misk@piefed.social to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 days agoThe new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footstepswww.gamesindustry.bizexternal-linkmessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up1326arrow-down13
arrow-up1323arrow-down1external-linkThe new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footstepswww.gamesindustry.bizmisk@piefed.social to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square82fedilink
minus-squaremaus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up53arrow-down1·edit-21 day ago>sees GOG mentioned in title >Furiously rush to the comments, "gib linux client" Classic.
minus-squaremsage@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·1 day agoI mean, that’s the only issue. I put Steam on my Gentoo. Because it works, and I get 0 hassle gaming experience. Guess who gets my money?
minus-squareLunaChocken@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·1 day agoHeroic? https://heroicgameslauncher.com/
minus-squaremcv@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 day agoYeah, I don’t really understand that either. What’s wrong Heroic? It’s not quite Steam, but pretty good. And no DRM is definitely a plus.
minus-squareCethin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 hours agoHeroic is a third-party hack. It isn’t an official solution. If Heroic died then we’d need another option. It’s great, but it’d be better if GOG officially released their own client that worked with Linux.
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·15 hours ago What’s wrong Heroic? Not officially supported. Using the GUI with a controller is wonky.
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·14 hours agoBig Picture mode in Steam is wonky as fuck for me
>sees GOG mentioned in title>Furiously rush to the comments, "gib linux client"Classic.
I mean, that’s the only issue.
I put Steam on my Gentoo. Because it works, and I get 0 hassle gaming experience.
Guess who gets my money?
Heroic? https://heroicgameslauncher.com/
Yeah, I don’t really understand that either. What’s wrong Heroic? It’s not quite Steam, but pretty good. And no DRM is definitely a plus.
Heroic is a third-party hack. It isn’t an official solution. If Heroic died then we’d need another option. It’s great, but it’d be better if GOG officially released their own client that worked with Linux.
Not officially supported. Using the GUI with a controller is wonky.
Big Picture mode in Steam is wonky as fuck for me