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LCP@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”

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GOG has reportedly cut dozens of jobs recently. Here are new details about the situation at CD Projekt’s subsidiary and the shortcomings of its business strategy.
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    A lot of steam games dont have drm

    You would lose only most of your library, not all of it

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      If you can’t play the game without the steam client then it still has drm. The main selling point of gog to me is the offline installers that don’t require any client

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        You can play the game without the steam client

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        If you can’t play the game without the steam client then it still has drm.

        Plenty of games don’t rely on any Steamworks API at all. For the remaining goldberg_emulator exits.

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        But he’s not talking about those ones.

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      I would lose some of my library, but I think most of it would still work.

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        If a game has multiplayer, it most likely has DRM

        Terraria and Cuphead are games i know dont work because of that

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          Can you not connect by IP in Terraria? I had though I had multiplayer running without even starting steam at one point…

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            Because steam multiplayer is implemented into the game, you cant open the app if steam is not installed

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