GOG announces the last video games client you'll ever need (consoles + PC)

[cretsiah]

I kinda like the idea, but

 

I like gog because I dont have to be logged in / online to play games.

I worry about the extra overhead  when my system struggles with steams overhead.

 

best thing Gog could do for me would be to introduce gift cards (like steam did)

 

[TetraSky]

I'll wait and see where this goes.
I wouldn't be surprised if the other stores just outright prevented this from working.

[ARikozuM]

Great... Now everyone will know what kind of heinous visual novels and RPGs I play... 

 

[SpaceGhostC2C]

Best client is no client.

 

Still, if this is the Trillian of gaming clients, it's an improvement nonetheless. 

[RejZoR]

1 minute ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Best client is no client.

 

Still, if this is the Trillian of gaming clients, it's an improvement nonetheless. 

Best client is GOG Galaxy. Because it's not mandatory. You can use it or you can opt not to use it. You miss some features like Cloud Saves and stuff, but that's about it. I personally like it for convenience, but it's always nice knowing you have option to download all the installers and play games even without any internet or clients/launchers. Besides, Galaxy just works really well and isn't a clusterfuck mess like Steam kinda became.

[Syntaxvgm]

sounds a lot like xfire 

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On 5/23/2019 at 4:15 AM, Andreas Lilja said:

it promises to combine all of your games, online friends, and other data in one place.

Hasn't anyone learned anything from all those data breaches lately?  Having everything in one place is a BAD idea.

[Misanthrope]

16 hours ago, Mihle said:

It's better than just accepting it. Epic store is utter shit.

I don't think so: these boycotted games always end up selling more and better than if there was no controversy surrounding them at all, most recent case being the Metro game on Epic made a fucking killing on sales compared to the previous title.

 

The idea that individual choice matters in the grand scheme of things is just not accurate at all and this is specially true for such vocal complainers as gamers that end up being weak and ineffective and proving that the controversy only gives shitty publishers more visibility and almost no negative repercussions.

[Mihle]

30 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

I don't think so: these boycotted games always end up selling more and better than if there was no controversy surrounding them at all, most recent case being the Metro game on Epic made a fucking killing on sales compared to the previous title.

 

The idea that individual choice matters in the grand scheme of things is just not accurate at all and this is specially true for such vocal complainers as gamers that end up being weak and ineffective and proving that the controversy only gives shitty publishers more visibility and almost no negative repercussions.

A lot of that is that there is so many years ago since Last light came out, and over the years more have gotten last light post launch. There was also much more advertising on it than what I can remember was on Last light. There are very many factors at play.