{"id":26715,"date":"2015-05-12T19:45:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T00:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26715"},"modified":"2015-05-12T19:45:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T00:45:59","slug":"experienced-points-the-digital-distribution-wars-are-on-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26715","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: The Digital Distribution Wars Are On Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a few people have been asking me what I think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/galaxy\">Galaxy<\/a>, the new client from Good Old Games. &#8220;It&#8217;s too soon to tell, but I&#8217;m impressed so far,&#8221; isn&#8217;t long enough to fill an entire column, so I did another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/13908-The-Digital-Distribution-Options-Available-And-How-They-Rate?utm_source=latest&#038;utm_medium=index_carousel&#038;utm_campaign=all\">round-up of all the other digital distribution platforms and compared them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the column I said that UPlay is the new Games for Windows LIVE. Thinking more about it, it seems like UPlay might actually be somehow <em>more<\/em> useless than GFWL. GFWL purportedly offered some sort of cross-platform play between Windows and Xbox players, and I&#8217;ve never heard of UPlay offering anything like that. On the other hand, UPlay doesn&#8217;t have quite as many comical failures when trying to do simple things. On the gripping hand, UPlay came out years after GFWL and had every chance in the world to avoid or correct for the failings of its predecessor. And then didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a few people have been asking me what I think of Galaxy, the new client from Good Old Games. &#8220;It&#8217;s too soon to tell, but I&#8217;m impressed so far,&#8221; isn&#8217;t long enough to fill an entire column, so I did another round-up of all the other digital distribution platforms and compared them. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[306,484,24,455],"class_list":["post-26715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-gfwl","tag-gog","tag-steam","tag-uplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}