GOG.com is a DRM-free games and movies distribution service that is part of the CD Projekt Group. GOG.com is also a "sister" company to CD Projekt Red, developers of the Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077.
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Lemme copy my own post from somewhere else
GOG's installers work great with Wine as do the games themselves. If you desperately need a launcher before you can even consider them, you can use Heroic Games Launcher - in fact I'd prefer if they throw their weight behind it than on Galaxy. A match made in heaven.
I guess the other good thing is GOG is not a US company, they're based in Poland. No tax money going to the American regime and their shenanigans I never asked for.
Only what, 10 years late?
@Solumbran @mr_MADAFAKA better late than never.
Exactly. Beating them up for being late has more risk of them dropping plans altogether. Celebrate their plans, they’ll want to execute on them.
The fuck would they care about any opinions here. They are only looking at the money they see Valve is making and want to get in on that. Their success is dependent only on what THEY actually DO. Lets see them invest some money for the developers who actually know what they are doing as Valve has done. I don't see that happening yet.
I think what you meant to say is: "Hell yeah!", no?
Let's stop punishing people for turning around and trying to do better, seriously. It's always damned if you don't, damned if you do....
Considering how gog has been progressing over the past years, they'll have to do much more to prove that they are getting better than to make an announcement.
Until then, I'll remain critical.
I don't think clapping as soon as a company that has been doing a lot of crap over years, makes an announcement about one potential future improvement, is more logical than that.
What crap have they been doing?
Pushing a shitty launcher, selling partial games, missing versions of games, selling games with DRM, implementing DRMs through their launcher... Basically everything that GoG is supposed to specifically avoid.
I was unaware of all of this. I'm on Linux so I don't use their launcher. I've seen sketchy EULAs that are game specific but not heard about DRM
If pointing out their non-action is being sprinkled on top of their pile of historical non-action is any kind of punishment, I have to wonder how you think they have been treating us who have given them money time and time again and had to figure out how to make their games work without their support!