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Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. (lemmy.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I liked it until CD Project Red showed they care about the shareholders more than the users with Cyberpunk. It's clear that GOG will flip to be anti-consumer as soon as the shareholders change the company leadership. Enshittification comes for all companies because business majors don't understand people.

Steam is private and Gaben is benevolent so that worry is distant. I also have no illusions that should Steam ever go public or change hands then the inevitable end of good, customer needs focused storefronts. But for now, Gave has proven he knows how to make a place consumers like myself want to use.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Gave Newell is 60+ years old and haven't exactly taken the most care for his own health. We don't know what will happen once he is gone.

With GOG there is nothing a change of leadership can do to your existing game library.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also, CD Project had one of the worst stores and biased "media" in Poland. They region locked my games and told me "no one from abroad buys games :)" when I wrote to them that I can no longer Access my account or games.

GoG might be good now, but that still hurts me when I was a teenager and moved abroad. It was the only thing I had and they took it away from me. Fuck their DRM of old. Funny how they had the worst drm known to mankind and now have drm free store...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

If true, you should share your story on the GOG forums. But because the games are DRM-free, they cannot region lock your games. Only exclude people from buying certain games because of applicable countries' laws like Germany and Australia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

CDP management board owns like 33% of the shares and aren't as beholden to them compared to other companies with less shares. And GOG is a sister company to CDPR and > 99% of their their new releases are still DRM-free to this day.