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The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[–] maus@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

>sees GOG mentioned in title

>Furiously rush to the comments, "gib linux client"

Classic.

[–] msage@programming.dev 24 points 2 days ago

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?

[–] LunaChocken@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What’s wrong Heroic?

Not officially supported. Using the GUI with a controller is wonky.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Big Picture mode in Steam is wonky as fuck for me

Edit: Not sure why this is so controversial. It's always been weirdly laggy, even in my old computer and at other people's houses. To be fair, I haven't tried Heroic, but I was never saying Steam was better/worse