Comment on God of War is coming to GOG

HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m OOTL, why is GOG such a big deal? Isn’t it just another storefront like steam?

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  • Gabadabs@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is, but most of their library is DRM free, so once you download it, those files are yours. Steam won't let you launch a game without logging into your account, gog doesn't even check.

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    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is this for real? I’m able to go to the folder on my hard drive and launch steam games without opening steam.

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      • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Steam has a drm system, not everything uses it though

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      • ninchuka@lemmy.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        not all games on steam use the DRM

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      • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Are you able to launch all your Steam games without Steam?

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      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s almost certainly still going through steam. Steam has a .dll in all your game folders and it interacts with Steam. You don’t have to launch it through the launcher for it to use Steam. If you ever pirate a game and look at the crack files, there will often be that same name .dll in it. This is to bypass that Steam interface. If the game came from GoG it won’t even have a crack. It just works.

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      • LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Huhh. Very unusual. You don’t already have steam open?

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  • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As opposed to Steam, GOG will let you create backups of your games that will survive GOG itself. GOG provides offline backup installers that don’t need a launcher, internet or anything.

    I always tell everyone to at least get a fully DRM-free copy of their favorite childhood gaming memory.

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