PC Gaming

That's why I print out all my downloaded games

Use M-Disc media. It's said to last 1000 years. It's expensive and very slow to rip at the suggested 4x speed.

I've been very satisfied with them, and you just need a regular Blu-Ray drive.

And reminder that solid state drives (including thumb drives) can lose data after a couple years if they are not plugged in from time to time

Agreed. Someone complained Firefox moved to updates every few days or something.

They had no clue Firefox updates like all the time.

Mozilla is the best browser to ever exist and I will die on this hill.

The Nazi thing is nota nitpick though. They need to address that properly instead of the “sorry we got caught” response they gave.

Yeah, that was a major WTF moment

It's exactly GOG's thing that games sold there can't have any DRM, so this scenario is out. (Also, no disk with GOG games ;))

Probably why you won't find things like Red Dead Redeption II (PC) in GOG, since Rockstar wants to force you to register in their systems to get your sweet, sweet private info. (Curiously, the pirated version has no such anti-consumer crap)

In my experience as a gamer for almost 4 decades, the most likely scenario with a really old game is that it simply won't install or run in the OS version or even hardware that you have now, though give it enough time and somebody out there will have created an emulator or adaptor layer for it (like DOSBox).

But yeah, any game from the Phone-home DRM generation which isn't bought from a seller which has No DRM policy (which only GOG has, as far as I know - even itch.io doesn't have a No DRM policy) will almost certainly have an artificially created end-of-life that has nothing to do with the OS or hardware you have being too new for the game.

You can add any gog game to steam and run it through whatever proton compatibility layer you would like. The Heroic launcher and Lutris both also allow this.

Yeah I'm still pretty concerned about that whole event but it seems like everyone has just forgotten about it.

I could have forgiven the initial email as a rogue nazi intern but their official response being "we made sure not to send it to Germans and its on you all for seeing nazi symbols as nazi symbols" is pretty fucking problematic. Also before anyone defends them as just being pagan symbols, the ones they chose to use were both modern creations by nazi germany

For anyone who's not up to date: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/gog-apologizes-for-emailing-nazi-runes-to-its-followers/

Until gog finally gets a good first(!) party linux client buying games there is not really worth it yet.

I'm in the opposite team ! I always buy in gog store first then steam. But yeah, steam is here.

I buy on steam mostly cos it has a Linux client and Proton is built in. I still go to gog for some 90s stuff cos they fix them up a bit.

When gog release a Linux client, it'll get the same consideration as steam, that's all they've gotta do, I'm not even asking for any packaged compatibility like proton

More like, Linux supports GOG and they don't try to stop it.

The thing you want is the Heroic Games Launcher, you can login to your GOG/Epic/Amazon and install/launch games (using WINE/Proton) pretty much like using Steam.

It's even available as a Flatpak so you can use it on the Steam Deck.

4 replies and all of them "yes but actually no".

I've been waiting for GOG Galaxy to be Linux compatible for over a decade. When they start supporting my OS I'll start supporting their store.

GOG does not have a Linux launcher. There were some rumblings about focusing on Linux development when there was a change of hands, but we still have to see anything coming from that.

However, GOG does host Linux builds of games where available.

GOG is just a storefront. The specific titles you purchase on that storefront may or may not offer Linux files.

Optical media will eventually suffer bit rot and be useless. Save them to an old HDD, SD card, or USB drive, they'll last longer.