Kayn @ HKayn @dormi.zone

Admin & sysadmin of a Warframe-focused Lemmy instance at https://dormi.

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The issue is that the majority of people on the Fediverse are "techies" with specific interests, which skews the spectrum of content quite a bit.

The Fediverse is in an awkward spot. It needs more people like you to keep technology communities from becoming Linux circlejerks, but at the same time those circlejerks are driving people like you out.

Honestly it's a great way to get people who just read the title to self-report.

You perfectly demonstrated why people will never listen to you. Think about it, you'll get it.

Didn't take long for instancism to become a thing here, huh

And that was the end of GOG

How?

What are you talking about? GOG has been involved with Amazon for a long time now, and so far it has been exclusively beneficial for GOG users.

Then just pretend it doesn't exist. I don't understand how this affects the GOG userbase. All that happens is people speculate about how GOG is out to kill DRM-freedom.

No one in the comments seems to consider that this could very well be an additional revenue stream that GOG desperately needs.

I don't think the person you replied to actually knows what they're talking about.

"How do you know someone's a Firefox user? Don't worry, they'll tell you"

Do you think comments like these are swaying public opinion in your favor?

People don't actually care about the article, they're just here to circlejerk about their hate for commercial software.

People will never use downvotes the intended way. They haven't done so on Reddit either.

I see no productive use for downvotes, so I've disabled them.

You'd be doubling your building, testing and supporting efforts for a ~1.8% increase in sales at best.

Granted, these numbers are just rough estimates based on Steam's hardware survey, but that's the ballpark we're finding ourselves in.

What can you tell me about their refund policy?

You can refund any purchase within 30 days. There are no restrictions on playtime, since GOG can't feasibly control that.

You can get your refund either as store credit or to the payment method you used, however store credit is usually processed much faster.

Are the results on ProtonDB just as reliable for GOG versions as they are for Steam versions of games?

I can only vaguely answer this by saying the games that I tried (mainly indie games like Dead Cells and One Step from Eden) worked flawlessly.

Heroic Games Launcher has a Mastodon presence, so you can ask them there! https://mastodon.social/@heroiclauncher

It's in their latest release notes: https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/releases/tag/v2.13.0

It's also featured on their donate page: https://heroicgameslauncher.com/donate

GOG is tiny compared to Valve. They simply don't have the resources to invest in Linux R&D. Expecting them to do so is futile.

There's little to no business incentive for other launchers to add support for an OS used only by approx. 1.7% of PC gamers.

You can use the Heroic Games Launcher, which runs GOG games through Proton, offers automatic updates and integrates with GOG cloud saves.

Buying games on GOG through their launcher also gives them a cut of the money!

But what if some of my comments include information that can uniquely identify me?

That can be something like "message me on Matrix at ..."