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Larian Studios defends Valve: Steam's success is deserved (www.gamereactor.eu)
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[–] 92 points 1 year ago (25 children)

I only buy games on Steam, GOG and ItchIO. The main reason I don't give a cent to stores from EA, Ubisoft or Epic Games anymore is their services and terms are horrible. I'm all in for supporting competition when it's good competition.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    I would buy from GOG too, if they provided Linux support in form of an official launcher. And if available also official Linux builds. Back in the days GOG did that, but they stopped doing it. And before someone comes after me, I know there are alternative launchers on Linux. But I don't want to give GOG money for work others doing it for free. I don't want support a company who only cares about Windows.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I bought Resident Evil 0 on GOG yesterday but Heroic wouldn't download the game for some reason (stuck at 0%). Refunded, got it on Steam for cheaper and it launched right away.

    Sometimes I purchase on GOG out of principle and for some reason they always punish me for it.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    In the past, before Proton, if a game was available at comparable prices on GOG and on Steam, I'd buy it on GOG, also because no DRM meant better compatibility. After Proton, my purchases from GOG went way down.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They started supporting and cooperating with heroic launcher.

    Thus heroic is the defacto official GOG launcher on linux.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What type of support and cooperation? And where it is documented, so I can read about it?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Weird. I can fibd no source on it. However I seem to distinctly remember that GOG announced to help heroic implement more cloud features.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    That does not mean it never happened, we just can't find the source. I had this with my own statements in the past too, sometimes it was true sometimes I was wrong. Therefore I cannot trust everyone in the internet. What I can imagine is, that GOG worked on the GOG API (the programming interface for other tools) to add access to the Cloud features in example. It might came out of a request from the Heroic Launcher project. So in a sense GOG would cooperate. But this is just speculation on my part here.

    Still the Heroic Launcher is a separate project doing all the work on their own.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I could understand this sentiment for any pc-platform but GOG. After all, they are the only ones (afaik) that make their launcher optional. And while i do ocassionally use launcher-functionalities from for example steam, i would much rather not have to bother with it if i didnt have to.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    You can just add it to Steam as a non-Steam game and launch it from there

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    This does not address the issue I brought up in my reply. Besides the brought up point, it would not solve all other issues I would have. I know the functionality to add non-Steam games since I am on Steam over 12 years ago.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Oh cool then just be a prick about it for no reason. Go fuck yourself, I was just trying to help you.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I told you that it does not address my issue. No need to be mad, I have no bad intentions. I expressed what issue I have and adding the game as a non-Steam game does not solve the issues I have.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    It came off as hostile but maybe I misread.

    How does it not fix the problem? You can buy a gog game, add it to Steam and launch it with Proton. You'd just be using Steam instead of the gog launcher you want.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The problem is the launcher. He does not want one.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is directly from the comment I replied to:

    I would buy from GOG too, if they provided Linux support in form of an official launcher

    No need for an official launcher when you can just use Steam as a launcher.

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