Yeah I’ve used heroic launcher, but a native launcher is still preferred. I like the GOG launcher on windows.

Cloud saves, achievements, and tracking hours is something I do like. I have over a 100 GOG games, so individually managing exe files isn’t something I really want to do.

Yep buying used is the route to go to not directly source a company with new revenue.

Every comment can be argued to be an attempt to try to convince people of a certain viewpoint.

Including this one pointing out the comment posted was a long laid out argument trying to change someone’s perspective of current events. ha

I hope for a Linux phone to pop up and become widespread someday. Maybe if Android emulation on Linux improves so people can at the very least use Android apps while running Linux a phone like that might become a possibility in the future.

I think reason Valve die hards don’t care about the loot box portion is because they are the type more likely to be using Valve to buy games so spend more of their time buying and playing individual games.

The ones most exposed to loot boxes seem to be the ones who are the type to only play 1 or 2 games, and are fully invested in live service titles and is a majority of their gaming time.

So likely very different demographics when it comes to type of games they play and what they spend. One leaning more towards in game virtual goods than outright buying games. So it’s a group that can be completely unknown to game collectors.

It’s more people like Valve as a service than liking Gabe. Helps that it is a private company so not beholden to stockholders and has a reasonable amount of employees for a more sustainable business. Not that it can’t all go to shit, but I trust publicly traded companies even less when it comes to having to rake over consumers to keep increasing stock prices.

GOG providing installers is absolutely amazing.

It’s a launcher successful on the most popular OS in the world that they don’t even own that anyone can come in to compete at. And had decades to do so when “PC gaming was dead” so was wide open for anyone that wanted to try to reach potential customers over fixating on the console demographic. What more do want.

It doesn’t even come pre-installed with Windows.

Yeah even apple is talking about potentially introducing ads into maps when their whole positioning of premium price has meant premium product and experience.

But the pressure of continual stock increases means company has to keep chasing exponential growth as opposed to being content with sustainable growth.

GOG codes are the absolute best.

Mods sometimes another person’s save if playing the final ending requires bunch of collecting I don’t want to do like Arkham Knight.

How much of that was Fortnite was what I immediately wondered, since that’s just a Fortnite launcher for most people.

From what’s been seen checks and balances no longer exists in the US and is moving towards authoritarianism, and threatening allies is not normal. And enemy in the west is more of a concern for a lot of people due to proximity.

Any country undergoing a huge purge and closures would be raising alarms, and it is more worrying because of the huge military and economic influence and power of the US.

Windows 11 ltsc is route I’ll probably go when forced to upgrade. At least it won’t have the sign in crap.

Whatever happens on mobile has ended up being adopted onto traditional gaming platforms down the line. My first encounter with stuff like IAPs was on mobile and lot of people’s first introduction to gaming these days is mobile games, so next generation will be more open to it.

PS4 was when I switched to PC for a majority of my games except exclusives. I refused to pay for PS+ to play online, since I enjoyed my free online on the PS3 the past Gen.

Picked up a long hdmi cable back then so I could enjoy the couch gaming experience when I felt like it. So that stopped being a selling point for consoles for my use case.

Thing is even if people are in queue with the intention of scalping with multiple IDs or whatever the nice part of a queue system is that all you have to do is wait for your queue to come up.

When I put in my queue for evga and steam deck I just forgot about it until my time came up months later. Didn’t have to keep refreshing or wait in line or care about stock.

That’s the beauty of queue for people who care less about getting it immediately but that they can guarantee themselves one without having to actively search the product out.

Why don’t more companies do what Steam did with Steam Deck or Evga used to do of putting people in a queue so they can buy without having to fight scalpers at brick and motor stores or bots online?

It has been the best system I’ve experienced, since whether it takes days, weeks, or months I know that when my time comes I can buy my product without having to beat out other people.

I’m not approaching it from a position of business analysis and how it is good for their stocks.

Just as a consumer where how much Nintendo makes is irrelevant to how it impacts my cost of gaming.

Biggest problem of Nintendo systems has been how the prices of games just don’t fall at the same rate. So even if the console is cheap price quickly goes past the the lifetime cost of Sony or PC even if the initial cost for both systems are higher.

Never because I’m cheap and also I don’t want to pay a premium for a buggy unoptimized experience. Even when I had the game pass trial I didn’t play games day 1, since games needed several patches to be acceptable.

