Goodbye GoG, it was nice knowing ya

Not a chance in hell, unless those 12 employees got fired for being dipshits. CD Projekt is swimming in money after The Witcher 3 and GoG.com's sales

RIP easy torrents.

to be fair, how many people do you actually need

Clickbait at its finest

>"Letting people go is never easy," they said. "We have been rearranging certain teams since October 2018, effecting in closing around a dozen of positions last week. At the same time, since the process started we have welcomed nearly twice as many new team members, and currently hold 20 open positions."

Oh, so they aren't in dire straits and this is just clickbait to try and prop Epic up?

>effecting
Atleast he got that right.

The clickbait actually hurts epic. Makes it seem like they show up on the scene and are now killing DRM free sellers like GOG. Making Epic out to be an even bigger bad guy.

GOG fails because gamers care about all the social media stuff Valve provides.

Do you have your profile set to private?

12 people is 10% of the workforce you faggot

It took days to get my GOG account repaired when it broke thanks to me changing the contact email. I've dealt with the service staff of Steam, GOG, Origin and uPlay. Origin and uPlay put GOG and Steam to shame with how promptly they respond and how painless the process was.

Fair point, but considering there's only like 2 dudes working GOG's customer support, I'd have to wonder if they were part of the dozen fired.

>due to piracy
That's a bogeyman, if piracy was so obviously ruining digital games stores then just post the proof and you might even guilt a few people. In reality big companies have already had such investigation done then buried the results because it doesn't fit the evil pirate menace narrative.

I haven't heard of GoG in years, they've become irrelevant and aren't keeping up with the times

No. That's what anti-drm tards (who never pirated a single game) believe.
Cracked games usually are notoriously buggy especially if its a denuvo protected game. Steam emuls are unfinished and dont have many features. So there is always a reason to have actual game on steam.
GOG on other hand doesnt lock you in to their platform, doesnt provide any additional service compared to torrent tracker etc.

Time to redownload my entire library before I get cucked out of my games

>Cracked games usually are notoriously buggy
Holy shit the shilling is unreal. Go back to trying to convince newfags every single crack is a bitcoin miner please, that was less embarrassing than this

They just launder money for the polish mafia anyway.

> every single crack is a bitcoin miner please
What is strawman?

>Jason Schreier

>Cracked games usually are notoriously buggy
I think you mean modern games are notoriously buggy.

an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument.

>company lays off people
>omg bankruptcy
lol

I have about 200 GoG games and I didn't pay for any of them.

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In case gog closes down it literally won't matter because the games I've bought from them can be downloaded and archived on my device.
Shame it probably won't be like that when steam closes down.

Yongyea keeps sucking Jason Kiker's dick so zoomers are being raised to think he's not a clickbait journo like the rest of them

Just go download a repack of some recent game, new dawn or anything.

>download a hacked together piece of shit release to prove my point
Or I could download the full scene release and not have a problem you dumb faggot

>Jason Schreier
Do you read his work for free?

I know that you will not do it because you dont want to know if its really so bad.

Their growth almost stopped in 2015 excluding witcher 3 sales. It wouldn't surprise me if it started to decrease since they release only old games and indie shit. No one big wants to sell on gog because of their drm free stance. If they will change that then they lose their only advantage over other shops and no one will buy there anyway. They are utterly fucked.

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And?

GOG started releasing more recent games from 2k Games, so it's not all doom and gloom

crackeg games are obviously just as/only as buggy as the store version.
the only reason to own a game is multiplayer or having the latest update in an early acces game.. fuck you if you buy early acces btw

you know nothing.

9/10 games I see on pirate sites come from steam though, not GOG. You pretty much have to go out of your way to find the GOG version unless it's an older game.

Origin lies though (even though my example is for the better)
>Before, I was me
>decide I want TitanFall2 on pc since brother has ps4 and sold tf2 away
>but I don't want bf1 just to get favorite skin back,
>also want my buffalo wild wings and mountain dew skins back
>ask Origin if my connected account will have those exclusives on the pc as well
>2 days later
>"Sorry sir, those skins will not transfer"
>damn man
>decide to get it anyways since it was on sale
>go to multiplayer
>The bf1, mountain dew, and bww skins are there and open for me.
>like a damn german buffalo wing robot christmas for me.

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Its because gog doesnt have good new games you look for.
Yea, whatever. You probably never pirated anything except anime.

At least they got back to you. Any time I've asked steam for help it's taken me like three days only to get a bot message linking to a troubleshooting page I've already said I've read through and didn't fix anything in the ticket.

In fact my latest issue with steam is still ongoing and is so bad I more or less only start up steam once every two weeks, after like 2 weeks of copy paste links their response to me was pretty much lol, fucked if we know, hire a professional or something":

>"We were told it’s a financial decision,” that person told me in an online message. “GOG’s revenue couldn’t keep up with growth, the fact that we’re dangerously close to being in the red has come up in the past few months, and the market’s move towards higher [developer] revenue shares has, or will, affect the bottom line as well. I mean, it’s just an odd situation, like things got really desperate really fast."

And fucking Epic will continue to lie that a 12% revenue take is actually sustainable just so they can try and steal away market share (and then probably up their take when they get a foothold)

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Because after the 800 layoff from Activision, anything that involves layoffs gets more clicks.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
You're funny.
Learn to pirate.

There's two reasons for that
1. Steam has more new games

2. GoG is slow as fuck when it comes to approving games for sale. They STILL haven't ok'd the sale of Dusk even though it's been out on Steam for eons.

