GOG is awesome!
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I love having to individually download all 50 parts to a game and write my own install script (the GOG experience on Linux).
You- you what????? Why. Lutris. Just use lutris, holy shit.
There's like 5 managers that support one click install on Linux. Why are you pretending to live in the stone age?
Maybe this was true five years ago, but with heroic I've never had any setup issues.
Heroic works pretty well.
I can second this.
How common is that? I have maybe 5 games from GOG and none of them are like this.
Bro, I've got like 25 hours in the Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster, on my Steam Deck and laptop.
Yesterday, an update caused the game to launch with a black screen. So I tried a few different Proton versions, before I start getting a new error.
I take a look at the discussion board for the game on Steam... Fucking Denuvo considers each version of Proton to be a separate "activation" and it will only allow five BEFORE LOCKING YOU OUT OF THE GAME FOR 24 HOURS.
I have never really given a shit about Denuvo before, but this is so fucking infuriating. I paid for this game. I've already played 25 hours of this game. Now I can't fucking play it?
Unbelievable. Denuvo is fucking trash, and I guess now I'm one of those people who avoids it.
Happened with the new DOOM too. I just wait for AAA games to remove DRM as a precaution.
Thanks for the heads up, was going to get that for my wife to try. I'll just spin up the ISO instead.
The game itself is outstanding (but I may be biased since the original is one of my favorite games of all time)
I agree. Said ISO is an image of the PS1 disc which is safely in its case :D.
Paid for your product like a little corpo slave bitch. Got what you deserved.
You dont own it unless you take it.
Fuck... So cool....
Its not fuvking cool. I wish i could just ask for shit and hand over points or whatever and get stuff by making stuff¹, but thats not the fucking shit-abyss dystopia we live in.
¹making stuff is the best! If you try to do it for points you will be fucked, and also it all gets stolen.
Oh no, I was talking about you
Great comment, thanks.
Only replying to this, bud:
Paid for your product like a little corpo slave bitch. Got what you deserved.
You shouldn't have given those parasites money. That was bad.
Did I misunderstand what happened?
What PC do you play your pirated games on?
What corporation's lobbying to oppress me do you fund?
What? I was asking an honest question... If me purchasing a video game means I'm giving money to parasites (and it means I'm a, "little corpo slave bitch" that "got what you deserved"), then I would love to hear about where you source your PC parts.
There is no ethical consumption in capitalism. You are not better than me because you pirate PC games. Chud.
Whataboutism? Great defense of your shitty behavior.
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Know your enemy
EA
Yeah, don't need to read further. I just avoid their crap on reflex.
At least you're warned about the bullshit requirements for a particular game.
Reminds me of what fdroid and aurora-store do, warning the users of potential "disgusting" features. That's respect for its users
I like that fdroid is "this doesn't meet what our users expect from our service, here's why, and here it is anyway if you want cancer"
And most of the time, it's pretty palatable cancer too. It turns out most don't bother uploading to FDroid if their app is truly bad.
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Gog is awesome? But it has a game launcher now i have to use if I wanna play homeworld cataclysm.
I own ~670 games on GOG and lease 292 on Steam.
I’ve played maybe five of my GOG games to completion. I’m a gamer, dammit!
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It sounds like gog is pretty great, with their DRM free software.
I'm generally indifferent towards steam but I'm under the impression that they've contributed a lot to the recent developments in Linux gaming compatibility, and this has removed a pretty big hurdle for people who want to move away from windows, and I just think that's swell.
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I wish games would host their own downloads like Factorio. Managing keys and such is probably not worth it since they can use Steam, GOG, or even Itch, buts it’s just so nice to be able to download stuff without a middle man.
I’m just glad I only play 2 games instead of the hundreds I’m reading about in these comments. I didn’t even know that was a thing people did!
I don't play hundreds, but I do play dozens, and yeah, being able to just set 5 or so to download in the background when I'm running low is nice. I mostly play through single player games and uninstall when I'm done.
That said, I also really like how Factorio did it. I bought it directly from them way back in 2012 or something, then they gave me a Steam key, and I can still play the game today with all the updates more than 10 years later. They only made one DLC in the meantime, and that's basically a new game, so I'm totally happy with that.
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