• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    16·
    5 days ago

    Up front caveat: My account is on the pro-piracy instance. This isn’t some corporate boot licking bullshit, pirate it all. Just an attempt to educate.

    From a purely legal standpoint, purchasing from GoG is still only purchasing a license for a game, no different from Steam, Epic, any other online game storefront, and no different from buying physical.

    All game purchases, for decades, have only been purchases of a license. Seriously. Go check the back of Super Nintendo game manuals.

    The benefit of GoG is that you don’t have to remove the DRM yourself, and they usually include patches to keep old software working on modern machines.

    But Steam and other storefronts can’t stop you from stripping the DRM from purchases once they’re on your machine anyway.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      From a purely legal standpoint, purchasing from GoG is still only purchasing a license for a game, no different from Steam, Epic, any other online game storefront, and no different from buying physical.

      All game purchases, for decades, have only been purchases of a license.

      WRONG!

      It’s true that GoG is exactly like Steam is exactly like buying a physical disk, but none of those things are “licenses!” In all of the cases, you are buying an individual copy of the game, not “licensing” a damn thing! It’s exactly the same as buying any other piece of media going all the way back to paper books, and nobody (honest and sane) is trying to bullshit us about those being “licensed.”

      “Licensed, not sold” is 100% a lie in service of the copyright cartel.

      It’s a shame, because your comment was otherwise correct and excellent except for that one crucial point.

  • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.todayEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    I’d be glad to support them, but I unfortunately can’t support any gaming company because I suck at anything more complicated than casual stuff. I wish it were different because a lot of these games sure look interesting.

    • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      5 days ago

      GOG is probably your best option out of many…games were nowhere near as complicated in the 90s and early 2000s (in general) and they literally specialize in…Good Old Games.

      Sure there are complicated older games too (and they still carry modern games) but you’re going to have better luck with older games.

      Here’s a classic recommendation from GOG - Epic Pinball. Dead simple, great retro feel, fantastic music.

      • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        Well, pinball is my jam - still kinda casual, IMHO. I was thinking more of those that tell a story & have lots of gameplay mechanics - I’m too old, and never could get used to or comfortable with managing camera angles & all that kinda stuff that uses so many more controls than we had in my day. A joystick/pad & at most a few buttons is all I was used to until adulthood demanded that I had extremely little time for games anymore for a few decades.

        • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          I’d argue there’s still plenty of recent-ish games with simple controls you might enjoy.

          Like Paper’s Please for instance. It does get complicated but not control-wise.

          In general many puzzle games are very simple control-wise. https://enclose.horse/ is one of my favorite web puzzle games for instance.

    • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      Only way to get better at anything is to do more of it. One of the ways I got good at a lot of genres was playing games with cheats and trainers. It took away the threat of dying and let me just learn how to move around and work the controls as a kid. A lot of modern games don’t let you do this, but if you go back to the 2000s, almost all those games had cheats or trainers and are far simpler to play. And GoG is just the place for those old games.

  • drosophilaEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    Reminder that a GOG representative:

    • Sent out a promotional email containing the double lightning bolt / ‘SS’ and black sun nazi symbols.

    • Admitted that they knew what they were doing before sending it, and chose not to send the email to German users (where it could get them in legal trouble).

    • Lied about their SS symbols being the sowilo rune when that’s not the Unicode symbol they used.

    Seriously, look at this:

    Their explanation is very very clearly paper thin BS to try and cover up their dogwhistle. And given that this person hasn’t been fired and their actions disavowed I can only assume the rest of the company stands behind them.

    So yeah. Don’t give your money to a bunch of nazis.