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[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

GOG was good for acquiring and re-releasing OLD GAMES. somewhere along the way they decided they wanted to compete with the big platforms and be "We're just like them but without DRM"

I haven't used GOG for years, they allowed me to relive a few of my old adolescence favorites, but stopped being useful to me a long time ago :/

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[–] carp1@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago

NOOOOOOO I LOVE GOG

[–] atempuser23@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (7 children)

The launcher that they have is pretty rough. I downloaded it for Mac OS and it just wouldn’t run right. Kept closing down. If I could just download right from the website they’d have some money.

If they draw is drm free games why only allow purchase through a custom launcher like everything else?

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't use their launcher at all.

It's kind of a convoluted process but you can definitely download every game you own through gog without it.

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[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 10 points 1 week ago

"no pun intended"

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's too bad. No doubt I appreciate it Steam for what it is, even knowing that I don't actually own any of the software I buy from them. That being said, I try to support GOG where/when I can.

Is there any "easy" way to get GOG games running on a Steam Deck? It's been awhile since I last tried to look into it, but back then it seemed like a lot of steps and a lot of places to potentially mess up the process. I believe I kind of got something working at one point, but I'd honestly have to go back and double check.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Download Heroic Launcher from the Discover app in Desktop mode and add it as a non-Steam game. You can log into your GOG account there. In a best-case scenario, which is more often than not, you just hit download, and you can play the game on Steam Deck.

But sometimes it doesn't work like that. Steam will often bundle dependencies with your download, like DirectX versions or Visual Studio runtimes. To get these working, you'll need to run "winetricks", which can be done on a game-by-game basis from within Heroic, and then install the dependencies you need. To find out which dependencies you need, if you had trouble launching the game in the first place, you can check SteamDB and see what other "depots" the game has. This resolves the problem about 99% of the time, if there's a problem at all. In one case, Phantom Fury, I was unable to get the same compatibility with the GOG version that I was with the Steam version, and I don't know why. Also, at this point in time, I don't think you can rely on cloud saves working, and you might need to rely on a solution like SyncThing, but it looks like cloud saves working reliably via Heroic is imminent, if it isn't already since the last time I checked.

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[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The easy way is with the Heroic Game Launcher. Log in to your GOG account and direct install.

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