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

• AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No doubt the corporate drones that take over after his death will shit all over his legacy.

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  • Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s one of my biggest fears, but I guess there’s always piracy especially for old games.

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gabe Newell is much more likely to go down before steam does. his words mean nothing for the future.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As great as Gaben and Valve are his word doesn’t mean anything. Luckily if they fail to keep their promises (or legally cannot) then the crack community will step in. I’m pretty sure they cracked Steam DRM ages ago. I remember a friend using it for Left 4 Dead back in the day.

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• ugjka@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anything that uses steam apis and services won’t work without steam and steam offers a lot of that to game devs

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  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But the APIs are public, so they can be reimplemented in open source. There just hasn’t been any reason for it since currently that would only be used for piracy (in fact some “cracked” games have a mockup of the steam API that just returns the expected things as if it had contacted the servers). But the moment steam goes away I give it a couple of weeks until there’s a GitHub implementing most of the basic stuff.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But the APIs are public, so they can be reimplemented in open source.

      And have been since years: http://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/

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• uskok@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you have a source for this? People like to repeat this rumour but I’ve never found out where he promises anything like that.

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  • slartibartfast@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    web.archive.org/web/…/showpost.php?p=16095809&pos…

    There’s this, the original comment lost to time, but a link to an alleged direct quote from GabeN.

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  • aido@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In addition to that forum archive, here’s a Steam support response via Reddit: reddit.com/…/i_asked_steam_support_what_happens_t…

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