It seems like most companies bought out by "investment consortiums" tend to tank. All these investment groups seem to care about is "raping and pillaging" their acquisitions, rather than long term management.

They are investment companies, so they only care about profit. So it always depends what is more profitable for them.

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I started playing OpenMW on my steam deck, and syncing my game saves between my deck and PC with syncthing a while ago. The experience is so nice! Highly recommended.

How good it is with gamepad?

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I'm excited that they returned wake-on-bluetooth to LCD version, it was really annoying when they disabled it. I usually have Steam Deck connected to TV and using external gamepad and it was really a life improvement to just wake it with the gamepad itself :-)

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Have you tried adding them to Steam and then launching them from there? There’s a dedicated option for that in Heroic. This allows the games to use Steam’s controller interface. I play games from my GOG library quite often on Steam Deck and everything works perfectly once I add a game to Steam.

I didn't tried Heroic for a long time, so maybe that wasn't available at the time. I will probably try it again, it looks definitely better than GOG Galaxy.

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In the past I've made sure to WIRE up the gamepad to the Plasma KDE system which has a gamepad section in settings, and THEN all games detected just fine. If you rely on proton to do it all for you, then perhaps that's the issue.

Maybe you are right, but will this work in Gamescope on Steam Deck?

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I recently tried GOG Galaxy on Steam Deck with NonSteamLaunchers, but it wasn't a great experience, the games were crashing, store itself is missing gamepad support and it's not great to use it in general.

In the past I also tried Heroic Games Launcher, but the GOG games had so many issues (for example not finding gamepad, even when the game supported it) I just gave up on using it on Steam Deck.

It would be nice if the GOG just started using the work Steam does for Linux and improved their own tooling thanks to that, for now I rather buy games on Steam just because of the support they give to Linux. I actually wonder, given that they are promoting DRM free games, that they don't target Linux as main platform. Because if somebody is interested in DRM free, they will probably not use Windows at all.

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I see OTXO as inspiration, I had really bad time with it as the controls on gamepad were really strange (I couldn't get used to how the character was turning). Hopefully this will not be that case.

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Already bought it, really liked that they were adding Steam Deck rating to each game :-)

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They are just trying to get some money from successful project. They could have done a pokemon game like that a long time ago, but they didn't. I really hate patents in software worlds because they could be used to sue somebody for using the ideas of others and improving on them.

I hope Nintendo will go to hell for doing things like this.

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This looks interesting to me. Adding to my wishlist.

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