I think they can be used to reclaim your steam account if you lose access, so that’s why I like to keep mine. And it’s neat.

Is this patch needed for shadps4? Or just ps4 and ps5 jailbreak users?

Maybe there’s a chance those games will come to GOG now that there isn’t the psn requirement.

Ah that makes sense. I just ended up filtering out the tone of the title and just took in info of Stardew Valley support and Haunted Chocolatier.

Lot of writers suck when they try to angle something that is positive with negative undertones.

I’m very confused. I’m searching for the angry gamers but don’t even see comments in the article posted. Who is being ranted at? Is there some widespread drama I’m being left out of?

Playing on a high refresh display with frames higher than 60 might help too.

What hurts GOG is its stance on DRM, since companies don’t want games to be DRM free. It leads to late releases if it does come out leading to missing out on a lot of the purchases associated with hype. Leads to less games being sold at full price which happens most at launch with games having to rely on discounts older they get.

It’ll eventually be included in a giveaway anyways like Control was. So if I haven’t bought it by now I’m fine waiting for the giveaway.

I think if I wanted to play EA games online back in the day on PS3 I had to make an account and sign in and I remember how annoying as shit it was trying to type in a password and email with a controller.

I’m saying I believe mobile gaming has played a stronger role in pushing the industry towards the freemium model.

With mobile gaming becoming bigger than consoles and PC combined years ago and it wasn’t through selling titles.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/05/27/mobile-games-spending/

Point is traditional gamers overlook the juggernaut that is mobile gaming, since they are only fixated on consoles and PC not realizing how absolutely financially huge mobile gaming is on its own, and showed that the model is extremely effective by overtaking consoles and PC.

Consoles were and still are more mainstream than PC with some companies claiming PC gaming is dying for so long that is took a long time for other companies to start giving a go at a storefront on PC.

I just don’t really buy the Steam factor, since most people’s exposure to mtx, iap, and in game ads has been through mobile gaming. Like if they don’t even play CS or TF2 they don’t even know about it at all which would be someone like me, but mobile gaming has been so easily accessible that even “non gamers” like old people were sucked into stuff like bejeweled.

Most games have also been console ports to PC than the other way around too. Steam and PC emergence has felt like more a recent thing that started taking hold last gen with companies finally coming around to porting stuff to PC.

That’s not to say they haven’t had a hand in it, but it seems overstated with rise in the freemium model across platforms being the main driver. Even the concept of gacha existed before video games.

Yeah, I don’t think lot of gamers realize just how huge the mobile gaming market is and how influential it is with other companies following trends of proven money makers.

Like Apple ranked third in gaming revenue with 15.3 billion in 2021, and traditional gamers wouldn’t think of Apple when it comes to gaming.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/05/31/apple-earner-the-third-most-gaming-revenue-in-2021-outpacing-microsoft-nintendo

Wasn’t it more mobile gaming that had a bigger impact on mtx and loot boxes with games there having consumers less willing to pay more than 99 cents at the time and having to rely on the freemium model as well as having an enormous user base with the accessibility of smartphones?

I keep hearing tf2 and cs go but maybe it’s because I got into PC games late, but had no clue about loot boxes. And average gamer or last least the younger ones grew up playing consoles and then mobiles games more than PCs at the time aside from PC only games like league of legends, cs, and so on.

One story based game at a time to focus on that alongside a coop or pvp game like The Finals.

It’s my only charger other than my iPad that delivers a high wattage, so I use it and happy for it.

I claim everything since free is free. But I don’t have the launcher installed, since I have a lot of other games to play so haven’t gotten around to it.

Yeah, consumers didn’t kill it the companies did. Same with audio jacks and SD slots. All things to push towards buying accessories, storage upgrades, and pushing people towards buying new phones as battery related issues pop up by making battery swaps an extra hassle needing servicing.

Seems to be other games too

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-11-24h2-update-break-ubisoft-games/d0917345-7f2a-4972-8d5b-99d2f9be1b28

https://www.techspot.com/news/105709-windows-11-24h2-update-breaks-ubisoft-games-fix.html

On another note being subbed to similar communities across fediverse kind of makes articles that popped up a day ago and sometimes longer show up again give me feelings of deja vu.