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woelkchen, 25 dni temu

So does Galaxy?

Heroic is a community “we hope it’s useful but don’t complain when it doesn’t” product.

With Galaxy you are a paying customer who has rights.

woelkchen, 25 dni temu

Galaxy is free and not required.

It’s a product for paying customers of GOG games. You have rights you don’t have with some open source hobby project.

woelkchen, 25 dni temu

Which rights do you have?

Plenty. GOG sp. z o.o. is an EU company after all.

woelkchen, miesiąc temu

The gimmick gets more gimmicky.

No idea why you’re so dismissive. Metroid Prime 4 with a proper mouse is a great outlook.

woelkchen, miesiąc temu

It still doesn’t do anything to steer me toward a Switch 2 over a Steam Deck

Who’s claiming that giving away your Deck is a necessity?

woelkchen, miesiąc temu

Is it? Or did they choose Arch because of the ease of setting it up with all the latest software the community was already packaging?

That’s an illogical either or question because it’s both. Valve moved from Debian to Arch because of its more recent upstream packages, yes, but Valve’s upstream contributions in turn made Arch (and the other distributions) better for gaming.

woelkchen, miesiąc temu

Its talking about the newer SteamOS 3.0

SteamOS 3.0 was released March 2022, so more than 3 years ago.

woelkchen, miesiąc temu

I still don’t understand how blocking individual EU countries conforms to the EU single market.

woelkchen, 2 miesiące temu

“We’ve updated this article to note that Nintendo has made similar disclaimers with its previous retro controllers, which have ended up working with other Switch games.”

woelkchen, 2 miesiące temu

Oh, so it’s just ragebait and they’re reporting on nothing? I fell for it.

Just read the article for a change and you’d see that it was a later update to the article.

Edit: That’s also literally in the part I quoted.

woelkchen, 2 miesiące temu

Didn’t you hear? Just buy a switch 1 if you can’t afford or care for the switch 2.

You can also buy this controller and use it with PCs for an authentic emulation experience.

woelkchen, 2 miesiące temu

“We’ve updated this article to note that Nintendo has made similar disclaimers with its previous retro controllers, which have ended up working with other Switch games.”

They’re just not officially supporting it. I hope Reto will informally make Metroid Prime 4 work with this the same way as MP1. I don’t like twin stick controls and mouse controls are not feasible on the go.

woelkchen, 2 miesiące temu

Yes it has Bluetooth support and, naturally, USB C.

Even regular ass USB keyboards work with Switch. Usually not for control input but typing search terms in the e-Shop, for example.

woelkchen, 3 miesiące temu

Are they saying third-parties don’t even have devkits yet? That’s a bizarre way to do a launch plan.

The console will be out of stock for at least 6 months anyway.

woelkchen, 3 miesiące temu

Musk is helping Meta through “at least Zuckerberg isn’t Musk” aura.

woelkchen, 3 miesiące temu

Lol, finally someone noticed that Windows on ARM exists. Microsoft certainly doesn’t even though some Surface tablets are using it. Not a single Microsoft game has been ported to Windows on ARM.

woelkchen, 3 miesiące temu

Gaming on ARM is going to have a steep hill to climb until there’s a Proton-esque compatibility layer.

Or even better: The company developing Windows on ARM, selling ARM Surface devices, one of the biggest game publishers after the takeover of Activision could just release their own freaking games on their own platform. Not even the casual games are:

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woelkchen, 3 miesiące temu

Just putting their own games on the platform would be money down the drain

If they heavily rely on some frameworks very much tied to x86 Windows that required massive efforts to port, sure, but usually they don’t for the simple fact that video game consoles and smartphones exist. Microsoft very much supports gaming on ARM platforms, most notably Nintendo Switch. There is no reason why Doom I+II isn’t officially available for Windows ARM.

woelkchen, 3 miesiące temu

Kinda. The MS 365 subscription can be ordered from the app store. I don’t know about installing the Office applications afterwards, whether they then can be installed from the store.

woelkchen, 3 miesiące temu

This is by a Apple fanboy who is disgruntled that Valve broke up with Macs (Steam is still available but updates like the HL1 remaster aren’t any longer). Yeah, send thoughts an prayers for a cult who buy overpriced computers with weak iGPUs that only recently learned to do some raytracing but understand no Vulkan or somewhat modern OpenGL.

Apple has decided that gaming on Macs is about iPhone games on bigger screens and not about supporting cross-platform APIs and frameworks. Don’t blame any but Apple that your beloved platform is shit for gaming.

woelkchen, 3 miesiące temu

With all what they offer, 30% IMO is fair.

It’s not like the games are cheaper on other stores with lower cuts. Why would customers care if the lower cut just results in publishers pocketing higher profits.

woelkchen, 3 miesiące temu

back when it was new

So a year later the time bomb still did not go off.

woelkchen, 5 miesięcy temu

I have to wonder why this is happening?

Same reason all the other ports are happening: Microsoft massively overstretched itself with the ABK takeover and Xbox isn’t making enough money. It’s make more money or get axed, in case you somehow completely missed 2024 entirely.

woelkchen, 5 miesięcy temu

There’s always the option of just not buying a game when it releases.

woelkchen, 5 miesięcy temu

Maybe bow tie but nut this bow tie. Too busy.

woelkchen, 5 miesięcy temu

Hard pass.

It was a pretty boring keynote anyway.

