The game has been released, and the Steam store promptly shit itself. Took me 10 minutes to buy the game, the download speed is normal though (2GB download).

  • mohab@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    4 days ago

    It is a great thing. Sliksong GOG price is 60% higher than Steam in some regions. GOG needs regional pricing.

    • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 days ago

      Steam services that by injecting more DRM, region-locking games (and accounts) to a set of countries like consoles do, and that is incompatible with GOG’s idea. They can let devs decide on pricing without implementing any rudimentary locks, but then it would be inconvinient for wealthy countries’ gamers to ever purchase a game in their own region unless they intent to support dev/platform. It greatly complicates their side of things and would be a very divisive decision for a smaller storefront that is built around their wholesome image.

        • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          18 hours ago

          I’m not in one of them, so I do know. I’m just sceptical GOG would do that with such complications. And I’m supporting the way of correcting it with piracy or more affordable prices rather than region locking that would lead to it’s own shenanigans.