I hate him so much.

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    A number of games on GOG have DRM now. They’ve also said they’d work on Linux support and that they’d open source Galaxy, but never did.

    Nobody is clean.

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      17 days ago

      A number of games on GOG have DRM now

      Not single-player ones. Online multi-player itself is kind of a DRM and there really is no way to make it otherwise. Not for a company of GOG size, anyway. And I’d argue that even if Steam made some forced open-server requirement, they would be abandoned fairly quickly.

      They’ve also said they’d work on Linux support and that they’d open source Galaxy, but never did.

      As I said, not because the company is the best, but because you have access to the game files and can do whatever. I’m under no illusion that they are perfect, but IMO the no-DRM-installers are the single most consumer-friendly move any game store has done. And no one forces them to.

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        16 days ago

        Not single-player ones.

        Incorrect.

        They’ve had DRM in single player games on GOG. Hitman was a DRM game on GOG. Cyberpunk had a lot of DRM-lilocked items in game. They retroactively updated Witcher 3 with the same DRM crap.

        because you have access to the game files and can do whatever

        So long as the game is DRM free, which it isn’t always on GOG anymore, yes.

        Although that doesn’t absolve them of lying about their intent to support Linux or their promise to open source their Galaxy client.