They are "Proud". Yeah, okay. The new owners only bought it last year. They have had little to no involvement with it as it's been in development for years. This is almost certainly about saving money. It’s quite despicable. What they are really saying is, "We don't want to spend more money on this; Vortex is fine the way it is, so deal with it. I really hope this blows up in their faces. It's only a matter of time before they ruin the site and Nexus mods dies. Probably will begin with massive censorship of mods. I don't expect my lifetime unlimited membership to survive much longer either. I'm sure they will come for that at some point soon.

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Except nobody will be able to afford the Steam Machine. I would be surprised if Valve didn't indefinitely delay or even eventually cancel it because of the skyrocketing prices on RAM alone.

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Ooh! Looks great! I just got a similar game during the Steam Winter Sale called Desktop Survivors 98, and it's been pretty fun.
Desktop Survivors 98 (Steam) [External Link]

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Frustrated that 66% voted to keep it even after the uproar...

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Quoting: rea987

Quoting: Tethys84I think BG3 winning Labor of Love is absolute BS. No Man's Sky has been releasing FREE expansions every year, sometimes multiple. I can't see BG3 having done anything deserving that award. 100% feel like people just vote for what's trending.

Literally lying the people about the features of the game before the release, then subsequently adding them years later is not labor of love. It is called BS. No Man's Sky was released such a bare bones state that they had to use stickers on physical copies to cover non-existed features. I would call those free expansions lawsuit evasion at best.

BG3 devs kept listening its community, improving the game by the feedback and even offered a native Steam Deck port. Here is gamingonLINUX, ofc will care the game and its dev who cared them in the first place. Not to mention, almost all previous games in the series were updated for modern OS and received Linux native port. Now, THAT'S dedication.

Sorry, but COMPLETELY disagree with you. That argument is BS and EXTREMELY TIRED at this point. Move on already. You people are so f***ing ridiculous. I'm done with these conversations. I have better things to do, like trying to find reasons to keep living in a world that's completely falling apart more and more every day when I turn on the news.

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I haven't played a single one of the winners and am only really interested in Silent Hill F which I'll play at some point. My GOTY is by FAR Where Winds Meet and It's so depressing that it didn't at least get nominated for that award.

I think BG3 winning Labor of Love is absolute BS. No Man's Sky has been releasing FREE expansions every year, sometimes multiple. I can't see BG3 having done anything deserving that award. 100% feel like people just vote for what's trending.

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I'm on my own this Xmas, but it gives me plenty of extra time to play games!!! I hope you have a good one.
I don't know how anyone says "Happy New Year" anymore. All I can think of is what Eldritch horror awaits us in 2026.

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Thank goodness.

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Quoting: BrokattI don't see what's so controversial with this? GOG's Game Preservation program is not a money maker (who could have guessed) and they are asking for donations to keep it strong. That doesn't mean GOG's going out of business. They can close down Game Preservation tomorrow, go back to being a regular DRM-free game store and be just fine.

Now would it be better if a foundation did the game preservation? Maybe but GOG have the distribution and the knowledge to actually make the games run. They are more than just an archive were you can download an .EXE file.

Older games are being lost to time. Now is not the time to look a gift horse in the mouth.

I agree. I feel like people are struggling to see any gray areas in things anymore; it’s just black and white—good and evil—regarding everything. I’m guilty of that too in many circumstances, but I feel like GOG genuinely cares about game preservation and is doing their best to ensure that as many games as possible are available to play, just like any other game, for the foreseeable future. That costs money because there is a ton of work that needs to be done, just to handle all the legal issues alone, let alone packaging these games and making them work on modern systems. I am completely fine with this as long as they continue to show consistent efforts in preserving more and more games. I'd love for them to release a documentary about what goes into the actual process of game preservation, so people could see whats truly involved.

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They better stick to that part about letting people disable that stuff. If they try to force it, especially if they force it on the browsers that use Firefox as a base, like Zen (Which is what I use), then I don't know what I'm going to do because I absolutely do not want to go back to a chromium based browser.

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