njm1314 comments on Everyone wants to own their games, yet GoG remains niche store

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

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

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[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 2 points 2 months ago (2 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.

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[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

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.

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[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 0 points 2 months 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...

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