| JEMC said: GOG is trying. Most indie games appear on their store at the same time or shortly after launching on Steam, excpet for the garbage ones that remain Steam exclusive. Now it's only a matter of big publishers losing their fear and embracing GOG too, but it will take time. As for the region lock... well, "we" are part of the problem. If "we" hadn't gone to those russian, to name one of the problematic regions, sites that sold Steam keys for less than half its price in Euros or Dollars, then maybe we wouldn't face this problem now. It's the same as the daily sales of the old Winter and Summer Sales, if people hadn't abused the system, asking for a refund of the game they just bought a day earlier because now it was featured in one of those flash sales with a bigger discount, then Valve wouldn't have changed now. But no, "we" had to be smart and clever, and in the end it came back and bite us in the back, with our pants down. That said, I agree that Valve has overdone with those regions. I'm surprised you, Chazore, can be affected so much for this given that you're UK region. |
Yeah, but the "we" problem presents the issue of flat out not being able to gift anyone anything if they are from a different region as you, thus it eliminates the whole point of gifting in general. They may as well label is at "gift your countrymen".
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
