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When Gabe passes one day and the next owner is some business dimwit and makes steam really win capitalism, pretty sure we'll jump to GoG. That's my headcanon at least. Because that's what always happens to private companies when the person who cares about the thing no longer leads the company.
How?
I try to buy GoG over Steam, at any price, but the vast majority of the time the game I want is only on Steam, or Steam/1st party launcher.
They’ve got the whole market.
It's a chicken and egg kind of problem. But ultimately, it's where gamers go. Where we vote to put our dollars basically. If it's GoG or some other platform that becomes open source or something that works to build a good product, that's where publishers will eventually move to as well after the paying audience moves. But yeah, of course lots of big name studios will fight tooth and nail and won't supply DRM free versions willingly.
Unless policy gets instituted to force them of course.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/1013521/video-game-ownership-bill-congress-power-to-the-players-act
Gabe doesn't even work at valve anymore. He passed the torch long ago. Please don't keep repeating this.
Really who runs it?
A collective of knives and boats.
No I don’t want to lose my library 😭
Is GoG immune?
For a while, maybe? It's very tempting to sell out, and most people succumb.
Not entirely, but they're focused on delivering DRM free copies for your purchases. So if they were to pivot and revoke your library, that part is impossible if you've downloaded your DRM free installation files.
Do you keep an up to date copy of all your games installers?
I have some games on GoG. But when I wanted to install games, I got their launcher installer. You need to go through some dark path to find the true installer. At least it was the case a couple years back.
Also a few month ago they putted an announce to hire someone to lead the Galaxy launcher. They explicitly asked for someone that would push the use of AI in their team.
I fear the moment they gain enough traction, the game won't be as easy to install DRM free. Their launcher will be the DRM, just like steam.
So yeah, they provide an escape hatch for now, but sadly other than that it looks to me they are more like Epic than Valve. I have not much trust for them.
(Maybe Humble Bundle stopping to provide DRM free download of the game + the steam key eaeliy on made me very skeptical of this?)