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GOG.com is a DRM-free games and movies distribution service that is part of the CD Projekt Group. GOG.com is also a "sister" company to CD Projekt Red, developers of the Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077.

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More ways to play your GOG games – we’re teaming up with Luna cloud streaming service! (www.gog.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/gog

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

From what I understand, you'll still be owning your game on GOG the way you currently do, it's mostly a new way to "consume" them. It does not feel like a regression to me, seems mostly to be opening to new possibilities. But this of course assuming that this trend would not lead to GOG discontinuing in any way the current distribution model DRM-free..

[–] ElectroVagrant 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

From what I understand, you’ll still be owning your game on GOG the way you currently do, it’s mostly a new way to “consume” them. It does not feel like a regression to me, seems mostly to be opening to new possibilities.

I think you're correct with the first sentence, but on the second, I somewhat disagree. Strictly speaking, it's correct, yet it's not so new insofar as other platforms have done similar sorts of things, and with GOG I'd have hoped they might look into partnering with some software developers working on enabling local/self-hosted game streaming solutions more in the spirit of the DRM free approach.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I can only hope and encourage the development of self hosted game streaming!

One thing which I just thought of and which may be influential, is the fact that if you play on a remote server, will there be a way to recover your save files? That would matter a lot to me and I'm sure to many others.

I hope the GOG spirit would lead to it being downloadable.