Vidya ownership

>buy a game on GoG
>can download the installer, back it up and play the game offline
>Steam, Ebin, Origin and whatever else
>many if not most of your games are tied to a shitty launcher
>forced updates, no full control over the data
Now they want to force bullshit like Stadia that turns you into a renter. Why is this allowed?

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Because Google has infinite money and GOG hasn't turned a profit in years. That's because normalfags trade convenience for ownership because we didn't gatekeep the hobby enough.

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>buy game on GOG
>don't get updates at the same time as Steam

Yes, and? I fucking hate forced Steam updates, you can only postpone them now, don't actually disable them. People assume that I would always want a new update. Fucking wrong, that shit breaks mods and or balance.
>That's because normalfags trade convenience for ownership
Fucking normalfags....

I only buy old games on gog like wiz8

>Be the only legit platform that gives a fuck about gaming and gamers
>Hurr Durr you have to download updates manually
>Id rather sell my personal data to chinese
>Renting games is more convinient, you dont even play most of them
Why is this allowed?

Because the sheeple consoomer let it happen.
They don't care enough about vidya to archive their digital collection and think steam/epic/origin won't alter or remove games they """own""".

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I buy games whereever I feel like it and if for some reason the platform gets in the way I just pirate a separate copy to mod or whatever it is I'm trying to do. Who gives a shit?

>Who gives a shit?
The line upon which all societal downfall is built.

I mean, I generally pirate too, unless it's on GoG, but it would be nicer to have more control on your games on any launcher bullshit platform. Now, I think it's not totally Steam's fault, because there are games on Steam that allow you to play offline, so companies share guilt here too, but Steam also removed option to prevent updates. Well, you can set them to update only during certain hours, but if game needs an update and you want to play it, then tough luck, update it or you can't play it. No way to actually keep older version. I see this as anti-consumer.

How is being a renter a bad thing? The majority of games released aren't worth owning past the first playthrough. If you take piracy out of the equation, renting is the most cost efficient way to play video games.
Subscription services allow you to play more games for less of the cost. Currently if there is something I want to play on Game Pass, I'll spend $5 to play it, and when I beat it I have the rest of the month to play anything else on the service. Even when Game Pass on PC matches the console price, it will still get you 6 months of gaming for the price of buying a single game.

>Why is this allowed?
Because stupid people are stupid? Thank god that i got smarter. Sadly i was not start from the start and it took a Denuvo game from Steam to become unplayable once my internet was down for a few days cus of a storm for me to see the light. Now GOG is the only place i buy my games from. I'm still pissed that i spent money on steam games.

>How is being a renter a bad thing?
>rent for 60$
>own for 60$
Hmm...

I got so annoyed by steam starting up everytime I wanted to play a game, I made the switch to gog. I’ve got games on steam but idgaf, I will never use that piece of shit again.

Maybe it is for you, if you play a game for a month and you are done with it. I play trough games slowly, takes months for me to finish them, I often don't have much time to play and I also play strategy games that have a lot of replay-ability. Renting is absolutely terrible for me.

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>play unlimited games for half a year for $60
>Spend $60 to own a game that you play once and leave to rot on your self / account only to have to pay another $60 next week as the process repeats spending a total of $1440 for 6 months of gaming

Didn’t steam got hit with lawsuit where the TOS or agreement stated that the consumer owns that specific copy and is allowed to do whatever with their product?

>automatic update
You can use GOG Galaxy.

Nah the downfall of society is trying to plan for every possible eventuality instead of just being robust and able to adapt whatever the situation is. Not giving a shit is the best way to live.

or just download cracked games from the internet or the gog games whatever

>Spend $60 to own a game that you play once and leave to rot
LMAO! Most of us don't have ADD. I have over 250+ hours in Divinity:Original Sin 2 for example. I also plan to do another playtrough to explore the stories i missed the first time. I love replaying my old games. I love buying games that are worth playing over and over. If you play trash like TLOU2 that is 20 hours long, linear as fuck and with zero replayability sure, rent that garbage. The games i play are worth owning.

my taste > your taste
ok boomer

>Game developer doesn't exist anymore and neither does the publisher
>GoG kills abandonware website and sells the game for maximum profit with dosbox

GG GoG

I believe you can use an universal steam api .dll "crack" for steam games that are just steamworks protected.

I'll check it out.. Too bad some games have denuvo or other bullshit on top of it. Anti piracy my ass. Makes me dislike using legit copy to the point I'm thinking about pirating the game instead.

>mfw I just dismiss any game infested with denuvo, I'll never buy it and won't even bother pirating it

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>won't even bother pirating it

>implying you can

Right, but I'm not particularly interested in playing Handball 17 anyway.

Unfortunately Umihara Kawase is not on GOG, and SNK games take a while to get on GOG.
A lot of the games I play are really small scale, and I mostly got them on sale, stuff like Cloudbuilt, Rivals of Aether, Bot Vice, etc. There are games like SimplePlanes and Everspace which are available on GOG, but when I bought them they were around like 5 dollars, so I jumped on that quick.

I intend to get Falcom games from GOG though.

Sounds like cope

most customers play are casuals and prefer easy services, so they don't care whether they own the games or not
so it is balanced, gog for people who want to own their games and the other stores are for those who don't care
i don't see any problem with that

>buy a game on GoG
Good joke because GoG doesn't get real games, only C grade indie garbage or shit that came out years ago. And you get the same thing as if you pirated the game. You can back up and play your pirated copy offline too, and it's fucking free. That, and buying from there means your money goes to scumfuck lying SJWs.

You'd have to be genuinely retarded to ever buy anything from GoG.

You can, most of them at least.

It was VERY unnecessary of GOG to make art of GOG-chan showing her tummy.
VERY unnecessary.

>hurrr kurwa i have posted my thread mister pawel, please deposit my 5 zloty
Fuck you viral faggot.

>And you get the same thing as if you pirated the game.
Which is better than what most stores offer. I don't see how this is an argument against GoG.

What?
Not sure what you mean by indie. Is Battle Brothers indie? I got that on GoG. Indie or triple A, they all pander to sjw politics.

>what? o kurwa i do not rozumiem wat you mean, pana
Fuck you, learn to act better.

You don't have to post in a thread if you don't want to contriubute to it.

I can't believe my little storefront is this cute!

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And funny

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if I buy games, I either buy them on gog or porn sites.
But I have to say that gog made a lot of stupid decisions the last year. The epic merge is stupid and whats worse the the cancel of downloader and the push for the stupid memory hog shit coded gog galaxy trash. The gog website is a pile of trash code too.

>epic merge
I thought this was just the release of an official EGS plugin for GOG Galaxy.