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HKayn

@HKayn@dormi.zone

Admin & sysadmin of a Warframe-focused Lemmy instance at dormi.zone.

Developer of a UI mod for Vivaldi Browser: github.com/HKayn/vivaldi-vh

Profil ze zdalnego serwera może być niekompletny. Zobacz więcej na oryginalnej instancji.

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Look bad to whom?

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Then go distribute the mod somewhere else. Why are you so dependant on Nexusmods?

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Why are CDPR games no longer being sold on the GOG store?

What are you taking about? Where in that email did you get the idea that that was going to happen?

You are confusing CD Projekt with CD Projekt Red.

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Sure man, whatever you want to believe.

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According to PCGamingWiki, the game does have Steam DRM. It was available DRM-free on GOG.

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That’s why I buy on GOG. There I can pull the installer for a game and hoard it when I know the next update is going to go bad.

How I bought Steam Deck OLED ~25% cheaper from Steam (gearsrealm.com) angielski

Just sharing my method on how I bought my Steam Deck OLED for 3/4 of the original price. I was skeptical when I read about it, but decided to try it and it took me a few good hours trying not to screw it up, but it worked out in the end. Maybe someone can benefit from it, but it has some risks.

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How I bought Steam Deck OLED ~100% cheaper from Steam:

Credit card theft.

if i had a nickel for every time... angielski

…a late 2000s futuristic FPS game (with dubious status as an FPS) introducing never-before-seen movement mechanics that are used to their fullest potential featuring an athletic but non-sexualized female protagonist, had a radio-friendly song titled “Still Alive” playing over the end credits, i’d have two nickels. which...

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IMO you don’t have to be shooting bullets to qualify as a shooter

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It’s just terminally online redditors bringing their anti-Epic circlejerk here. There’s nothing wrong with collecting free games from the EGS.

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Feel free to boycott it. Just don’t go around telling others which store they should be buying from like you did at r/pcgaming.

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Oh no, now they know the one-off email address I used for my Epic account!

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IP address? Oh, you mean the thing that rotates every 24 hours?

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https://dormi.zone/pictrs/image/c9c86a2e-3ca6-4c98-b716-fbbbd23d2207.jpeg

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Go tell any ad company that you have a website with X million weekly users, and they will suck your dick to place their ads there.

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Do not rely on that.

Case in point: Arkham City.

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Here’s to hoping Hello Games releases this one on GOG as well.

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It’s on GOG too!

www.gog.com/en/game/terra_nil

Starfield group fixing Bethesda's bugs say their job is tough as mods feel an afterthought (www.eurogamer.net)

“What’s more frustrating for those working on SCP, and the wider Starfield modding community, is how difficult it is to work with Starfield’s code without official modding tools and support. This isn’t helped by the delayed mod tools from Bethesda, which the company says are coming at some point next year.”

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This will not change unless the free labor ceases.

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This. Is. HUGE.

Huge props to GOG for securing these titles!

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As opposed to Steam, GOG will let you create backups of your games that will survive GOG itself. GOG provides offline backup installers that don’t need a launcher, internet or anything.

I always tell everyone to at least get a fully DRM-free copy of their favorite childhood gaming memory.

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This is wrong.

There’s only one game on GOG that doesn’t offer DRM-free installers, and that’s their live service game Gwent.

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Care to name the games you’re referring to?

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Are you able to launch all your Steam games without Steam?

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And that contradicts my statement… how exactly?

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And here I thought there wasn’t a way to shoehorn Linux into this thread.

itch.io deserves the shout-out though

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Is Steam competing with Microsoft’s “Netflix but with games” service?

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Except you don’t own it forever, as ISOmorph already explained.

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For anyone who prefers DRM-free, it’s also on GOG: www.gog.com/game/the_thaumaturge

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Based on what evidence?

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Why though? Why not just acknowledge that these services are ephemeral?

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Why not just turn to services that actually value preservation, instead of sticking with those that don’t?

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And it’s incentivized by the people buying into it. If people collectively woke up and started asking questions, this wouldn’t be an issue.

Instead, we buy into them and then try to force them to open up through legislation.

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Okay, you’ve got a point there.

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If you think it’s not a lost cause, then tell us what we can do!

How do we convince politicians to turn this into a law? The same politicians that don’t understand technology and still think that FPS games breed terrorists. Once it’s a law, how do we make sure it’s enforced worldwide?

Do not lump me in with the consumers that created this future. I am already preserving what I can. I am the weird kid in the corner who advocates for DRM-free games on GOG and gets called crazy for having a 16TB hard drive full of offline backup installers. I legally back up what I can, and obtain what I can’t. I play Warframe and other live service games knowing well that they’ll be gone one day, unless someone manages to hack together a private server. I can’t help but still enjoy some of them.

Being a hoarder and advocating for game preservation in front of average Joes is thankless and exhausting. I can’t help but stare reality in the face. You seem to know the situation a lot better than me, so tell me, what else should I be doing?

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I’m differentiating between products like Pokemon and services like Nintendo running servers that let you trade Pokemon.

Both should ideally be preserved of course, but today’s reality is that it’s much less feasible with the aforementioned services.

How can we change that?

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Then what do we do with these games? How do we discourage live service games?

Are you boycotting them?

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More effort by whom? And how do we incentivize it?

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You didn’t answer my first question, and misunderstood the second.

Who do you expect to do the preserving? And how will you get them to do it?

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I can’t get to my point if you keep skirting around it.

How will you get profit-driven studios to care about preservation?

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Well, you’re here seemingly not realizing why studios don’t give a shit about preservation. As we can observe in the real world, the branding opportunities and PR are not worth it to them 99% of the time.

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I don’t think a built-in wiki should be a priority for Lemmy. The sysadmin of an instance.com instance can host a separate web app as a standalone wiki at wiki.instance.com.

For example, you could host an mdbook at this subdomain to serve as a docs-style wiki.

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It should be noted that Weird Gloop purchased the minecraft.wiki domain, leading me to assume that they currently claim ownership of it.

I hope the wiki team will be able to keep the domain of things really do go south with Weird Gloop.

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I see, thanks!

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Which is why I buy as many games as I can from stores like GOG, that actually let me keep them no matter what.

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A lot of games on Steam are DRM-free, but not (yet) on GOG. GOG isn’t an afterthought just because of their DRM-free policy, it’s also because they’re so small.

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Isn’t that a bad thing?

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