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Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

GOG needs to copy Steam a bit more.

Give us game based discussion boards, a mod workshop, and most importantly a friends notification system. Steer into the social experience of old games.

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ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

game based discussion boards

These already exist, every store page has a “Forum discussion” link. You can also go here and you should find the “game specific forum” section where you can search for whatever game.

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v0rld@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Apart from the fact that all things you listed exist in one form or another on GOG, have you considered that there are people that prefer not having all those random bullshit social features in their game store? Stream may be more popular, but getting out of their niche and copying steam will alienate their fans without attracting steam users.

Also fuck the workshop, it’s the worst thing that ever happened to modding. It’s a total pain in the ass to download and apply a mod that is only available there to any non-steam version. Additionally it produced a generation of gamers that is unable to trouble-shoot even the tiniest problem with the mods they applied.

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- TalkingFlower@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  GOG forums are mostly technical topics. Different builds for different storefronts can cause different problems, and good luck getting help from devs and mod authors on Steam if you have a GOG problem.
  
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TalkingFlower@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s very sluggish compared to Steam; everything is slower in GOG client. I wonder if it is a server problem or my region.

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