LogFAQs > #940770405

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Bit redundant.

Yes and no. Being GOG, it's a DRM-free copy, so you can potentially make use of it in scenarios where you can't use a DRM-locked one. In practice, Steam's offline mode works well enough that short-term loss of Internet won't cause any problems with accessing a copy, so that's not really that big of an issue and this isn't going to help all that much, but it's not inconceivable that a GOG copy will end up working more reliably. It also offers peace of mind for those that don't like DRM-locked stuff, though realistically such people probably went with GOG for their first purchase of the game anyway for that reason.

More saliently, though, this is GOG attempting to establish themselves as the one-stop shop for digital games as the market fragments further and further. GOG Galaxy 2.0 already offers the ability to condense libraries from multiple storefronts into a single client, and they've had quite a few other periods where they've offered free GOG copies of games if you've purchased a copy on Steam or whatnot. With the market fragmenting the way it is, people are generally going to gravitate toward buying new games on the platform that already has most of their library on it (which, for most people, is Steam). Epic's trying to solve that problem by increasing the percentage of their offerings that are exclusive to them. GOG's effectively taking the opposite approach and trying to increase the overlap between people's GOG and Steam libraries such that Steam no longer holds the majority.

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