I love old keygen software and fucking 2000/xp era aesthetic so much

I can resell the Camry I bought, but I cannot copy the complete design of Toyota's Camry, build it and sell it as such.

What is this nonsense about Linux compaitibility? They have tons of Linux compatible games. On any game you own they let you download a Linux version if it exists.

Legally, you own a copy of a book if you buy the book even if you don't also buy the copyright for the book, so wouldn't be allowed to make copies (beyond the single backup copy your allowed to make in case the first is damaged that you're required to destroy if you ever stop owning the one you bought). This also applied to physical copies of video games, at least when they were new. In the US, this is part of what's known as the First Sale Doctrine, but other territories typically have stone equivalent even if it doesn't have a name.

About a century ago, book publishers tried putting a licence in copies of books and claiming that if you bought them, you were only buying the licence, but stopped after courts decided that you'd still bought a copy of the book and a copy of the text of the licence, but hadn't become party to the licence. When game (and other software) publishers tried it later, they were basically just allowed to, even though there's not really anything that makes the First Sale Doctrine any less applicable to games than books.

I don't like how it insists on admin privileges

They don't have a Linux version of their launcher, and don't have a system to automatically configure Wine/Proton for games without native Linux support, which is most of their library. There's nothing in the licence of Wine or Proton that would stop them just reusing Valve's work, which is why third party launchers like Heroic can do it.

Are they compressible? You might have luck gzip or bzip2 compressing the .exe files.

Fair enough, I've never really thought of GoG as a launcher, to me it was always more of a storefront.

I actually play most GoG games on Steamdeck through Heroic Launcher and only ever had minor issues with the games not registering SD controls.

I see your point, a few years ago while playing Halo on the xbox a guy said he pwned me. I later learned that pwned stood for owned. Since then I'd been worried that I got cloned (copied). Thank you for clarifying.

Oh, I'm using Heroic for that too, it works well enough. But I was using GoG launcher before switching to Linux, even for Steam games and other storefronts. I would like to keep using it on Linux, hence my previous comment.

I appreciate the enormous work Valve has done for Linux gaming, but I'm also somewhat concerned about Steam being the only storefront that also combines with a Proton-compatible launcher. GoG could be a real competition if they added that option.

Am not certain. I'm just holding fast with the two games I have - No Man's Sky just did another massive update and has a ton of new shit to do so I'm faffing around with the new space base building parts (too cool for words!) and enjoying the hell out of it for now.

I try to buy off GOG whenever I can.
Great platform.

Apparently it's got more to do with Publishers not giving GOG the attention it deserves. They don't opt in on setting up regional pricing.

Gog could do more I think, like defaulting it to on, and encouraging publishers.

They could adopt something like a purchasing power parity rates table.

But I also think that Publishers don't want to see GOG succeed.

they should just chip in some $ to help Heroic

Baffling how much of the gamer community lines up to suck Gabe Newell's billionaire cock when GOG is out there doing it way better

the autistics are fiiiightiiiiingggggg

GOG first, but If i buy it on steam and I lose access to it, I will find a working copy.

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/gog/comments/1txlz7z/hey_gog_wtaf/opxsir6/?context=3

https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/fashware

Without this billionaire we wouldn't have had Linux gaming

Given this, his recent stance on Trump is bigoted and steam's contract with Palantir was coming out of nowhere.