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how do you choose between two lauchers? steam amd gog through heroic? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/linux_gaming
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With the use of Heroic game launcher, I’m wondering if you all preferred to play your GOG version of games over the Steam version. I can go either way but sometimes I pause and think, having two copies of the same game, one on steam and one on GOG, which one would give me a better gaming experience. For example, I may choose the GOG version because I don’t have to deal with pre-shader work being downloaded every so often. I can just into my games. Yet, Steam achievements and seeing the game’s metadata is always life: seeing the game info, store page, community stuff about the game, and more all there. So what do you chose? GOG game or the Steam game.

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[–] CodexArcanum 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I tend to prefer the Steam version if I have both, mainly as you say for acbievments and keeping my playtime all in one place. But also the community forums and guides are nice sometimes, and easily accessible with the steam ui.

GoG I'll pick (and mainly purchase towards) older games and nostalgic favorites where lack of drm feels more important to me. Those often don't have achievements and such anyway.

Funny enough, I get pretty annoyed about that playtime tracking thing. I wish there was like a last.fm scrobbler but for games. Before my SteamDeck, I rebought several games on Switch because I liked the portability. So now my playtime on those is split across multiple devices. Ah well, truly first world problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's a freaking interesting idea, about the scrobbler.

[–] CodexArcanum 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I said it and then got to thinking about it and I'm not sure it'd be that difficult. For PC games anyway, consoles (especially Nintendo) would probably require self reporting.

But Discord seems to be aware of what I'm playing (steam integration?) so theoretically a "game scrobbler" could work through that too? I think if such a service was created, it could also be neat to add community-driven achievements and stats tracking.

Ah, maybe a fun side project to dig into sometime...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That actually reminds me of RetroAchievements. Some modern emulators have an integration with it and they track play time and achievements. I am not sure if it works for any game but in theory a standalone scrobbler could be written.

https://retroachievements.org/

https://retroachievements.org/user/brunofin