My first purchase when I'm earning enough to spend on entertainment will be a good device. The second will be games that I can either physically keep or digitally store on physical drives.
I guess so... Unless a company is objectively terrible, I guess it does end up being "subjective".
For example, I like the idea of Linux, but am happy that things work on Windows. And MacOS is too restrictive for my tastes.
Now, surely there are objective reasons for why Linux is better than the others. But the entry point issue for me is that each distro is different, and while I love customisability, I cannot expend energy on setting up my distro at the moment... (Soon.)
Plus, games work on Windows. I do plan to dual boot when I get a better PC, but not yet.
And fuck Apple (subjective, but I don't wike em). So, yeah đ«Ą.
I'll be honest, I definitely prefer having everything on one platform for convenience. This is in second place; right after letting me play a game directly from the icon without having to open the damn launcher in the first place.
Also, I am not well educated about the technicalities of Steam or GoG, so all I can say is I'm enjoying the cool factor of GoG combining my accounts in one place. Kinda bummed that Epic's integration doesn't have game time and achievement sync... But that's probably an Epic thing.
I have never used a launcher before (for obvious reasons as mentioned in my post), so I found the idea of a separate launcher dumb in the first place. I have used it in recent times thanks to Epic's free games. Finished two of the Tomb Raider trilogy.
Like, I'm fine with a store, but I gotta open the launcher to launch the game? On Windows, with the Tile based Start Menu, I kind of thought it was a terrible idea NGL. I gotta open, wait for it to load, open the library, then click to run, THEN it'll open...
Plus, if I want to track progress, it's a hassle because I can't track without the damn launcher...
I'll have to take a look at GoG anyway... I don't remember but I heard it's like an aggregator of some sort too, right? Like, you can access games from your steam account too or something?
Yeah, now that I've read about EEE more, it seems probable that they'd do some shit like this.
We need to make the Fediverse's entry easier for the common man. Maybe by having a default instance for major apps like Mastodon (their instance is mastodon.social or something I believe) offered on the signup page... We can have an additional list at the bottom by clicking a button, suggesting the options and why they exist.
But if we don't make it easier for the common man, we won't be able to compete.
ElPussyKangaroo @ ElPussyKangaroo @lemmy.world Posts 12Comments 643Joined 2 yr. ago
Yeah, what is up with that? What's wrong with Epic and Linux?
I remember reading that they bought Rocket League and then removed Linux support. Really dumb strategy.