Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now

• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Seamless steam deck support is my guess

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• simple@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can still play Steam games without Steam. They only put basic protection on the files that can be very easily bypassed (and yes, it's legal). See: Steam Goldberg emu

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  • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And even that basic protection is optional. There are a few games on Steam that have no DRM at all, Witcher 3 (but for some reason not the remaster) and Baldurs Gate 3 for example.

    pcgamingwiki.com/…/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games…

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• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Buying on GOG is always the play whenever the option is available.

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  • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can you believe how compact the download is? They spent that long building in the age of incredibly bloated games, and it would fit on a game disc from back when my voice hadn’t cracked yet.

    And despite being a mere handful of gigs, it still broke every major platform on release.

    Fuck, what a great day.

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    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, I was merely speaking in general, I didn’t actually buy Silksong! 😅 The combination of being prohibitively difficult and having tons of tricky platforming (I hate platforming) means I’m just doing like with Hollow Knight and staying away to save myself the frustration.

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      • biscuit@lemdro.id ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Agree with this - I wanted to love Hollow Knight so much, and there was a lot I did love about it, but I really struggle with that specific type of 2d platformer.

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      • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We all have our thing. I love From Soft games even though I suck at them. I do alright in platformers though.

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• mohab@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gog’s def the better choice here.

  Depends on your region. GOG doesn't have regional pricing.

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• obazdaa@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well gog doesn’t have a Linux client though, while steam really does a lot for Linux gaming. I used to prefer gog but I’m back to steam for now.

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  • AnomanderRake@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This happened to me as well. I used to buy anything I could from Gog, but after getting a Steam Deck and switching to Linux on my home PC I went back to Steam due to Gog’s refusal to support Linux.

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I personally prefer using a browser, so it’s not a major issue for me. Though I don’t like gog’s interface much.

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