cmeow

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[–] cmeow@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thank you, OP. Only took a couple mins to fill it out and verify my email. Easiest civic work I've ever had the pleasure of doing.

[–] cmeow@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Fantastic if you're a patient gamer. It's the only place I get my games from. The only bad thing is the selection of games (lack of AA/AAA games) and a bad client compared to Steam because they're not a multi-billion dollar company like Valve is. We had to wait 12 years for Skyrim to finally come out for example.

[–] cmeow@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

If true, you should share your story on the GOG forums. But because the games are DRM-free, they cannot region lock your games. Only exclude people from buying certain games because of applicable countries' laws like Germany and Australia.

[–] cmeow@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

CDP management board owns like 33% of the shares and aren't as beholden to them compared to other companies with less shares. And GOG is a sister company to CDPR and > 99% of their their new releases are still DRM-free to this day.

[–] cmeow@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

SE has stopped caring about its customers a long time ago. They never bothered to fix their old broken PC ports either like 13, 13-2, and the old 3, 5, and 6 games. FF16 is still exclusive to PS5, 7R Integrade was exclusive to EGS until June 2022, and they really went all-in on Metaverse/NFTs.

IMO, they died when Sakaguchi left in 2003 and hasn't been the same since. It's always Ship of Thesus with these once legendary companies.

[–] cmeow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Valve is in a position where they don't have to do anything and can still earn several billions per year. $7.6B USD last year, I believe.

[–] cmeow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

No chance, doing that would discourage devpubs from distributing on Steam.

[–] cmeow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Valve did it before with Darwinian: https://forums.introversion.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=40203 when they were relatively new to launchers.

[–] cmeow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is the devs' responsibility, not different shops. I can easily play compatible crossplay games easily with my friends as long as the devs develop it from the ground up.

[–] cmeow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

100%. This is a collective effort and since the market is mostly 20-40 yo demographic with disposable income, it's up to them to do the right thing.

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