I love gog. Sure it means I need to pay (a small amount) for some decades old stuff, but it will work perfectly every time.
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TBH I'm too addicted to achievements to use GOG (AFAIK you can get achievements on GOG if you use their launcher, but it doesn't work on Linux). I'm going to regret that later for sure ...
There is a reimplementation of the Galaxy Communication Service that allows you to get achievements, leaderboards, etc.
Heroic Launcher has it bundeled automatically.
Heroic is so freaking... Well... Legendary. :D
games should just make an in-game achievements checklist that coorsponds with what steam would have shown. that's all steams in anyways, a checklist.
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No regional pricing though. GOG is outrageously expensive in my country compared to steam.
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If only they gave a shit about their users enough to respect their requests for official Linux support. Various forms of this made 3 of the top 5 requests on their community wish list. Which they casually deleted and told people to use wine/proton.
This is not a consumer-friendly company. It just so happens that their consumer-oriented decisions led to profits. The moment this is not the case, they immediately change course every time. Same might be true for Valve, but at the very least we can clearly observe them sacrificing extra profits for a tiny minority of Linux users.
GOG is still mostly fine for Windows builds of games. You can support the devs and get DRM-free copies to store indefinitely. However, we shouldn't blindly praise them and ignore the obvious bullshit they take part in.
Same might be true for Valve, but at the very least we can clearly observe them sacrificing extra profits for a tiny minority of Linux users.
Considering the Steam Deck exists, which necessitates Linux support, I'm fairly certain Valve is actively making profit from Linux support.
Which is a perfectly fine thing to do, and I really like it. But it's not exactly altruism that's driving their investments
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Seriously. I pretty much only buy things off GoG nowadays. I can back it up to my own storage, and take it wherever I want. High-five to GoG.
I've only bought one game from GOG. It was Morrowind and I'm playing via OpenMW. Good experience over all. Though I didn't use the installer or the executable that came with the game.
I really want to see more FOSS reimplementations of game engines come into existence. Wine is fine and all, but I'd much rather have a native FOSS engine.
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It's just how games used to be before the age of enshittification began
Maybe I'm not old enough but I don't remember a time before game DRM, when it was physical games they required you to have the disk inserted to play. The only difference was they were easier to crack and less invasive without online requirement.
I remember everyone freaking out when Spore was gonna have SecuROM that limited it to like 5 installs on a disc, and you were gonna have to ask EA for more if you needed them.
Some of the oldest DRM was weird little cipher wheels or puzzle books required to answer a challenge every time the game booted before it would actually start.
I dare say what GoG is doing is better than we've ever had it!
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It really is great if you're on Windows, but I've run into issues installing GOG content on Linux.
It's rare for me, but yeah, it does happen. I usually try Epic Games Launcher, Lutris, then Steam. If it doesn't work with any of those, I ask for my money back.
I almost always used the windows version on Linux too. Personally I install via the exe installer like a caveman lol, but you can add your GOG account on Lutris and other programs to make it easier. Just found out about Minigalaxy, looks nice might try it.
It ain't great that there isn't an official Gog Galaxy for Linux. But we're still super grateful for the lack of DRM.
I haven't. Works great with Heroic Games Launcher.
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I'll buy when there's a native linux client.
Until then, "arr, maties!"
...and no, I'm not having a morality discussion about piracy. I do it full-well knowing it's wrong.
Just use Heroic. A native linux client would just be worse and proprietary.
That's an odd thing to get hung up on. I buy more from Steam because the client is way nicer on Linux and they actually release interesting features for it. I could buy from GOG through Heroic, but they why should I expect them to properly support me on Linux when they don't even bother to explicitly support Heroic (they do profit share, but that's not quite the same), much less port Galaxy?
I personally don't see piracy (i.e. boycotting) as a reasonable reaction here. It sounds more like you're looking to justify piracy a deal looking for an excuse.
I'll leave it there, but that's my read here.
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Gog is awesome? But it has a game launcher now i have to use if I wanna play homeworld cataclysm.