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@richardgoodness I feel like a lot of the problem with the old games is that they probably have to track down who actually owns the rights and ask them, and that gets convoluted. Take Total Annihilation: It was made by cavedog, a subsidiary of humongous games (the adventure game company), then published by GT Interactive who was bought by Atari who was bought out by Infogrames who I think THQ bought but then THQ went bankrupt and it was then bought by wargaming.net. In 20 years.
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@richardgoodness To be fair, the O in their name stopped meaning anything with the rebrand 5 years ago or so when they started selling new games :)
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Does it bother anyone else when someone [sic]s when the source predates standardized English spelling?
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@dogjaw Nice try but this is no awesome_script.sh
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@laurelrusswurm Yeah, it's been rough up there. Have some friends in Calgary and it's barely gotten above freezing since like...november? October? According to them. Usually well below it. Even down here in the warm part of NC where the winter doesn't usually get below 50 it's been consistently below freezing at night for quite a while.
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Just washed up collards for dinner. Suprisingly little sand, very nice :)
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Oops, buffer moved as I was favoriting the other thing...
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Actually no, GOG's policy is marginally better. If I recall correctly GOG's official policy is that if you can't get the game to run and support can't help you get the game to run, then you will receive a refund. I don't think Steam made any such guarantees.
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@maiyannah What's Origin's policy? I won't touch their storefront with a 10 foot pole, not least because EA's never released anything on Linux and I like to game on that as much as possible. Steam's isn't *too* bad, but I'll 1000% acknowledge that GOG's policy is bad, it's literally just the old Steam policy (open a support ticket, hope they have mercy.)
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@maiyannah Okay, not allowing you to access the DLC is a different situation. I don't have the MoO DLC but I just checked and you seem to be able to play single player just fine without linking a Wargaming account to your GOG one. There are no games onlie, but I imagine that the profile is indeed so that you can see statistics about players. I'm not sure if multiplayer works without creating an account because I don't know anyone else with the game, they do dangle a free copy of TA to entice you
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@maiyannah Although yeah, I'd hardly call GOG ideal. They're just the best game store there is at the moment that I know of. Humble isn't actually opposed to DRM, as we saw with the THQ bundle. At least with GOG we have to have these arguments which are "Well it's not stritly speaking DRM but it's equivalent to it", know what I mean?
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@maiyannah I don't necessarily mind a login requirement if it makes sense in a game. The example that I remember seeing back in the day was Witcher 3, but wasn't its online component because they had to keep track of your inventory and stuff? If you need state across games then an account makes sense. I imagine MOO is the same for matchmaking reasons? Haven't played it, just got it for free over the sale.
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#GOG fucks over Linux users by inaction. Valve can fuck everyone over however they want. My problem with GOG is that it's going on 3 years later and Galaxy still hasn't launched on Linux. The only news ever to come out of GOG was in an interview within the last couple of months where they said it "wasn't a priority." Their inability to ship a damn Linux binary now officially means that *Linux supporting games can't support Linux on GOG*, most notable Tooth and Tail, which uses Galaxy.
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@maiyannah This is a reason that I much, much, much prefer shopping on #GOG even though they fuck over their Linux users. That and their sales are MUCH better (GOG sales regularly dip into -90% for quite a few items)
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@lnxw48a1 it's worth noting that Twitter's never made money. At the moment they lose a third of their cash on hand every year
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@trwnh I agree 100%, but hyphenated or otherwise separated. Otherwise is ambiguous because americans have their MMDDYYYY thing but nobody does YYYYDDMM. Whenever I read a date like 1/5 I need to guess whether they're american or not.
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