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Everyone wants to own their games, yet GoG remains niche store (i.ibb.co)

submitted 8 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to c/gaming@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1237508/everyone-wants-to-own-their-games-yet-gog-remains-niche-store

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[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Are they? I'm at about 300 owned on GOG vs about 2 dozen on steam that where mostly via humble bundle.

[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago

Yes. You are part of the niche.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 16 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Yes. Their market share is not even remotely close to Steam. You are not representative.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 points 7 hours ago

But the people complaining are also a minority, most are just bending over for DRM

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Market share is one thing but to call them niche is another. Yeah, there are a fair number of games I would like to get that are only on DRM laden platforms, but I still have a solid library well beyond what's needed to keep entertained.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Small market share is literally what niche means here. According to various sources online, GOG currently has a 2-3% market share. It’s smaller than Epic, and smaller even than the Microsoft Store. That is niche, whichever way you slice it.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 1 points 4 hours ago

More broadly it's a term used for to denote something fitting a very specific purpose or suitable to a small subset of people, animals or things.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/simple/niche

GOG is not a system meant specifically for people looking for some specific thing, it's a general purpose market with a wide variety of offerings that happens to have a smaller user base.

Their main customers might be called a niche market in that they're largely a specific group looking for DRM free games, but the platform isn't limited to them.

Anyhow, enough pedantics for one morning...