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Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Remember when they said Galaxy would get linux support? That didn't happen, and that promise got quietly retracted...

That said, Heroic is unofficial but has worked quite well.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Heroic giving GOG an excuse not to get their shit together.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

If you buy through Heroic, Heroic gets a cut. So it creates a data point that they can use to see how big that market is, so they know what they have to do to get 100% of my sale in their own pocket.