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That lawsuit against Steam’s 30% cut of game sales is now a class action, meaning many other developers could benefit (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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[–] TriflingToad 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I won't use GOG till they make Linux use easy.
Bought Skyrim and Doom II then proceeded to spend 45 minutes struggling to getting them to work. Decided that it wasnt worth the effort when Steam just works™️ and bought them there.

Id prefer if valve took less from developers but I value being able to actually play my games more than I value a couple bucks. Also their cloud saves make multi device gaming so much better. If steam eventually enshittifies and takes my games away I'll just pirate them and struggle with 'Wine' then.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Heroic Games Launcher and/or Lutris are what you're looking for on Linux.

With HGL it's simply login and install GOG, Epic Games and Amazon Games games like Steam games. No huge issues I've ever really run into.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

for GOG Games you can use the process i described here; just download the offline installers and go from there.

(just a small remark: lutris sometimes chooses the wrong executable to run, especially with unity games (it tends to select the crashhandler instead of the game exe) - if you run the game and nothing happens, check the settings.