"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends." - Albert Bandura
"Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to government, but our futures." - Edward Snowden
"Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to government, but our futures." - Edward Snowden
BigBoxGamer wrote:
They won't be able to rival Steam unless they have mega sales and release games that are brand new releases.
They're already as close to Steam as it gets on the PC platform. They're the second largest seller of digital games, last I checked.
So one could already call them "rivals". The client is new however. Which is what the topic is about..
They won't be anywhere near Steam in terms of sales in the next decade or so.
But what they can do however is keep building on consumer satisfaction until they finally reach critical mass. Because GOG does things Steam never will. And consumers like that.
The moment a religious person unknowingly calls his own ways stupid: "And lol. I highly doubt you have magic powers. If you proved it I would believe you, but since you 'refuse to', I choose not to."
Until they can get there, they will never make Valve bat an eye because Valve knows that Steam will always be ahead of the curb. They need big sales, and the need to release games coming out in 2015.
Short Term Goals: Silver/Gold/Platinum || Long Term Goals: Diamond/Master/Challenger
BigBoxGamer wrote:
Until they can get there, they will never make Valve bat an eye because Valve knows that Steam will always be ahead of the curb. They need big sales, and the need to release games coming out in 2015.
Well no ****ing ****, Sherlock.
Isn't that just painfully obvious? And irrelevant to the topic in the first place. This is about the client, not the store. I'm fine with deviating, just try to start a more interesting conversation if you do..
"I saw [Twilight: Eclipse] in theaters with a girl I was dating at the time. I spent more time staring at my toes and wiggling them than I did watching this abomination. When Edward proposed to Blank Face, I finally looked up with a revelation.
I blurted out loud, in a dead silent theater full of teenage girls on opening night "Wait a minute, Edward has no blood flow. How does he get an erection?" I heard several men laughing, and had several girls turn and stare at me.
I did not get laid that night." - Berengier817
I blurted out loud, in a dead silent theater full of teenage girls on opening night "Wait a minute, Edward has no blood flow. How does he get an erection?" I heard several men laughing, and had several girls turn and stare at me.
I did not get laid that night." - Berengier817
I hope this doesn't end up in "This game requires GOG Galaxy for multiplayer functionality". Also a bit sad about the fact that they're probably backporting the Linux client instead of just building a decent cross-platform code base from the start.
If they end up open sourcing the client under a decent license, and they take community patches seriously, I'll hype this forever though. But I'd be very surprised.
If they end up open sourcing the client under a decent license, and they take community patches seriously, I'll hype this forever though. But I'd be very surprised.
********'s a pretty good fertilizer
Latest Legend wrote:
I hope this doesn't end up in "This game requires GOG Galaxy for multiplayer functionality".
I don't think that will be a problem. They seem to be approaching that from the right perspective:
Crossplay
Crossplay-enabled games offer online play between GOG and Steam. Because where you buy your games shouldn't prevent you from playing with friends.
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So GOG finally went about creating a rival to the Steam client.
The open beta just started and it has a base-line of functions, like buying games, installing games, auto-updates, chat and general community features.
It doesn't have many of the extra features that Steam does, but they are currently working on quite a few, some of which are completely unique.
They're also taking feedback.
You can go to their "wishlist" section and vote for the features you'd like to see. The most requested is currently open sourcing the client, which would be huge. I really hope they do go down that path. Desura has already open sourced their client, to great success. Although they don't sell DRM-free games as far as I know.
Here are a couple of features I recommend voting for:
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/open_source_the_galaxy_client
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/endtoend_encryption_on_chat
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/themeskin_support
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/lan_gaming_via_internet_hamachilike_vlan_in_galaxyespecially_for_older_games
I have very high hopes for this going forward. CDProjekt Red/GOG have shown that they, if anybody, can carry the banner of gaming forward.