WiseLearnedMan: Galaxy aside, bolded and underlined are the parts that bother me the most. Is there any place left on the planet where you can merely hand over money in exchange for a product, without having to sign away away your vital statistics in perpetuity to the cult of the Great Marketing Algorithm?
I mean... It depends on personal definiton... but I personally see Playism as more pure than GOG. At least Playism isn't actively lying about things being DRM-free or non-DRM-free (cough NMS cough).
WiseLearnedMan: Galaxy aside, bolded and underlined are the parts that bother me the most. Is there any place left on the planet where you can merely hand over money in exchange for a product, without having to sign away away your vital statistics in perpetuity to the cult of the Great Marketing Algorithm?
Matruchus: Only if you don't use the pc, internet or a mobile phone then yes. Otherwise no.
And only if you buy in a retail store where they don't want to know your personal data but that is very rare today.
And there you get recorded on CCTV. Plus if you by any chance happen to pay by card... you get the idea...
Themken: By the way, I have problems finding the Galaxy for Linux download.
Dude :D That's savage xD (and I say it as a Linux-as-a-main-system user)
Morning fellas, we meet again /s
Nothing better than uniting together other at comments section of yet another questionable decision /s
Seems Breja is missing. Someone go wake him up :P
acute71: What is next? Send a photo of yourself with a pack of Mountain Dew for a free game?
Buy CDPR one stock exchange packet and get free copy of Cyberpunk 2077 /s
timppu: Another question: what do you feel is the motive for GOG doing this, make it possible to redeem a free game only through the client? Why not allow it for non-client users?
Bring more people into Galaxy. Then wall in the garden saying "but majority is already there so what's the problem".
timppu: Next logical step indeed would be that you can download and install games only with the Galaxy client. While I possibly could live with that myself (as long as the procedure was simple and the downloaded/installed game would be fully portable ie. I can play it on another PC without Galaxy), I can understand why it would irk many people.
Frankly (and lo and behold it's some unwritten rule people as a general rule tend to just not see this point), at that point that's no different from Steam for major amount of games - what am I talking about? - there is TONS of DRM-free-after-installed games on Steam, you just install them through Valve's launcher and then they have literally no DRM and are fully portable. Then there is the fact that from those ACTUALLY DRMed you can remove DRM through casual efforts from vast chunk of that specific list of games.
The moment Galaxy becomes mandatory for ALL installs is the moment there will be literally no incentive whatsoever for DRM-free purist people (such as myself, tho I am not some blind fanatic, if I can remove DRM from Steam game myself and cram manual backup of it somewhere I'm fine with it since I care about specificly lack of DRM and not neccesarily "by default" [tho I generally aim for it whenever possible]) to buy anything here anymore.
kdgog: I dual boot Win7 with ZorinOS Linux, and hope to move fully to Linux at some point.
I hv vast IT experience, especially in the field of dealing with some obscure exotic BS, I hv disected Win 7 inside out over the years, for me Win 10 is LITERALLY the WORST Windows M$ has EVER made. And I say it as a person that used EVERYTHING from 95 all the way to 10, including server ones and mobile too (plus DOS, I am not 100% sure if I used Win 3/3.1).
Well, welcome to *NIX ;) Hv fun. Hope your stay becomes eternal :)
ChumpThump: The industry needs more competition. That means that people need to be aware that there are different places for people to get PC games. Places that do more than just sell you slightly discounted Steam Keys.
We need COMPETENT competition, not wolves-in-sheeps-skin ( E**) nor platform-principles-mercenaries ( G** ).