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That's very nice to hear. But diffuclt to beat valve here, they are actively contributing to drivers and wine. When you buy even just windows software from steam you are helping funding that.

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I don't think they are trying to beat valve. GoG has been like those airlines that fly where no major airlines want to fly. Filling a underserved but large market.

I have a hunch that the currently sole owner just wants to do this until retirement. GoG is financially stable so there's no pressure to increase revenue.

I see no simpler explanation why someone would buy out a subsidiary like that.

All in all, GoG thrives on people being sentimental and it's totally in character for the owner to be sentimental as well.

Not wanting to buy DRMed games now is counting as sentimental? I beg to differ. There are a lot of reasons for buying games free of DRM.

Younger generations grew up with DRM already present.

Same with anti-cheat really. The most common reason I hear people don't make the switch to Linux is that certain games work only on Windows due to the type of anti-cheat they use.

They don't need to beat valve. The contribution made by valve is going to benefit GOG too. That's the power of open source.

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