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While I was trying to go over my VERY POORLY tagged journal to see if I could find a post about Denuvo (Which I haven't found. I really should go over the journal and do some serious tagging.) I came across the post above.
It was made when "Good Ol' Games" announced their sudden closure. Leaving people to wonder WTF was going on, deliberately, probably for a laugh.
In truth, they closed "Good Ol' Games", the purely drm-free old game webstore, and a few days after the post was made, launched "gog.com".
So the hysteria they put their loyal customers through for a few days ended up over a rebranding with a few changes.
What struck me as funny is that I predicted in that post "if they do come back it will be in a different form."
Specifically I gave two possibilities.
1. DRM shop. Meaning the games will be sold with DRM. Maybe not all of them, but certainly it will become an option for publishers - and publishers tend to demand DRM whenever possible. I doubt you'll see many new games added to the site without DRM if this happens.
2. Steam Clone. Meaning it'll run somewhat like how Steam currently works. You buy games and have them tied to your account. Technically still DRM shop, only no exceptions anymore as likely all the old stuff will be added to the DRM of the site for new purchases.
So let's see.
1. Yep. DRM became an option. Not a regular option by far, but an option. And the first developer to use that option was gog themselves for their new (At the time) witcher game. Can't remember if it was the second or third game though to be honest. Been so long and I haven't even played the first one yet.
2. Hello GOG Galaxy client! (Years later) However thankfully it wasn't remotely as much of a steam clone as I feared.
So like. I guess I was right on both counts? :D
I don't hate gog, although their stunt certainly pissed me off after they did their big reveal. I've still yet to spend actual money on games with them however. I got a freebie from Kane, which started the entire thing, and I've gotten a bunch of freebies as they're offered.
The reason for me being stingy though isn't because of their stunt. I think they've actually done a good job maintaining themselves against the steam tide. However I'm not one for using credit cards online willynilly. There's way too much hackin' going on to risk that in my mind. Especially after companies show us how BADLY they protected their customer information AFTER they lose it all to some hacker kid.
When I buy games off Steam, or PSN, or even the little I bought off of MS Live (40 whole bucks worth!), or Nintendo (more than 40 bucks. >_>), it's always been by getting prepaid cards for the service.
Gog doesn't do that. They do let you add money from credit cards to your account, which is a step in the right direction since you can use prepaid visa giftcards to load money to the gog account safely. However those visa/mastercard giftcards have pretty big activation fees. I can't rule out ever using one to get games on gog, but for the last few years I've avoided the temptation. So it's probably unlikely unless a must have game lands on gog and only gog.
Also postdictions is now a word. And a tag. Using it for when I go back to my old day predictions to see how shit turned out afterwards. Like today! I just don't want to type out "prediction checking". :P
While I was trying to go over my VERY POORLY tagged journal to see if I could find a post about Denuvo (Which I haven't found. I really should go over the journal and do some serious tagging.) I came across the post above.
It was made when "Good Ol' Games" announced their sudden closure. Leaving people to wonder WTF was going on, deliberately, probably for a laugh.
In truth, they closed "Good Ol' Games", the purely drm-free old game webstore, and a few days after the post was made, launched "gog.com".
So the hysteria they put their loyal customers through for a few days ended up over a rebranding with a few changes.
What struck me as funny is that I predicted in that post "if they do come back it will be in a different form."
Specifically I gave two possibilities.
1. DRM shop. Meaning the games will be sold with DRM. Maybe not all of them, but certainly it will become an option for publishers - and publishers tend to demand DRM whenever possible. I doubt you'll see many new games added to the site without DRM if this happens.
2. Steam Clone. Meaning it'll run somewhat like how Steam currently works. You buy games and have them tied to your account. Technically still DRM shop, only no exceptions anymore as likely all the old stuff will be added to the DRM of the site for new purchases.
So let's see.
1. Yep. DRM became an option. Not a regular option by far, but an option. And the first developer to use that option was gog themselves for their new (At the time) witcher game. Can't remember if it was the second or third game though to be honest. Been so long and I haven't even played the first one yet.
2. Hello GOG Galaxy client! (Years later) However thankfully it wasn't remotely as much of a steam clone as I feared.
So like. I guess I was right on both counts? :D
I don't hate gog, although their stunt certainly pissed me off after they did their big reveal. I've still yet to spend actual money on games with them however. I got a freebie from Kane, which started the entire thing, and I've gotten a bunch of freebies as they're offered.
The reason for me being stingy though isn't because of their stunt. I think they've actually done a good job maintaining themselves against the steam tide. However I'm not one for using credit cards online willynilly. There's way too much hackin' going on to risk that in my mind. Especially after companies show us how BADLY they protected their customer information AFTER they lose it all to some hacker kid.
When I buy games off Steam, or PSN, or even the little I bought off of MS Live (40 whole bucks worth!), or Nintendo (more than 40 bucks. >_>), it's always been by getting prepaid cards for the service.
Gog doesn't do that. They do let you add money from credit cards to your account, which is a step in the right direction since you can use prepaid visa giftcards to load money to the gog account safely. However those visa/mastercard giftcards have pretty big activation fees. I can't rule out ever using one to get games on gog, but for the last few years I've avoided the temptation. So it's probably unlikely unless a must have game lands on gog and only gog.
Also postdictions is now a word. And a tag. Using it for when I go back to my old day predictions to see how shit turned out afterwards. Like today! I just don't want to type out "prediction checking". :P
