yeah because Steam is so great at preventing piracy /sarcasm.

I`d asked on their FB & Steam pages, never saw any replies.


https://twitter.com/BlackForestTeam/status/571387604245086208

That was all I could find from the past posts, too much stuff on FB hehe

Unless it`s been patched into GoG` version & nothing flashed up about it. /shrug

I don't know if Steam reduces the number of pirated games but why are you so sure that it doesn't?

I am going based on the fact that Steam's primary form of DRM, CEG was broken many years ago. So with that what would be the point in saying "keeping a game on Steam exclusively and not releasing a DRM free version will reduce piracy" it makes no sense since there is nothing that Steam offers from a actual copy protection standpoint that would prevent piracy anymore then just releasing it DRM free anyway since pirates can easily bypass their CP/DRM method anyway outside of offering a better service which GOG tries to do anyway.

I wasn't talking about Steam's DRM preventing piracy but Steam's "services" such as the Workshop reducing piracy.
Normally every game gets cracked as far as I know so DRM might not be the way to go when trying to reduce piracy.
But if you only get access to every aspect of a game (e.g. mods) if you bought the game then maybe more people will buy the game.

I would suggest hand of Fate, no dlc here and running 1.0.3 as opposed to 1.1.5 but they have claimed they are hard at work and gog is there next goal. Let's hope! Love that game.

and what is to stop GOG from doing the same? they already added Steamworks style functions to Galaxy, so it's not without reason that GOG couldn't create a Workshop like Steam's. So again, how does anything Steam offers that GOG doesn't currently offer or could implement later that prevents piracy outside of the illusion that all DRM even long times cracked DRM works?

I already said that I don't actually know if Steam reduces piracy but I am inclined to believe that Steam does and I believe that GOG reduces piracy.
However, I do not understand in what way a potential future service from GOG would be the same to a publisher as an established system.
Don't misunderstand me, I'm on your side and possibly a lot of publishers are on our side as well but some publishers obviously are not.

Why would a publisher go with a potential future service over a established one? Easy, money. Keep in mind Steam when it first launched only had Counter Strike 1.6 and Half-life , no other devs and publishers wanted to touch it because why sell through Steam when retail was still king? But Valve grew their user base and slowly started attracting small devs and such and grew, attracting larger and larger publishers and devs and so on. Why? because Valve showed them there was a market and money to be made in the digital space. GOG has to do the same, if GOG keeps growing their customers like Valve did for Steam devs and publishers will break and sell here, not all some will still be wary of the no-drm thing and others like EA and Ubisoft will stick to Uplay and Origin because that is where they get the largest cut. But most will because they want money.

Would Daikatana count? After all, playing it makes you John Romero's bitch.

You'll be Romero's bitch, regardless of whether you play it through GOG or Steam. :P

Indeed, but we still have to suck it down.
Good point. Does the status as Romero's bitch multiply if one owns more than a single copy of the game? Because I have it both here and as a physical copy.

Except for this one (see attached). :P

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