satoru: I feel like you don't know what GOG DIrect is
Yep, you got me.
It's basically just an automatic game registration system between a reseller and your GOG account. Rather than the reseller giving you a GOG key which you input into GOG. You simply link your GOG account to the reseller, and then when you buy a GOG game it will automatically get registered to your GOG account.
The only company that has anything remotely close to GOG Direct is Uplay. Which is how uplay games activate automatically from Steam and Humble once you link your accounts.
Steam used to have a similar feature in Humble via their OAuth mechanism. But they removed that after awhile. These days they use it more via things like thier Curators program, but that's more of a 'key management' mechanism so that devs can verifiably send games to actual streamers instead of the plethora of scammers that resell them on places like G2A
If you already think this is a mechanism for 'drm' why would it not surprise you that its also a mechanism to make Cyberpunk a DRM exclusive game?
Yeah, this mechanism sounds like a way to sell steam games on gog, then. Essentially, there'd be no enforcement method on GOG's part to ensure the games are DRM-free, if everything is offloaded externally.
As for cyberpunk, i'm not really sure what i expect from GOG, anymore. We've had these bitchfights with them before over galaxy, and they did back off, but with what's been going on lately, the writing seems to be on the wall again: get your games out on gogrepo.py and prepare for the worst.
ReynardFox: I'd start by firing the curators.
But... plenty of people have offered actual, constructive criticism for the longest time, I don't think at this point anything we say or do is going to have one lick of impact on a deaf website.
They more or less need to get rid of why they use curation in the first place. Curation is just the tip of the iceberg with regards to how much GOG imho 'gets in the way ' of devs.
They're far to invested in being not only 'curated' but being some kind of 'middle man' for every game on their platform. This is literally unsustainable as the more games you get the more this 'middle man' service becomes pure bloat to maintain for the entire platform.
Yeah, but then they'd end up itch.io with forums. I've bought games off itch, too, but let's be honest, GOG would really plummet, then, as they'd have nothing left to say that they have that itch doesn't. IMO, gog needs to be far more liberal with the system, however.
