I do love Steam, but at the same time, it required me to intall significant 32 bit support on my system. It's just sitting there, using 2GB of RAM and 20% of a cpu while the window isn't even open.
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GOG is awesome!
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.
DRM is never for the benefit of the consumers.
Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster has fucking denuvo in it? What the fuck? Does it have multiplayer or something?
I know. Not that I'm aware of, no.
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.
Ahhh ok.
Worth checking out the remaster, even if you pirate it. Tons of qol improvements, and pretty good VA
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Know your enemy
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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EA
Yeah, don't need to read further. I just avoid their crap on reflex.
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Anon discovers what it’s like to own a piece of media
It's getting rare to own anything. Everything is just a temporary license or subscription or even if you own the thing it's dongled to the vendor and when the vendor is in a bad mood or goes bankrupt your thing can't be used any more...
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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 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?
He likes it like that. Shit, he Loves it. Says so right off the bat. Just because this ain't baseball doesn't mean he's not home.
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.
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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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Half or more of all the games Amazon gives away through Prime are actually just GOG keys. If you already have Prime for some reason or another, you should be redeeming those free GOG keys.
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I would love to buy all my games from gog, but they lack steam's regional pricing in my region, so most games are 4x the price on gog.
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