Posted June 28, 2019
rjbuffchix: One could point out that general consumers are also "tapped out" on Steam and Steam-like features. Look already at the outrage caused by Epic,
Indeed, let's look at the "outrage" caused by Epic. That's a fictional narrative that is blown ludicrously out of proportion by a very small handful/minority of very vocal critics on the internet. Meanwhile, in actual reality, that outrage has had zero effect on Epic Games Stores' sales. They had 85 million customers within the first 5 months of opening, and no doubt that number has increased a lot since then. Their games are selling like hot-cakes. Many of their well-known sequel games sold way more copies on Epic Games Store than their famous & popular previous entries ever sold on Steam.
In other words, the "outrage" over Epic Games Store exclusives is a completely moot point. But if one were to believe everything they read on the internet, then one would accept the extremely untrue idea that the outrage over Epic Games Store is causing them to lose a very significant margin of sales.
The same kind of effect is also evident regarding GOG, in threads like this.
A lot of people say things like "the fans" or "the original customers," and then proceed onto rants about how Galaxy is "betraying the vision of GOG" and "not what GOG customers want." Meanwhile, in actual reality, contrary to what often-repeated internet outrage would have one believe, the majority of GOG customers willingly choose to use Galaxy, and like doing so. We/they realize that GOG would be worse off - not better - if it didn't have Galaxy and thus was unable to offer features like Achievements, Cloud Saves, a quick & easy place to launch all your GOG games from, etc. etc.
That is to say, Galaxy is nowhere nearly so despised by the overall GOG userbase as many posters on GOG forums would have one believe. And although such posters take it upon themselves to be the spokesmen for "original" or "real" GOG customers, they actually don't have any credible authority to speak for those groups, many/most of whom most likely do not actually share their hatred of Galaxy.