I will a look into it!

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: GuestThis is true, but a way I see it is with GOG I can download all my installers so even if they go under/I lose access/whatever I still have my games. I know Steam promises this and that if something happened to them, but I do like the peace of mind by having my library physically on hand. It's as close to owning them as can get these days.

You can do this with some games on Steam as well - but I have to admit that I don't know how you'd know which ones before buying them.

I'd assume an API call would clear up the correlation between app ID and game name. That's what you guys mean, right?

No, I wanted to find out automagically if a Steam game works after having been copied around, without Steam. So, if an actual DRM takes place.

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Quoting: GuestThis is true, but a way I see it is with GOG I can download all my installers so even if they go under/I lose access/whatever I still have my games. I know Steam promises this and that if something happened to them, but I do like the peace of mind by having my library physically on hand. It's as close to owning them as can get these days.

You can do this with some games on Steam as well - but I have to admit that I don't know how you'd know which ones before buying them.

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Quoting: EikeYou aren't giving arguments.

What for?

Why not?

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Quoting: Alm888Sorry, it does not work that way. What's the site name? "rutracker.org"? Since when the GOG-keys are being sold on the third-party sites?
As I've said, shady key re-seller sites do not count.

Ask CDPR how their keys are sold on third-party sites. :woot:

Are you confusing rutracker with other sites? Well.. that says a lot.

You aren't giving arguments. "Guess what this picture is from" isn't one. If you know sites that are selling keys legally, with the knowledge and approval of CDPR, there shouldn't be a problem naming them.

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Quoting: InstallI prefer buying on gog over steam since you own the games. Steam is drm and you dont own those games, you rent them. I feel gog fits the same philosophy as linux in terms of freedom. gog does support linux, there might be cases where there isnt a version but most of the time they sell them.

Well, about all of this is wrong. Wherever you get software from a store, you get a licence. Steam, Gog, ... MS, ... even GPLed software - that's what the "L" is all about! So you neither own nor rent it. Some games of Steam are DRMed, some are not. Gog's "support" for Linux is so big, they aren't even making a client. (I understand why they don't, but it's still not great support.)

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Quoting: X6205I would not count on "Verified" status, because i was playing RE Village a few days back and while it runs great, there are some in-game videos which are showing only green screen placeholder instead of actual video.

I've been asked on Deck every now and then if I agree with Valve's impression of the game.

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Do they keep the (verifying) pace? The portion of my library checked is high (about two thirds), but stopped rising some months ago.

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Quoting: fenglengshunI honestly just disable the autoplay and never look at the trailer. Years of various online stores' videos have taught me that most of the time they waste a lot of time and aren't very informative.

They really should just apply TikTok/Shorts video principles to store trailer -- make them short, to the point, and interesting immediately and throughout.

I got the feeling though the autoplay option would switch itself every other week...

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Quoting: PhiladelphusLike, you can flip a fair coin and get 10 heads in a row. It's quite a small probability to happen, but it's technically just as random an outcome as getting 5 heads and 5 tails

Nnnno.

Getting HHHHHHHHHH is as likely as getting HHTHTTTHTH, but there's many more versions of 5 heads 5 tails.

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