| JEMC said: Please let me clarify a couple of things: 1) I'm not a very social person. I don't mind having discussions like this on the forum or through messages and wall posts, but I usually don't go further than that. Also, I'm not on the VGC Discord server and I have no interest in joining either. 2) My "and I honestly don't care" comment wasn't regarding modding. It was my answer to your (probably rethorical) question about why other clients don't have a modding section: "What other store bothers with something like the Steam workshop?, no one, do you know why? (and I'd hazard a guess that you do)." I though that was clear give nthe context of my answer, and I'm honestly surprised you could take it that way. After all, I didn't care for modding I wouldn't post the articles about it on the news? 3) While the "throw DRM away" was an obvious exaggeration from my side, it's true that you hoped for them to abandon this idea because you believe that it would bring more games to their store and make it a competing platform against Steam. Meanwhile I think the no DRM policy is their biggest asset, and that losing it would make them more harm than good, as there would be no oojective reason to buy games from it instead that from Steam (besides price, where Steam usually can offer the best deal due to its size). And that's all I had to say about all this. I really feel this discussion has lasted more than it should and is no longer fun, so I won't keep it alive. |
1) There are times when I prefer to shut myself off from people, but those times can be rare and sometimes frequent, but at the end of the day, I have to talk to someone at least once a day, so social talks will play a part when that happens.
If you have no interest outside of a thread and wall posting, then you're honestly not going to know much about me, just like some people on here already know little of me to begin with.
2) Not wanting to support the modding scene is the same as not wanting to support mods, as without the scene, there is nothing. I've also talked about news or places that I've no interest in, but you do see how that works already, right?.
3) No, it's not much of a belief, it is that they have retrained themselves from what they can and cannot have. This isn't some made up mumbo jumbo, this is reality. By choosing to refuse any game with DRM, means they are one less game down, and no amount of "so what?" and "don't care" will do anything to detract from that reality. Those that think we need less choice are not within the same coin as those that just want to play the games they want, no, those two are different and one group seeks to stifle what the other wants. The curation argument that Jim loves to toss around has more or less pointed out that one group gladly wants to hold command over what others can and cannot play. We have our own tools on Steam to weed out what we do and do not want to see or buy, which is something we don't get much of anywhere else in terms of tools and features like it.
GoG locking themselves to non DRM based games is their unique asset they have, but it is not one that will crush all, let alone put you at the top spot for decades to come. It has worked for them for sure, yes I will give that praise, but no more than that, because it itself has limited what it can and cannot do. Until every other publisher out there stops and destroys all and any DRM, then I cannot give the full praise it could deserve.
That's fine if you choose not to continue going on.
Step right up come on in, feel the buzz in your veins, I'm like an chemical electrical right into your brain and I'm the one who killed the Radio, soon you'll all see
So pay up motherfuckers you belong to "V"
