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krige ◴[] No.42134227[source]
I don't know. I wish for them to succeed but as someone who's had a GOG account since before it officially launched, I have seen them claim to refocus on classics at least twice before, with meager effects. It's gotten bad enough that some games ostensibly under GOG's mission are actually better off on Steam and I don't think it's entirely on the publisher.

The examples chosen to hightlight the program on gog's own page for this initiative also do not fill with confidence. If you read between the lines it turns out that for instance it took them five years (!) to fix a crashing HoMM3 intro in a language they added, and likewise they only checked if Diablo/Hellfire even works on win 10/11 yesterday, years after they started selling it.

More power to them, if they keep at it, but I don't see anything to get excited over yet.

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1. izacus ◴[] No.42134826[source]
Which classic games are better on Steam than they are on GoG?
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2. krige ◴[] No.42135532[source]
Septerra Core for instance, last I checked (2022) gog required quite a lot of searching and effort from the user (missing files, recompiled exe), while Steam version works out of the box. FEAR: Extraction Point also ran somewhat better off Steam IME.