GOG to take on Steam at their own game.

[pakopako]

I have mixed feelings on this... I will just miss having the site focused on older games. I love to go to a website where all of the banners, thread topics, and commerce are focused on retro PC gaming. I love that there is fanfare whenever something like Zork is "released" on the site. It's like a celebration of gaming history.

Hoping they still have a dedicated section for this though. If not, then I too will e part of the recursive acronym J T started: "Good Old GOG."

[Inazuma]

Awesome news. I complain about download games like a mother fucker but it's mostly because of DRM. If GoG offers something like Sonic Generations, DRM free for a fair price, I would love to buy that. I want to support the idea.

[BoringSupreez]

Awesome news. I complain about download games like a mother fucker but it's mostly because of DRM. If GoG offers something like Sonic Generations, DRM free for a fair price, I would love to buy that. I want to support the idea.

DRM-free downloads are almost as good as owning a physical copy. You're allowed to copy it, burn it to CDs, etc, as much as you want.

[jfrost]

It's much better. You can't copy your game discs. Not through legitimate means, at least.

[GSZX1337]

I'm surprised that no one else has mentioned this: It'd be nice if there was a way to have in-game chat with Steam Players. I'd like to play The Witcher on GoG while chatting with my friend who's playing Half-Life 2 on Steam. Perhaps, there can be a Trillian/MeeBo for game chatting systems?

[fastbilly1]

I'm surprised that no one else has mentioned this: It'd be nice if there was a way to have in-game chat with Steam Players. I'd like to play The Witcher on GoG while chatting with my friend who's playing Half-Life 2 on Steam. Perhaps, there can be a Trillian/MeeBo for game chatting systems?

Add a nonsteam game to steam and you can chat both verbally and by text.

[Hatta]

Or you can use a general purpose, free and cross platform voice chat system like [quote=http://mumble.sourceforge.net/]Mumble[/quote]. Voice chat and gaming are orthogonal, there's no reason to shove them into the same interface and plenty of reasons not to.

[Erik_Twice]

Mumble and Skype alo have the benefit of not having as much lag as Steam does.


I'm happy with this, competition is good.

[CRTGAMER]

Never used GOG but I didn't like Steam for a couple of reasons.
I have not used Steam for a while so maybe this is no longer true?

Download games require online authentication connection to play
I read Steam allowed a download to be backed up to a disc, but an online authentication was still required to play. Kind of pointless, even for discs that are purchased.

Front end required to play a game
Just let me do a direct run a game and set my own games menu off the Windows Start Button. The stupid resource hog front end takes forever to load! I removed it from starting up every time I boot Windows, it was a pain when I just wanted to browse online when using a slow public server connection on the laptop.

Will the new GOG do what Steam currently does?

[Erik_Twice]

I read Steam allowed a download to be backed up to a disc, but an online authentication was still required to play. Kind of pointless, even for discs that are purchased.

Yes, you will need at least one online authetication to play. You won't need any more after the first, tough.