I had one of the entertainment packs. I since downloaded it again but I’m not sure where it is located now. Oh well, maybe I’ll download all of them and see when I have time for them.

Idiots.

“Never Play Defense,” right?

…I should’ve added the /s, come to think of it.

When are Denuvo games coming to GOG and itch.io? We feel extremely left out guys.

I counted up to 1499 days, but, huh.

“Do you like it there?” The one on the right says.

I live in a dictatorship that toppled dictators before, and this is the current permeating thought. Not “we’ll get rid of him” but rather “let’s wait it out.” And so you wait out a decade, two, three… Maybe it is over and the plans were arranged so his successor would take over instead.

Your thought is one of a people under a brutal dictatorship. So much for the championed first and second amendments, eh?

Am I going to have to wait 24 hours to open apps I already have installed? Will they all get auto-removed and need reinstalling?

At the start I would have thought this was possible but pretty ridiculous. Why would Google do any of that?

But it turns out this was not ridiculous, as Play Protect literally just removed Ankiconnect, an app I already had installed for months, without giving me the choice to keep it or axe it. They certainly could force us to go with their “Uncle Google can I have permission to use my phone?” flow for apps we already use.

WE MUST CONTINUE TO OPPOSE THESE CHANGES, THESE ATTACKS ON OUR ABILITY TO INSTALL APPS AS WE WISH.

I upvoted, and with this I commented.

I think you perfectly nailed it. When I go to a text article, I’m in charge of how fast or slow I want to take it, I can skip text, and a feature I really don’t use much is if the browser has a reading mode, which would remove all the stupid shit crammed into the site like the cookie bar or other things uBlock Origin doesn’t get.

It’s also that I only need to read. Videos might work with just listening but especially often they need me to also watch the feed. Way more effort so a guy can say things that I’ve already lost track of midway.

Really makes you think what if the people in the meme actually understood these bits. Oh what am I saying, they would and still insist this is the big bad.

Yeah, dictators are known for promising good things after enduring “just a few months of pain,” as this pain becomes the signature of their rule.

I hope this was worth it for you, Americans.

It kinda feels like that for me.

HECK YEAH

I hope Valve loses.

Hell on earth.

But i always thought GOG’S refund policy is more generous

Not to mention it they had it way before steam ever heard of refunds.

I wonder if people ever homebrew’d it to circumvent it (idk if this is even legal)

People have! Homebrewing it for piracy is definitely not legal, but you can hack it like any other PSP (okay technically you can get original homebrew for it kinda but not really legally). But if you’re a law abiding citizen, you can’t buy new digital games for it.

I think the only non-NSFW/NSFW-adjacent Game GOG gave out was Postal 2

Postal 2 was one of the games in the bundle I mentioned. HuniePop was included IIRC along other games like Fetish Locator. It was given away just after the other two stores caved in.

I considered not responding to this for a bit. I’ll just cave in, if not for you then for everyone else in the room.

If you haven’t watched the video, GOG has been dabbling in genAI for two years now, thanks to their Head of Product, who unironically replied to a tweet that said something along the lines of “I made 30k USD with Instagram AI girls, here’s how you can do it.” (Also he really likes the Nazi called Musk). They’ve generated banners with questionable to outright sloppy quality as well as other images.

It’s not farfetched to assume the next step will be to “start using AI tools to revitalize old games or use AI code to make old games compatible to work on modern OSes.”

So the best time to get mad is now, not later.

IIRC Didnt Visa and Mastercard pressure them

If they did, then they caved to them despite their wealth and resources. Meanwhile GOG gave away a bundle full of NSFW games and they’re also served by Visa and MC. AFAIK only they and itch.io publicly shot themselves here.

Paid mods?

A long while ago, they thought it was an okay idea and they actually sold mods for a short while before taking it out due to backlash. Skyrim was one of the games to have paid mods. I heard a year or two ago they were reconsidering the idea but I don’t remember the details. On that note, their mod store is locked to their own versions of most games, meaning that if Skyrim still had workshop mods (free or paid), you likely wouldn’t be able to download them for the GOG version of the game. I’m sure if Epic did this, I’ll be hearing all sorts of bloody murder all day.

i heard a government pressured them to doing this,yeah that sucks though

IIRC that was Australia. But even their refund policy now is shit. Two hours after you click launch on a game? GOG back then had a 14 day money back guarantee, now extended to a full 30 days refund policy.

Yeah that sucks to,but for me its fine for F2P Video games and if its not P2W

Worth noting P2W is a direct result of the F2P model that Valve has popularized in full fat PC games. Minecraft’s first April Fool’s joke is a parody of the TF2 store, long before its Bedrock Edition had a similar store for itself. It’s not a stretch to say they planted the seeds for games like Star Wars Battlefront 2017 which had you grind for too long of a time just to play the iconic Darth Vader.

and used games well i think the digital switch killed it

The killing started very slowly with HL2, which was the first physical game to require using steam keys to even be able to play it. Selling your copy of HL2 with a used key means the other person can’t legally play it. This practice really sped up with 2011’s PC physical version of Skyrim which did the same, and at that time many more games did it. Before long, we started seeing discs that don’t even have the game files. Microsoft tried to track and limit used games for the X1 console, but backtracked due to backlash. Bethesda continued “innovating” with the Fallout 76 cardboard disc. Now the practice has bled over to current gen consoles.

i think for non-DRM Games you can Still own it on Steam???

There are very few of these games and the only way to know about them is a community-made spreadsheet compiled through trial and error. Unlike GOG, they’re not guaranteed to stay DRM-free - they can suddenly become DRM’d at any moment.

but today no one even owns a disc drive, steam just won on convenience

Few people own disc drives because of the constant attacks on physical media and ability to own things, especially games. It’s not that they “won on convenience,” but rather they “won” by making it so physical games slowly become just a more expensive one time redeem key for digital copies… which you can spend money on right now with Humble and the likes without moving an inch or waiting for the order to arrive. If it wasn’t for them, we would own more of our games.