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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

GOG.
We need to support GOG and it's model as much as possible.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I used to support them but when they opened the floodgates to trash games I didn't get much reason to stick around. I miss and crave curation over volume. If both stores have heaps of garbage and steam has far better Linux support with valve actively contributing to and improving the Linux ecosystem.... I'm going steam most of the time now.

Sad as in theory I would support gog more but it seems like they've discarded what made them special.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Could you expand on that pls?

Im wondering how does the excess amount of games offered by a store affect your experience. How would you even notice that?

And - that they were a more closed store was what made them special?

Then I think of GOG I think about licencing, how I actually own a game purchased, how I have a key for it, how I'll still own that game even of GOG stops existing. Thats not true for any of the other stores (outside of physical copies if some sell them, idk).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I notice it because the signal drowns out the noise. It's so hard to browse or find interesting new games made by passionate devs because so much low-effort barely-games and hentai visual novels flood it all out.

I'm all for adult sex games but jfc it's just sad how awful and unending their presence is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

If only they would support Linux more.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

The ship has sailed about 4 times now, gog galaxy on Linux has constantly been at the top of requests but we made a stinky about the Witcher 2 so gog and epic will forever hold the community as not worth it. Now the community has done the leg work they have no reason to mess about with translating all those .net calls

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They barely "support" Windows, they aren't rally a software dev company, they are just sell you the actual game (unlike Valve etc).

And that is precious, the world needs companies that help restore some equality on the market.

And also what Nothing said.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

they aren't rally a software dev company

CD Projekt is very much a software dev. I’m not sure why you would think they are not.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Well, they're a game developer. And they own GOG. GOG as a subsidiary is a digital distributor of prepackaged digital content. Developing a system that allows people to find a digital item, pay for it, and then download it, is hilariously, vastly different than developing a compatibility layer for games developed for one operating system to run on another. Like...the former is straight up just basic web development. The latter is hardcore systems programming. They are worlds apart.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Lutris > gog as source > set proton as a runner (or wine, or whatever else if specific games require it, like FFXIV)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I tried this for a while and it was incredibly janky. Heroic launcher is a night and day difference.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

GOG lazy asses never developed Galaxy because Linux nerds were going to do this anyways