Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option

• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I backup my own saves, don’t really trust someone elses computer to do as good of a job as I can myself. Wrote a script to automate it.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do you not have to update that script every time you play a new game? Cloud saves are pretty automatic, and regardless of platform, they’ve been pretty reliable too. It also fits that use case that you go to a friend’s place and want to show them something in your save file on a whim.

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    • overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Syncthing?

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, that’s what I use when I need it for GOG saves. But typically, every game puts their save file in a different spot, so you do need to do a one-time setup for each individual game.

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Typing backup “Game” “/path/to/files” is pretty simple though. I wouldn’t complain about cloud saves existing, but I won’t rely on them and absolutely wouldn’t pay for them.

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  • tauren@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s great, but maybe we should stop talking about you. People pay for Steam, Netflix and many other services because they don’t want to write scripts. They want something convenient and easy to use. They also want additional functionality. You said how you back up save files, but nothing about achievements, time tracking, friends, screenshots sharing, etc.

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  • M137@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And you just ignored the rest of the reasons, and to add to those: automatic updates.

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• metaldream@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You don’t need to manage the exe files. Just ideal heroic launcher. You can access and install your whole GOG library from there, and you can configure each game with different versions of wine, if you need to.

  You can even sync the game saves as well, although last time I tried the save sync was a bit clunky.

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  • stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah I’ve used heroic launcher, but a native launcher is still preferred. I like the GOG launcher on windows.

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• rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because there is no linix client some games that use these features do not release their linux version on gog due to their company’s feature parity policies.

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