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GOG is doing much better than in 2022

Gog is doing much better than in 2022. They are making 1.2M dollars in profit. Which is pretty good for such a platform personally. I really like the ideals of GOG, but haven't really used the platform a whole lot.

If you want a markup of what this actaully means see here

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  • I haven’t bought a GOG game since I got my steamdeck. The convenience of native steam games is important.

  • One of the biggest barriers for using GOG to me is not supporting my home currency, but I really love the DRM free and bonus content!

  • After being with Steam for over a decade and disliking it more and more, I ended up trying everything to maintain myself away from that platform and GOG was a godsend.

    There’s a public list that has all the GOG releases that treat the GOG customers like "third class citizens", but if the game I want is not on that list, I will 100% buy it there over any other storefront. It’s great to read they’re doing well.

    • I really wish the best to GOG, despite the really non-linux support.

  • I default to GOG whenever I can. I do wish Galaxy had turned out better, it just buckles under the weight and is worse than both using the web app for the store AND third party launchers like Lunchbox. I still would much rather get the games in the format they use than on Steam, though. Any day. I will keep getting games that launch on both on GOG as long as that's an option, so I'm glad they're in the black at least.

    • Yeah, ive used galaxy before. It seemed like a nice looking launcherz but overall was meh

      • It's gimmick is supposed to be that it would scrape and integrate games from other launchers using plugins and consolidate all your PC games, friends and other tools.

        Which sort of works for a while, until you try to add several thousand games, at which point the launcher takes ages to start and compile your database and generally becomes cumbersome and buggy. And once you add that stuff, removing it is surprisingly hard, so getting to your GOG games is weirdly hindered.

        I love the idea, I've purchased several separate database apps over the years to try to get that exact feature. They just didn't nail it on execution and ended up with a worse version of that type of app that can accidentally become a worse launcher for your GOG library as well.

        If you only use it as a GOG launcher, stick to the integrations that come pre-built and avoid plugins or if you only have a few games it's perfectly fine. Great, even. But it certainly got pretty busted in my case.

  • Glad to see them doing well. I try to buy from them as much as possible.

  • Maybe now they can afford a support service. Still waiting for the reply they said I'd get

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