and crash fixes for 64bit / newer directx, but otherwise a completely unmodified vanilla experience. Others might want even less intrusive patches (just crash fixes), and others might want way more qol and options and tweaks. Hard to please everybody.
Shame how most remasters are catering to the latter and introduce so many unnecessary changes it stops being the same experience. Fuck upscaled textures and hd models in particular.

>Moldman asks GoG to help with SKG
>GoG refuses
>Still pretends to be about preservation and saving games

>>713137507
bit antisemitic of you

>>713138341
because you don't buy games on GoG, there are lists and lists of games that where abandoned, literally a 5 sec search on the forum and you can find thousands of posts here is an example
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_that_treat_gog_customers_as_second_class_citizens_v2/

>>713138543
>that where
Oh, a SAARR poster. Discarded.

>>713138583
yes anon we all know you are retarded

>>713138241
This.

Hate using Dgvoodo, hate having to patch it with no-cd cracks, I'd pay for the simple convenience of having to access out of the box

>>713138180
i should mention i have a steam deck and there's a bunch of kbm games i'd never care to use it for. collections help but recently played gets clogged up either way.
not only that but steam complains when you're playing in two places at once
so i can leave the deck in the living room for console ports while i run gog pc games with proper kbm on my desktop and neither need to be "offline"

>>713138323
Zelda

>>713138779
most games on gog use cracks from pirates, you are literally paying for something free lmao

>>713138874
And? I'm sorry you're having a melty this whole thread but I rather pay for something that works out of the box and with the guarantee of not getting a virus or malware

>>713138943
>everyone is the same person
calm down shill, people can make fun of you doesn't mean they are the same

>>713126203 (OP)
stop fucking up original executables so the games aren't deleted from existence forever and maybe

>>713138987
Dude. Your broken English your lack of grammar, motherfucker you're so obvious and blatant you're glowing brighter than an actual glowie.

>Download game from myabandonware.com
>Apply community patch to it
>Use Install Wizard to make an executable install
>Sell it
Timmy should have done this instead of seething at steam, maybe epic would have more users

>>713139186
>actual schizo
Lmao

>Didn't deny it
Concession accepted. Sorry GoG raped your mom I guess.

>>713126203 (OP)
>Do nothing to prevent pirating
>Make no money
Was I supposed to be surprised?

>>713132817
Delete hungary, not even a real country

>>713126203 (OP)
That's a good idea. People who care will pay up.
The best option would be to fund the ports directly instead of letting them choose

let me know when they do actual preservation, i.e. digging up lost source code or decompiling the game if not, rather than getting busted ISOs from the devs and slapping fan patches on them.

Forest of Illusion did more to preserve games than GOG lmao.

>>713139427
sounds comfy asf ngl

>>713139336
This. When the pirated version is identical to what you pay for, it's really hard to justify the purchase. It kind of means GOG was operating on donations this whole time. DRM is bad for gamers, but it does help protect profits.

>>713139336
>>713139686
Your jew is showing.

>>713126308
>stealing freeware
lol

>Buy old game from Steam.
>Game has no DRM.
>Game come with Mac and Linux version.
I see no point in GOG, they seems worse with no Mac and Steam version for 90% of their games.

>>713126203 (OP)
So what is the money from my purchases going to if not to fund the operations of this business? This is pathetic and shameless tip begging at best, and a scummy attempt to present themselves as a charity at worst.

>>713139837
Linux is a meme.

>>713139837
shhhh don't let they know most old games on steam don't have drm aieeeeeee!!!!!

>>713135218
owned by cdpr so yes absolutely they are a bunch of faggot cucks

>>713134308
cool larp fag

>>713139935
still feel kinda bad from purchasing VTMB ages ago and refunding keeping the game folder and still using it to this day

>>713126203 (OP)
Their game preservation program is fucking laughable. Their latest "big win" was just porting the Devil May Cry games that have already been on Steam for a decade. They make zero effort towards the games the community actually wants such as Freelancer or MechWarrior 3 and 4.

>>713140076
>MechWarrior 3 and 4.
Different publishers for each game and in licensed hell. They're lucky they can even publish MW5

I kind of regret buying CP77 there. I feel they about to close any day now.

>>713140076
They could have done something cool like actually fixing deadly premonition 1 considering every single version of the game is broken other than ps3. But no, it would take too much work since there isn't a community patch for it

>>713140309
Why should they? It's not their game and they didn't fund it.

