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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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Subject: The GOG/Amazon Link
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:29:50 -0500
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So, going onto GOG today, and the first thing I see is a big advert:

	GOG.COM / Luna: PLAY YOUR WAY WITH AMAZON LUNA
    Amazon Luna's cloud gaming service lets you play select 
    games from  the GOG catalog on devices you already own. 

And I immediately become nervous. My mind jumps to the question:

Is Amazon in the process of buying out GOG.com?

That's purest speculation on my part. But I can't help but wonder.
Because a lot of GOG.com games have been on Amazon's PrimeGaming
service recently. Because Amazon has bought out other gaming platforms
before (most notably Twitch), preceding the buyout with an influx of
free games offered on the platform. Because GOG has admitted that it's
struggling as a business, and really the only way it has any security
is because of its parent-company's (CD Projekt Red) success with "The
Witcher" and "Cyberpunk 2079". 

I mean, its probably not happening, but... you never know. 

I wouldn't be happy about it. Despite myself, I can't help but like
GOG.Com. Their pro-customer, anti-DRM stance, game-preservation and
general clueless marketing schemes have stupidly endeared themselves
to me. I tell myself I should know better, but I TRUST them.* 

Amazon, on the other hand, I do not trust. They are terrible for
customers, sellers, employees and the world in general. The fact that
they have a useful product that everyone uses does not change this
fact. They've disrupted pretty much every market they've entered, and
the last thing I want them to have is any sort of control over the
video game market. 

So I'm really hoping I'm jumping to conclusions. That the big advert
about GOG and Amazon  --and all those GOG games being given away for
free on Prime Gaming-- is just an advertising deal that pumps some
much needed cash into GOG.com's tattered pockets. 

Because the alternative is just too awful.


What do you think. Am I jumping at shadows? Would you welcome an
Amazon/GOG merger? And is it pronounced Gog or gee-oh-gee, anyway?






* reminder: _never_ trust a corporation. They are not your friends.
Even the ones that do things you like.