GOG puts up a We Love Games Sale with lots of good deals

Quoting: GuestBuy from Valve, support Valve! They are the ones that deserve our support!

No company is your friend. Regardless of how much they invest in your preferred ecosystem.

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: GuestBuy from Valve, support Valve! They are the ones that deserve our support!

With that as the first comment, I do believe I'm about 2 steps away from leaving the entire community for good.

And miss out on all the fanboyisming? ;)

Jokes aside, I get where the OC is coming from because Valve are clearly the only store company to actually put resources into Linux. However, the situation isn't as black and white as people always make it out to be. GOG as a company, as we reported, aren't exactly doing well, and so spending out on a niche market like ours is obviously not going to be their focus.

I do hope eventually though that GOG pulls through, so they can expand their efforts. They clearly do still have a lot of fans and we definitely don't want to end up with a single store propping everything up. Multiple stores has many benefits, even if your #1 is Steam. As we all know, competition is healthy :)

Lutris has become pretty decent at running lots of Win-only games from GOG, so I recommend taking a look there, at least when there's a sale.

Quoting: GuestBuy from Valve, support Valve! They are the ones that deserve our support!

Off-topic and flamebait I'd say.

I'll leave what's up with this note: coming to articles you're not interested in, to tell people you're not interested and just...yeah, how about we just don't do that? Let's try and attempt to stay on topic for articles.

Quoting: GuestI like open source and don't like evasive DRM. That's why I like Valve because they are all in on open source and don't have hard core DRM

I didn't know Steam was open source?!

Looks like Witcher 3, STALKER, and Xcom are pretty heavily discounted. I could totally recommend them to anyone. Good games.

Thanks Valve!

Quoting: Arcadius-8606You are not supporting your community by coming into a article that has nothing to do with the topic you wish to speak about and asking ppl to side with you towards a company.

That's basically the issue, and what I've already asked to not happen in our comments. Please all, let's stop the store-to-store arguments in our comments. Please remember the commenting rules. Debate is great, difference of opinion is great, but drive-by comments about a game / topic / store you're clearly not interested in serve no purpose other than to cause friction and it's unhealthy for the community. Please let it stop now. Comments will stay open for people who actually wish to discuss anything related to the article - for everything else, there's the Forum, Discord, Telegram and so on.

Edit: that particular user has removed their account now but the point remains the same..

Last edited by Liam Dawe on 15 Feb 2022 at 12:06 am UTC

Let's try to bring it back to games: Since it is on sale - CLOUDPUNK is a pretty nice way to waste away some time! The gameplay itself is technically nothing to write home about, but the atmosphere is fantastic. Enjoyed it quite a bit!

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: GuestBuy from Valve, support Valve! They are the ones that deserve our support!

With that as the first comment, I do believe I'm about 2 steps away from leaving the entire community for good.

One of the reasons I barely drop by any more is that there is barely an article without advertising for steam, or plugs for steam. And that's despite using the filter thingy to hide articles about valve and steam. It's preposterous. The site has largely made itself irrelevant, for those of us who don't like DRM and are fed up of having steam shoved down our throats. Not much activity in the forum, but it's the only reason I still drop by once or twice a month.

Anyway, some good deals on GOG, but since I have bought a pack of games already, and now only buy games with native Linux builds, there isn't much tempting. Instead I am currently replaying Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Since Owlcat refused to support Linux this time, on their new "Wrath" game :( That is the reason I didn't pledge in the Kickstarter two years back or whenever it was.