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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I take some sense of ownership over my Steam library in that I can and will immediately pirate the game with the DRM stripped out if Valve ever decides to revoke my access to it.

On the other hand, this – and buying from a better company – is why I actively prefer GOG, even in cases when the price is higher. (But pssst, hey, Beyond a Steel Sky is $3.50 on GOG right now compared to Steam's $35.) The fact I have to launch the Steam client to play a game I paid for is absurd, and I regret every purchase I made, like ~~Stardew Valley~~ Terraria, before I knew GOG existed. The main outstanding issue to me now is that GOG refuses to port its Galaxy client to Linux.

[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Heroic launcher can manage your GOG games on linux

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Heroic is an impressive achievement. It just isn't a full replacement – and most of these points I'm about to list aren't things it's trying to or should necessarily do as a games launcher. Off the top of my head:

  • It doesn't work for social aspects like friends, statuses, etc.
  • It doesn't work for monitoring achievements.
  • The storefront is just the actual gog.com webpage rendered as a surface. GOG Galaxy's store UI, by contrast, flows with everything else.
  • I don't think games auto-update, although I could be wrong.
  • It's bloated by nature of also being a launcher for Epic and Amazon – platforms I will never use. GOG Galaxy allows crossplatform stuff, but it's not a full-on multilauncher.
  • The UI is pretty ass. I sympathize a lot with this one as someone who works on the (often disastrously undercoordinated) UI of a similar-profile project.
    • Rectangular UI elements' corner rounding is all over the place (from sharp 90° to Material 3 and everything inbetween).
    • Themes are extremely samey with an enormous bias toward dark themes (I say this as someone who exclusively uses dark themes: a single light theme and thirteen dark themes means you don't give a shit).
    • You can't hide the left-hand menu bar to actually center the page you're viewing.
    • Actions like toolbar dropdowns have no animations (I understand not wanting these; that's accommodated with a "Disable Animations" option).
    • There's absolutely zero compatibility with Orca (screen reader) that I can find.
    • Etc.

Again, all of these except the UI aren't things Heroic is doing wrong or even supposed to be doing at all.

Side note: in Heroic, the GOG storefront opens with UTM parameters in the URL for "adtraction". Wonder what that's about.