Valve says Steam users don't own a thing, GOG says its games can't be taken away

Re:Valve says Steam users don't own a thing, GOG says its ga... by oersted on Friday October 11, 2024 @05:09PM (#41813776)

If the concern is CDPR’s character, I believe their first-party games are known to be remarkably Linux friendly. CP2077 actually run best in Stadia at launch, which I believe was Linux based.

Also consider the fact that a large fraction of GOG games are painstakingly restored old games, where revenue is clearly an afterthought, they sometimes seem like a nonprofit. You can’t reasonably expect them to also add Linux support to games from an era where Linux gaming was practically nonexistent, modern Linux translation layers will most likely be completely incompatible.

And again, they have not had a client for most of their tenure, and I cannot think of anything more consumer-friendly or consistent with Linux ideology than literally letting you download the files and do what you want with them without any DRM.

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Re:Valve says Steam users don't own a thing, GOG says its ga... by OWMYT on Friday October 11, 2024 @05:15PM (#41813827)

That is a good point. I might have been holding them to too high a standard. I don't really take into account benefits like DRM-free properly either.

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Re:Valve says Steam users don't own a thing, GOG says its ga... by philistine on Friday October 11, 2024 @09:50PM (#41815669)

For 95% of what GOG has on its shelves Wine is the only way, outside of rewriting them from scratch, to get those games on Linux anyway.

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