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A forum for discussing and organizing recreational softball and baseball games and leagues in the greater Halifax area.

The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps

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    Ironically, I'd say the launcher is the best way to download all your offline installers
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    Download them once from the website, store them on a resilient NAS, never worry about your shit getting patched or losing it again.
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      Theres a reason steam is king... noone else bother putting games on linux, so valve brought linux to the games.
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      I appreciate what they've done, but no, that isn't the reason they're king. They were king long before any of the Linux stuff.
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        Yeah, I don't really understand that either. What's wrong Heroic? It's not quite Steam, but pretty good. And no DRM is definitely a plus.
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        Heroic is a third-party hack. It isn't an official solution. If Heroic died then we'd need another option. It's great, but it'd be better if GOG officially released their own client that worked with Linux.
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          Download them once from the website, store them on a resilient NAS, never worry about your shit getting patched or losing it again.
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          The website throttles your downloads though. Not to mention that the queue mechanic in galaxy is a lot smoother to use.
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            ? Steam does have warning labels for games with DRM, or at least popular shitty DRM options such as Denuvo or 3rd party launchers.
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              ? Steam does have warning labels for games with DRM, or at least popular shitty DRM options such as Denuvo or 3rd party launchers.
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              warm
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              We were not discussing that. It's about a label on DRM-free games, marking them as such.
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