HKayn

HKayn, 13 dni temu

If the lurkers don’t agree with you, does that make them trolls too?

HKayn, 22 dni temu

It’s easier to make small saves for games like The Pedestrian, because essentially all you have to track is which puzzles you’ve solved.

Whereas in an RPG with a persistent world like Cyberpunk or Skyrim, you have to save the state of every single object and mechanic the player has interacted with during their run, and there are usually a whole lot of those.

HKayn, miesiąc temu

I’m currently at work, so disclaimer: the following is an AI-generated summary.

• The UK government has responded to the petition to stop game publishers from destroying players’ access to purchased games, but the response is complex and not entirely straightforward.
• The government’s response suggests there may be some legal avenues to pursue, particularly around the requirement for clear information to be provided to consumers about the longevity of online games.
• The key issue seems to be that most online games do not clearly disclose when their service will be shut down, depriving consumers of information needed to make an informed purchase decision.
• Pursuing this angle through consumer protection regulations like the CPRs may be more promising than directly trying to prevent game shutdowns, which the government response suggests is not clearly prohibited.
• However, there are many open questions about the specifics of how to report and pursue potential violations, including around time limits, penalties, and differences between UK and Scottish law.
• The creator of the video acknowledges this is a complex legal maze, but believes there is potential to do “a lot of damage” to the industry if the right approach can be identified.
• Gathering more signatures on the UK petition may help, but the creator is skeptical this alone will lead to legislative change.
• Overall, the response provides some promising leads, but significant work is still needed to determine the best path forward and how to effectively leverage the apparent legal violations.
• The creator expresses frustration at having to essentially act as “self-checkout law enforcement” to get the government to enforce existing consumer protection laws.
• Despite the challenges, the creator remains determined to find a way to hold game publishers accountable and prevent the destruction of purchased games.

HKayn, miesiąc temu

I can understand the decision somewhat.

Putting “The Lord of the Rings” first in the title would imply that this furthers the main canon, when it’s actually only set in its universe.

They could have indeed chosen a better subtitle though, like “from The Lord of the Rings”.

HKayn, miesiąc temu

This basically boils down to “read the terms & conditions”, which isn’t unreasonable.

If a game states in its terms that access may be revoked at any time and you buy the game, then you have no reason to be surprised when access is eventually revoked.

Obviously when terms aren’t clear enough or intentionally obfuscated, that’s indeed an issue for legislation to act upon.

HKayn, miesiąc temu

I didn’t say they deserve no protection at all. You are twisting my words because my opinion doesn’t align with yours.

I advocate for games having a clear indicator for any online dependencies. I do not advocate for outlawing said dependencies or mandating “offline patches”.

If you are clearly told that you’re buying an ephemeral product and you are still surprised when it shuts down, then I don’t know what to tell you.

HKayn, miesiąc temu

With GOG, you can at least have full confidence that the game will continue to work without any outside connections.

HKayn, 2 miesiące temu

All this wouldn’t be necessary if gamers would just stop buying games that are obviously live services with remote kill switches.

HKayn, 2 miesiące temu

Because most gamers don’t care.

HKayn, 2 miesiące temu

How else do you expect the moderators of that sub to keep out raiders and spam bots?

HKayn, 3 miesiące temu

How is Valve using Proton a grey area?

HKayn, 3 miesiące temu

No one in the comments seems to consider that this could very well be an additional revenue stream that GOG desperately needs.

HKayn, 3 miesiące temu

Then just pretend it doesn’t exist. I don’t understand how this affects the GOG userbase. All that happens is people speculate about how GOG is out to kill DRM-freedom.

HKayn, 3 miesiące temu

What are you talking about? GOG has been involved with Amazon for a long time now, and so far it has been exclusively beneficial for GOG users.

HKayn, 3 miesiące temu

And that was the end of GOG

How?

HKayn, 3 miesiące temu

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

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

HKayn, 3 miesiące temu

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.

HKayn, 3 miesiące temu

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

HKayn, 3 miesiące temu

It’s in their latest release notes: github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/…/v2.13.0

It’s also featured on their donate page: heroicgameslauncher.com/donate

HKayn, 3 miesiące temu

What can you tell me about their refund policy?

You can refund any purchase within 30 days. There are no restrictions on playtime, since GOG can’t feasibly control that.

You can get your refund either as store credit or to the payment method you used, however store credit is usually processed much faster.

Are the results on ProtonDB just as reliable for GOG versions as they are for Steam versions of games?

I can only vaguely answer this by saying the games that I tried (mainly indie games like Dead Cells and One Step from Eden) worked flawlessly.

Heroic Games Launcher has a Mastodon presence, so you can ask them there! mastodon.social/

HKayn, 3 miesiące temu

You’d be doubling your building, testing and supporting efforts for a ~1.8% increase in sales at best.

Granted, these numbers are just rough estimates based on Steam’s hardware survey, but that’s the ballpark we’re finding ourselves in.

HKayn, 4 miesiące temu

I could never get the hang of motion inputs in Street Fighter, so this is definitely intriguing me. Can’t wait to play it.

HKayn, 4 miesiące temu

Look bad to whom?

HKayn, 4 miesiące temu

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

HKayn, 4 miesiące temu

Is it the only site? No. Pick another one. Problem solved.

HKayn, 4 miesiące temu

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.

HKayn, 4 miesiące temu

Sure man, whatever you want to believe.

HKayn, 4 miesiące temu

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

HKayn, 4 miesiące temu

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.

HKayn, 5 miesięcy temu

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

Credit card theft.

HKayn, 5 miesięcy temu

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

HKayn, 6 miesięcy temu

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

HKayn, 6 miesięcy temu

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.

HKayn, 6 miesięcy temu

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

HKayn, 6 miesięcy temu

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

HKayn, 6 miesięcy temu

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

HKayn, 6 miesięcy temu

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.

HKayn, 6 miesięcy temu

Do not rely on that.

Case in point: Arkham City.

HKayn, 6 miesięcy temu

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

HKayn, 6 miesięcy temu

It’s on GOG too!

www.gog.com/en/game/terra_nil

HKayn, 7 miesięcy temu

This will not change unless the free labor ceases.

HKayn, 7 miesięcy temu

This. Is. HUGE.

Huge props to GOG for securing these titles!

HKayn, 7 miesięcy temu

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.

HKayn, 7 miesięcy temu

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.

HKayn, 7 miesięcy temu

Care to name the games you’re referring to?

HKayn, 7 miesięcy temu

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

HKayn, 7 miesięcy temu

And that contradicts my statement… how exactly?

HKayn, 7 miesięcy temu

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

itch.io deserves the shout-out though