But are they on Mastodon? This is a very important factor for my purchasing decision.

And we’re on Lemmy, so any LLC is inherently evil. /s

There are tons of people who have still never heard of GOG. This really is a necessary advertisement campaign.

It was actually downvoted because the screenshot isn’t mobile-friendly. /s

How do you follow someone you discovered while browsing a foreign instance?

When have they not had the full package on GOG?

There really is no difference. For almost all intents and purposes, GOG’s offline installers can be treated the same way as physical CDs of way back then, with one of the only exceptions being that you cannot resell them.

Nowadays the Heroic Games Launcher is the preferred solution for downloading and running GOG games. It’s a community-run project, but officially affiliated with GOG.

The Heroic Games Launcher can download and run GOG games. It’s a community-run project, but officially affiliated with GOG.

By now my GOG library has far exceeded my Steam library in size. I was surprised by how many games on my Steam wishlist are also on GOG.

For context, Steam is now forced to display this due to a new law passed in California: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24254922/california-digital-purchase-disclosure-law-ab-2426

Valve is not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts.

Yes, you throw away the code and write it again.

I don’t know how you can say that it’s not a competitor.

It’s because they’re hyperfixated on Linux, just like the majority of the Lemmy userbase.

In reality any x86-based handheld is potential competition for the Steam Deck.

Turns out you’re actually the owner of your home instance. I didn’t know that when I made my previous comments.

I’m guessing you’re currently paying for your instance’s upkeep out of pocket? I can’t spot any donation links on your instance. This might work for you personally, but do you really expect other, larger instances to do the same? Even donations are only rarely sustainable.

How do you expect your instance to cover its costs, then?

So how is your home instance financially sustaining itself? Surely you’re helping it, right?

XMPP didn’t die, so why would the Fediverse?

B-b-but the Fediverse told me that XMPP was embrace-extend-extinguished by Google!!?!

Don’t confuse their initiative for benevolence. At the end of the day it’s all still for their own benefit and their ecosystem.

The contributions to open source are still a nice side effect.

GOG exists and has managed to carve out a DRM-free niche for itself for more than 15 years now.