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[-] cupcakezealot 39 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

me: steam is terrible; it's just drm with a nice bow on top

steam: steam visual novel fest starts now

me: i love steam stuffs more items on my wishlist

(for real tho itch.io and gog are much better use them - and download the actual offline installers from gog don't use galaxy)

[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

GOG Galaxy isn't bad to use. It has cloud saves, and update checking - which is useful for some people. And games installed using the offline installers still show up in galaxy (and can be updated etc.) In fact, you can download the offline installers from the Galaxy app itself if you want to.

[-] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 4 months ago

@cupcakezealot wasn't Itch also American?

@Blaze

[-] cupcakezealot 1 points 4 months ago

yeah it wasn't necessarily an alternative; i was just saying they're better because they tend to support indie devs and/or are more drm free than steam. i didn't know of a purely non american one that i use :(

[-] petrescatraian@libranet.de 3 points 4 months ago

@cupcakezealot I like that they support indie creators as well, but Valve also did wonders in regard to gaming on Linux in general. I personally support both, as long as they are not supportive in any way to the current Trump administration.

[-] cupcakezealot 3 points 4 months ago

oh for sure it wasn't a dismissal of steam (which I have a large library and a steam deck) and more of a use itch.io and gog first of possible

[-] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 4 months ago

@cupcakezealot oh, I see

[-] Djinn_Indigo@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Apparently GOG is Polish. DRM free, too; the one time I used it it literally just gave me the raw game files, like back in the day.

[-] cupcakezealot 1 points 4 months ago

i didn't know they were polish but yup! for most games you can go into your account and download all the manuals and exes/pkgs for any game you own!

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