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The last games I purchased are Dave the Diver and BG3. Those games have something in common:
All other titles I simply pirate. Here are my reasons:
Regarding this:
Once upon a time, I pirated Subnautica. Played for 10 minutes and realized "fuck it" and I bought both games. Realised that this is going to be a loooong game for me. No regrets supporting the company - those became one of my favorite games of all time.
For me, paying 20-60 eur (depending on a game) is fine and using Steam is more convenient, but in most cases - piracy is usually more convenient to me. :)
Dave the Diver is published by Nexon so you should absolutely pirate it.
BG3 has an external launcher. At least in the GOG version. You don't need to sign in though and I believe it still works DRM-free.
You can add a launch param to go straight into the game though.
Really? I changed my shortcut to go directly to an exe rather than through GOG, I still get the Larian launcher come up. Maybe I need to choose a different exe?
No, it is just a launch parameter on the .exe file
It works in steam for certain, maybe it will work as a launch parameter on the .exe. Just add it at the end of
Target
in the shortcut properties, so it should look like this:"game_location\bin\bg3.exe" --skip-launcher
Maybe that might work with the GOG launcher shortcut, depends if GOG use the same syntax.
I just checked though and I was running LariLauncher.exe, which is what GOG normally directs to. I guess I just didn't check, I think there was a shortcut already in the install folder and I copied that and replaced the GOG shortcut. In the bin folder there's bg3.exe and bg3_dx11.exe, those are the real game files.
I'll add that the DX11 version is reportedly offering more stable performance, unless you really want to use Vulkan, it should be preferred.
Idk, I have the steam version, maybe it is slightly different.