Online Gaming Store GOG Launches New Scheme To Save Games From Disappearing
Online Gaming Store GOG Launches New Scheme To Save Games From Disappearing
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Online Gaming Store GOG Launches New Scheme To Save Games From Disappearing
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Good to see GOG refocusing on games preservation. 100 games might be just a tiny fraction of all the games that need to be preserved, but at least someone is starting somewhere.
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Good but one thing I don’t like is that GOG is from Poland aka EU and I still can’t find any privacy related ”switches” in their app or website.
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The effort and money and energy needed to keep digital things archived forever seems pretty massive... What if we just took the source code for them and wrote them down on something less likely to degrade over time? 🤔
Stop taking physical data and making it digital; take digital data and make it physical again!
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Who's a good game? Yes you are! Yes you are!
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If we could somehow merge steam's linux support, with GOG's dedication to DRM-free preservation of games
I really tried to support GOG for a long time, but steam was much easier when i went 100% linux
I use Heroic Games Launcher to run GOG and Epic games on Linux. It'd be great to get some official support, but it's the next best thing.
Allowing 3rd party clients is better than official support
Stores shouldn’t also be in control of the client
I haven't had any issues with gig + lutris, quite a smooth experience actually.
Though most of the games in my library are older tbf.
Steam has been so easy since proton, i honestly never learned to use lutris. I think i played with it once and gave up, but this was 6 years ago at this point. Maybe its easier to use now
I've had fewer problems with GoGo + Lutris in Linux than I've had with Steam in Linux, to the point that I had to pirate one of my Steam games in order to be able to run it in Linux (the pirate version runs just fine).
Mind you, I get the impression that older AAA games are the most problematic ones, thought that's maybe because I don't run anything with Kernel Anti-Cheat and nowadays don't really do only (in fact all my games in Lutris are run inside a firejail sandbox with network access disabled).