GOG Connect

[kane_magus]

On GOG, they're doing this thing called GOG Connect. Basically, if you have Steam and eligible games in your Steam account, you can use GOG Connect to add those same games to your GOG account. It's only for a certain small number of games at the moment, as far as I can tell, but I still think that's pretty cool, and they say they'll be adding more later. I just added 10 new games to my GOG account for free, simply because I already had them on Steam.

It's actually amazing that they would even allow this, if you stop to think about it, because really, why the hell would they even want to let people add games bought on a competing service to their own platform for free? I think it's cool that they're doing it, but I don't get the why of it, outside of "hey this is a cool thing we want to do" or whatever.

I would have been happy just to be able to mark a game as "already owned" on GOG (and on Steam for that matter), just so they'd quit showing up in recommendations and such (which is more an issue with Steam than GOG, but still... and no, before anyone suggests it, I don't feel comfortable marking games on Steam as "Not Interested" as a workaround for a non-existent "Already Owned" option).

Just make sure to at least temporarily set your Steam profile to public before you try to do it, or else the GOG Connect thing won't be able to find anything, which I found out when I forgot that I had my Steam profile set to "Friends Only."

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

I'd assume their main reason to do it (keeping in mind that they have to get agreement from the publishers/devs for each individual game) is to give people more reason to use their galaxy client and hopefully get them to start buying initially on GOG to begin with.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

I didn't have to use the Galaxy client. I just did it through the website itself.

Though, given that they're talking about "starting your GOG collection," it does seem like as much of a promotional thing as anything else.