What is the Freetard's position on GoG vs Steam?

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anta baka, user.
android is built on top of linux, but is an operating system. that means that every single game needs to be adjusted to work there.

Check out this intellectually superior faggot who's too cool for vidya gamez.

Both offer proprietary software so they're both shit.

>pro-Linux
Yeah and incase you didn't know Microsoft and Google are pro loonix too

>hurf durf how does encryption work
Making something "secure" by relying on obscuring the inner workings never works. People will figure out how it works.
Instead, just give people something secret (a key) and build a system around that, assuming the only thing that's secure is the key. Much easier to protect than the anti cheat mechanism itself.
But yes, I'd say it's entirely feasible.

That's because steam prioritizing linux over windows would mean a smaller market share for windows, which would hurt microsoft. So microsoft takes it upon themselves to destroy linux from within.

I think GoG would be pro-linux is they could afford it - Thing is you need to be pretty strapped to develop ways to game on linux if you're a game company.

Microsoft is pro-linux so they can both murder it and incorporate it better into their cloud products. Google is pro-linux because of muh cloud.

Windows isn't used as a hypervisor pretty much anywhere.

GoG because I can download stuff from torrents. Why would anyone chose to pay if you can get it for free?

SmartSteamEmu.

this.
I'll never give GoG a jew penny because all they did was repackage other people's cracks and charge for it. Fucking kike scum

>which floods you with advertisements
Excuse me?
>If you get b& hard, all your games are gone
This is the only real concern one can have, even then I've never heard of anyone loosing all their games

Yes? That's how selling games works.

>installers
I honestly don't understand that one, what do you need that just clicking the button doesn't do?
>cheating in multiplayer games.
don't do that. and really don't do that on your main account.
>MANY games don't let you play offline
Not steams fault if its the publishers who want you online. blames activision/EA/ubisoft ect ect
>advertisements
I don't see any myself, but I do have ad blocker on... so?

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Steam is good when you want to buy a game without mandatory steamworks integration. It's also good for the sheer choice you have. One would argue it's flooding the store in a case of quantity v quality, but it's variety at least. GOG is good because almost no game has DRM. It's got a poorer choice though.

That's not gog's problem, it's the developer that has to make the port certainly not the platform that sells it

>faggot
You now it's not Jow Forums anymore sweetie

>thinks he's intellectually superior
>watches anime

>I honestly don't understand that one, what do you need that just clicking the button doesn't do?
I think that guy wants the freedom to download the game independent of steam. I can understand it, though it would defeat the purpose of steam.

steam is only pro linux because they want their exclusive pie

This right here. With Good Old Downloads pirating gayms has never been easier.

>video games bad
>chinese cartoons good

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this desu [ imagine Jow Forums has spoiler]But I actually use it because Proton werks in most of my game library... [/imagine], I prefer GoG business model though.

I'd contend that promoting demand could help. I remember when steam rolled out the special linux tab, and blasted that pop-up showing off the 5 whole games they had. It as pretty fast that devs wanted in on that little special section.

I could imagine that if GoG wanted to, they could do something similar, with bundles or sales or whatever, that they could even subsidize on their back end somehow. Free advertisements alone is worth something.

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delet that m8 those brackets are embarrassing.

>charging and copywriting things that were being given away for free

dancing_rabbi.gif

nah im lazy

Clearly you haven't seen the capabilites of DXVK. DX11 is now running at native speed and DX12/Vulkan already run at native speed. Everything else can be brute forced.

To be honest everything has been going to shit with high production games. The last 2 years were so shit, I easily stopped altogether. And then there is that mobile trash that people waste their time and money on..

Because they spend a fuckton of time getting the license to sell it DRM free legally and make it compatible with newer systems? And because you are not a nigga and appreciate this positive development?

Gaijin HQ firebombed and the russian menace removed from the face of the earth when?

They weren't in the first place you brainlet. There is almost no copyright holding company that likes the idea of DRM free. That takes convincing. How can you not see who the controlling jews are with a fuckton of DRM on every little thing, and how do you equate removing that with the same?

>implying recent AAA titles aren't shit
>not knowing that Vulkan works just as well as DX12

Thought i was the only one who felt like this, or maybe it was because im growing up, but ive seen this sentiment around a lot recently so maybe not. Games have just been shit in general, huge cash grabs with no content, it's almost as fucked as the movie market with capeshit. I havent bothered upgrading my PC since 2015 because theres still enough games from around then that are really fun and dont have tons of launch issues, early access bullshit etc. Playing Mad Max rn, it's a ton of fun.

I just want to play games on/offline with the same simplicity I used to be able to play chuchu rocket with randos 18 years ago, and for that reason alone I default to GOG most of the time.

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C O P E

>I'd rather not be a fucking autist and keep playing games
hmmm yes okay

The demand for GOG Galaxy on Linux has been the most requested thing on their suggestion board for like 2 years, they just don't seem to give a fuck.

Linux game torrents?

I don't get why they wouldn't make a appimage/snap version with Proton in it.

fpbp

this. It sucks ass to find Linux game torrents. And once you find one it's usually dead. Humble bundle collection torrents are pretty active though.

This.
They also patch the games for compativility. Most of the time without even access to the source code of the game.
They are legal crackers!

