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[โ€“] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 47 points 1 month ago (16 children)

I know, it's still a single-digit percentage of the market share, but I wish GOG would finally give us an official GOG Galaxy version for Linux. Yes, I can integrate my GOG account with Lutris, which is fine, I guess, but steam manages to grab my fickle attention with their app easily, including tempting me to waste money on DRM-proteced game licenses where the games aren't even owned by me ๐Ÿ˜ž

So far, Valve hasn't abused that, and they have been amazing for Linux gaming, but it does not feel great, knowing the fundamentals there are what they are.

[โ€“] Kualdir@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

My biggest issue with GOG is that its just missing so many modern games. Even kingdom come deliverance 2 isn't on it so I'm basically just forced to get it somewhere else or wait. The majority of games I currently play aren't on it.

At this point I'm just trying to buy games from gamersgate/greenmangaming to use on steam so at least part of the money goes to EU while still being able to do my hobby the way I want to.

[โ€“] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well...
The name was "good OLD games"

[โ€“] Kualdir@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

The idea of sharing alternatives is that they can replace the use of the other service. Sadly GOG just isn't there yet.

CDPR releases their new games day 1 on GOG and I did buy Cyberpunk and the DLC on there to support them, just can't find any other game I've wanted to buy on there for months.

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