You can want better. Wanting better is good, actually.
What you can’t do (and expect to be taken seriously, anyway) is to take the best you got and give them crap for stuff that’s not under their control in any way. They don’t own the games getting delisted, so they have zero control over the delisting itself and they have better mitigations for this scenario than anyone else that make the situation actually safe for buyers. They may be “out of stock” of these games going forward, but nobody who bought them has to worry about not getting to keep them, which isn’t true on most other platforms, Steam included.
For the record, I also disagree on how “we’re seeing Valve’s practices get better”. They have their own set of priorities and while I like a bunch of them I dislike a bunch of them also. I don’t need to pick sides here.
Case in point, I agree that asking for a patreon-style contribution is a bad move on GOG’s part. I don’t need to like that in order for me to like their choice to stick to DRM free content or to provide downloadable offline installers.
You can want better. Wanting better is good, actually.
What you can’t do (and expect to be taken seriously, anyway) is to take the best you got and give them crap for stuff that’s not under their control in any way. They don’t own the games getting delisted, so they have zero control over the delisting itself and they have better mitigations for this scenario than anyone else that make the situation actually safe for buyers. They may be “out of stock” of these games going forward, but nobody who bought them has to worry about not getting to keep them, which isn’t true on most other platforms, Steam included.
For the record, I also disagree on how “we’re seeing Valve’s practices get better”. They have their own set of priorities and while I like a bunch of them I dislike a bunch of them also. I don’t need to pick sides here.
Case in point, I agree that asking for a patreon-style contribution is a bad move on GOG’s part. I don’t need to like that in order for me to like their choice to stick to DRM free content or to provide downloadable offline installers.