Not to downplay the device, but a feature like that should simply become available via tablet/smartphone (+ controller attached, of course). I don't really see the need for an extra piece of hardware here, to be honest.

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Has sheep.
Obviously a great game.

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Completely unplayable for me natively. As soon as a controller is plugged in, neither kb&m nor the controller works reliably. Just weird, never experienced anything like that.

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They Are Billions has really kicked something off, didn't it?

First Conan, and now this in a similar style.
But hey, I'm not complaining, it's totally my kind of game.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: gradyvuckovic

Quoting: iwantlinuxgames

Initial support for installing Plug and Play drivers.

anyone who can explain what this means?

Likewise would love to know what this implies.

I'm no expert, but I'm old so I remember the term. So, back in the day, if you had peripherals for your computer you'd have to have a driver for it; peripherals often came with CDs that had a driver for you to install. The internet was barely a thing and didn't have that kind of useful stuff on it--or a little later, it did, somewhere, but actually finding it would be a massive pain. I believe plug-and-play was Windows' marketing term for their first attempt to have pre-built drivers for various stuff already in the OS so you could plug in a thing and have it supposedly Just Work. Something like that. This was back in the Windows 95/98/like that era.

If we assume that, I guess they might be talking about some very odd/specific peripherals that still to this day require a driver installation of some kind.

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You should file a bug report on the wine tracker, asking for less frequent releases or releasing puns along with new versions to alleviate the pun pressure on news outlets.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: x_wingand in the end, is what our platform needs.

Not necessarily. Our platform needs more games. GOG installers are pretty easy to use too. If they wouldn't have been missing releases though.

GOG installers are ridiculously slow, though, always have been. I do not know what they do with these files other than unpacking them, but every GOG installation just takes ages (and on multiple good PCs, too).
Every time I installed some games that way I was reminded of the ages of installing from CD. And I use SSD, ffs!

Which doesn't even address their biggest issue: Lack of auto-patching.
Games nowadays simply aren't released in a "done" state anymore, it just doesn't happen. There are patches, sometimes A LOT of them.
With GOG installers for linux, you always have to re-install the entire game just to replace a handful of changed files.* And did I mention how slow their installers are?
A platform like Galaxy or Steam (or a launcher for the actual game that applies the patches, like many MMOs do) is almost a necessity, and GOG simply doesn't provide that on linux.

*In theory, you could argue the developers could provide patch files.
Yeah, right. All the extra effort to create a patch file, for the subset of a very small audience, for one store.
I know I wouldn't.

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I know why I stopped buying from them quite a while ago...

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: liamdaweTo anyone else, keep making comments like this and you will be placed into a mod queue. I'm done with it.

Also, he's a registered user, I think it's important if he can feel that he can identify himself with your gaming portal even if he had different opinions than you, the portal owner. Embrace, rather than exclude.

There is difference in opinion and then there's being extremely aggressive, insulting and making numerous false claims.
I see no reason at all to "embrace" any of the latter, but every single reason to exclude it.

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Quoting: GuestNice, I’ll buy it once it’s available DRM-free. Hopefully it’s not impossible to finish like the Kingdom Rush games are.

What do you mean?
I'm currently playing KR Origins and so far I haven't encountered anything impossible (on Veteran, anyway, not the even harder difficulty).

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