Combine these and the Steam torrents see more early downloads and end up with more seeders.

Look at their best sellers, there is nothing new, if elex is on top of that list no wonder they are shitting the bed. People won't buy old games forever, they need new AAA titles, but no one want to sell big games drm free.

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That may be the case but even with indie games that are on pretty much every site under the sun I still see only see the steam versions show up on the torrent sites.

Lower costs when you don't need customer support reps.
If you have exclusives people cant leave you when you throttle downloads and refuse refunds

>pirates don't cause any ha-
Woops lmao

Fair enough but that still just proves that Steam games are far more pirated that GOG games.

its 12% if you want the absolute minimal support from Epic, but if you want Epic to provided backed support for multiplayer API? that is gonna be another 5% ect

Download a cracked copy of Hatred. It's impossible to load saved games in the only cracked versions available.
You are delusional if you think all cracked single player games are created equally.

GoG? More like gg.

Its their marketing to be honest, most people are barely aware of their existence as a store front even though they have good deals quite often.

Actualy i have played a cracked hatred and it works fine. and yeah some cracked versions of games can have certain hiccups, but there's always the 2nd crack or another crack from another source.
like i said man, learn to pirate.

Wait, are you talking about that shitty edge-lord meme game that came out a few years ago?

I played that fine as a fiddle when I pirated it. I mean it ran like shit because the devs were shit, but I didn't have any saving problems.

Such indie games probably dont have any form of drm at all.
Indies with zero budget for promotion really want you to play their games for free or not, just to raise its popularity a little.
AAA doesnt want you to play their game for free because you already know about the game and probably want to play it anyway.

You have to take proportions into account. I don't know how many paying customers GoG has but chances are they're a lot smaller than steam. If we assume that GoG has half the customers (being very generous here) then every download on a GoG torrent is worth two downloads on a steam torrent.
Not like it matters much really. If my steam torrent works just fine then I have little reason to go for the GoG torrent when it comes out 3 months later. Either way I'm not paying.
Also consider that GoG games are very DDL friendly. Up until recently goodolddownloads supplied me with all the GoG titles I wanted via DDL.

What scene group cracked your version?

>ran like shit
That would be your copy. My legit copy is fine.

> like i said man, learn to pirate
You sound like a linux user who knows for sure that his OS is superior in everything, but you have to learn how to linux at first.

Epic games also offloads the card processing fees to the user instead of other stores eating it under the 30% cut. So you need to pay the card processing fee when buying games from the epic games store compared to others.

Well you were one of the few then since even the legitimate version had notoriously bad performance.

>GoG crashes and burns
>groups continue to release cracked Steam games

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So he sounds like a rational person?

> offloads the card processing fees to the user
No it doesnt.

Reloaded
i don't care how i sound to you.

What was really happened:
>couple of contractors havn't got a contract extensions, because they services are no longer needed capitalism, ho!
>at the same time twice the amount of new people was hired, plus there are like 20 vacancies
>...and then Jason Shitter put a hand deep in his arse and dig out a nameless "person who was laid-off" and estimated that "10%" of the personel was trenched
>then he make a completely unrelated comment about glorious new Epic store that is soooo much better than Steam and GOG and how massive impact it will have on PC games market

Remeber, this is a person who "play Starctaft II competetively" and who praised Destiny 2 for the storyline.

Why?

Is the video game industry crashing yet?

>>their profits aren't growing exponentially therefore they are in trouble
This is both proof that you are an idiot and that most companies that have gone public are invested in by idiots. I see nothing wrong with that graph.

why pay?

>when you literally employ people on a salary to supply mexicans and africans with stolen video games for free

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games industry has been crashing since around 2008, but it is a slow and somewhat graceful fall

This. Shittaku is staffed by fucking clickbait pandering degenerates.

hard hitting questions right there

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I have the reloaded torrent as well. My save is wiped if I restart the game.

Because I like video games and I like having a fat bank account.

Shit isn't like how it was before. Most companies are probably downsizing, the huge mega-corps where some positions were artificial or a team of 100+ developers are going down. Once tools become easier and there is a design pattern laid out, there is no need for so much people. I believe I read before that COD had around 500 people working on it, a game using the same engine and the same mechanics from decades ago. Think about that, that is an insane amount of money.

there's a new update 16 torrent.
also run game as admin to potentially fix the save problem.
if all that don't work i don't know how to help you. but these are basic bitch tier fixes...i kinda hope this doesn't help and you already did this.

Piracy isn't the issue though. The real issue is that unless you want to buy a really old PC game or you are really autistic about DRM, there is literally no reason to buy games on GOG. GOG has no real exclusive killer app that Joe Normie will want to buy.

>make DRM free content
Nigga at least 95% of that content is stuff they never created, just downloaded the cracked versions for.

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Might have to change the langauge in the game ini on update 16 though

>I see nothing wrong with that graph.
Basement dweller see nothing wrong with potentially decreasing revenue that means investors and gog also don't see problem with it. EOT

>entire gimmick is to make older games work on modern operating systems
>half of the games they sell don't work on modern operating systems
>somehow its piracy

>9 days for REmake 2

go fuck a corporate dick, shill

Ah well that's neat. Haven't bothered with it in a while.

>download a gog games
>literally just abandonware + dosbox
And this is why I don't pay for anything from gog.

>make DRM free content
>GoG games are high tier pirate torrents
>the go out of business
you can't make this shit up

maybe 10 years ago when they were first starting out. this hasn't been true for a long time