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Given the things I'd like to see GOG investing in, it sounds irresponsible to buy Times Square ad space, but that's just a gut reaction that's not based on any real numbers.
As a purely Linux user, I'm just glad Heroic is around so I have options to play with less problems. Heck, they even have an agreement with GOG themselves where they get a proceed of the purchases made on GOG through a special link, or via Heroic.
GOG has its issues, but as someone dedicated to DRM-free games, and games preservation, they are still my favorite lot to buy games from!
Yeah, same, for all of the same reasons as you. But it would be nice if they cleaned up their store page so it was better at conveying features, like Steam. Or if I didn't have to go to SteamDB to see what DirectX or Visual C++ runtime I need to install with winetricks.
I do so wish the GOGdb site acted in the same way as the Steam one did:
https://www.gogdb.org/
Instead, it runs in a different way making it far less helpful than, as you said, SteamDB!