Comment on God of War (PC) is now available on GOG

ampersandrew@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Steam Deck was reason I moved from GOG to Steam again. Installation process and getting the game running is so much more streamlined than using heroic launcher. And sync saves is spotty and I don’t think there is achievement support last I tried.

    Wish they had a proper Linux launcher, but they don’t see it worth it.

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  • kralk@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For example, this game is Windows only

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For example, this game is Windows only OK, cool:

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      Thx Valve

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      • kralk@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, I meant windows only on GOG

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• aksdb@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • ampersandrew@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They don't even need to invest in its development. They just need to integrate it as a launch option.

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    • aksdb@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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      • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• haych@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Heroic Launcher is decent enough to use.

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  • ampersandrew@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    how long you been using it?

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    • haych@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Since I got my Steam Deck, I think that was 2 years ago or so now? But I also ended up using it on my Windows PC to replace Amazon, Gog, and Epic.

      It’s not perfect, but it does the job and means I don’t need multiple clients.

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• vinnymac@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Surprised we haven’t seen launchers adding native support for Linux. You’d think they would want to take advantage of the millions of steam decks on the market.

  Perhaps they are busy contemplating their own hardware investments, which will surely flood the market with cheap and poorly constructed knockoffs.

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  • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s little to no business incentive for other launchers to add support for an OS used only by approx. 1.7% of PC gamers.

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• steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah I’ve had issues playing GOG games on linux using arch/gentoo because the libs that the game wants to dynamically link are often not where it expects. It’s possible to resolve it but the Steam approach where they distribute a static bundle of libs into ~/.local/share is much less of a headache.

  Presumably Galaxy could solve this problem and make Linux more viable. The dynamic linking of the libraries has been more of an issue than the missing Proton integration for me. Often it is easier to install GOG games with wine and take the performance hit!

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  • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whg do they dynamically link libs instead of static linking, or better yet, distributing an AppImage?

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    • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Could be licensing or decreased server costs with smaller executable downloads? Not sure without being a fly on the wall at GOG.

      Static vs dynamic linking is a huge, flame war-triggering debate in software. Like the original vim vs emacs.

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• mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • ampersandrew@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, that's the selling point, but I also value automatic updates and cloud saves most of the time.

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    • cmhe@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you really want auto-updates for your games, or actually just want updates-on-demand?

      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.

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      • ampersandrew@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can use the Heroic Games Launcher, which runs GOG games through Proton and integrates with GOG cloud saves.

      Buying games on GOG through their launcher also gives them a cut of the money!

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      • ampersandrew@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Do you have a source on Heroic getting a cut? I can't find it in their FAQ.

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