Companies whinge about piracy yet they incentivise it with their shitty practices
Remember the people suggesting to change the Hell Divers negative reviews because Sony listened?
They have learned nothing
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Sounds like they will be bringing the PSN requirement back for future games maybe. The only thing they probably learned was to announce the requirement for account linking from the start and make it more vissible
Yeah I’m sure changing negative reviews is a factor here and totally wouldn’t have been an incentive for future good behavior
Their incentive is money. All this is teaching them is that they need to find a different approach to do the same thing.
The AAA outfits are trash and should die.
Bad reviews tend to lead to worse sales…
Steam has got to be considering blacklisting them as a publisher over this. This is so, so dumb.
I’m afraid they would just make yet another barely functioning launcher/storefront
Steam is like the only company that I actually somewhat trust
For now. They still cave to Nintendo’s pressure
Yeah that whole Dolphin thing was weird. Seemed like valve just didn’t want to deal with the legal headaches of fighting Nintendo in court over an application that didn’t really need to be on the steam store in the first place.
Can’t say I blame them really.
Personal opinion time: I don’t think emulators belong on a commercial store anyway. Keep them on their own websites or Github. Putting them on a store like steam is just asking for trouble.
My take: emulators and in platform competition should be fair game. An ecosystem monopoly is still a monopoly.
How is GOG?
I liked it until CD Project Red showed they care about the shareholders more than the users with Cyberpunk. It’s clear that GOG will flip to be anti-consumer as soon as the shareholders change the company leadership. Enshittification comes for all companies because business majors don’t understand people.
Steam is private and Gaben is benevolent so that worry is distant. I also have no illusions that should Steam ever go public or change hands then the inevitable end of good, customer needs focused storefronts. But for now, Gave has proven he knows how to make a place consumers like myself want to use.
Also, CD Project had one of the worst stores and biased “media” in Poland. They region locked my games and told me “no one from abroad buys games :)” when I wrote to them that I can no longer Access my account or games.
GoG might be good now, but that still hurts me when I was a teenager and moved abroad. It was the only thing I had and they took it away from me. Fuck their DRM of old. Funny how they had the worst drm known to mankind and now have drm free store…
Gave Newell is 60+ years old and haven’t exactly taken the most care for his own health. We don’t know what will happen once he is gone.
With GOG there is nothing a change of leadership can do to your existing game library.
Fantastic if you’re a patient gamer. It’s the only place I get my games from. The only bad thing is the selection of games (lack of AA/AAA games) and a bad client compared to Steam because they’re not a multi-billion dollar company like Valve is. We had to wait 12 years for Skyrim to finally come out for example.
Better than Steam I’d argue. Unlike Steam, games you buy on GOG are yours to keep forever. No DRM like steam that
forces you to log on after a few days offline. You also get better version control.Edit: the offline limit was a bug. Offline restrictions would be dependent on the DRM solution for each individual game.
There are DRM free games on steam. If you can launch the game directly from the exe while steam is off, then the game is DRM free.
I’m aware, however it’s not as transparent and Steam does not provide the same guarantees that GOG do.
I don’t want to have to open the game page to figure that out. Also if there was a filter I could find and choose not to see DRM games at all, that would be very cool.
The DRM layers are added by game publishers, not by Steam, but yeah it is a little annoying that games on steam have to be launched through steam. There are some fake Steam overheads floating around to bypass that for use of running games on multiple local machines simultaneously.
How long is a few days and what happens if you don’t?
After digging into it, it seems like the 2 week limit was a bug that has been fixed by steam. So there is no Steam enforced limit, it’s up to each game’s DRM to enforce restrictions. Steam can function as DRM with a simple command during upload, but it’s rather basic and Valve recommends publishers to use additional DRM for more serious protection.
GOG on the other hand is DRM free as a core policy so you’re guaranteed no restrictions.
There is no DRM on GOG. You can just download the offline installer, then install it even without an internet connection. It will never ask you to go online because it doesn’t need to check anything.
I believe they meant what happens on the steam side, not the gog side.
I’m not in an affected country, nor did I plan to play multiplayer, but I still removed it from my wishlist and decided to boycott all titles requiring a PSN account. If you want to have some option but annoying account service, fine. I can survive clicking the X on that. But if they push this hard then we know they’ll push this onto all games next.
Have you looked at the list of affected countries? Are you really that upset that these titles aren’t available (for purchase) in places like Haiti and Afghanistan?
Have you? Because it also contains countries like Baltics. But that’s not even the point. The point here is that Sony forces restrictions upon users for absolutely no reason or benefit for them, just so that Sony has some numbers to show to their shareholders. But thanks for proving my point about you people. You’re literally the reason why companies like Sony, EA, Ubisoft, etc. can ruin the gaming market without repercussions.
Honestly… That’s a fairly harsh response to someone with an opinion…
I kind of feel they don’t deserve that attack… It doesn’t mean they have any plans to buy it.
I wouldn’t, and I’m actually selling my ps5 and set up my old PC with steam and big picture mode… But, pointing out the disadvantages in a normal way is more effective than attacking people
yeah fuck people from other countries and let the corporations fuck over people who aren’t me am I right?
it’s not whining people who fuck the gaming community. it’s the corporations who are making decisions that cause people to whine over them