mrkgnao: Embarrassingly misinformed and biased review.
tfishell: How so?
For example. misinformed:
"Old games are almost the entirety of GOG.com's selection": - 31% of the games released this year were day one releases.
- An additional 13% of the games released this year were less than one year old.
"Besides The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt $59.99 at Dell and a handful of other titles, you'll be hard-pressed to find software that isn't at least five years old" - Almost 400 (
not counting DLCs and premium editions) titles is hardly a handful.
"almost everything costs $9.99 or less. In fact, Planescape: Torment, Neverwinter Nights II: Complete, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are just three of the very few games on the service that cost more than $10" - More than 250 games (
not counting DLCs and premium editions) cost more than $10. Hardly very few.
- Planescape: Torment costs $9.99
For example, embarrassing:
"titles [from?] the last two decades. Many computer games from that period became difficult to run in Windows XP and later versions of Windows, so GOG.com delivers them in DOSBox format": - How many DOS games were released in the last two decades, regardless of whether you count it from 2001 or 1995?
"contemporary PCs (as well as Linux and Mac machines)" - So PC Magazine believes that only machines running Windows are Personal Computers?
For example, biased:
"Cons: Must download the separate GOG Galaxy desktop client for chat features": - Regardless of whether this is true or not, the Steam review on the same website doesn't have a con that reads "Must download the separate Steam desktop client for
all features"
I stopped reading after four paragraphs. This reads like a review from 2012 that has been quickly edited with a few new details.