What if GOG created DRM free gaming console?

not u, never u.

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They barely can keep themselves in business. To make a console, you need to be a multimillion publisher.

And there's a cuck who defends corporations

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I use gog exclusively and pirate anything that isn't in it, that doesn't change the fact that your idea is absolutely mind numbingly retarded.

Even stuff that has a DRM-free build in other store?

yeah I pirate that as well, if a developer is too lazy to maintain their game on several stores then they don't deserve my money. especially when small indie Devs take care with updating and adding features on several stores and have proven it's completely possible.

There are billions of pc builders and OEMs around the globe.
What could possibly go wrong?

what the fuck does that even mean? elaborate because you are not making any sense.

I don't have to prove anything to you, Randy. Fuck off.

If they made an x86 portable, similar to the GPD Win and loaded it up with a custom linux distro and geared it to run most of their library perfectly, I'd buy it.

GOG.com has curation. Nothing wrong with that, but for that reason I buy in different stores.

Steam Machines.

consoles are limited hardware, pc being so versitile, fans can always add mods, patches, fixes, etc for older games on modern pc hardware, on a console that's almost impossible, as such, you'd need the original hardware to play the old game, pc just makes it easier and more serviceable.
your idea is shit and not feasible.

It's not exactly possible when we have to allow people to register 3rd party game stores
At the very least, on their own discourse, GOG must not recommend 3rd party stores or apps that contain DRM

>I buy in different stores.
As is, not only on GOG.com.

I'll buy it only if they called it the Reflex.

Is Venetica any good?

well nothing will ever best pc when it comes to backwards compatibility, don't forget what gog originally stood for, a console would never hold up to a pc.

A games console can be both a preconfigured, high quality gaming experience, while having the full flexibility of a computer at the same time.
Why isn't there a market for this?

Actually valve's steam machine initiative spawned a lot of great things. After they failed on the hardware side, valve doubled down on software and finance projects like dxvk and wine, which they now include in the steam client as proton, which lets you play windows games on GNU/Linux with really good performance by translating directX calls to vulkan. Thanks to this, microsoft's stranglehold on pc gaming is weakened, and GNU/Linux is improving by the day as a viable alternative for gaming.

Because that way the manufacturer can't force his restictions on the user like only allowing his own store on it and exclusive paid online services.
There's no point in making something like this if you can't sequeeze every penny out of the user.

Hence my point, a "consolized" PC is fucking worthless.

>GNU/Linux is improving by the day as a viable alternative for gaming.
0.76%.

It's improving in performance and number of compatible games. It's backed by valve and companies like google, who will use it for stadia. It's valve's main focus in software development. Number of users is meaningless.

I still wouldn't buy it because it's a console :^)

>shrinking her tits
sacrilege

>Number of users is meaningless.
Nice cope.

Drm it is

When you talk to consoleniggers, many of them accept their shitty experience because of "muh simplicity", "muh controller", "muh tv" and "muh couch". If you give them a PC in a small box they can plug in their tv with a nice controller friendly interface and reduced customizability, preconfigured games, they'd drink that shit up.

It is meaningless. Most people use windows because that's what comes installed on their computers and that they don't know any better. So of course the large majority of steam users run windows. GNU/Linux has always been more niche, requiring the user to know what they're doing, and used to have a somewhat higher barrier of entry. Less people use it, but it doesn't change the fact that the majority of steam games, including windows-only titles now work out of the box with little to no configuration for the user on GNU/Linux with comparable performance.

Even OS X has a bigger marketshare, despite the higher economic barrier of entry. I find amusing how much Valve likes to waste money on worthless stuff like that.

People use windows because it's easier, also.
Linux is an actual mess to do something as simple as getting file-sharing running without running afoul of the overzealous draconian protections linux places on every single thing.

You lose the windows audience the moment they need to open a terminal window to set permissions on a folder they want to share.

Hey, remember when KDE disallowed running ANYTHING in the desktop environment from Root because it was a "security risk", and thus you couldn't even install things without running them from terminal as superuser?

Consoles are DRM you dumb bitch.

Fuck linuxfags, they have no games. Why should anyone not working on servers care about linux?

I wouldn't mind them if they weren't so obnoxious

That's because GNU/Linux started as a server operating system, whereas OSX and windows were developed from the ground-up for the PC market, so desktops.

