Black & White did really cool things, but they didn’t really work. You could try hundreds of times to show your creature how to do something, but the learning didn’t work.
Cool concept, but it was puddle deep. And no fun, for me at least, once I realized the game didn’t come close to the hype.
Maybe this time will be different, but I won’t hold my breath.
What are you in about, mate? Of course they “don’t have a problem” with being in Steam—they have almost all the marketshare!
Humble is a Steam key reseller.
GOG is a completely different, DRM-free storefront.
Sure, Humble has limited marketshare (just like GOG), but with Humble, they just send a batch of keys and wait for money to come back. With GOG, they’d need to support an entirely different storefront for, potentially, the same limited revenue potential they’d get from Humble.
Not at all comparable. And totally reasonable that some publishers/indie devs aren’t willing to put their games on GOG. Disappointing, of course, but not hardly surprising.
He completely misread it. But it’s also grammatically ambiguous. It could be interpreted as a non-essential clause, essentially giving extra information about Valve that isn’t necessary to understand the main sentence.
It would be weird to include a non-essential, highly editorially clause in a headline, though, unless it was a direct quote. But, in that case, it should be in quotation marks.
That interview makes me very, very hopeful for GOG’s future.
We’ve seen, with Valve, how a private owner with vision for creating value for their customers can make waves. GOG is now in a similar situation and the owner clearly understands that directly competing with Valve (Epic style) is a fool’s errand. He had his own vision, distinct from what Valve is doing.
I feel a bit badly that I don’t think I’ve bought much on GOG. I mostly stopped buying individual games (and shifted to mostly buying game bundles) before GOG became a store with a good indie catalogue. I’ve been holding off on buying BG3 until I actually have time and motivation to play it “properly”, but I’ll definitely get it on GOG.
Fantastic article. Thanks for linking!
Which you’re going to rip as .flac and .mp3 and share/upload somewhere for preservation, right?