I love this from GOG. I already liked them because of their game conservation efforts, but now I like them even more.
They support free games. If only they supported free platforms to play them on…
What does this mean?
It means they have zero Linux support.
They’ve always distributed Linux versions for games that have them an those are the ones which pop-up by default on the game’s downloads pages if you’re browsing their site from Linux, so it’s not as if they don’t support Linux.
What you mean is that they haven’t created their own Linux distro and Wine fork like Steam.
Meanwhile because they ship DRM-free games with offline installers they’re actually closer to the spirit of Linux than Steam: you have full control over how you run a game you got for them (for example, I try to run all games sandboxed with networking restricted to localhost only plus a number of other safety limitations, which I can do with GOG games launched from Lutris but not with Steam games).
As I see it Steam does a lot of handholding (both in Windows and Linux) in exchange for them retaining a ton of control over your gaming, whilst GOG just gives you maximum freedom but with zero handholding.
Maybe because I’ve been a Techie and Gamer since the 90s, personally I vastly prefer the later approach but I can see how people who grew up in the hand-holding era of computing would value convenience over control.
I couldn’t pass their capcha so I guess I’m a robot.
Self-awareness is the first step to sentience.
I also got like 10 capchas for 1 of the codes (just one after the other) then it threw an error anyway. I appreciate their gesture, but so far it’s been like 30 minutes of wasted time with nothing to show for it.
Some countries banned Postal 2 so they can’t give it to you if you live in, as a random example, Germany.
Congratulations on already living in the future they’re protesting. Realistically they probably should have recognized this would be a problem and told you the specific error but their giveaway codes aren’t really meant for this so whatever.
If you do live in a country like that you could, however, spend $70 on a year of Mullvad and be a Canadian as far as GOG knows or cares.
Maybe you should be doing that anyways, regardless of whether you want horny games and also Postal 2.
Same, tried three different browsers. I HOPE YOU’RE ALRIGHT, FELLOW “HUMAN”.
I cant get by their 2fa. It sends the code like 4 hours later which by then the code times out.
VPN to the UK.
And maybe ten of them will actually play any of the games.
Oh yeah I saw the list and am pretty sure I’m not even installing any of them, but claiming the bundle in solidarity
Did the same. Not sure, just by looking at the icon/thumbnail, that any of it was made for me. But am still proud to have them added to my account!
Apparently some of them are very good in their own right, telling a compelling and interesting story and not just being horny cash-grabs so I’m tempted to give them a shot.
I played the original Yu-No because of how it is the foundation upon which all modern visual novel games are built. That was a difficult experience and I do not recommend it to anyone not already very interested in the history of the genre, there is a lot of content there that is not for me.
But that was the game that made the industry say “oh shit, these things can be good, too”.Side-note: the modern rerelease of Yu-No has the more objectionable stuff stripped out, but then we’ve got to have the censorship discussion all over again.
Anyway. My point is this: I have also overlooked these games but might have to rethink that.
Y-yea… For solidarity
So you’re one of the 10
everyone here is one of the 10 and is coping if they say otherwise
Uh ok
I’m one. I played one of the ones I didn’t already have yesterday.
How did it go?
HTH does work on Linux.
High Tail Hall?
Ya, looking over the list I couldn’t be bothered to obtain a copy of “Helping The Hotties”.
Really? You’d leave the hotties unhelped?
Hey, everyone, OP hates hotties and thinks they should stay unhelped!
I didn’t see the option, but also Huney Pop and others don’t work on Linux.
Works fine on my Steam Deck.
Can you just add them as nonsteam games?
Where do you install them to?I used Heroic Games Launcher and added it as a non-Steam game.
Lutris is very likely your friend here
Can confirm it works fine with wine / proton
The linux version of Hunie Pop didn’t launch for me on Fedora 42, but the Windows version did with Heroic using GE-Proton-Latest
Lutris?
I clicked on the bundle because I was curious to see it and now I have a bunch of porn games I guess. I don’t have an issue with porn games but I don’t play porn games so now I have a bunch of trash cluttering my library.
I was able to kinda hide them but they are still there.
Huniepop is genuinely one of the better match 4 type games out there and has a bathing suit only mode if you are feeling adventurous.
None of them are even remotely close to the sort of games I enjoy, the porn part isn’t the issue I just don’t care for “dating” sims or puzzle games.
You entered code without knowing what’s inside?
i.e you are all a bunch of wankers
Hey, it included Postal 2 as well! (But also guilty, and not ashamed to admit it.)
I wouldn’t want to meet a person who wanks to Postal 2, though playing is fine.
In the sense that reading Mein Kampf is fine sure
It’s when you start agreeing with it that the problem starts
I guess masturbating to it would be a sign of enthusiastic agreement, yes.
We are… Also, free stuff.
You’re doing gods work, GOG. No wait, scratch that.
Slaanesh is proud
I want to buy more from GOG but my only gaming system I have is a Steam Deck. I know the native Linux stuff should work ok but u always have problems getting windows stuff to work. Either through Heroic Launcher or Proton. I must be doing something wrong. All the guides I find are just wrong or out of date.
Hei give this a try, it helped me a lot for a gog game at least (Tunic). https://github.com/moraroy/NonSteamLaunchers-On-Steam-Deck
I’ll give that a try, thanks
I want to buy more but I can’t seem to find any games I actually wanna play or don’t already own on Steam. This campaign did remind me that they exist and that I should try to support them more, so I think it was a net positive for me!
Would’ve been Pay2Fap, but it’s free! (ง ื▿ ื)ว
I literally cannot find a page with actual links to the games? Im not cross-referencing a damn porn bundle.
I believe the giveaway was only for 48 hours so it might be over
:(
It was also done with a code reclaim, not a link on their website.
so what does that mean?
It means you needed to enter a code that is probably no longer valid. There was a link at the top for that under your account info.
I think it was FREEDOMTOBUYGAMES or something if you want to try, you can probably search for it to confirm.
Hey, free games is free games.
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If only GOG was this militant when it involved Taiwanese developers (Red Candle Game devs), I would still be using their platform. They haven’t even allowed Nine Sols on it, so I haven’t bothered going back yet or have even recommended them to the degree I usually did over Steam.
It’s not even that they had to censor themselves, it’s their woeful attempt at an excuse. It’s funny whom they kneel before and whom the are activists against. Were it a China “Many Gamers” matter, do not expect them to have been as willing…
Do you have a link to someone talking about the Taiwan situation?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gog+red+candle+games&ia=news&iar=news
It has a lot to do with how it would have affected Cyberpunk 2077’s release in China and it’s huge gaming market. I mean, just look at the downvote count in my previous comment, there are a lot of butthurt factory trolls downvoting it from the red stained Lemmy “Marxist Leninist” foundries. China cannot accept any political commentary, specially coming from Taiwan, and the devs got punished for it. The devs capitulated, but China did not care, so why bother?
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