I noticed during the summer sale there was never a connect offer and its been a while since anything connect oriented has been offered. I was just wondering if there are going to be no connect offers anymore?

I noticed some devs in Steam thought it was being used for piracy. Is that how many devs feel?

I don't know, did it say something triggering?

ask the devs.

as forum users go, no connect has not been cancelled. its rare and time limited as always.

Probably hasn't been cancelled but developers/publishers must agree to allow there games to be made available, lack of connect could just mean that GOG can't find any publishers that want to take part.

Dammit. I laughed.

Some days, the layups are just there.

I view it as more of a DOA feature that was barely ever a thing, rather than having been 'cancelled.'

But I think they should officially cancel it, because, legions of people harbor the delusional false beliefs that the games they love are going to appear on Connect one day, even though they aren't ever going to in reality.

So for that reason IMO GOG should stop being complicit in fostering such delusional beliefs via pretending as if Connect is eventually going to give them what they want one day, vwhich could be done via GOG announcing that they are saying goodbye to Connect (just like they did with GOG Downloader).

It's not officially "dead", GOG just haven't filled in the death certificate yet. ;-)

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_whats_up_with_gog_connect_thread


It's been alive this year too, although for all practical purposes, it has been de-facto cancelled for a long time.

If they have one game there every six months or so, it really doesn't benefit anyone, as the window to react for people who have that one game and know to act during those few days is practically speaking impossible, except for those who actively follow the thing, like the linked thread above.

Presumably that experiment didn't create any additional income on GOG's side, quite possibly it even did the opposite, as buying a game on Steam activated that game also on GOG.

Personally I found GOG Connect to be very useful in some special cases, like when I had some game from IndieRoyale bundles, which later added Steam codes, and then it was possible to re-acquire some of them DRM-free on GOG.

I hope they continue Connect sooner or later, but it really has to be better organised than it was.

bwahahaha

The modern world has made joking about such things too easy. :D

I'd rather hear a hard truth than cling to a false hope.

Too bad GOG is silent on the issue.