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Posted November 22, 2018
I'm GOG member since Oct 2016 and I had a blast here.
I'm steam member since Oct 2015, but like GOG a bit more.

I think GOG should have more exlusive titles, not just old goodies, but that CP 2077 should be GOG exlusive or came with GOG exlusive benefits. I think Thronebreaker was such a fiasco, there are more people bitching about GOG than people being exlusive to GOG and I think outdated forum is disgrace. Website is fine, since I'm only 24 maybe I find it more intuitive than older generation here?

I hope Celeste & Drakensang & other great good titles see release here, but I'm not abandoning money I spent on steam.

I also find that being exlusive to GOG won't help GOG's keeping up with steam, GOG need new members who are willing to stay and all I see are new members stumbling upon site, seing giveaways & thinking this is steam key reseller (there was topic - I expected steam key) and all I see loyal GOG members leaving the site and no new members here. It's fine being loyal costumer, but you don't grow with same size market - you expand.

I started rambling, but I like GOG and I'm willing to stay here for long, but I do believe GOG's market is shrinking...

I wanted to talk about my experience with GOG vs Steam, but I will probably end up low rated as always.
Post edited November 22, 2018 by BeatriceElysia
Posted November 22, 2018
Jesus, for a second I thought this was an Alcoholic's Anonymous thread.
Posted November 22, 2018
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tinyE: Jesus, for a second I thought this was an Alcoholic's Anonymous thread.
I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you actually joking or you're half-serious?
Posted November 22, 2018
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tinyE: Jesus, for a second I thought this was an Alcoholic's Anonymous thread.
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BeatriceElysia: I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you actually joking or you're half-serious?
your OP sounded like AA introductions. don't worry about it. ;p
Posted November 22, 2018
I think GOG's market is not shrinking (as you assume), but more like... changing. I am here since 2012, still buy games here, still see lots of "old" users in the forums, but also see lots of "new" ones. For me, the Galaxy client, the site redesign, all these are signs that scream "hey we need to adapt to certain modern ideas to attract more people".
I do not use Galaxy, I couldn't care less about the (unfriendly) new site design, but hey, GOG should care that I stopped visiting just to check that new "daily deal" banner once a day ;) (ha, I just had a silly thought - if GOG were a record store, I would skim through the albums and when I would grab one to stare at the cover art a magical youtube popup would overlap it to auto-play a sampler from the album; hey, GOG, I want to stare at the cover!!!)
Posted November 22, 2018
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BeatriceElysia: ... I wanted to talk about my experience with GOG vs Steam ...
They are both largely doing what they are supposed to do. GOG will have it rather difficult to hold their ground against Steam, Origin, U-Play whoever else .... because they are rather David not Goliath. Maybe they didn't start early enough, maybe DRM free is just a niche only, maybe they were not keeping the publishers happy enough? I don't know. But that's life. GOG may or may not be here anymore in five years. We will see.
Posted November 22, 2018
GOG started out with a philosophy that more or less came down to: If you offer a good service, customers will reward you with their money and loyalty (more so than if you try to lock them into your system by force while offering bad service). They expressed that mainly to promote their DRM-free service, but I think it also went beyond that.

No matter how much GOG is going to grow and how much that increases temptation to do it just like others, I certainly hope they won't give up this core principle as that's what's set them apart from the rest. They should grow by convincing customers to choose them for their service, not because there are no alternatives if you want to play certain games. Instead of going for exclusive offers they should work on making this a more convenient store to use and place to hang out (which they might be trying already, but are currently failing at). If they force more people to buy from them via exclusivity, all we're going to get are more people complaining on the broken forums about the current state of GOG (and possibly more oldtimers leaving due to disappointment with the less attractive service and atmosphere, and the further corruption of the original principles).
Post edited November 22, 2018 by Leroux
Posted November 22, 2018
Keep in mind that the forum posters represent a very small percentage of the customer base for this store. And everyone knows that fora are made for griping. : ) So it's quite possible that we are not at all representative of the base as a whole.

Exclusive releases? Maybe. On a new release, it's an uphill climb to convince a store to forgo the really big store and its huge customer base. For older stuff, sure, it makes sense. Would be a heck of a coup, though, if Larian (for example) put their latest and greatest only here, if even for just a few weeks. I remember, though, the Kingdom Come delayed release and plenty of people were grumbling about that. Was probably for the better since that left time for many bugs to be squashed. Nonetheless, even though it was announced as such well beforehand, many people thought it should have been a Day One release here.

Exclusive benefits? I'm not onboard that one. Plenty of threads here where people ask why gOg titles don't get the same goodies as Steam titles do. So if it's not a good thing in one direction, don't know why it be a good thing in the other direction. Version / edition / DLC confusion is already a problem.

Personally, I would rather see the patch / update parity problems solved first.
Posted November 22, 2018
(I think Galaxy is more convinient than downloading 8 parts of base game installer - and some games have more than 8 game installers, with only one .exe, but the rest are very much obligatory. Maybe if you're downloading old game with 80 MB you might get one part installer, but I can't see myself playing without Galaxy - because I won't have games installed.)
Posted November 22, 2018
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Exclusivity is poison. Digital distributors should succeed through service level and consumer friendliness, not through a stranglehold on game availability.
Post edited November 22, 2018 by Randalator
Posted November 22, 2018
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BeatriceElysia: I'm GOG member since Oct 2016 and I had a blast here.
I'm steam member since Oct 2015, but like GOG a bit more.

I think GOG should have more exlusive titles, not just old goodies, but that CP 2077 should be GOG exlusive or came with GOG exlusive benefits. I think Thronebreaker was such a fiasco, there are more people bitching about GOG than people being exlusive to GOG and I think outdated forum is disgrace. Website is fine, since I'm only 24 maybe I find it more intuitive than older generation here?

I hope Celeste & Drakensang & other great good titles see release here, but I'm not abandoning money I spent on steam.

I also find that being exlusive to GOG won't help GOG's keeping up with steam, GOG need new members who are willing to stay and all I see are new members stumbling upon site, seing giveaways & thinking this is steam key reseller (there was topic - I expected steam key) and all I see loyal GOG members leaving the site and no new members here. It's fine being loyal costumer, but you don't grow with same size market - you expand.

I started rambling, but I like GOG and I'm willing to stay here for long, but I do believe GOG's market is shrinking...

I wanted to talk about my experience with GOG vs Steam, but I will probably end up low rated as always.
i don't really understand what you're talking about, but i must admit - even i have trouble disagreeing with you.. :-/
Posted November 22, 2018
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BeatriceElysia: (I think Galaxy is more convinient than downloading 8 parts of base game installer - and some games have more than 8 game installers, with only one .exe, but the rest are very much obligatory. Maybe if you're downloading old game with 80 MB you might get one part installer, but I can't see myself playing without Galaxy - because I won't have games installed.)
Most convenient way to download is the GOG Downloader. Though GOG no longer support it, it stills functions. The download button for the download banner got hidden by some advertisement though, for some strange reason, but if you click in the upper part of the barely visible left-side rectangle, you get the installer for the downloader: https://www.gog.com/downloader
Post edited November 22, 2018 by DubConqueror
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