GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026
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Only what, 10 years late?
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Only what, 10 years late?
@Solumbran @mr_MADAFAKA better late than never.
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Only what, 10 years late?
I think what you meant to say is: "Hell yeah!", no?
Let's stop punishing people for turning around and trying to do better, seriously. It's always damned if you don't, damned if you do....
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I think what you meant to say is: "Hell yeah!", no?
Let's stop punishing people for turning around and trying to do better, seriously. It's always damned if you don't, damned if you do....
Considering how gog has been progressing over the past years, they'll have to do much more to prove that they are getting better than to make an announcement.
Until then, I'll remain critical.
I don't think clapping as soon as a company that has been doing a lot of crap over years, makes an announcement about one potential future improvement, is more logical than that.
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Considering how gog has been progressing over the past years, they'll have to do much more to prove that they are getting better than to make an announcement.
Until then, I'll remain critical.
I don't think clapping as soon as a company that has been doing a lot of crap over years, makes an announcement about one potential future improvement, is more logical than that.
What crap have they been doing?
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What crap have they been doing?
Pushing a shitty launcher, selling partial games, missing versions of games, selling games with DRM, implementing DRMs through their launcher... Basically everything that GoG is supposed to specifically avoid.
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Pushing a shitty launcher, selling partial games, missing versions of games, selling games with DRM, implementing DRMs through their launcher... Basically everything that GoG is supposed to specifically avoid.
I was unaware of all of this. I'm on Linux so I don't use their launcher. I've seen sketchy EULAs that are game specific but not heard about DRM
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The issue likely lies with the GOG integration in Heroic:
https://github.com/imLinguin/cometLooking at this ticket:
https://github.com/imLinguin/comet/issues/57
It seems the game is problematic and you indeed need to downgrade it. I guess you don't have to restart the game, you are just missing the achievements obtainable only before where you are now in the game.If it still doesn't work, you can reach out to the maker of Comet, he is really friendly and helpful.
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Hi everyone!
Due to my Playstation 4 version of Wolfenstein the New Order being now only in german after an update, I sold the game and bought it again to replay it on my Steam Deck through Heroic.
I'm enjoying the game as everything works perfectly except that I'm getting no achievements even if my playtime is synchronized to GOG.
Apparently, even on Windows people are having this problem: https://www.gog.com/forum/wolfenstein_series/new_order_achievements_broken/?search=achievements
So in hope of an Idea, I'm turning to Lemmy even if I don't have much hope. Apparently downgrading the version of the game could help, but I can't get a confirmation if it would mean starting from scratch again or not.
I'm running the 1.0.0.2 hotfix version of the game.
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A case like this takes money and years of efforts. I don't think any indie dev would be willing to spend that much, especially knowing Valve can afford incredible lawyers. The evidence would have to be really convincing for this to even be worth risking. Those messages not being accurate could also make the plaintiffs liable for lying under oath.
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I will admit that I foolishly believed someone else's summation on the situation; that sourced report, assuming the emails are real, is pretty damning. Notably the email correspondence between publishers/developers and Valve does not mention any official policy, but without additional context comes off as threatening... multiple examples of punishment and out right removal from the store, wow.
And incidents as recent as 2022. I would have figured the older examples would be there because Valve was a lot more blatantly corrupt when they were first forcing the Steam client on consumers. People tend not to bring up when Valve was buying exclusivity of already released retail CD games and taking them off shelves to force Steam exclusivity. Wonder why its taken this long to come out in a court case? Its not like there isn't a long, recent history of indie devs yelling publicly on the internet about the dumb shit Valve puts them through.
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Oh, I got the Alone in the Dark trilogy the other day yeah and I don't think I ever got a free game on GOG before. But I'm pretty sure I unsubscribed from their newsletter when they sent the email this Thursday. I did it again, I hope it works this time, else gonna have to contact support.
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when you accept a free game on GoG you agree to join their newsletter. What I did after resubscribing every time I got a free game is just make a rule in my email client to delete them before I see them
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So I have a GOG acc been a few years and unsubscribing was the first thing I did and they never bothered me, and out of nowhere the other day I received some newsletter about promotions and shit (not even stuff on my Wishlist) and I figured it's some reset with new ownership or whatever, I received an email about new policies a few days prior talking about how they are not connected to CDPR anymore and so... anyway, I unsubscribed, and made sure every notification was turned off, and just now I received another newsletter email...
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One developer? The Wolfire case contains dozens of those messages to various developers, irrespective of Steam key use. See page 160 here. The way Valve goes about it is also not contradicted by you pointing out there are lower prices. For one, they say they expect price parity soon, not immediately. Secondly, they don't and can't enforce that rule automatically, so there are always instances they don't see. As seen in those messages from court, sometimes their response is to restrict the games' visibility on the store, which is not something a platform like ITAD can track.
