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PC Gamer and GamingOnLinux recently covered a few things about GOG’s usage of genAI for promotional content, but this video goes into deeper coverage about their Head of Product being responsible for their direction. (Cue scam AI Instagram girls). It also covers how the company chose to respond to the backlash regarding their usage of genAI.

It’s sad to see them being brazen about their AI usage. I advocated for them several times, owning games (anything, really) is something that should be for granted. All of this makes their store look really cheap and turns off people from thinking about the idea.

  • Mwa@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    1 day ago

    IIRC that was Australia. But even their refund policy now is shit. Two hours after you click launch on a game? GOG back then had a 14 day money back guarantee, now extended to a full 30 days refund policy.

    IIRC Steam is Two hours after you click launch on a game or 14 days after you bought the game,But i always thought GOG’S refund policy is more generous

    There are very few of these games and the only way to know about them is a community-made spreadsheet compiled through trial and error. Unlike GOG, they’re not guaranteed to stay DRM-free - they can suddenly become DRM’d at any moment.

    Yeah your right and there is no legal way to bypass it

    Example of Video games on Steam that dont use DRM

    (but AFAIK BeamNG and like PPG does not have the DRM and All Adobe AIR Games for example)

    The PSP Go was the first digital only console and since the PS Store was discontinued for it, yep, no more buying games for it.

    I wonder if people ever homebrew’d it to circumvent it (idk if this is even legal)

    If they did, then they caved to them despite their wealth and resources. Meanwhile GOG gave away a bundle full of NSFW games and they’re also served by Visa and MC. AFAIK only they and itch.io publicly shot themselves here.

    I think the only non-NSFW/NSFW-adjacent Game GOG gave out was Postal 2
    and i get it now.

    • cybernihongo@reddthat.comOPEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      But i always thought GOG’S refund policy is more generous

      Not to mention it they had it way before steam ever heard of refunds.

      I wonder if people ever homebrew’d it to circumvent it (idk if this is even legal)

      People have! Homebrewing it for piracy is definitely not legal, but you can hack it like any other PSP (okay technically you can get original homebrew for it kinda but not really legally). But if you’re a law abiding citizen, you can’t buy new digital games for it.

      I think the only non-NSFW/NSFW-adjacent Game GOG gave out was Postal 2

      Postal 2 was one of the games in the bundle I mentioned. HuniePop was included IIRC along other games like Fetish Locator. It was given away just after the other two stores caved in.