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A Quick Guide to Install and Play GOG Games on Linux
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I don't use GOG. I'm not going to let them treat me as a second class citizen, when Steam treats me as first class.
One of these two entities actually lets me own my games. To where I can install them from local files even without an internet connection. One of these entities leases me games that I can install with an internet connection as long as they see fit. They are not the same.
That only applies if you're selling Steam keys in the other store. If you sell access via other means (like direct download), you can price them however you want. Hence, thousands of itch.io games that are cheaper than their Steam versions.
If you have a link to the actual emails, rather than a YouTube video for it, I'd be very interested in that.
Well, you made the claim, so 🤷
Short of evidence for your claim, I'll roll with the fact that, to my knowledge, there has never been a case of an itch.io game being bullied out of being cheaper than its Steam version.
Your "evidence" was from a YouTube video that doesn't cite the source of the emails either, and I trust that as much as anyone should trust a Twitter screenshot. If you had a link to the actual emails that said that, I'd change my mind, but you're being really weirdly defensive when simply being asked for a better source than an uncited YouTube video.
@RonnieB @seathru When was this?
You want to elaborate on that?
I'm not OP but I use GOG significantly less ever since I switched to Linux and got a Steam Deck.
I currently use Heroic but until GOG commits some more resources into their Linux ecosystem I'm just going to use them sparingly.
GOG released a Windows client, but no Linux client. My problem is with being treated worse than a Windows user.
In comparison, itch.io has no Windows client and no Linux client (in part because some of the stuff they sell is not software). So I have no problem buying through itch.io.
itch.io does have a client, it even has a Linux version and it's on Flathub:
https://itch.io/app
https://flathub.org/apps/io.itch.itch
Steam doesn't even let you own games you paid for, so it treats you as a pleb in feudal times - it's just that at this precise moment in time this isn't a bad quality of life. But your existence is nothing but the whim of Steam - which includes the option to shut down everything & end your existence.
@Limonene @Sunshine
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Dependence makes you a first-class citizen, and freedom a second-class citizen???
THAT's a strange way of looking at first-classness!
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