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[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Acceptable. It is a game worth owning outright in itself.

[–] Spyvr -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Owning." Unless you purchased a physical copy.

[–] 9715698 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] owenfromcanada 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 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 11 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 11 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.

[–] CobblerScholar 42 points 11 months ago (39 children)

Thought it was weird to release brand new games straight to gamepass to begin with

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago

Good. Fuck subscriptions.

[–] Thcdenton 14 points 11 months ago

"I know what I got"

[–] echoplex21 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean MS would have to shell out bookoo bucks for this to come to GamePass anytime soon. Probably a year or two down the line. Regardless Larian isn’t going to say they’re putting it on GP as it would slow down sales on the platform during the holidays.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

what is a ' bookoo buck ' ?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] sploosh 4 points 11 months ago

Bone apple tea.

[–] SuspiciousPumpkin421 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s an American saying, basically meaning a lot of money in this case. You can use bookoo to mean a lot of any thing really.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No, it's a French weird, beaucoup, that has made its way to English vernacular. For example, "merci beaucoup" means "thanks a lot."

Either the OP doesn't know that, or didn't bother actually looking up the spelling.

[–] SuspiciousPumpkin421 2 points 11 months ago

Huh. Well yeah I never knew that either, growing up in the South that was a pretty common saying with a similar spelling to how I wrote it originally(being the south the misspelling makes total sense now haha). Nice to know where it comes from though. Thanks for the info!

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

"Bookoo", derived from the French Bucchane, for smoked meat; this is also the origin of the word "buccaneer", as they generally live in it while at sea.

[–] Telodzrum 5 points 11 months ago

Makes sense, I love GamePass for titles without significant replay value anything else is a value-add. BG3 is hugely replayable.

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