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The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps
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The best thing about GOG is the ability to never use a client or launcher at all. The ability to just download the installers from the website and store them locally means that your GOG games will outlast the following: GOG as a company enshittifies, GOG as a company dies, your account gets banned from GOG, you lose access to your GOG account, your favorite game gets a game-ruining update from its developer, some song license expires and devs are forced to patch or pull the game...
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GOG should be more proactive in order to fulfill its mission. 1: Officially make a Linux client. 2: Pursue indie series. Project Moon, Touhou, and more. 3: Commission remastering projects. Thief 1 & 2, FreeSpace, King's Quest, Vampire Bloodlines, and so on. Optionally buy these properties to make sequels. The IP holders don't really do much with them, it would be relatively easy to buy them. 4: Get more serious with companies like SEGA and Kagura Games. Shin Megami Tensei V has been out on PC a long while, but Denuvo makes me unwilling to make a purchase. A DRM-free release would easily net my $40. Ditto goes for perverse games. 5: Create a joint project with Valve, the EU, and Japan, to create a payment system that doesn't require the likes of MasterVisa. They are enemies to culture, and if America descends into civil war, an outside transaction processor would be needed.
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Conveniently forgeting the part where valve creates a gambling system for kids, as usual. But I get it, the only things that mathers is you.> Conveniently forgeting the part where valve creates a gambling system for kids, as usual. Do you mean loot boxes in Counter-Strike? A) It's not a game for kids. B) And no, I'm not getting involved with parenting of other people's children, so I actually do not care. > But I get it, the only things that mathers is you. I matter to me, yes.
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> Conveniently forgeting the part where valve creates a gambling system for kids, as usual. Do you mean loot boxes in Counter-Strike? A) It's not a game for kids. B) And no, I'm not getting involved with parenting of other people's children, so I actually do not care. > But I get it, the only things that mathers is you. I matter to me, yes.
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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.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.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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? 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.We were not discussing that. It's about a label on DRM-free games, marking them as such.
