Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

• doublah@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  For most people, that’s not the case if the alternative solution is worse or less convenient.

  Every piece of free software that has ever attained some level of mainstream success and popularity has done so by offering a better product, not something worse with the excuse of “well at least we’re not proprietary”.

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  • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    GOG allows you to download an unprotected installer. I don’t think they will ever go beyond that in the name of fair use and big publishers are reluctant enough to release on GOG. You were about to use a 3rd party app anyway, Discord. Just use WeTransfer or another filehoster/cloud service to send the file.

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    • doublah@sopuli.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      See that’s kind of my point, when we’re on the 100th “oh just use this other external service/software”, most users (myself included) are just going to stick to the simple solution that just works.

      Being able to just access family and friends games straight from my library without wasting all that time having to ask beforehand, manual downloads and file management/transfers and lack of cloud saves like it’s still the 90s is worth whatever moral cost you associate with using a piece of proprietary software.

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      • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I kinda miss the 90s

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