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[–] 38 points 1 year ago (1 child)

We need a Linux GOG Galaxy, not another mod marketplace. This seems like it's in preparation for Skyblivion.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago*

    I'm definitively gonna keep a look on that. Hope it will work with Heroic and the Steam Deck.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So like the steam workshop? Cool.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    I know for a fact whoever developed the GoG launcher isn't capable of adding this in.

    Source: half of the connectors to other game services don't work, and they haven't bothered to make their Mac app function in literally years (and if asked about this they tell you to "use the website").

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Why not just cooperate with nexus mods? Their new app (yes, still a deep beta) works quite well

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

    Because nexus mods is woeful, and their gradual enshittification isn't a good sign

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

    What examples can you give of their enshittification?

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

    Can’t download mods without logging in anymore

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

    Isn't this exactly like GOG Mods?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I can think of a few reasons as to why a website would run ads. I can think of a few reasons as to why a website would limit download speeds

    I cannot fathom for any non greed-ridden reason as to why a website would make you wait five seconds before downloading a mod. It's an inconvenience for the sake of an inconvenience, a problem they made to sell the solution

    Of course, we need to keep in mind that they don't make the mods, they merely host them. Compare the amount of bloat on their website to other, less funded ones such as lovers lab and gamebanana, and it becomes apparent that there's a money sink somewhere

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nice to see some competition in this space. Steam dropped the ball by not getting fallout London.

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

    When did "modding a game" shift from "creating new mods" to "applying mods"?

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

    I guess good thing, but what about improving GOG initially? There are many things to add and improve

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So they added one thing, but you're complaining they haven't added literally every other improvement you can imagine?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    It's not every other improvements, it's basic features requested for years.

    Dumb things like being able to edit your reviews or delete them without mailing the support. Having the ability to download old versions of offline installers instead of being forced to use their app...

    It's pretty obvious that I meant that this addition is welcome, but I critize their priorities.

    Even GOG Galaxy for Linux. Forgot this still wasn't added.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    While I appreciate increased visibility for such (often awesome) mods, I kind of doubt good guys at gog can manage to ship actual versions of them.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    Meh. Forces you to have the game on GOG. It's blocking mods behind a platform and account paywall, just like Steam Workshop

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  • [+] -44 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    No. Just, please. No. Go back to just being the only place to pick up tested versions of abandonware titles. Not this pseudo-Steam crap.

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

    Because only steam can have mods? Do you listen to yourself lmao "no please keep it a monopoly, valve are good guys, stay in your lane"

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  • [+] -20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Oh hell no. Valve are evil, like any other corporate monstrosity. It's not that I want GOG to "stay in their lane" as a bad thing. I want them to stay away from the morasse of crap that other sites like them have become. There are game modding communities all over the Internet, we don't need an abandonware site that put on airs to become part of the "modern marketplace".

    I want GOG to getback to what it was before CDPR.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We very much do need GOG to be competitive with the market leader but with the primary selling point of DRM-free, yes. And is it a coincidence that the beginning of your username is the same as that awful YouTuber?

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  • [+] -10 points 1 year ago

    We're going to have to settle for disagreeing on this. I just want a place to get stable abandonware, not a misstep into another place begging to take real money for digital data.

    And I would assume so, since I'm not a YouTuber.

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

    I want GOG to getback to what it was before CDPR.

    CD Projekt saw potential to look back at their distribution days to offer DRM-free versions of classic games through digital distribution, ... They founded a new subsidiary, Good Old Games, to serve this purpose in early 2008.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    It already is a modern marketplace and many modern games release on it. Just because you only use it for old games doesn't mean it's all it's ever allowed to be. They've been expanding their gog program more broadly to cover more of their audience, and a mod support like this makes it very easy for players of old games to release modified versions of those games, instead of needing to look for moddb or nexusmods.

    How many people play DOS2 with EE? How many people play civ5 with the 5.5 mod? It's just common sense to me that they'd set up something for people to keep old games fresh via modding, and it's not even a steam workshop like system so I'm not sure what steam has to do with anything. The mods they've showcased are full overhauls.

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