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Thanks for this. Long overdue from GOG.
Their platform is really outdated. Can’t even edit or remove a game review without contacting support. It’s dumb. They’re losing precious time because of this
We can’t even edit the cookies section in their app or website and GOG is EU company btw, it’s bonkers!
It's sad, because I'm sure they could fix all of this easily and get a lot of profit from GOG, but they prefer to spend their time elsewhere for some reason
EDIT: Not sure what I meant for "precious time"
the store is a losing proposition right now from CDPR perspective. I am just happy to have a different place I can buy games that's not steam
Any competition is good :)
They'll need to put more effort into it. Make their APIs more open & maybe even fund Wine ?
Oh & DEFINITELY bring Galaxy 2.0 to linux, NATIVELY
I'd love that but don't get your hopes up, they can only do one small change every few years. You're asking them for at least 3 centuries of dev time
Do you consider Itch.io to be a viable platform ??
I don't think it has cloud saving, easy wine/proton, API for achievements and shit... just overall unfit for "bigger games". It has similar functionality to GOG's offline downloads. I haven't really used it so can't say.
~~I probably won't try it if they also take a huge cut from sales like 30% or something~~ EDIT: They seem to let you choose whatever you want, and charge 10% by default (https://itch.io/docs/creators/payments#open-revenue-sharing). That's neat! However, payment method fees always apply. You can opt into them collecting the money through their account at seemingly no fee, and won't be exposed to chargebacks. That's incredible!