>PS3
The best version is 360

>>713140371
director cut is better you mongrel

>>713140516
No you fucking obsessed GoG hating retard. It's fucking not and changes the game too much to the point it completely misses the tone and feel of the original 360 version.

>>713140586
>GoG
you retard don't even know the correct name of the store

>>713126308
>/v/ is so eternally asspained by anything that theyre even mad at fuckin GOG of all people

>>713140735
I am sorry you are retarded, it can't be helped

>>713140832
>Defends a shitty version
>Calls me a retard
Toppest keks one more pity (you)

>drm free
what happens if GoG dies? from where do I download the copy I own drm free?

>Could have a productive discussion
>UH STEAM BETTER U A FAGOOT ETC ETC
this is why nobody likes actually talking about video games on /v/ you fags suck

>>713126203 (OP)
anyone who donates to this is retarded enough and deserve to be scammed

>>713135218
Reality check schizos. Every good game you've ever played is made by a lefty. Rightoids don't make art.

If I am going to pay for a game, I want to make sure the majority of my money goes to the actual developers. Not the people who publish it, not to the people who currently own the IP, the OG developers. If not, then I consider it abandonware and sail the high seas.
Simple.
As.

>>713127208
>(without attribution lol)
never seen this once

>>713126203 (OP)
These faggots haven't released a goddamn thing from that wishlist crap they were pushing.

>>713141994
Exactly. I was saying the same thing, they have not listened to the community one bit on this because it's too expensive and too much work to actually secure the games we all want that need proper fixes and support. No amount of votes has gotten us AvP 2, Freelancer, Black and White, No One Lives Forever, Battle for Middle Earth, etc. Why should we care about this company at this point?

>>713135218
I don't give a fuck if they're leftist or whatever. I play video games and that's it. You fucking culture war faggots need to fuck off and die already.

>>713140184
Weird how when they encounter any sort of legal obstacle they're fucking powerless. I guess those games don't deserve to be preserved and only abandonware should be? Weird how that works.

>make a trailer using AI
>ask for money donations
the absolute state

>>713126203 (OP)
Maybe they should waste their money on games I actually care about like Persona, Metal Gear, more Resident Evil games, or Castlevania games; then I would buy them.

I mean, whatever happened to Code Veronica’s pc port they were working on? That I would have bought in a heartbeat.

Why the FUCK do they need a tip? Where the hell does my money go when I buy a game then? They take a cut of sales for a reason.

>>713142450
They ask for money donations because they can't even afford hiring someone to do the trailer
p-p-please buy our repacked abandonware

when did gog become american

>>713140962
you are supposed to save the .exe in a hard drive anon

>>713142790
yeah but what if the HDD dies or something like that?

>>713126203 (OP)
I don’t even pay for gog installers and they think they’ll get donations?

>>713126203 (OP)
all their pc ports are mostly inferior ways to play. mgs1 is inferior, SH4 was very inferior with shitloads of bugs at release but now its only sort of inferior, not too sure about this one but I'm pretty sure the RE ports are worse than duckstation too.
they put no effort into making the ports good outside of slapping fan mods onto them and calling it a day

>>713126203 (OP)
good, they're the good guys

>>713142379
They don't even bother with abandonware at this point, it's all just the lowest hanging fruit possible in terms of porting modern stuff from Steam. The last batch of games they slapped this "Game Preservation" nonsense on were just the LEGO Marvel/Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings/Star Wars/DC/Jurassic World games. Nothing about those games are hard to find or rare nowadays and they all run just fine on modern PC's because they aren't very old and the publisher/devs never stopped supporting them. GOG essentially had to do no work to make that happen, same with these Devil May Cry games.

>>713142913
What if you die?

>>713126203 (OP)
What kind of kikes add a charity donation button towards their own non-charity store? This is like Bill Gates begging for change on the street on behalf of Microsoft.

>>713126203 (OP)
sorry gog, but all my money goes to israel

>>713143516
Doesn’t that only happen if you are killed?

>>713141461
Tyrone Souls was made by a right winger, and it's the best game ever made. I'm also 85% sure Amy Hennig leans to the right.

>>713142573
>/v/tards say "+ tax + tip" all the time because they're faggots
>GOG employees who frequent 4chan take it seriously
>they actually add a tip jar

>>713140309
>ps3
you are retard. That shitty sequelbait cutscene at the end is not even good

GOG Employees:
Add Persona games

>>713126203 (OP)
> get in bed with chyna
> users that pay for things refuse to support you
> chyna steals all your content for free
Sucks to be commie.

