Comment on The Witcher III is currently on sale for 3€ until 25th May

• underline960@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  • It’s DRM-free.
  • It’s (one of?) the only platforms that cares about preserving old games.

  If you prefer the Steam launcher (I do), you can always buy with GOG and launch with Steam.

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  • MrShankles@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do you have a source on how to do this? I keep seeing that you have to use Heroic Launcher or Lutis. I just want to buy games on GOG and then play them on my steam deck, but haven’t had time to figure out the best way to go about it

    Also, do GOG games only save to internal memory and not the SD card? I read that it one article, but don’t know if that’s still true.

    I’m still figuring out everything I can do with my steam deck, I just don’t have as much time as I used to, to REALLY tinker around with it

    I’m not a tech guru, but pretty familiar with linux and ok with using CLI (though I’ve never needed it on steam deck, just a point of reference for my comfortability)

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    • underline960@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you set your Steam Deck to desktop mode, the process is the same as on Windows.

      Click on “Games” in the top menu bar, then click “Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library.”

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      • domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Heroic also has a handy “Add to Steam” shortcut for each game:

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    • PillowTalk420@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      From Steam’s main interface:

      Games>Add non-steam game to library

      Point it at the executable you want to add (you can select multiple programs from the big list if it automatically shows up, or manually look for it from the button at the bottom)

      Boom. It’s on Steam now. You can then go to SteamGridDB and get art assets to make it look nicer than a plain gray rectangle with the default font.

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      • MrShankles@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Is there any benefit to using the heroic launcher vs just downloading the game from GOG with the steamdeck’s browser and adding them to Steam? Like any patches or updates for the game would have to be done manually if not using heroic?

        I’m starting to think I should use Heroic for ease of access and then adding whichever one’s I want to play at the time as a Non-steam game from there. But wasn’t sure what the pros and cons are. I appreciate the info

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  • orochi02@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I dont mean poliethical reasons I meant actual technical(?) reasons like more content or better support for something or Idk. Good arguments tho

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  • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    PSA: Steam version is also DRM-free.

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• SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  100% of money goes to cdpr

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• Artopal@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To give the developers the whole price of the game instead of 1/3 to Steam. And to really own the game (the installers executables). GOG has sales of the Witcher games all the time.

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