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

• 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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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Steam also has a method of creating offline backups for every game on it.

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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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      • denial@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        As I said: Yes.

        But legally it’s not much different with physical media of games or music as well. You don’t own it. Just a copy you are allowed to use in some ways (but not others).

        But besides that in reality there is a big difference, if you are still able to play it or not, if the servers are shut down.

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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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      • grte@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The little penguin icon:

        Selection of Silksong store page showing supported platforms

        I downloaded it and it runs so I can confirm.

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