God of War
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Enter the Norse realm His vengeance against the Gods of Olympus years behind him, Krato
    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      462·
      4 months ago

      Please give us Galaxy on Linux, GOG, so I can shop with you over Steam.

      Buying games on Steams results in development of the Linux technology stack. No other game company funds open source upstream development like Valve. As nice as DRM-free games are, GOG is not a force for Linux advancement.

      • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
        71·
        4 months ago

        Steam Deck was reason I moved from GOG to Steam again. Installation process and getting the game running is so much more streamlined than using heroic launcher. And sync saves is spotty and I don’t think there is achievement support last I tried.

        Wish they had a proper Linux launcher, but they don’t see it worth it.

    • aksdb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44·
      4 months ago

      As long as GOG doesn’t invest in Wine/Proton, Valve has still the upper hand in Linux support and therefore deserve my money more.

      • ampersandrew@kbin.social
        131·
        4 months ago

        They don’t even need to invest in its development. They just need to integrate it as a launch option.

        • aksdb@lemmy.worldEnglish
          71·
          4 months ago

          That would be nice, sure. I am just saying, it still wouldn’t give them a significantly better standing over Valve, in my eyes. Valve is currently kinda the Linux Gaming Savior. Hard to beat that unless they also start actively (!) doing something.

      • ampersandrew@kbin.social
        7·
        4 months ago

        Yeah, but I want things like auto updates and cloud saves as officially supported features rather than something they can revoke from Heroic at any time.

        • haych@lemmy.oneEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          Since I got my Steam Deck, I think that was 2 years ago or so now? But I also ended up using it on my Windows PC to replace Amazon, Gog, and Epic.

          It’s not perfect, but it does the job and means I don’t need multiple clients.

    • vinnymac@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      Surprised we haven’t seen launchers adding native support for Linux. You’d think they would want to take advantage of the millions of steam decks on the market.

      Perhaps they are busy contemplating their own hardware investments, which will surely flood the market with cheap and poorly constructed knockoffs.

    • steeznson@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      Yeah I’ve had issues playing GOG games on linux using arch/gentoo because the libs that the game wants to dynamically link are often not where it expects. It’s possible to resolve it but the Steam approach where they distribute a static bundle of libs into ~/.local/share is much less of a headache.

      Presumably Galaxy could solve this problem and make Linux more viable. The dynamic linking of the libraries has been more of an issue than the missing Proton integration for me. Often it is easier to install GOG games with wine and take the performance hit!

        • steeznson@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Could be licensing or decreased server costs with smaller executable downloads? Not sure without being a fly on the wall at GOG.

          Static vs dynamic linking is a huge, flame war-triggering debate in software. Like the original vim vs emacs.

    • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      Just in case you don’t know: You can buy GOG games and download the installers in a browser.

        • cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          4 months ago

          Do you really want auto-updates for your games, or actually just want updates-on-demand? Or just a notification with a button to update the game?

          Personally I dislike Steams auto updates, because I want decide when a game should be updated. I might have mods installed, only mobile internet or a myriad other reasons not to be forced to download and apply an update right at that moment and instead just play the old version.

          For saves, I normally just use syncthing. I have regularly issues with GOG and Steam cloud saves, and syncthing works well enough,

          • ampersandrew@kbin.social
            51·
            4 months ago

            I want auto updates for my games so close to “always” that you can only tell it’s not 100% if you squint a bit. I use Syncthing in other contexts, like syncing emulator saves to and from desktop and Steam Deck, and it’s not quite as easy as Steam cloud saves.

              • ampersandrew@kbin.social
                61·
                4 months ago

                Setup is annoying, and feedback on whether or not it’s working is a bit rough. I’ve lost data by misconfiguring it before. You have to run a background daemon on a device where battery life matters, so I tend to shut it off when I’m done. Syncing saves with SyncThing requires knowing where those save files are, whereas being built into the launcher client means they already know where those saves are, and that step is already done.

    • Debs@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Yes! I was just thinking about this last night. I’m finally playing through the first one and I’m loving it. I’d sure like to slide into the sequel…