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Guildo@feddit.de 6 months agoIs there any platform or medium where I can buy locally stored and DRM-free software? Even if I buy a game on disc I am fucked, cause most games need updates. I can only name GOG.
PleasantAura@lemmy.one 6 months ago
nomecks@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Buy the disc, put it on a shelf and download a clean copy.
TAG@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Humble (the company that sells Bundles) has some games listed as DRM free games in their store. Never bought individual games from them, but I have gotten DRM free games in their bundles.
Also, fuck GOG. They are owned by CD Project Red, the piece of shit lawyers who trademarked the term cyberpunk.
healthetank@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Pretty sure they bought the trademark from the company who owned it previous (for a 1980s era board game if I recall correctly). They bought it to prevent shitty 2077 clones with the same name from popping up. I haven’t heard of them actively pursuing copyright infringement against others who use cyberpunk.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
2077 and its spinoffs are literally set in the boardgame universe and an updated rulebook was released at the same time as the game.
2077 and Edgerunners are just stories set in the setting and universe from the boardgame. The Arasaka Tower Heist, Johnny Silverhand, Morgan Blackhand, all the corps, gangs, and cyberware are right from the boardgame. The story had heavy involvement from the creator of the board game as well. For fucks sake he does the voice of Maximum Mike on the in game radio.
Did people not realize that Cyberpunk 2077 is just another Witcher situation, but this time the original author wanted to stay a part of things?
TAG@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Just because they are not openly pursuing enforcement does not mean that they will not. Just the audacity to trademark a generic term widely used in media discussion makes me think that they are being represented by scumbag lawyers.
healthetank@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
The term has been trademarked since 1995 for different uses. This isn’t anything new and there’s no signs they intend to use it aggressively. trademarks.justia.com/…/cyberpunk-85681741.html
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
The fuck are you talking about wrt Cyberpunk? It was already the trademarked name of the boardgame that all this new shit draws from, the boardgame that coined the fucking term in the first place.
TAG@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They purchased the trademark from the old role playing game and then expanded it, if I recall.
The RPG did not invent the term. It was riding the hype of cyberpunk literature. The first use of the term is from 1980 (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cyberpunk). According to Wikipedia, the game did not come out until 1988 (…m.wikipedia.org/…/Cyberpunk_(role-playing_game) ).
yamanii@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What are you even talking a out, there are plenty of games with cyberpunk in the tittle on steam.
TAG@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And CD Project Red has the right to sue those publishers.
Of course, if they do and the other side chooses to fight, they will have to explain to a judge why the trademark was granted to them despite a mountain of prior art describing games as cyberpunk.
HerrBeter@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Muh witcher
echo64@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Most games don’t need updates
Guildo@feddit.de 6 months ago
Have you played any new games recently?
echo64@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes, most games are better with patches. Most games do not need patches. And most games come out just fine, the big AAAs that push consoles often have a patch that is worth caring about.
I played through the most recent yakuza game without a patch recently. Was great.
Guildo@feddit.de 6 months ago
Ok, if you think most games don’t need them, then I hope that you’re enjoying bugs. 10/20 years ago games were unfinished, too - but you were able to download and SAVE an update. This is nearly impossible, now.
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Correct, most indie and AA games ship complete
theneverfox@pawb.social 6 months ago
Not much of a gamer lately, huh?
Updates are always an option now, so games are no longer released in a very stable state. And by not very stable, I mean “crashes immediately with X company hardware”, “frame rate drops to 1 frame/s in certain areas”, or “quest line is bugged and incompletable”
Day one updates generally aren’t optional… With a publisher who values polish like Nintendo? Generally they’re playable, but a bit rough. On average, they’re literally impossible to play through. It’s a real problem in modern gaming
echo64@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I played through the most recent yakuza game without a patch recently. Was great.
theneverfox@pawb.social 6 months ago
Ok, but that’s Yakuza. Their team is great and cares a lot about quality. They’re hardly a representative example, but…
I just scanned through their update log. A week after launch, they fixed a crash when you deleted a picture from the photo album. Another couple weeks later, they fixed one where the game would crash intermittently. A few weeks later, they fixed a bug where the game wouldn’t boot if you unlocked all the achievements. And it keeps going, more than a year later they fixed a crash during a quest if you have an inconsistent frame rate
There’s a lot more, but I just scanned through looking for crash fixes - there’re also many issues with graphics that would make the game unplayable with certain setups
Also, I noticed the first patch is 1.02, making me believe the “unpatched” game actually included the day 1 patch
Maybe the release version worked for you, but it didn’t work for everyone (or maybe your version included patches you’re unaware of)
And again, this is an example of a highly polished game - most games are far, far worse
lloram239@feddit.de 6 months ago
Is there any platform or medium where I can buy locally stored and DRM-free software?
Steam, but you’ll have to manually search around the forums to see which games does it and which doesn’t. It’s not exactly a well advertised feature, but integration of Steamworks copy protection is optional. But most of the games that are DRM-free on GOG are DRM-free on Steam too.
luthis@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
Given the recent controversy, it calls into question the definition of the word ‘buy.’
GOG is the only one that I know of too.