Well... There’s “sharing what J.K. Rowling said once to your cousins or friends”, and then there’s “spending a whole afternoon leaving angry comments (“encouraging”...) on social media”. 😅 I think it’s just fine if someone tell me something awful that J.K. Rowling said or did, but they don’t need to convince me…

Also this: “our players who bravely and intentionally carve out time for our games to invite, rest, and rejuvenate their lives”

Here’s what I found... (source: GOG’s documentation for developers) Now, keep in mind that developers are not forced to rely on GOG’s ecosystem.

Where I live, we usually don’t do that with our national/local TV shows. Sure, some shows are cancelled after one season sometimes, but other shows are either prolonged until their natural end, or are at least renewed for one last season. I discovered the weird behaviours of American’s TV networks when I started…

That is how GOG and most other DRM-free stores work. You don’t need to install GOG’s launcher. You can buy the games, and go in your “download” section in order to get an offline installer. It’s awesome.

Most games I bought in 2022 were on GOG, including new releases like Cult of the Lamb and Dome Keeper. If I were to buy Dwarwes Fortress, I would buy it on itchIO because it is a DRM-free and offline installer.

Indeed. You cannot just copy-paste files from “Program Files”. You need a standalone installer, preferably a 100% offline installer. GOG, Humble Bundle, itchIO and ZOOM are some of the existing DRM-free storefronts.

On major thing though: Steam doesn’t systematically distribute (and enforce the publishing of) standalone and offline installers, which are the main appeal with DRM-free storefronts like GOG.

This is really disappointing. People are mean and idiot.

Nintendo is like Disney. On a similar topic: Sadly, I learned today that my Canadian government changed the copyright laws (this month) again in order to prevent IPs from joining the public domain for the life of the author plus another 70 years. We went from 50 to 70 years... 😥

This is why I mostly care about indie gaming now... Sure, a lot of indie game devs don’t really care about preservation either, but big manufacturers and publishers don’t have any excuses, because they could use some of their revenues for preserving production assets and making sure their products are playable in the…

“Get gud! Oh! Wait... Seems like I need to ‘Get Gud’ too! Hey! That’s not fair!!!!” 😆

Maybe... Just don’t browse through the Steam discussion boards right now... 😆 There’s at least one schism happening.

What do you mean?

I think it’s just a clickbait title though... I’m not reading too much into it.

WDYM, “misery porn remains”? Of course it had to remain... Good clickbait. 😅 Why would they change the screenplay?

PC has two distributions: Steam and GOG. GOG is still at Version 1.0.3. They released 1.0.10 first on GOG (then on Steam), but it was so bugged that GOG’s QA team rejected is and rollbacked to 1.0.3. I got to try the update, and I couldn’t get past the first 20-25 minutes of the game because of a progression-blocking…

To be fair, most reviews are oblivious to the bugs too. This is not a “Kotaku thing”. This is ridiculous. This game might be great by the end of the year, on even only next years, once the bugs are fixed. Right now, the game, on consoles and on GOG.com, is insulting.

I wish those reviewers would re-review Cult of the Lamb, especially on consoles and on GOG.com...

This whole situation (the doxxing) is disgusting.