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Baldur's Gate 3 'Isn't Going to be on Game Pass', Insists Larian Boss (www.ign.com)
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[–] Spyvr -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Owning." Unless you purchased a physical copy.

[–] 9715698 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It launches without Steam running. Steam is required to download it but otherwise it's DRM free.

[–] owenfromcanada 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Laughs in GOG

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The main benefit GOG provides is their installers, which you can backup yourself. DRM-free Steam games don't, so you'd need to package up the files yourself (usually all in the steam directory).

That's not a huge advantage imo, so I generally take the convenience of Steam over GOG, especially since I use Linux and GOG hasn't bothered to port their client to my platform. Regardless, DRM-free is better.

[–] owenfromcanada 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use lutris to manage my games, which is decently integrated with GOG. I ended up installing Galaxy for Baldur's Gate 3 because of the frequency of updates, but I mostly use the installers directly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

That's fair.

I prefer to buy from platforms that actively support me instead of leaving it to the community. Valve invests a lot of time and money into improving Proton/WINE, and they build in useful features like controller configuration into their platform.

If GOG supported Galaxy on Linux, I'd probably buy more from them. But they don't, and I have a Steam Deck, so I prefer Steam.