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Enter the Norse realm His vengeance against the Gods of Olympus years behind him, Krato
    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Please give us Galaxy on Linux, GOG, so I can shop with you over Steam.

      Buying games on Steams results in development of the Linux technology stack. No other game company funds open source upstream development like Valve. As nice as DRM-free games are, GOG is not a force for Linux advancement.

    • aksdb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      As long as GOG doesn’t invest in Wine/Proton, Valve has still the upper hand in Linux support and therefore deserve my money more.

        • aksdb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 months ago

          That would be nice, sure. I am just saying, it still wouldn’t give them a significantly better standing over Valve, in my eyes. Valve is currently kinda the Linux Gaming Savior. Hard to beat that unless they also start actively (!) doing something.

          • Kayn@dormi.zoneEnglish
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            8 months ago

            GOG is tiny compared to Valve. They simply don’t have the resources to invest in Linux R&D. Expecting them to do so is futile.

            • aksdb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              8 months ago

              What does that change about what I said? I don’t expect them to. I simply stated why I prefer Steam over GOG.

      • ampersandrew@kbin.social
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        8 months ago

        Yeah, but I want things like auto updates and cloud saves as officially supported features rather than something they can revoke from Heroic at any time.

    • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Just in case you don’t know: You can buy GOG games and download the installers in a browser.

        • cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Do you really want auto-updates for your games, or actually just want updates-on-demand? Or just a notification with a button to update the game?

          Personally I dislike Steams auto updates, because I want decide when a game should be updated. I might have mods installed, only mobile internet or a myriad other reasons not to be forced to download and apply an update right at that moment and instead just play the old version.

          For saves, I normally just use syncthing. I have regularly issues with GOG and Steam cloud saves, and syncthing works well enough,

          • ampersandrew@kbin.social
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            8 months ago

            I want auto updates for my games so close to “always” that you can only tell it’s not 100% if you squint a bit. I use Syncthing in other contexts, like syncing emulator saves to and from desktop and Steam Deck, and it’s not quite as easy as Steam cloud saves.

              • ampersandrew@kbin.social
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                8 months ago

                Setup is annoying, and feedback on whether or not it’s working is a bit rough. I’ve lost data by misconfiguring it before. You have to run a background daemon on a device where battery life matters, so I tend to shut it off when I’m done. Syncing saves with SyncThing requires knowing where those save files are, whereas being built into the launcher client means they already know where those saves are, and that step is already done.