Quoting: CaldathrasGOG posted their financials for 2022 back in May 2023. They made a $1.2M USD net profit in 2022.

I guess NSFW games saved GOG. :D

Wank harder, lads. It's for a good cause.

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Quoting: VardamirHow about having options? If you want to install your game locally, you can. If you want to stream and not worry about updates and such, you can also do that.

There's no such thing.

Partnerships like this are made purely for marketing purposes. No corporation will ever offer its customers extra services at no cost unless there's a catch.

In this case it's the already existing amazon game streaming market. You can already buy games there. This "partnership" is meant to get people signed up for that and have them buy games there that aren't in the gog catalag nor under the gog terms & conditions.

This is bait. The swich will come later. It always does.

Amazon probably paid gog to do this since they are struggling financially. The whole thing will likely end after a year or so when it will fail to yeild new customers for amazon.

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Streaming games will never catch on because the whole point of the hand-held gaming success story is to be able to play anywhere not "anywhere there is a good internet connection".

As for the die-hard performance geeks this is a waste of time since near 0 input latency and over 60 fps is the norm and streaming just doesn't cut it and never will.

Instead of optimizing games streaming them adds more middlemen that impact performance, availability and cost.

This will suffer the same fate as Stadia and tarnish GOG's already crumbling reputation.

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as the cheat codes "LINUSISGOD" and "LINUXRULES" clearly show that the Swedish developers were indeed friends of the penguin. In fact, typing in "MICROSOFT" will kill the player instantly.

That felt nice to read. :)

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Improvements to the gameplay UI, such as toggling object highlight by double-pressing TAB.

This!

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It's funny how digital stuff gets taken down automatically in order to protect corporate profits as soon as a complaint is made against someone but you have to do decades of research and lawsuits to even try to remove a carcinogenic product from the food market.

It's all about protecting corporate profits and nothing else.

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Gladius is good Warhammer 40k stuff. Turn based Starcraft so you can take your time and enjoy your coffee or tea.

And it's one of the best running games on Linux I've ever seen.

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Quoting: sonic2kkMaybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I'll stick with Torchlight II for my ARPG fix. Grim Dawn, while not native, also sates the urge for something a bit meatier in terms of story.

This!

Torchlight II & Grim Dawn are ARPGs to take with you on a deserted island. If not for the quality of the games then just because most others require an internet connection to servers that will eventually be closed.

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MacOS, iOS & Safari are the modern equivalent for Internet Explorer 6.

"Everybody" uses them yet nobody wants to support them.

The weird thing in all of this is that Apple contributed to the development of many of the standards they are no longer upholding.

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Uncurated packages? Like ARCH's AUR that everybody warns you against using?

Oh, it has the canonical logo slapped on it. That's much better. /$

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