Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is now available on Steam - and it broke the Steam store

PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bought it on GOG. I like actually owning things.

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  • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You don’t own anything on GOG. You only have revocable licenses. This is explicitly stated in their terms of services.

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    • denial@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes. But you can download an offline installer, that they cannot take away. So it’s sill a big difference.

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      • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The steam version of hollow knight allows you to play it without steam installed. Silksong probably is the same

        GOG allows you to guarantee that this happens for all games though

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      • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Legally, it’s exactly the same. You don’t own anything.

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  • byzerium@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When is the release for the Linux client?

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you mean GOG Galaxy then IDGAF. I download the installers.

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    • grte@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      According to the store page it’s available right now.

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      • Minnels@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        What? Where? Says windows and Mac for me.

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• mohab@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And without regional pricing.

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  • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Regional pricing can be a good thing at times, they ate generally beneficial to lower currency value countries.

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    • mohab@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It is a great thing. Sliksong GOG price is 60% higher than Steam in some regions. GOG needs regional pricing.

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      • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Steam services that by injecting more DRM, region-locking games (and accounts) to a set of countries like consoles do, and that is incompatible with GOG’s idea. They can let devs decide on pricing without implementing any rudimentary locks, but then it would be inconvinient for wealthy countries’ gamers to ever purchase a game in their own region unless they intent to support dev/platform. It greatly complicates their side of things and would be a very divisive decision for a smaller storefront that is built around their wholesome image.

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