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StingingVelvet: The only games Valve forces to be Steam only are their own. You could make the argument Newell should put Half-Life 2 on GOG to support his beliefs, but I doubt he'd see it that way.

Everything else that is Steam only is because the developer or publisher didn't bother making another version.
It really isn't as simple as that

There are plenty of factors, many systemic of Valve's market dominance, that makes releasing on Valve's competition unfeasible or present as unfavourable.

Sometimes its also GoG themselves being prats.
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mechmouse: It really isn't as simple as that

There are plenty of factors, many systemic of Valve's market dominance, that makes releasing on Valve's competition unfeasible or present as unfavourable.
There's lots of reasons why publishers might not bother with a non-Steam version, but it's still as simple as them not doing it. Valve doesn't force anyone to not sell elsewhere.
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rjbuffchix: People should've abandoned Scheme long ago
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LootHunter: Well, GOG should've released all popular games, especially ones that are in "GOG wishlist", long ago. Not just refuse to do it under "it's too niche" pretense.
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rjbuffchix: Many of the games on the wishlist that aren't indies ...but the publishers ...Scheme normalized this culture of DRM on everything.
Cut the bull! GOG haven't provided all the conditions for games to be published here (and yes, that includes many indie titles, not just AAA). And now you just accusing people, who simply want to play games, of not making a stance and not sacrificing their opportunity to play what they want for YOUR anti-DRM crusade.

Oh, and by the way, what about anti-censorship? Gaben at least claimed to support freedom of speech. Had GOG stuff done the same?
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LootHunter: Cut the bull! GOG haven't provided all the conditions for games to be published here (and yes, that includes many indie titles, not just AAA). And now you just accusing people, who simply want to play games, of not making a stance and not sacrificing their opportunity to play what they want for YOUR anti-DRM crusade.

Oh, and by the way, what about anti-censorship? Gaben at least claimed to support freedom of speech. Had GOG stuff done the same?
Uh you'll see I'm all about "no bull"...check the tagline ;)

My point earlier was that the issue is bigger than "GOG doesn't accept enough games" or even (now that you mention it) "GOG haven't provided all the conditions for games to be published here". In other words, even if GOG said "we're going to accept a lot more games and here are our standards" there are still many significant games (many non-indies and even some indies) who are loyal to Scheme or in big publishers' cases their own proprietary services. You're acting as though game publishers are afraid to submit their game here for fear it may get rejected, when the obvious reality is that they're afraid of DRM-free. Even when we see it would be the economically rational thing to put their game here, they have miscalculated that on their end and spin reasons not to do so.

Anti-censorship is a separate topic but since you brought it up, I'll say I am against censorship but am not going to support any DRM store. In this case I'd rather have an "inferior" censored DRM-free version because by my standards DRM-free makes it superior to a DRMed uncensored version.
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Crevurre: Gabe says Valve is dishonest without competition (in this case of the example, he meant Epic by competition).

Epic "keeps us honest". Without Epic they were dishonest according to that quote (no matter how many people tried to raise issues).


>www.kotaku.co.uk/2020/03/20/gabe-newell-says-the-epic-store-keeps-us-honest
> Gabe Newell Says the Epic Store "Keeps Us Honest"

Here it is. They wouldn't be honest of their own accord.
Is English not your first language? That is an expression.
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Crevurre: Here it is. They wouldn't be honest of their own accord.
"Keeps us honest" is an idiomatic phrase, it isn't meant to be interpreted literally.
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SirPrimalform: "Keeps us honest" is an idiomatic phrase, it isn't meant to be interpreted literally.
"but some phrases become figurative idioms while retaining the literal meaning of the phrase."-internet
Post edited March 30, 2020 by Crevurre