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The GOG team said back in early 2019 that they had hoped to launch a beta of their new GOG Galaxy 2.0 product by the early summer, with a full release by August 2019. This isn’t definitely a recipe for success, nor would any business analyst tell you it is a winning approach, but when everyone else is making launchers that only serve their own needs, at the cost of customer experience, it’s surely worth a try.

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An increase in user base would help to boost revenue, and what’s a better way to increase the user base than releasing a free and excellent launcher, that will potentially replace many other launchers, while also requiring users to sign up?Īlthough it’s possible to use GOG Galaxy 2.0 without ever buying anything from the GOG store, I think that it will motivate people to at least check it out, and motivate some towards this store over others, given how consumer-friendly the platform is overall. Reports emerged, like this one from TweakTown, that suggest that monetarily, it’s not looking great. That’s the key for GOG and a core part of their philosophy: “we know there will be piracy no matter what, so let’s be as positive as possible towards our customers, show that we trust them, and in turn, people will be motivated to spend money with us.” Which means, there is nothing but morality to stop you from making a purchase and then sharing the game with all of your friends. For example, everything available on the GOG store is available DRM-free. So why develop it, given that it gives the ability to run games on other companies’ launchers? None of these companies are paying GOG for this service.Ī lot of GOG’s practices have been highly praised for their consumer-friendliness. GOG, run by CD Projekt, who also own CD Projekt Red, the company behind the massive Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 franchises, is totally free to use. This might well remain a dream, because each chat system is bound to use its own behind-the-scenes magic, and it’s going to require collaboration and good will from a lot of companies in order to get it all working. It’s a partial victory here, and it’s definitely better than nothing, but it would be nice to have a seamless friend list and simply be able to communicate with anyone regardless of where they are. The FOMO is strong with the gaming crowd, for sure.įor Xbox right now, you can see friends and what they’re up to, but you can’t communicate with them. Then there’s the fact that not all games are available on all platforms, often making gamers choose between adopting a new platform, or missing out. It might not be great to have a dozen separate launchers installed, all with different login credentials and a different look and feel, but that slim difference might be all it takes to remove the motivation to stay with Steam, or any other single platform.

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One of the main reasons for this might be that there’s a single list of games, and it might dissuade anyone from purchasing a game directly from, say, Uplay, if a Steam equivalent is available.įor a long time, brand loyalty was driven by the awful quality of these other launchers (Games for Windows Live, anyone?), but nowadays, things are looking different. Those who are loyal to Steam or another online platform might prefer to get their games from a single place, regardless of whether they might cost a little more.

Sure, Epic Games famously charges a lot less of a margin on each individual sale, but 12% is still more than 0, so we still see platforms like Uplay, Origin and Blizzard (formerly ).

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Of course, there are still many costs associated with running one’s own launcher, such as the bandwidth required to allow users to download games and patches, and there’s always payment fees, but this is likely to be a fraction of the 30% Steam is asking for. With their own platforms, this is cut to 0. Steam takes 30% of the revenue of any major publisher whose games are listed on its platform. It makes perfect sense if you think about it commercially. But as the catalogues of other major publishers grow and grow, they see more of a benefit in creating their own launchers, to compete with, or simply exist alongside, Steam. Launchers everywhereįor a long while, Steam, the pioneering platform behind digital distribution of games (anywhere, not just on PC), was the market leader, and, to some extent, it still is. Okay, that last one is impossible, for sure, but either you sway towards the type of person to keep things neat and organised, or… well, we all know at least one of the other type. Household bills, the inside of your car, dog toys.

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