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Re:GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What ... by sallveburrpi on Monday December 29, 2025 @02:17PM (#46424273)
How is GOG a viable business if everything gets pirated?
Re:GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What ... by ThrowawayR2 on Monday December 29, 2025 @03:09PM (#46424954)
Many games on GOG are at the tail end of their sales cycle (i.e. were released on Steam long ago) trying to eke out a few more sales, are from small indies for whom any attention at all is good attention, or are very old^H^H^Hclassic games that garner purchases for nostalgia's sake by older gamers that can afford more discretionary spending.
Re:GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What ... by delaminator on Monday December 29, 2025 @03:32PM (#46425228)
And many aren’t.

I bought Factorio early access on Gog, and Timberborn, and Loop-Hero.

Re:GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What ... by Kim_Bruning on Monday December 29, 2025 @02:39PM (#46424568)
This is a really old question and a really old solution.

It turns out that piracy is actually a service problem. Services like Steam and GOG provide a decent enough service that piracy becomes less common.

Re:GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What ... by phantasmish on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @02:13AM (#46430421)
1) Modern games are enormous and as long as services like GOG let me re-download my library it frees up literally terabytes of space on my disk array for pirated movies and other things that benefit far more from piracy than games do.

2) I don’t want viruses. I don’t want viruses more than I want to avoid paying $1-$20 for a game (as if I’m anywhere near caught up enough on my backlog of games from the last 40ish years for buying games at full launch-week price to ever make sense, lol, I do that like… once every several years, all the rest are very cheap)