Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”

• aramova@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also, fuck Epic and the ass they rode in on.

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  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I liked when they made Jill of a Jungle, Unreal, and One Must Fall 2097

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    • Lawnman23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Holy shit, a OMF mention?!?

      fistbump

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      • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You just heard the lightning bolt, and now the theme song is pumping in yo head

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    • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, Epic Megagames were a part of my childhood, it’s sad to see them turn into another greedy coroporation.

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes yes, bitch eating crackers and all that.

    But can we maybe focus on what they actually are shit at (which is a lot) rather than manufacturing virtue for other companies?

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    • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m not sure which part of that guys comment suggests anything other other than “fuck epic,” but here’s a short and sweet list:

      • Designing a service for their customers instead of relying on paid exclusivity
      • Halfway decent customer support
      • Unreal Engine 5’s performance
      • Keeping their old of games accessible
      • Not scamming kids out of virtual money

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      • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Also, they

        • Fucked over Unreal fans by dropping the new Unreal Tournament the moment Fortnite took off (this one is personal, I was looking forward to that)
        • Fucked over people who bought Fortnite Save the World (the original paid PvE mode of the game) by dropping that the moment the Battle Royale mode took off (this is objectively worse than UT because people paid for this)

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• TheEntity@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not nearly the same degree. GOG sells actual Linux games with no 3rd party software necessary to play them. The same cannot be said about EGS, one simply cannot launch an EGS game in an officially supported way.

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For a very limited subset of games, they provide linux binaries. For the rest? You are up a creek and in the realm of “Figure it out”. Which… is generally the Heroic Launcher (or Lutris for a subset) which puts you in the same boat as Epic.

    If you insist upon saying one store is more virtuous than the other… okay? I personally don’t like defending companies but you do you.

    But for the vast majority of games? Epic and GoG are in the same category as basically everything but Steam. And both are in the exact same category regarding launchers and download services since they both heavily rely on the Heroic Launcher (which is awesome).

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    • TheEntity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you insist upon saying one store is more virtuous than the other… okay? I personally don’t like defending companies but you do you.

      Could you please not put words into my mouth? Neither is “virtuous” and I am not defending them. Let’s stick to the facts instead. It’s clear that EGS is being actively hostile towards Linux, while GOG is merely negligent. EGS actively removed Linux support from previously supported games on at least one occasion (Rocket League).

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      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You’re doing it again.

        As a publisher: Yes, Epic stopped the Rocket League devs from continuing to build Linux binaries. To my knowledge, they have not disabled “support” for Proton in any of the anti-cheat solutions.

        Similarly, the development branch of CD Projekt (the parent company of GoG), apparently had Linux binaries for The Witcher 2. They do not for The Witcher 3 or Cyberpunk.

        Both companies decided it was not worth internally supporting Linux and instead rely on Proton/Wine to do it for them. Whether that is good for gaming is debatable, but both are “actively hostile towards Linux” in that regard.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    GOG sells actual Linux games with no 3rd party software necessary to play them.

    Ah yes, stand-alone binary installers that work only on a very tiny set of Linux versions because they rely on specific version of system libraries, sometimes contain distribution-specific hardcoded paths, and so on. I especially like those older Linux ports that exclusively target Nvidia drivers because why would anyone just have coded to the OpenGL standard back then…

    We have Flatpak Runtimes and Steam Linux Runtimes since years. CD Project / GOG can’t even be bothered to pick these existing open source solutions.

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