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by lupusreal 307 days ago
GOG is great but I'd like them even more if they did some of the wine/proton work that Steam does for Linux users. For the dosbox games at least it's not much to do (for them nor for myself to be fair.)

Steam is simultaneously hard to like, as a DRM service, but also hard to dislike as they put so much care into getting games running on Linux and have a very reasonable return policy, full refunds for the game not working makes it easy for Linux users especially.
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maverwa 307 days ago
I won’t complain about anyone investing into wine/proton. GOG/CDPR just seem less willing or less capable of spending that money. Valve is essentially printing money. From sales, but also from other, morally less likeable sources like gambling. It’s nice to see them spending at least a tiny part of this in ways that serve the greater good (besides their own business).

Same point: it’s not good, but that’s reality for you.

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Ferret7446 307 days ago
To be clear, there are many games on Steam without DRM. It's up to the publisher whether Steam DRM is used or not (or if any other 3rd party DRM is used, for that matter).

I suspect almost all of the games on GoG, if they are also on Steam, also don't have DRM on Steam.

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tstrimple 307 days ago
DRM and especially 3rd party launchers are both things that get me to skip games on Steam. I wish Steam made it simpler to just filter those games out of your store view.
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