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Also on GOG. DRM-free and presumably without the server issues.
Bought it on GOG. I like actually owning things.
You don't own anything on GOG. You only have revocable licenses. This is explicitly stated in their terms of services.
Yes. But you can download an offline installer, that they cannot take away. So it's sill a big difference.
The steam version of hollow knight allows you to play it without steam installed. Silksong probably is the same
GOG allows you to guarantee that this happens for all games though
Steam also has a method of creating offline backups for every game on it.
Not quite the same, you can only restore those with your Steam Account. For GOG it's just an installer for the game, which you can run and install anywhere as many times as you want, without needing any access to your account.
You restore them with the app; you don't need to be online, which means you don't need to be logged in.
Playing them on the other hand...
Legally, it's exactly the same. You don't own anything.
As I said: Yes.
But legally it's not much different with physical media of games or music as well. You don't own it. Just a copy you are allowed to use in some ways (but not others).
But besides that in reality there is a big difference, if you are still able to play it or not, if the servers are shut down.
When is the release for the Linux client?
According to the store page it's available right now.
What? Where? Says windows and Mac for me.
The little penguin icon:
I downloaded it and it runs so I can confirm.
Thought you meant gog galaxy client.
If you mean GOG Galaxy then IDGAF. I download the installers.
And without regional pricing.
Regional pricing can be a good thing at times, they are generally beneficial to lower currency value countries.
It is a great thing. Sliksong GOG price is 60% higher than Steam in some regions. GOG needs regional pricing.
Steam services that by injecting more DRM, region-locking games (and accounts) to a set of countries like consoles do, and that is incompatible with GOG's idea. They can let devs decide on pricing without implementing any rudimentary locks, but then it would be inconvinient for wealthy countries' gamers to ever purchase a game in their own region unless they intent to support dev/platform. It greatly complicates their side of things and would be a very divisive decision for a smaller storefront that is built around their wholesome image.
It locks out anyone who is not from a privileged rich country tho
I'm not in one of them, so I do know. I'm just sceptical GOG would do that with such complications. And I'm supporting the way of correcting it with piracy or more affordable prices rather than region locking that would lead to it's own shenanigans.
Holy shit. The app can't load content. 😂
Consoles aren’t doing much better, Xbox apparently crashed and ps5 currently has a 404 for the game’s page
You'd think these big companies would learn to anticipate these high loads and proactively increase capacity but hey
The Steam Store has gone down every time they do a major sale for over a decade or something. They don't care about these temporary problems, because they are just that, temporary. Increasing the server capacity for like an hour or something is just not worth it (most likely).
Also, it's not like the rest of the Steam network is affected when this happens. You can still play your games or download stuff at full speed.
I guess I forgot that companies don't give a shit about the consumer experience
never played hollow knight, is it worth picking up for my ps5..
I'd say get Hollow Knight first, just because you can probably get it cheaper. After you're done with that, and you like it, get Silksong. It's very unlikely if you don't like one you'll like the other or vice versa, the games are pretty similar, and they have a couple of things that could be called "polarizing" (like the map).
Unless you want to be part of the "current discussion", exploring the still new game, maybe you have friends who also play, and you can talk about things you find, then get Silksong.
Bro all digital storefronts finna be down for the COUNT when GTA VI releases