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HKayn, miesiąc temu do games w Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

The end result is still part of GOG’s revenue going toward the development of Heroic.

It doesn’t meet your high standard and that’s okay. I prefer to count my blessings in this regard.

HKayn, miesiąc temu do games w Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

GOG is funding the FOSS Heroic Games Launcher through an affiliate partnership: heroicgameslauncher.com/donate

HKayn, miesiąc temu do games w Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

You legally didn’t “own” your physical games either if you haven’t noticed.

HKayn, miesiąc temu do games w Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

It’s not legally binding, since it isn’t part of the user agreement you review when buying games on Steam.

HKayn, miesiąc temu do games w Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

When have they not had the full package on GOG?

HKayn, miesiąc temu do games w Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

There really is no difference. For almost all intents and purposes, GOG’s offline installers can be treated the same way as physical CDs of way back then, with one of the only exceptions being that you cannot resell them.

HKayn, miesiąc temu do games w Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

Nowadays the Heroic Games Launcher is the preferred solution for downloading and running GOG games. It’s a community-run project, but officially affiliated with GOG.

HKayn, miesiąc temu do games w Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

The Heroic Games Launcher can download and run GOG games. It’s a community-run project, but officially affiliated with GOG.

HKayn, miesiąc temu do games w 'Melts our frozen-solid hearts': Frostpunk 2 devs celebrate 350,000 copies sold—covering the production and marketing costs

Frostpunk 2 is also available DRM-free on GOG!
www.gog.com/en/game/frostpunk_2

HKayn, 2 miesiące temu do games w Can you trust Valve? Honest criticism of Steam.

github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/…/v2.13.0

HKayn, 2 miesiące temu do games w Can you trust Valve? Honest criticism of Steam.

Your statement “if you’re on Windows” is still wrong.

Additionally, the Heroic project is officially affiliated with GOG, so saying that they don’t care is also wrong.

HKayn, 2 miesiące temu do games w Can you trust Valve? Honest criticism of Steam.

Wrong.

HKayn, 2 miesiące temu do games w Can you trust Valve? Honest criticism of Steam.

Well-deserved shout-out for GOG. Its standalone installers make actually owning your games much more convenient than it would be on Steam.

HKayn, 2 miesiące temu do games w Can you trust Valve? Honest criticism of Steam.

Have you tried the Heroic Games Launcher? It’s currently the most advanced launcher for GOG games on Linux, even implementing support for some of GOG Galaxy’s online services. Additionally it’s officially affiliated with GOG, so you can “donate” to the project by purchasing games through the client.

HKayn, 2 miesiące temu do games w Can you trust Valve? Honest criticism of Steam.

How did you try to get The Thaumaturge to run? I found that I could run many games on my library without issue using the Heroic Games Launcher, which is arguably the premier Linux client for GOG games.