“winning by doing nothing” They do stuff. Like killing ownership, buying tons of yachts because their owner is a literal billionaire, and squeezing every last cent while gaslighting everyone into thinking they’re somehow “pro-consumer”. This is how they got here in the first place. They also appear to have a growing hate problem, but I haven’t yet read the links I’ll be sharing here, so take these with a grain of salt for now: 1, 2. They get away with all this because they have a captive audience, each user doesn’t want to give up their library, or each user has already bought one of those steam devices becoming even more captive.
GOG doesn’t have a captive audience, and this is by their own design. We take their DRM-free, launcher-free nature for granted. Yet it seem they don’t understand that themselves, and continue burning the good will they earned on things like this, or continuing their obsession with LLM generated art. They can’t keep tanking controversy after controversy.
DRM-free can continue without GOG, but it’ll be handicapped severely without them. Is this what GOG wants?
GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
Yeah this seems like a very stupid unforced error. The devs didn’t provide this, they internally were like “don’t send that to Germany, yikes!”, and then went ahead anyway?
Even if they’d been like “Oh, you’re right that looks a bit too Nazi, let’s just put one of them so it doesn’t” then this would be another boring marketing email.