CD Projekt Red Not Interested in Being Acquired; Believes They'll Be Bigger and Stronger in a Few Years - eviltoast
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      11 months ago

      Pushing a shitty launcher, selling abandoned games, selling incomplete games, putting DRMs on multiplayer, selling a lot of low quality games, not expanding their overworked team despite the profits they make, etc. It got much worse with the success of the Witcher3 and has kept on going down.

      I think there’s even a browser extension that is used to mark shitty games on gog, that have missing features or DRMs. Funny for a platform that has the motto of selling hand-picked, DRM-free games.

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          11 months ago

          Subnautica is DRM free on steam? Nice! I wanted to give it to try to my father, but he doesn’t want a steam account.

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              11 months ago

              That’s a title. Gosh people really are GoG fanboys.

              GoG always claimed that they hand-pick only quality games, that they personally negotiate with game companies, etc.

              If a game treats gog customers as second class citizens, it means that GoG allows it. The existence of this link on the gog website also means that GoG is aware of it and doesn’t give a shit.

              And that was just one example.

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                  11 months ago

                  The first page contains a google doc summarizing all the issues that were reported.

                  I called you a fanboy for attacking what I said out of superficial points that proved you didn’t bother reading what I linked, all it would have taken was to read the first post.

                  GoG advertises hand-picked, high quality games (or at least did) so they’re the ones claiming to have the ability to select. This post is enough for anyone in the gog team to contact the companies of the concerned games and discuss those issues. Pretty easy fix if you ask me.

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            11 months ago

            The comments are claiming that game publishers are giving versions without controller support, etc. included.

            This isn’t a GOG issue, try reading comprehension next time.

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              11 months ago

              Wow, instead of being a jackass try checking your ego.

              Did you read the 277 pages of the link? And the Google docs summarising everything?

              This is a comprehension issue indeed, your little ego prevented you from even looking more than 5 seconds at what I linked and understanding what it was.

      • people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Pushing a shitty launcher,

        Fuck them. That’s horrible.

        selling abandoned games,

        Why is this a problem? It’s literally a good that those games aren’t being lost to oblivion

        selling incomplete games,

        As in unfinished? That’s the devs’ fault.

        putting DRMs on multiplayer,

        Without that there will be a humongous rise in cheating in online games

        selling a lot of low quality games

        Literally not an issue. They are a marketplace and frequented by indie devs, they can sell as many shitty games as they like. In fact I would like them to be more of a platform like itch.io

        not expanding their overworked team despite the profits they make

        You have no idea what you’re talking about, their org structure and project setup is not public and there is no way to know how “overworked” any team is as an outsider. You don’t even know what teams they have.

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          11 months ago

          The problem is not abandoned games, but selling them.

          The devs can only publish on GoG if GoG lets them.

          Multiplayer games existed long before DRMs and it worked. There are many solutions against cheating.

          Quality is an issue when GoG advertises hand-picked, high quality games.

          If the team is not overworked then it is not working, which is worse. I’d rather assume a lack of means than a lack of work, it’s the charity principle.