Does anyone have experience with playing Baldurs Gate 3 from GOG? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by Gnorv@feddit.de to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I have read it runs fine on steam but would rather buy it on GOG due to the lack of DRM.

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[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Could they not just support the Heroic Game Launcher and call it official? That's what I'd do. By support I mean mostly financial.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Sure! But by support I mean:

officially link to it and offer some level of customer support
at least financially contribute to it, and perhaps provide dev resources as well
provide Heroic developers access to pre-release versions of any new API they introduce so support could theoretically land day 1

But not being hostile toward it is not enough for me to call it "support," so I'm going to feel like a second-class citizen until GOG does something official.

[-] Privatepower42@fosstodon.org 1 points 1 year ago

@sugar_in_your_tea @Holzkohlen heroic doesn’t have a forum or an accessible place to get support. It’s AI and then discord or GitHub. Contact needs to be easier. Gog feels like I’m buying from a emulator site with no human contact for help

[-] Privatepower42@fosstodon.org 0 points 1 year ago

@sugar_in_your_tea @Holzkohlen so DRM free on steam is legit as it is on gog? If so, then I I just buy it on steam and not need a launcher or have any worries about not owning the purchase.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

YMMV of course, but I've played several Steam games without Steam running at all when my kids were playing on my account on another computer. I just killed the Steam process and ran the games from the commandline, and it worked fine.

These were Linux native games, so I'm not exactly sure on the best method to play Windows games without Steam (I guess lutris like anything else, but I haven't needed to).

[-] 0mega@social.c-r-t.tk 2 points 1 year ago

@sugar_in_your_tea @Privatepower42 I've got some tar.xz compressed archives with win32 or win64 Steam games and Proton on my NAS. Sometimes one needs to replace the steam_api.dll or steam_api64.dll if the game relies upon it but it works most of the time. I'm downloading them with steamcmd.

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