Fewer and fewer games have been including LAN in the past few years, ever since Steamworks became appealing to developers. In fact, some games which used to have LAN had this function removed and replaced entirely by Steamworks when GameSpy shut down, such as idiots at Relic doing it for Company of Heroes 1 and WH40K: Dawn of War 1.

The part about it being the reverse confused me a bit at first because that doesn't contradict what I meant. . :)

Do you know more examples on the top of your head?

What I meant is that it's not that they schedule announcements of controversial decisions around planned releases of games in high demand, and not the other way around. The goal and purpose is the same in terms of end result, of course.

Regarding your question, I have to give it a bit of thought, and do some digging in order to recall specific examples and be accurate. I'll keep your post link, and get back to you on this.

Yeah xD

While majority, if not all, GoG users are here because they like what GOG has to offer e.g DRM free, in the gaming world GoG is nothing when compared to Steam. Even Dota players alone is enough to surpass the number of GoG users xD

And GoG's catalog is still minuscule. They might be able to have Dragon Dogma (like latest AAA), but the real meat like Nier: Automata or Football Manager series are out of reach. These games have cult following and they will stick with Steam since only Steam has it.

And if by strict control means something like GoG's library, then I'd stick with Steam's Greenlight altogether...

If anything, it means option. Option to buy garbage, or option to find gem, than none at all.

I reject this "quality" control. GOG has yet to offer any significant amount of Visual Novels, while Steam does. What is the damn point of DRM-free, when the store refuses to offer content? GOG is a disappointment, and will stay that way if they continue to foist their opinions of what is "quality" upon their customers.

Steam lets me choose the games I want to play.

Funny how they pushed it as OPTIONAL CLIENT with FREEDOM OF CHOICE as the slogan for Galaxy and now it's like IF YOU DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS YOU WILL GET THE BELT in some senses. I hate how already they are pushing site features to gog exclusive already... so that means something is up.

I do now, but as I never logged in I never had any settings to set up or saw any of the options. I have no desire to use Galaxy. I don't need it for my gaming experience. I don't need it for the Witcher series, Legend of Heroes series, Kerbal, Shantae series, Darksiders series, KOTOR series, Mini Metro, Olli Olli series, Legend of Grimrock series, Bastion, Pier Solar, Rogue Legacy,, Vulgar,and the other several hundred single single-player games I bought here.

That fart would be EPIC!
Where's my to-do-before-I-die list...

Well GOG doesn't support trashing their store with a bazillion trash visual novel games, so we have that going.

I think the bigger problem is the growing psychology of "I HAVE to have this game" at all costs, leading to so much piracy on the platform easiest to get a game for free causing so much drm measures. Sure we can point fingers at companies but the blame game goes both ways.

They haven't gone back on their principles at all. because their principals have always been providing DRM free games, and that is what they are still doing with no indication of that ever changing.

That is code for "I don't like this genre, it makes me happy that no one gets to enjoy it." It is my hope that people like you never get into positions of authority, because you would deliberately deprive people for your own satisfaction.

Just because DRM-free is the only principle left (and with a giant asterisk and "only applies to offline games; please don't pay attention to Gremlins, Inc in the corner over there" disclaimer written in small print) doesn't mean there weren't others in the past.

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THIS is what it looked like? Holy moly, even the way they talk is mad different.
I can understand some of the viewpoints of the old-timers who say the place isn't what it used to be a lot better now.

yes, I forgot about the regional pricing. So you would rather miss out on all kinds of DRM frre games that you get an installer for, perhaps GoG eventually have to shut down because they couldn't get more games in their catalog to keep their business going and profitable, just so you can keep a regional pricing (which by the way they make up for it by giving you store credits)?
The regional pricing is being forced on them, and if they want to stay in business it is what they have to do.

So it was either you only see a very small catalog of games, GoG does not make a profit, they go out of buisness and you lose access to your games and just hope that none of your back ups go kaput for some reason

or

They do what they have to do to stay in business, do the regional pricing in order to gain more titles in their catalog, and thus making sure you have continued access for your games through their service.

Which would you prefer.

Cause them going out of business would also be going against their principles in providing an everlasting service for their customers.

So what are they supposed to do when they are forced to choose between 2 of their principles and neither can co-exist?
Other than the regional price, in which they give in store credit to cover the difference, nothing else has changed. And they were stuck between 2 principles that could not co -exist. Staying in business and giving in store credit was the better option to go.