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

The Sonic Racing games are the best counterpart to Mario Kart available on PC. Sonic Racing Transformed is the best of the 3 games (and bundles the very first game) but sometimes gets confused when switching up controllers, so you must delete the config file, so maybe because of that not the best introduction to PC. Team Sonic Racing is a bit less good but that input bug is gone.

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

How is Stormgate innovating?

By selling three short, yet super boring single player missions for 10 Euro.

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

Micro-transaction central before it’s even in a close to finished state.

10 Euro for 3 missions isn’t even a micro-transaction. If one mission was 1 Euro, we’d ad least get full campaign for regular price but that shit’s just a lazy ripoff.

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

I actually wish there were more simplistic Warcraft 1/2 or C&C type games to come out

So do I. There are a few but these are indie projects and in turn their scope is smaller than even those 1990s games. I guess the closest thing is Five Nations which is currently on sale on Steam for under 10 Euro. It’s like a slice of Starcraft 1 where they have taken only the missions with just flying units. At that price point I cannot complain but I’d also like a full price scifi RTS. Not a fan of AoE4 simply because of its “realistic” backdrop. I’m rooting for Tempest Rising after Stormgate was a severe let down.

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

It does support Linux: it lets you download Linux installer for games that have a Linux port.

GOG lets publishers upload various installers but GOG does nothing to support them, let alone offer something like Proton (which is open source, so they could take and integrate it for free).

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

GOG is a side project of CD Project, the makers of The Witcher and Cyberpunk. They are massively wealthy. If GOG goes down, it’s because CD Project lets it happen, not because there is no other way.

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

This year I was in three foreign countries with my Steam Deck. Once per flight, the other two by car. On the plane I activated airplane mode because duh but outside the plane airplane mode was always off.

By default Steam downloads shader caches off Valve’s servers. So if Steam saw before that an update is available and you didn’t download it, Steam wants to be online to download them. You can disable shader cache downloads in desktop mode but then the games have to compile the shaders by themselves which takes time computing resources, and in turn wastes battery power.

Also, pretty recently there was a bug in Steam that messed up authentication in general. It required me to log in twice (!) on every power on. The bug is now gone. It wasn’t a feature.

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

I booted up Metaphor: ReFantazio, and it just about made it to the main menu before telling me I needed to be in offline mode

Sounds like a game bug.

but you can’t explicitly put the device in offline mode if you don’t have an internet connection, funny enough

“…” button --> Airplane mode.

the reason I needed to authenticate the game again is because the Deck ran a “validating install” step on boot, but I have no idea when that step is going to happen

When you do something to bork the game data. It’s either user error or a bug but definitively not regular behaviour.

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

No one needs to “offer” Proton. It’s available freely for anyone.

And that’s how GOG does not support Linux: Paying customers need to figure it out on their own. They don’t even value their customers to a degree to take and integrate existing open source solutions.

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

With GOG I get an actual license key & terms that state my ownership.

No, the intellectual property is not transferred to you. You have no clue how copyright works.

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

It’s not a game bug; that’s Steam’s DRM.

Funny how you got hit by that on an domestic train trip and I traveled abroad several times and not got that weird behaviour even once. I simply never use offline mode. On the plane I was in airplane mode and when not on the plane I was on hotel wifi, personal phone hotspot, or just not connected to any wifi. Steam also never just out of the blue validated my game data. Must be a problem on your end.

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

If you can’t play the game without the steam client then it still has drm.

Plenty of games don’t rely on any Steamworks API at all. For the remaining goldberg_emulator exits.

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

but your pedantry is making you miss the forest for the trees, basically.

No. People here claim, that just because GOG cannot remote wipe your drive, people buying off GOG have a perpetual right to the games they’ve bought. But they don’t because that’s not how copyright works. If a game’s license is revoked, to keep playing the game is copyright violation.

Not only do so many people not grasp basic concepts of copyright, they claim Valve could take away all downloaded games. No, Valve cannot remote wipe my drive either. I can back up my Steam folder. Many games on Steam don’t have DRM at all. It’s opt-in and the actual Steam documentation outright says not to rely on Steam DRM because “it is easily removed by a motivated attacker.” If games rely on crap like Denuvo, 3rd party launchers, or invasive anti-cheat, the publishers are required to clearly state so on the store page in one of those orange boxes. Users can make an informed decision on a per-game basis even with Steam. And those games that ship crap like Denuvo aren’t on GOG in the first place.

So in the end GOG is a store that stretches the truth about game ownership in their marketing and despite all their Witcher and Cyberpunk money, they don’t care about users of platforms competing against Windows at all.

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

For most people that is a distinction without a difference.

So what’s the difference to making a backup of my Steam folder? The games I play have no DRM either.

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

Is proton entirely FOSS?

Of course it is. Proton-GE and umu wouldn’t exist if it weren’t.

but now that I think about it, I am not sure.

You could have headed to Github and just looked for yourself…

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

But the APIs are public, so they can be reimplemented in open source.

And have been since years: https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/

woelkchen, 6 miesięcy temu

I think it’s pretty clear from context that they mean they have the ability to perpetually play the games because of the lack of DRM, not the right.

Plenty claim it’s their right and with much ferocity while as vehemently ignoring that there are plenty of games on GOG that offer reduced content when playing offline (an extensive list was posted by someone). Also, because games on Steam must disclose their use of DRM (and anti-cheat), people can just buy DRM-free games which can be backed up just as well. Goldberg is a drop-in library for games that use Steam APIs. So everything is fine there as well for people who actually make informed buying decisions.