I think it just goes back to “their competition is even worse”. “They let people prey on the vulnerable” doesn’t hit as hard when the competition is literally preying on them themselves.
Valve is the least shitty of the competition. Maybe GOG is better, but then CDPR is only viable because they can underpay Polish devs.
GOG support is pretty awful, and they make weird development decisions.
People were pleading for Linux support for GOG Galaxy before Steam Deck released, and that’s precisely the crowd that would be most interested in DRM-free games. And when Steam Deck came out, they could have made official support for it and maybe worked with a hardware manufacturer to make a GOG-version of a Deck competitor, but no, they didn’t, even when Valve did all the work to improve Linux compatibility.
GOG has good policies, but their service is only so-so. I would be spending most of my gaming money with them (hundreds per year) oft they had proper Linux support, but I guess they don’t value my business. Valve does, and they have decent support, so they get my money.
I think it just goes back to “their competition is even worse”. “They let people prey on the vulnerable” doesn’t hit as hard when the competition is literally preying on them themselves.
Valve is the least shitty of the competition. Maybe GOG is better, but then CDPR is only viable because they can underpay Polish devs.
GOG support is pretty awful, and they make weird development decisions.
People were pleading for Linux support for GOG Galaxy before Steam Deck released, and that’s precisely the crowd that would be most interested in DRM-free games. And when Steam Deck came out, they could have made official support for it and maybe worked with a hardware manufacturer to make a GOG-version of a Deck competitor, but no, they didn’t, even when Valve did all the work to improve Linux compatibility.
GOG has good policies, but their service is only so-so. I would be spending most of my gaming money with them (hundreds per year) oft they had proper Linux support, but I guess they don’t value my business. Valve does, and they have decent support, so they get my money.