Steam is too late in the linux game. They did too little too late for linux gaming. It's not in 2017 they should have launched proton, but back when they released steam for linux. It should have been the focus from day one, because obviously people wouldn't want to abandon the majority of their library for linux, and dual booting is just useless when you just can boot windows only and enjoy all your games.
To me, switching gaming to linux is a gradual process and valve preferred harvesting money doing jack shit rather than invest in making gaming on linux a standard. They did shitty projects like steamOS, steambox, steamcrap etc... And it fails, because it brought nothing on the table.

But at the same time, I'm happy vavle were lazy retards who lost the momentum on linux. Linux doesn't need this DRM cancer.

the linuxtard has a pathological fear of mouses because his obscure distro has no mouse drivers and every developer including himself is too lazy to program a GUI

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>ads in steam
Whenever you launch steam there's a window with ads thrown into your face, which you have to click away.
>you can lose your games
Of course it hasn't happened yet, but we are on Jow Forums here so we're usually concerned about future consequences (just like you get banned on many platforms for "wrongthink" i.e. non-popular political viewpoints). Remember when
people said they report all steam users with a Donald Trump profile picture?
>installers
So I can install a game without needing a "platform", just as it used to be back in the day when you bought CD's with games on them. GOG gives you that option to store installers on your harddrive.

Steam runs fine offline. That's how I play heavily modded porn skyrim without anyone noticing.

>steam shurs down
>all games lost.

Would like a gog like game store for android with ad-free and drm-free games.(not to mention virus-free and curated)
Would make it much easier to support game devs wanting to make actual good software.

it's one of the most useless hobbies. also, /v/ shits up Jow Forums.

Very unlikely. There is no incentive for them to stop printing money.

You say that today, but we don't know how things will be in 10, maybe 20 years. I know people who have a few thousand Euros of games in their steam library. There is no option for a backup. All that money would go poof.

>pointing and clicking the right way
>typing out shell commands the right way
linuxfags btfo

Has anyone been able to get proton working with non steam (cracked) games?

Just use github

>steam goes bankrupt gets hacked or whatever
>you no longer have access to all vidya you spent money on
>even vidya that you bought on a dvd won't work because they need to connect to steam

Steam DRM is literally nothing though and anyone can crack it.
If steam went bankrupt overnight everyone would just crack their games and continue playing.

Although I don't like dependence on Steam as a platform and don't like the DRM, it's so damn convenient with non-essential features that I rely on it.
Things like universal input mapping (with native support for modern gamepads built-in, icons and all), in-home streaming, direct game invites instead of IP addresses or hosting servers. Big Picture mode is the only usable 10-foot interface that "just werks" for me without having to set up every game individually, usually involving switching to mouse and keyboard to do so.
Basically I don't have the patience I had a few years ago to sit there and obsess about configuration details every time something needs changing or adding, and Steam lets me ignore that.

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>Remember when
>people said they report all steam users with a Donald Trump profile picture?
Ironic that you bring him up, because Gabe Newell has a higher net worth than him.

They aren't legal crackers, they legally distribute games with cracks. The distinction is that it's purely the work of other people with the accreditation stripped, but no cracker is going to the US courts to prove that stealing their work is wrongdoing.

What does this have to do with "Steam vs GOG"?

Maybe popular games, but not (insert obscure point and click adventure made by LITERALLY WHO here)

>hard drive failure
>disk rot
>modern hardware incompatible with old software
>mom throws the games away
All your games will be lost, no matter what you do.

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GoG is pro-linux as well

So that paper proves me right.

I'm all for anything that hurts Windows and or Microsoft.

I look forward to being able to go Nix fulltime without a 60% performance hit because OpenGL is java-tier and Nvidia/Amd Nix drivers are even worse than their window's counterparts.

>backups
>backups
>emulators and virtual machines
>adult
no drm, no problem

>no option for backup
with modern day forensics literally anything can be recovered

Freetards use neither because they are still proprietary software.
GNU/Stallman said Steam will bring more good than harm to GNU/Linux, as true freetards will not use it anyway but it may "lure" people from Windows to freedom. He also said that if you are going to play these games anyway you should do it from GNU/Linux to avoid the shit Windows comes with.

GOG was pro linux before steam was.

Linux has been destroying itself from within way before microsoft started helping.

>getting astroturfed by Red Hat
>"from within"

Reminder that Linus never cared about security.

Well on one side steam makes it easier for devs to support linux by providing unified libraries. On the other hand it encourages devs to do a half assed job releasing games for linux by making them only available through steam, doing shitty ports with directx > opengl translator and now proton. So it seems to me that gog is actually trying to get games working on linux (first through PoL scripts for platinum games, before steam was on linux, then through actual linux game versions), while steam is trying to just boost the numbers of games that 'work' ignoring that they usually work like shit.

Stallman literally stated that it doesnt matter if games are proprietary, as long as they dont have drm or different malicious functions included. I personally believe the engine should get released as foss after the product stops being supported (reaches eol) so the community can do proper patches.

literally Jow Forums

Steam is literally malware and botnet.

Where are these arguments coming from? Been having 4 years playing and I've never been experiencing any of this.

Really? Where do I download installers?

fuck off freetard