Quoting: BeamboomWhat is it about the Steam way of doing DRM that is so hostile? From a purely practical point of view - what's the inconvenience?

You've obviously never been anywhere that you didn't have internet, and Steam refused to start in Offline mode. It's rather inconvenient to not be able to play any games that require the client.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: hummer010User Friendly: Easy to use.

Consumer Friendly: Respects the rights of the consumer.

And what do you believe are the rights of the consumers using Steam, that Steam prohibit them from?

The right to play my game, which I paid for, whenever, and where ever I want, without first asking for Steam's permission (ie. running the client). I know, there's "offline mode", but it is far from reliable.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: hummer010"user friendly" != "consumer friendly".

How do you define the difference?

User Friendly: Easy to use.

Consumer Friendly: Respects the rights of the consumer.

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Quoting: Adamfx990Its a shame publishers favour it despite GOG being the far-more consumer-friendly platform.

Oh well now - that totally depends on how you define "user friendly". One of my major arguments for Steam is precisely that it by far the most user friendly alternative, both in regards to the cloud storage of save-games (where that feature is utilised), the unified, cross platform chat feature with friends, and especially in regards to patching. It's all integrated in one client, one framework.

To claim this is not user-friendly is - if I am to be a bit blunt - really quite fanatic from the anti-drm camp. It is exactly what it is - very user friendly. That's the challenge GOG needs to tackle.

"user friendly" != "consumer friendly".

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceWas skeptical of how much I would like it but I enjoyed that 15 minute session.

It's a really, really good game. It's right up there with Kerbal as my one of my favorite early access game that I ever bought.

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I added Mafia & Mafia II because of your wrappers. I haven't tried Mafia II yet, but I put an hour of flawless gaming into Mafia this morning.

Thanks for all your hard work!

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That's a great bundle ... if I didn't already own every single Linux game in it!

Apparently, I really like Daedalic :)

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Quoting: adamhmAs usual, older/classic games currently on sale on GOG that I've made

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As usual, your work rocks!

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I backed this one too, and I'm very happy I did. I've tried out the pre-release builds, but never more than a few minutes here and there. I didn't want to burn out on it before the final release.

The pre-release builds were soooo good, I can hardly wait to get home and fire this up!

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QuoteThey also said on Twitter they are working on bringing the Linux version of Postal 2 to GOG, but no ETA on that.

I wouldn't get too excited about that. Back in 2015 RWS said that Paradise Lost was coming to GOG too, and it hasn't quite happened yet.

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