Posted May 20, 2022
Congratulations GOG.
You've managed to get me to break my ideals of trying to buy only drm-free games. I had the choice of either buying the Linux version of Old World on Steam or not at all on GOG because you can't be bothered to implement the functionality for the developer to sell it here.
So I've signed up to Steam and bought my first game there. And it won't be the last. I'll probably buy the other games from Hooded Horse that I'm interested in purely as a symbolic gesture that I have grown increasingly disgusted of dealing with GOG, and would like to support a company that WANTS my business. I don't think I've bought my last game from GOG yet, but I doubt if it's too far off. But over the last three or four years my opinion has been steadily and slowly worsening and there have been so many games on GOG that I would have bought if I could have gotten them DRM-Free from some other, any other store.
If it were just one occurrence I could understand. Things happen. But I am tired of all the broken promises, missing features, games that have delayed Linux releases, if at all, and all the other ways that I feel like a third-rate citizen, or worse.
Ever since GOG released Galaxy I fear that my and your definition of DRM-Free has been drifting apart. I have seen far too many times that GOG has been trying to push the use of Galaxy, a client I cannot and do not want to use.
Four or so years ago, I was watching a Youtube video refer to GOG as being customer-friendly, and I was honestly shocked until I realized that they were referring to how GOG treats Windows (and to a lesser degree Mac) customers, at least at the time.
I am broken and very much doubt my opinion of GOG will ever improve no matter what you do in the future.
And to save the time of anyone who replies to this in the hope of me seeing it, I do not plan to read any replies.
You've managed to get me to break my ideals of trying to buy only drm-free games. I had the choice of either buying the Linux version of Old World on Steam or not at all on GOG because you can't be bothered to implement the functionality for the developer to sell it here.
So I've signed up to Steam and bought my first game there. And it won't be the last. I'll probably buy the other games from Hooded Horse that I'm interested in purely as a symbolic gesture that I have grown increasingly disgusted of dealing with GOG, and would like to support a company that WANTS my business. I don't think I've bought my last game from GOG yet, but I doubt if it's too far off. But over the last three or four years my opinion has been steadily and slowly worsening and there have been so many games on GOG that I would have bought if I could have gotten them DRM-Free from some other, any other store.
If it were just one occurrence I could understand. Things happen. But I am tired of all the broken promises, missing features, games that have delayed Linux releases, if at all, and all the other ways that I feel like a third-rate citizen, or worse.
Ever since GOG released Galaxy I fear that my and your definition of DRM-Free has been drifting apart. I have seen far too many times that GOG has been trying to push the use of Galaxy, a client I cannot and do not want to use.
Four or so years ago, I was watching a Youtube video refer to GOG as being customer-friendly, and I was honestly shocked until I realized that they were referring to how GOG treats Windows (and to a lesser degree Mac) customers, at least at the time.
I am broken and very much doubt my opinion of GOG will ever improve no matter what you do in the future.
And to save the time of anyone who replies to this in the hope of me seeing it, I do not plan to read any replies.
