I fail to how the hardest possible DRM can be a good thing. There also latency and privacy issues.

And to add something new to the discussion: It's very energy inefficient. Streaming videos a already a huge waste of energy – and this has to be a lot worse.

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Quoting: buckysrevengeThe error message I'm getting (just bought it on itch today) is something to do with not finding lime: "Could not load module lime@lime_application_create__prime". I tried running it through the itch app and running directly from the command line (same files, not the separate download). Based off of the bug report section of the dicey discord, there are at least a few other people with the same issue.

That's weird. The itch.io version runs without any problems on Arch Linux.

ldd diceydungeon reports only a small amount of libraries, so it might be worth checking their versions:
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd29bdb000)
libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fca400ad000)
libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fca400a8000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fca3ff19000)
libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fca3fd94000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fca3fd7a000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fca3fbb6000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fca4234d000)

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While the SteamWorld games are great, I cannot recommend buying them as the developer treats the GOG customers poorly. While they recently updated “SteamWorld Heist” to match the Steam version, the update was delayed by more than a year (25 Sep. 2017 till 28/30 Jan 2019). I assume that they only made the effort to deliver the update at all because they want to sell their next game on GOG.

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I still like the game.

The new floor is an unskippable (for now) tutorial that gives strong items that make the game a lot easier.

Quoting: scaineI purchased on Itch, and noticed recently that it wouldn't start on that platform.

What is the problem? I haven't noticed anything. Do you use the client?

Quoting: scaineBut basically, buy it. Immediately! :)

Definitely.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhat about Itch?

Exactly. I'm not comfortable with GOG's course (hiding important information on the game cards, the forced profiles that you could opt-out later and new game list that does not include the names as text which forces you to hover over each game and have another small autoplaying move) and I've stopped looking at the front page when they switched to the new design with the large autoplaying movies and the fullscreen ads that make the news section almost unusable. If a sale or new release isn't announced here I miss it. So, well done, GOG.

Itch gives the developers more control, which has the upside that updates are usually faster and the downside that some developers removed the DRM-free download after they got their game on Steam. The problem is that many of the games that I'm interested in are not on Itch.

All in all I've been spending money on something else: I've bought a second macro lens with a shorter focal length for my DSLR that is great for taking pictures of flowers, upgraded to a newer model that has focus peaking and spent more time taking pictures.

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Is this the micro-transactions game that was removed from GOG because the developer couldn't sell them without DRM?

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: x_wingYou can offer both, just as any package management tool does on any Linux distro.

I think Pangaea's point was, that given GOG's limited resources, they might lag with Linux installers if they are to add Galaxy support. They are already lagging with Windows installers often, if you paid attention, "thanks" to Galaxy. So for many existing GOG users, if the choice is installers or Galaxy, we are going to choose installers.

No, Pangaea's point was that if there is no Galaxy for Linux, the offline installers cannot be tainted with crap like galaxy.dll with it's telemetry as the (officially non-Galaxy) Windows offline installers are.

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Quoting: DMJC(…) Freespace 2, Descent 1/2/3, Unreal Tournament 2003/2004 all have Linux builds but no support from GOG. (…)

It is not that easy:

• AFAIK there was no Linux version of Freespace 2 until the community efforts to improve the engine after the source code release, so it is unofficial.


• The official version of Descent 1/2 is Dosbox based. The native versions are unofficial.


• Descent 3 has an official Linux version, but that was made by Loki and was owned by Loki. They are not allowed to distribute it.


• I don't know why Unreal Tournament 2003/2004 is missing, but it's probably Epic's fault.

When they sold the original NWN they didn't sell Linux version as well, although I remember that it used to work very well (unfortunately I don't like the game).

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Quoting: Guest(…) I like being able to roll back versions at my discretion. (…)

Serious question: How do you do that?

I only know two choices using Galaxy or keeping the old installers on an external HDD. The first option does not work on Linux and the second one is cumbersome, really cumbersome. I know that because I keep several installers for some games and it wastes a lot of space.

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Quoting: GuestThat's all nice and all but I for myself don't care that much about Updates. When it runs and I can finish the Game why bother? At least that's how I feel about that. And for Multiplayer and such I myself don't care. I was and will be a Singleplayer Guy. And for the rest like Automatic here and there I call lazyness. Before Steam there was no such thing either and everyone was okay with it.

According to some developers, like Tim from Twice Circled, no Galaxy on Linux is equal to no Linux version on GOG. Obviously that is based on a serious misunderstanding, but as he has refused/neglected to answer my questions, I assume that the missing library package (i.e. the Steam runtime) is the problem, although that could be included in the GOG version as well. Who knows?

GOG is very bad at contacting developers through their preferred channel according to some of them that I contacted in cases where the GOG version was behind some time. Some of the games were updated on the following day. It's baffling, but it seems that GOG are as bad at communicating with the developers/publishers as they are when dealing with customers. Other developers promised an update very soon when I contacted them three months after the update hit Steam and that update is still not there almost 18 months later.

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