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GOG: 1 million claimed the Freedom to Buy Games bundle in 24 hours

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  • alessandro@lemmy.caA alessandro@lemmy.ca
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    rampantparanoia2365@lemmy.world
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    I literally cannot find a page with actual links to the games? Im not cross-referencing a damn porn bundle.

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    • R rampantparanoia2365@lemmy.world

      I literally cannot find a page with actual links to the games? Im not cross-referencing a damn porn bundle.

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      thelasttoot@lemmy.world
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      I believe the giveaway was only for 48 hours so it might be over

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      • iavicenna@lemmy.worldI iavicenna@lemmy.world

        i.e you are all a bunch of wankers

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        mrmcgasion@lemmy.world
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        #67

        Hey, it included Postal 2 as well! (But also guilty, and not ashamed to admit it.)

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        • M mrmcgasion@lemmy.world

          Hey, it included Postal 2 as well! (But also guilty, and not ashamed to admit it.)

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          iavicenna@lemmy.world
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          I wouldn’t want to meet a person who wanks to Postal 2, though playing is fine.

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          • UlrichU Ulrich

            Frankly it’s very weird that you’ve tried them with Lutris and Heroic and have such a horrible success rate on GOG games specifically

            Oh it’s not just GOG, it’s Epic as well. And frankly, I don’t believe you. Based on what you said above about “don’t tend to learn how to do things yourself” I’m gonna guess you’re using all sort of tricks to get shit to work. The only thing I do is hit download and then open. If they don’t work, I don’t bother with anything more than that (or try opening them in Steam, sometimes that works).

            You must be incredibly unlucky or the Steam Deck (assuming that’s what you use)

            I have 3 different devices, including a Steam Deck, that I have had the same experience on.

            Steam games come with phone-home DRM

            Which is completely irrelevant if you’re not buying/redeeming them on Steam.

            GOG going with the Steam APIs and Steam’s very own fork of Wine (which is what Proton is), the former designed to tie games down to Steam’s server infrastructure

            LOL what? I’m very interested to hear more about what you think Steam’s “server infrastructure” or the store app has to do with this. And how that relates to myself and GOG having problems but you not having them? How can it work “just fine” for you in Heroic/Lutris but simultaneously GOG is incapable of the same?

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            aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            #69

            Sure mate, whatever, I’m lying, your way out there misinterpretations of the points I’m making and misreading of what I wrote are actually genial argumentative “gotchas” and the product of a superior mind and your relentless batting for Steam and against all other games stores isn’t at all mindless fanboyism.

            Keep up the good work, maybe they’ll give you a discount!

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            • I Cast FistI I Cast Fist

              Only their Galaxy client, because any games with native linux support has the proper installer files. They don’t go out of their way to ensure windows only games also work on linux

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              aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              #70

              Curiously I actually have an example of a GOG game - Project Zomboid - where the Linux version won’t work on my distro (latest Pop!OS) because of missing libraries whilst the Windows version works perfectly under Wine straight out of the box when installed via Lutris, which is pretty silly.

              As others pointed out, many times the Linux installers are also several versions behind the Windows ones.

              When it comes to Linux, the one and only benefit of GOG is that due to their no-DRM policy and downloadable installers you have maximum freedom to do things like sandbox games to your heart’s content and do thinks like run them with networking disabled - which you can’t do from Steam - and older AAA games from around the 90s and 00s which often had nasty DRM, when they are available in GOG come stripped from the DRM and are thus more likely to actually work under Wine, whilst that’s not reliably the case in Steam (I have an older game from EA in Steam which won’t at all run under Linux from Steam no matter what you do, but a pirate version runs just fine - so I suspect it’s the DRM, which was pretty nasty already in the 00s when the game came out - though since there aren’t installer scripts for pirated games in Lutris, I had to learn the whole process of detecting missing DLLs and configuring them in Wine myself to get it running).

              Mind you, it was a massive surprise when I moved my gaming rig to Linux about a year ago, that nowadays most games just work out of the box, both Steam games from the Steam app on Proton and GOG games using Lutris with Wine, given that my previous try at gaming in Linux about 5 years ago was a massive exercise in frustration which I quickly gave up on and that Linux instance just sat there for years in dual boot configuration but never actually used.

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              • B burghler

                Y-yea… For solidarity

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                ripcord@lemmy.world
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                #71

                So you’re one of the 10

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                • A aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com

                  Sure mate, whatever, I’m lying, your way out there misinterpretations of the points I’m making and misreading of what I wrote are actually genial argumentative “gotchas” and the product of a superior mind and your relentless batting for Steam and against all other games stores isn’t at all mindless fanboyism.

                  Keep up the good work, maybe they’ll give you a discount!

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                  Ulrich
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                  #72

                  If I’m misinterpreting something, feel free to clarify. Your relentless batting for GOG and against all other games stores isn’t at all mindless fanboyism.

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                  • P peetabix@sh.itjust.works

                    I want to buy more from GOG but my only gaming system I have is a Steam Deck. I know the native Linux stuff should work ok but u always have problems getting windows stuff to work. Either through Heroic Launcher or Proton. I must be doing something wrong. All the guides I find are just wrong or out of date.

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                    k0e3@lemmy.ca
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                    #73

                    I want to buy more but I can’t seem to find any games I actually wanna play or don’t already own on Steam. This campaign did remind me that they exist and that I should try to support them more, so I think it was a net positive for me!

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                    • iavicenna@lemmy.worldI iavicenna@lemmy.world

                      I wouldn’t want to meet a person who wanks to Postal 2, though playing is fine.

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                      dragontypewyvern@midwest.social
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                      #74

                      In the sense that reading Mein Kampf is fine sure

                      It’s when you start agreeing with it that the problem starts

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                      • D dragontypewyvern@midwest.social

                        In the sense that reading Mein Kampf is fine sure

                        It’s when you start agreeing with it that the problem starts

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                        iavicenna@lemmy.world
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                        #75

                        I guess masturbating to it would be a sign of enthusiastic agreement, yes.

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                        • iavicenna@lemmy.worldI iavicenna@lemmy.world

                          i.e you are all a bunch of wankers

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                          mattw03@lemmy.ca
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                          We are… Also, free stuff.

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                          • UlrichU Ulrich

                            You being able to play it on linux is not the same thing as having Linux support. They don’t even have a first-party launcher. Probably half the games I buy on GOG don’t even launch, even after adding them to Steam. Meanwhile Steam works literally 100% of the time, in my experience.

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                            chunes@lemmy.world
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                            I’ve never had a single problem running a gog game with lutris.

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                            • UlrichU Ulrich

                              They support free games. If only they supported free platforms to play them on…

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                              weew@lemmy.ca
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                              GOG is a distributor and storefront. They aren’t a developer, so it’s not up to them to develop Linux versions of the games they sell.

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                              • W weew@lemmy.ca

                                GOG is a distributor and storefront. They aren’t a developer, so it’s not up to them to develop Linux versions of the games they sell.

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                                Ulrich
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                                No one suggested they should.

                                But actually, they do develop games as well (CDPR).

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                                • O otp@sh.itjust.works

                                  I think they’re saying GOG doesn’t support Linux?

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                                  adr1an
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                                  Or, that they’ve got a skill issue 😜

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                                  • alessandro@lemmy.caA alessandro@lemmy.ca
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                                    tigeroovy@lemmy.ca
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                                    Hey, free games is free games.

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                                    • ripcord@lemmy.worldR ripcord@lemmy.world

                                      So you’re one of the 10

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                                      burghler
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                                      everyone here is one of the 10 and is coping if they say otherwise

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