I don't know about this specific scenario, but in any scenario where you have an incumbent player that is as deeply entrenched as Steam is, momentum enough is a huge hurdle that may keep an unambiguously 'better' platform in the rear view mirror.
"Unambiguously better" and what about Epic? why bring up something that doesn't exist (something better than Steam)? For all Steams problems... there isn't anything out there that comes close. The other stores are horribad and are attached to horrible companies (Epic, EA, unOriginal, uDontPlay, etc).
GOG has brand new games too. It's where I got Outer Worlds, which was an Epic exclusive for one year. Many times when I see a new game on Steam it is also on GOG. Where it is Steam only, then most of the time it's junk I don't want anyway (shooters, assassin's greed, etc). Modern gaming is turning into junk anyway.
Historically that was true, but now GOG is not concentrating on "good old games" at all anymore.
In fact, at this point they're probably adding more new-ish games to their service than old-ish games, simply because the old-ish games either are already being sold there or have been abandoned by the publishers/developers or are stuck in licensing hell. (And sometimes GOG can convince them to un-abandon them or work out the licensing issues, and they definitely have worked out technical issues with old games o
Depends on what you count as adult games.
GOG as a subsidary of CDRP of course also features all their games, and CDPR is kind of Bioware but without the American puritan standards. Hence they just cut the middlemen that mod the porn into their games and just do it themselves.
But they do not have those adult only games where porn IS the game as far as I can see.
Yes, I mean the literal porn games -- "ESRB Mature" is fine with GOG, and they even have at least one "ESRB Adults Only" game [gog.com], but they don't seem to do the literal porn games that Steam has started doing.
That said, some (well, a few) of the literal porn games do seem to have actual gameplay and production values and aren't "just porn".
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I don't know about this specific scenario, but in any scenario where you have an incumbent player that is as deeply entrenched as Steam is, momentum enough is a huge hurdle that may keep an unambiguously 'better' platform in the rear view mirror.
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GOG. GOG exists.
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GOG has brand new games too. It's where I got Outer Worlds, which was an Epic exclusive for one year. Many times when I see a new game on Steam it is also on GOG. Where it is Steam only, then most of the time it's junk I don't want anyway (shooters, assassin's greed, etc). Modern gaming is turning into junk anyway.
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Historically that was true, but now GOG is not concentrating on "good old games" at all anymore.
In fact, at this point they're probably adding more new-ish games to their service than old-ish games, simply because the old-ish games either are already being sold there or have been abandoned by the publishers/developers or are stuck in licensing hell. (And sometimes GOG can convince them to un-abandon them or work out the licensing issues, and they definitely have worked out technical issues with old games o
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GOG as a subsidary of CDRP of course also features all their games, and CDPR is kind of Bioware but without the American puritan standards. Hence they just cut the middlemen that mod the porn into their games and just do it themselves.
But they do not have those adult only games where porn IS the game as far as I can see.
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Yes, I mean the literal porn games -- "ESRB Mature" is fine with GOG, and they even have at least one "ESRB Adults Only" game [gog.com], but they don't seem to do the literal porn games that Steam has started doing.
That said, some (well, a few) of the literal porn games do seem to have actual gameplay and production values and aren't "just porn".