>>713143398
>SH4 was very inferior with shitloads of bugs at release but now its only sort of inferior,
yeah dude they applied fan mods to it, what an effort

>>713128324
>newfag notices that its not normal people using /v/ but corpo shills pushing an pro drm agenda
welcome to the internet buddy nothing is real

>>713144181
They're too busy paying Steamies schizo 5 rupees a month to make threads.

how the fuck does GOG lose so much money?

>>713144304
Thats clearly indians hired by epic games

>>713144339
Lose? To lose they first have to make, which they don't.

>>713144251
>storefront that allows (but doesn't require DRM) opens up
>publishers start to see it getting popular, and want their games there
>anti-DRM storefront opens up
>no publisher wants to go near it
>has no games
It's fucking math. I'm not going to go game-free to fight a revolution with 10 other schizos. I want to play games. If you don't play games, why the fuck are you on /v/ - Video Games? Would a lack of DRM be good? Absolutely. But it's not going to happen; and I want to, again, play games.

>>713144339
People buy modern games on Steam.
People don't buy old games.
People that do buy old games wait for them to be pennies.

>>713144495
Even when I buy old games, I'd rather buy them on Steam, where they're relatively untouched. I don't want to have to figure out what hacks GOG stole to use in a game, and then reverse that so I can do it right. PCGW is my friend.

>>713126203 (OP)
Those califonian DEI hires have a high cost of living, anon
Their HRT isnt going to pay itself

>>713129973
Its unnecessary bloatware.
If you were a real oldfag you would know this.
People used to hate Steam.

>>713144846
>People used to hate Steam.
...and then it got significantly better

>>713144910
>better
sure

>>713145005
lets not waste each other's time and skip the part where anons list the million good features and you just do pic rel

>>713144572
>where they're relatively untouched

>>713145352
If anything's been changed, it's Steamworks tacked on, and Steamless will restore the standard executable. It's a lot easier to apply patches to a relatively clean copy from Steam than the Frankenstein abomination GOG usually sells.

>>713126203 (OP)
nah, I'll just steal...

>>713144572
...What could possibly make you think the GOG version of a classic game is worse than the one on Steam

>>713127208
>Truth is, people don't care about DRM
Advertising what you don't have instead of what you do is just bad business. When GOG started, the lack of DRM was just a nice bonus and not considered the main feature.

>>713145504
>download GOG version
>has old versions of mods and community patches
>have to somehow restore it to virgin, with core files different than base
>download Steam version
>has no community shit
>maybe has Steamworks DRM, and I can run Steamless to remove it
>have a clean slate to apply fixes myself (and right)
>"b-but GOG does it right!"
When have polacks done anything right?

Remember when they came out with the dream list and thousands of people voted for games they wanted and the only thing that came from it was an old port of a ps1 game? That was fun.

>>713145174
no respond with a real argument

>>713145635
Name a game

>>713126203 (OP)
>run a for profit company
>ask for donations
Grim

>>713128324
/v/'s contrariaism reached critical mass in 2020 the cracks appeared in 2016, so anything /v/'s enemies are against, they are for and vice-versa.

>>713145548
The real problem is that GOG just hasn't really lived up to what they were started as in a long time. They just want to be a Steam competitor and get modern game releases. They have so many old games on their store that need external fan patches or mods to make them function properly on modern operating systems and hardware. Too many times in the past I have bought some ancient game from them that they allege should work and it just doesn't, I simply don't trust them at this point. On top of that, their launcher is FUCKING AWFUL. It freezes and crashes when launching most games at least 75% of the time. Totally abhorrent, and entirely useless.

>>713145763
>gotta remember GOG shit downloaded ages ago
>>713145896
Uh, sweaty, totes don't use their launcher, which is a web browser. Just use a web browser.

>>713145763
VTMB

>>713126203 (OP)
Just give them a few dollars you selfish twat

>>713146280
why? i don't even pay for games

>>713140076
For Freelancer apparently they can't get the rights to it.

Sonic Adventure 1/2 would be a great thing to add to GOG…

>>713126203 (OP)
>scour gog's site
>nothing
WOW fuck off, lying retard

>>713130487
>and didn't even have a Linux client for Galaxy
Stopped reading there, butthurt Troonix user don't get to have opinions on anything.

>>713139781
>selling freeware
loool

>>713142379
>I guess those games don't deserve to be preserved and only abandonware should be?
Microsoft isn't interested in selling anything on GOG. It's a publisher issue.

>>713143459
>They don't even bother with abandonware at this point
Retard.
https://www.gog.com/en/news/release_azraels_tear_from_sneg