• recall519@lemm.eeEnglish
    10 months

    We need a Linux GOG Galaxy, not another mod marketplace. This seems like it’s in preparation for Skyblivion.

    • Don_alForno@feddit.orgEnglish
      10 months

      Heroic works better than Galaxy does in Windows. They should just pay the Heroic devs for their work and make that their official launcher.

        • Don_alForno@feddit.orgEnglish
          10 months

          So does Galaxy?

          Let’s say I have not yet had to do a full reinstall of Heroic and multiple associated games because something got unfixably (for my level of understanding) borked during an update.

          • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
            10 months

            So does Galaxy?

            Heroic is a community “we hope it’s useful but don’t complain when it doesn’t” product.

            With Galaxy you are a paying customer who has rights.

            • Don_alForno@feddit.orgEnglish
              10 months

              Galaxy is free and not required. If it doesn’t work you can download games from the website (which I consider an important feature). I’m pretty sure you don’t have any rights whatsoever.

              Buuut it also reinforces my point. The free open source solution works better than their in-house one.

              • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
                10 months

                Galaxy is free and not required.

                It’s a product for paying customers of GOG games. You have rights you don’t have with some open source hobby project.

                • Don_alForno@feddit.orgEnglish
                  10 months

                  I have lots of free games from GOG. You don’t have to be a paying customer to use Galaxy.

                  Which rights do you have?

      • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        10 months

        they already do! (sorta)

        if you buy games through heroic, the heroic devs get a percentage of the sale

  • Dremor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    I’m definitively gonna keep a look on that. Hope it will work with Heroic and the Steam Deck.

    • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
      10 months

      Yes, but most of those games don’t have steam workshop.

  • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10 months

    I know for a fact whoever developed the GoG launcher isn’t capable of adding this in.

    Source: half of the connectors to other game services don’t work, and they haven’t bothered to make their Mac app function in literally years (and if asked about this they tell you to “use the website”).

    • Don_alForno@feddit.orgEnglish
      10 months

      Even fewer people game on Mac than on Linux (judging by the Steam survey). I bet it’s not that they can’t they just don’t care.

  • INeedMana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    Why not just cooperate with nexus mods? Their new app (yes, still a deep beta) works quite well

    • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 months

      Because nexus mods is woeful, and their gradual enshittification isn’t a good sign

        • Owl@mander.xyzEnglish
          10 months

          Can’t download mods without logging in anymore

        • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10 months

          I can think of a few reasons as to why a website would run ads. I can think of a few reasons as to why a website would limit download speeds

          I cannot fathom for any non greed-ridden reason as to why a website would make you wait five seconds before downloading a mod. It’s an inconvenience for the sake of an inconvenience, a problem they made to sell the solution

          Of course, we need to keep in mind that they don’t make the mods, they merely host them. Compare the amount of bloat on their website to other, less funded ones such as lovers lab and gamebanana, and it becomes apparent that there’s a money sink somewhere

            • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
              10 months

              Okay, but slowing everybody down by five seconds doesn’t smooth anything at all. It just shifts the curve five seconds to the right

    • FenrirIII@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 months

      Still using NMM. I will never switch to Vortex (mostly because my list of mods is insane)

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    Nice to see some competition in this space. Steam dropped the ball by not getting fallout London.

  • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
    10 months

    When did “modding a game” shift from “creating new mods” to “applying mods”?

    • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 months

      I’m pretty sure it’s always been both. They’re both modifying the game.

    • Owl@mander.xyzEnglish
      10 months

      Idk but it makes it hard to find modding (creating mods) ressources online

  • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.frEnglish
    10 months

    I guess good thing, but what about improving GOG initially? There are many things to add and improve

    • Red_October@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 months

      So they added one thing, but you’re complaining they haven’t added literally every other improvement you can imagine?

      • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.frEnglish
        10 months

        It’s not every other improvements, it’s basic features requested for years.

        Dumb things like being able to edit your reviews or delete them without mailing the support. Having the ability to download old versions of offline installers instead of being forced to use their app…

        It’s pretty obvious that I meant that this addition is welcome, but I critize their priorities.

        Even GOG Galaxy for Linux. Forgot this still wasn’t added.

  • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
    10 months

    While I appreciate increased visibility for such (often awesome) mods, I kind of doubt good guys at gog can manage to ship actual versions of them.

  • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.frEnglish
    10 months

    Meh. Forces you to have the game on GOG. It’s blocking mods behind a platform and account paywall, just like Steam Workshop

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
    10 months

    No. Just, please. No. Go back to just being the only place to pick up tested versions of abandonware titles. Not this pseudo-Steam crap.

    • JustARaccoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 months

      Because only steam can have mods? Do you listen to yourself lmao “no please keep it a monopoly, valve are good guys, stay in your lane”

      • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
        10 months

        Oh hell no. Valve are evil, like any other corporate monstrosity. It’s not that I want GOG to “stay in their lane” as a bad thing. I want them to stay away from the morasse of crap that other sites like them have become. There are game modding communities all over the Internet, we don’t need an abandonware site that put on airs to become part of the “modern marketplace”.

        I want GOG to getback to what it was before CDPR.

        • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10 months

          We very much do need GOG to be competitive with the market leader but with the primary selling point of DRM-free, yes. And is it a coincidence that the beginning of your username is the same as that awful YouTuber?

          • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
            10 months

            We’re going to have to settle for disagreeing on this. I just want a place to get stable abandonware, not a misstep into another place begging to take real money for digital data.

            And I would assume so, since I’m not a YouTuber.

        • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
          10 months

          I want GOG to getback to what it was before CDPR.

          CD Projekt saw potential to look back at their distribution days to offer DRM-free versions of classic games through digital distribution, … They founded a new subsidiary, Good Old Games, to serve this purpose in early 2008.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com

        • JustARaccoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10 months

          It already is a modern marketplace and many modern games release on it. Just because you only use it for old games doesn’t mean it’s all it’s ever allowed to be. They’ve been expanding their gog program more broadly to cover more of their audience, and a mod support like this makes it very easy for players of old games to release modified versions of those games, instead of needing to look for moddb or nexusmods.

          How many people play DOS2 with EE? How many people play civ5 with the 5.5 mod? It’s just common sense to me that they’d set up something for people to keep old games fresh via modding, and it’s not even a steam workshop like system so I’m not sure what steam has to do with anything. The mods they’ve showcased are full overhauls.