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by hombre_fatal 2308 days ago
Gog has a tiny fraction of all games on the market, much less the AAA ones that people are playing. Steam has ~all games on the market, and ~all of them can be pirated.

So it's not very convincing that Gog somehow has it worse or that there's some unique obstacle with Gog. Steam DRM clearly isn't the challenge people think it is.

Yet people still buy and refund on Steam.
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jfkebwjsbx 2308 days ago
Steam DRM stops casual pirates that do not want to go to shady sites.

GOG having no DRM and a big window for returning means people will abuse it.

The question is how many will do that.

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machiaweliczny 2308 days ago
I doubt it will be many (from ones that are buying games right now). If you expect quality entertainment you should be willing to pay for it. (as with anything).

It's kinda copy of Windows strategy. I was using pirated version od Windows as kid but as I got more affluent I can totally justify to pay for it and turned into customer.

I don't know exact numbers but entertainment/games market should grow a lot as more of the world catches up, so it's worth to invest in capturing them. With current prices the big markets are basically US, Germany and China.

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MaxBarraclough 2308 days ago
> I doubt it will be many (from ones that are buying games right now). If you expect quality entertainment you should be willing to pay for it.

There's no question that video game piracy is huge.

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jfkebwjsbx 2308 days ago
Given making an account is free, expect way more new "customers" now.

This is not theoretical. There is a lot of people that enjoys not paying for anything, if they can get away with it.

And no, I don't like entertainment industries that claim a lot of losses in the press and ask for subsidies or lobby for laws. But it is certainly real that there is a lot of software piracy.

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close04 2308 days ago
It's probably called Good Old Games because it caters mostly for that market.
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4cao 2308 days ago
> It's probably called Good Old Games because it caters mostly for that market.

The name was changed to just "GOG" in 2012 because they didn't want to only be associated with old games.

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