Comment on Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games

• Glide@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My experience with GOG is that it is a fringe option, at least in the combined North American (USA+Canada) culture. Plus, the unfortunate reality is that in many cases GOG’s principles preclude it from being a genuine competitor to Steam. Insisting on being DRM free means half of released games never go to the platform, so it will always be the secondary “better if” option.

  I worry about Steam’s functional monopoly on PC game access. It hasn’t been an issue so far, because it has remembered that it is, first and foremost, a service, providing consumer protects through a generous refund policy and supporting devs with easy access to simple matchmaking and anti-cheat systems. But without a healthy competitor, it would be easy for Steam to start milking it’s users and developers alike.

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  • szczuroarturo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Im pretty sure gog does have some games with drm.

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    • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Really? I thought their whole thing was that they sell DRM-free stuff

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