Release to gog.com
Arthan
Join Date: 2016-02-02 Member: 212504Members
Join Date: 2016-02-02 Member: 212504Members
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Eh, was there ever any official response to this as to yes / no / we'll see?
Like @baronvonsatan
You can try the Discord server (see my signature).
http://forums.unknownworlds.com/profile/mention <-- I has sad that isn't a profile
Seriously though, welcome to the warm and loving Subnautica family!
Youse better not make a mess of the place, or we'll have to have a "discussion" wit' ya about it, capisce?
(Don't worry, I'm kidding. Maybe...)
Soon he'll be sleeping with the fishies.
Because y'know he'll probably be resting in his base, underwater.
Edit: If you are making an account on this forum to ask to not have to make an account, what's the difference on making one on Steam and buying the game?
Not that big of a deal once v1.0 is reached, though.
GOG has their own servers, just like Steam does. Granted, you'd still have to get the product and any updates to GOG for distribution, but I imagine GOG has made that as easy as possible, seeing how many legacy (and new) titles are releasing on it.
I guess Steam has more "brand-awareness" since they also put out Team Fortress and Portal also, but I personally had never heard of GoG or its services before 2016. I'm sure they're a decent service and a reliable website, but I don't really trust a website that relies on word-of-mouth to promote their awareness. However... GoG did get a mention on the Nerf Now!! webcomic, so I guess they can't be all that bad!
GOG actually has a more consumer-friendly approach than Steam: if you download the complete installer, it will always work, and is not tied to account authentication (they are completely DRM-free). The downside is some publishers probably won't use GOG because of this, the upside is, GOG could crash and burn tomorrow, but if you have the content's installer downloaded, you won't have to worry about it regardless.
Also, GOG does a better job making sure titles remain compatible with newer OSes.
Consumer friendly = free games for everyone. Steam saved PC gaming through accessible DRM. There would be few to zero AAA games on PC if there was no steam. GOG isn't going anywhere. It's basically run by Poland's GDP and would require another total shutdown of a country.
Titles compatable with newer OS.
Nobody has given a reason to use GOG other than "It's not Steam".
Is there anything compelling other than opening the game up to piracy?
Edit: Oh crap my harddrive crashed and I lost all my information including my saved passwords. Crap I don't remember any of them. I guess it's cool that I can download the game from GOG and run it still.... oh... I need a username and password to download it again? I guess I should have burned it to a CD or something. Neat, I found my usernames and passwords. I guess I could now download it from either GOG or Steam without any problems due to having an account that saves my purchased games.
"Wizardry repacks" have nothing to do with DOSBox, that's just a DOS emulator, rather, I'm referring to incompatibilities in the game itself that require modification so it doesn't crash or otherwise bork out (like IIRC Rogue Squadron does, but, on GOG, doesn't cause it's patched). As for the insinuation, please read below:
Oh please, if you want to steal Subnautica right now (or any other game), all you have to do is know where to look and how to be careful to not get infected (or caught!), and you'll find there's both Steam and GOG releases up there, as well as CD / DVD rips and other stuff. Everything from games, to movies, to music, to operating systems, to Photoshop, it's all there. GOG has nothing to do with the availability of pirated content.
Also, let the record stand: Steam didn't save PC gaming with accessible DRM (as I said above, none of that works for long anyways) it saved PC gaming with a user-friendly digital distribution platform with sales that placed titles at a reasonable price on a regular basis.
1. Great job on this game. It is very beautiful and especially violence free. I like that very much.
2. I am seeking to buy Subnautica, but alas I am always thrown back to that PARASITE Steam. Like others, I actually have an account there, from ages past, but I will no longer support their practices of forcing their black box client upon me, to be able to play my paid for games.
3. Hence, if you should publish your game on a DRMclient free platform, i.e. GOG, I will be happy to buy it. If that would mean paying more, I also would do that.
With kind regards
JustAPasserBy
I don't think it's ever going to happen. I couldn't wait any longer, so I bit the bullet and joined Steam. It's been nearly a couple years and so far, I have no regrets.
If that, then I don't think I'm ever going to buy this game. [moderator edit].
I will buy subnautica only when this will be released on GOG or somehow as DRM-Free version. Only then, no different.
I will rather never play a given game, than do support platform/publishers who discriminate paying customers due to no having internet connection and makes them impossible to make a sterling backup and restore offline from it.
So I'm ready for resignation subnautica(and each other game) than become a steam(or somehow other platform support DRM) customer and/or be a treated as worse class customer.
That it's.
Rude and uncalled for. If you're not going to play the game, good. Go ahead and get off these forums if you have nothing to contribute but pointless insults.
For the topic itself: steam has an offline mode; I successfully used it for Subnautica and other games when I had issues with Steam thinking my other computer was still playing a game (even with other computer off).
DRM is going to be found on most games, unless the developer/pirate war has some resolution( not likely). Gog only gets a select portion, mostly old games from what I've seen. Don't hold your breath (until after you get the game