• RobotZap10000@feddit.nl
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    2 days ago

    One day, Steamworks will also crap itself and we’ll find ourselves in the exact same situation. But that day isn’t today!

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        2 days ago

        If someone could actually compete with Steam, that would be great. Both gog and Epic don’t have linux launchers and lack many releases. If Steam is offline, it will be console gamers laughing at us.

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          2 days ago

          I mean, you literally don’t even need the launcher from GOG to play/install the games

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            2 days ago

            If you sail the seas your games never need online authentication. Some even require you patch out the ability for it to connect to the internet.

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          2 days ago

          I just switched to Linux and there are multiple Launchers that support GoG. It is not official but honestly, that makes it better in my eyes. They are open-source, no bloat, no tracking, …

          Games not being on GoG is much more of an issue. :(

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            2 days ago

            I personally don’t want to put money into something that does not offer official support, as the community launchers might stop getting updates.

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              I don’t want to convince you here, you do you.

              But it seems funny to say that while you are using Linux, where almost nothing has official support.

              I personally love that even if GoG shut down or otherwise was inaccessible, I would still have offline installers (that can be installed to wine manually). Obviously having a launcher is nicer, but I hate that there is no backup with Steam.

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        2 days ago

        Wait, does that imply that PSN users can’t even play the games that they bought and paid for without connecting to the internet?

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          We can play offline game without internet if the PS5 is set as primary (not using game sharing)

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      2 days ago

      the playstation network is not an internet service provider… they require you pay for it to play any games online with your console…

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        1 day ago

        I am aware but the post title implies that online gaming is normally free but not everybody has internet at home, though it is becoming rather common meaning it doesn’t always appear to be an additional cost. I was merely being a little pedantic though I suppose that might not have been clear.

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          23 hours ago

          so you’re saying you have to pay to play online technically on a pc because you have to pay for internet?
          groovy

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            17 hours ago

            Yes and I really wasn’t expecting (m)any downvotes. I personally would probably have neither up- or down-voted it myself which is why I am baffled by the number of downvotes.