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Chazore said:

vivster said:

That is going to be really tough. I would love to see them selling high profile games with DRM in them but I can already see the massive outrage of GoG hardliners, completely ruining their reputation. And for what? I mean even if GoG had all of the high profile AAA games, what would motivate people to leave Steam for it when Steam has those as well and all of their achievements and friends and their backlog?

They've ran themselves in the corner with their DRM policy but it's not like they could succeed to a meaningful degree any other way. DRM free stuff is basically the main draw. What else can any store offer that Steam can't and is actually relevant to mainstream gamers?

Yeah that's what annoys me about them slightly. They've run themselves into a corner they can never come back from, but in doing so, they've denied themselves the ability to court other AAA games to their client based on that rule alone. The other clients have zero excuses as to why they cannot round those games to their stores (Blizzard seems to have the silent golden rule of only selling games they own).

I'd be motivated to use GoG more if they had all of Steam's features, especially with the friends list/wishlist and profile editing. I'd also be enticed if they had the games I grab from Steam on their store as well. If they also allowed for a complete library transfer, I'd be there in a heartbeat. 

GoG only is that popular now because of its self inflicted policy. If not for that it would just be yet another place to buy games from.

A full library transfer is probably up to Steam's cooperation and I doubt they have any reason to do it. GoG would have to read out all keys and have a way to verify them for every game of an account. I'm not sure Steam's API will freely do that.