Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now

underline960@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  0 drm, and you can play entirely offline. Gog’s def the better choice here. How’re you going to play silksong after gestures broadly goes to shit?

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Seamless steam deck support is my guess

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  • simple@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can still play Steam games without Steam. They only put basic protection on the files that can be very easily bypassed (and yes, it's legal). See: Steam Goldberg emu

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    • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And even that basic protection is optional. There are a few games on Steam that have no DRM at all, Witcher 3 (but for some reason not the remaster) and Baldurs Gate 3 for example.

      pcgamingwiki.com/…/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games…

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  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Buying on GOG is always the play whenever the option is available.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can you believe how compact the download is? They spent that long building in the age of incredibly bloated games, and it would fit on a game disc from back when my voice hadn’t cracked yet.

      And despite being a mere handful of gigs, it still broke every major platform on release.

      Fuck, what a great day.

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      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well, I was merely speaking in general, I didn’t actually buy Silksong! 😅 The combination of being prohibitively difficult and having tons of tricky platforming (I hate platforming) means I’m just doing like with Hollow Knight and staying away to save myself the frustration.

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  • mohab@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gog’s def the better choice here.

    Depends on your region. GOG doesn't have regional pricing.

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  • obazdaa@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well gog doesn’t have a Linux client though, while steam really does a lot for Linux gaming. I used to prefer gog but I’m back to steam for now.

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    • AnomanderRake@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This happened to me as well. I used to buy anything I could from Gog, but after getting a Steam Deck and switching to Linux on my home PC I went back to Steam due to Gog’s refusal to support Linux.

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I personally prefer using a browser, so it’s not a major issue for me. Though I don’t like gog’s interface much.

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• e0qdk@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just got it a half hour ago on GOG and can confirm – no issues at that time!

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• dvlsg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was able to get it on gog without issue as well.

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• drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I spent 1 hour after release trying to fight Steam and then just bought it on GOG with no problem whatsoever.

  Playing the linux build on Steam Deck and it runs great.

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