Because it's free, faster, more secure, customizable, easier to set up for development and can now run the majority of games on steam with minimal configuration if any, all with competitive performance.

yeah i have a friend like this and it's baffling, he's currently choosing to play minecraft on PS4 when he has a solid gaming PC. Some people just outright refuse to do things if there's the chance of the slightest complications or effort involved in getting things working

Do games on gog sale get a low as on steam sale?

I don't support censorship and would make sure it fails by constantly complaining

they're all free man

Windows it's also free if you pirate it, customizable (maybe not at the same level as linux I guess), and can run ALL the games. You can't say the same about linux and I don't want to waste my time checking the right configuration for every damn game.

Tell me ONE game exclusive linux has that it's worth having a shitty OS.

They regularly have sales, but prices are generally higher than they are during steam sales. I personally buy games on GOG whenever i can, as i think the lack of drm is worth the sometimes higher price.

It's free as in freedom. Customizability isn't even comparable. The point of things like proton and lutris is to do the configuration you used to do manually for you. GNU/Linux doesn't have exclusive games or software, as it goes against the principles of free software. Exclusivity is just a way of trapping users on a platform.

I like playing video games though and I'm not using WINE.

Imagine having to take software hostage to convince people to use a bloated, unsecure operating system with ads and telemetry built-in.

So a PC?

GOGCHAN IS CUTE

Imagine having no games.
I don't give a fuck about your gay ideals.

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That's what proton is for. It's pretty much just a preconfigured version of wine packaged with steam, so installing games through proton is just the same as installing a native game. Lutris, on the other hand, is a collection of install scripts, mostly for non-steam game that use battle.net or GOG.

>It's free as in freedom.
Buying non-open source games bundled with DRM is peak freedom, it seems.

Not at least in my third world country. I still buy from them because I prefer to incentivize proper DRM-free releases.

i play it with no need to do drm-related stuff. checkmate atheists

>Gay ideals
I'm not the one taking corporate dick up the ass with "muh gaymes" for lube.

Not him.
Microsoft = BAD.
Valve and (fucking) Alphabet = GOOD.

That's the beauty of it. I can enjoy a fully free OS, from the kernel down to the desktop environment, audio stack and display drivers. And i still have the freedom to run any software i want, free or not.

>lolishit
Pedophiles ruin fucking everything

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I'm not saying they're good, but rather that these companies wouldn't invest time and resources in GNU/Linux if it wasn't worthwhile.

Valve did it because of Universal Windows Platform, which is dead and thank God for that. Google because of Android, I guess?

GOG is 11 years old.

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Yeah, valve contributes to GNU/Linux because that's another platform they can sell games on. As for Google, it's because it's much cheaper to contribute to make it more suitable for stadia than it is to develop their own platform from the ground up. In the end the whole user base benefits from their various contributions, as anything made from free software has to be released as free software, so all source code is available to study, compile, modify, run and redistribute as you see fit.

give me the koikatsu card

Reminder that GOG.com has...
>no Microsoft games
>no Japanese publishers/games (besides that GOG-exclusive Street Fighter and SNK Playmore)
>no SEGA games
>no AAA games
>missing several updates and multiplayer on a bunch of games
>no Tetris games

I want to rape her navel with my tongue

>>no Microsoft games
>>no SEGA games
>>no AAA games
These are all positives though.

Microsoft has a ton of classic games (lots of which they don't sell anymore), SEGA too.

>no Microsoft games
BASED
>no Jap games
They're always the first to implement DLC, drm/copy protection on stuff they have no place here.
>no SEGA games
I want sonic mania and valkyria chronicles, i get that one
>no triple gay games
Their own stuff is more like AAAA desu. They have plenty of worthwhile AAA caliber stuff, morrowind, fallout, crysis...
>missing updates and multiplayer
Their distribution model is based around standalone installers, so it's harder to deliver updates than through steam. The only multiplayer games you need to play are LAN.
>no Tetris
Just get any emulator and whatever version of tetris the console got.

>Their distribution model is based around standalone installers, so it's harder to deliver updates than through steam.
In the past, there were standalone patches. They still do them, once in a while.
>The only multiplayer games you need to play are LAN.
Online multiplayer and DRM-free are compatible. Look at Jazz Jackrabbit 2.

a fellow patrician I see

>Jazz jackrabbit 2 has online multiplayer
Well, i know how i'll be spending my evening.

Yeah, up to 32 players.
pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Jazz_Jackrabbit_2#Network

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Neat. I'll grab a copy when it's on sale.