I did not misread your comment.

Wait, which countries don't have Internet?

Technically developing a game is the process of iterating slowly over time into a cohesive product. Making a game is the the construction of already known pieces. Think the difference between a cookie cutter Ubisoft game where everyone knows it can be done given enough time and roughly what the final product will look like and hollow Knight a learn as we go who knows if it will be finished discover the ability to create on the fly. Long story short: Developing sounds more artsy. Of course cookie cutter companies know that and use it for there own purpose so I guess there's no difference.

This is the reason why pre-purchases are a thing. The whole thing could have been less severe if the game was available for purchase with preloading some days earlier.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-without-internet And this doesn't account for authoritarian internets, like PRC, Russia, Nepal, India, US, Australia, UK, etc..

How do you back up a game with DRM if said DRM stops working though? GOG guarantees this will not be an issue. Hell, there even are/were Securom games on Steam. You won't be activating those anymore.

> Every platform scales their servers to their userbase so even if GOG had a dozen users they could still crash the servers by all downloading at the same time. I mean if they had a dozen users, it'd likely be because they're just starting out, in which case they'd likely anticipate growth and have enough resources for a few thousand users. Nobody wants to botch the launch of a new platform.

Game development as a term usually includes all the technical and creative work that goes into it, not just the actual writing code part.

Honestly I understand. People watch movies too, and that's very easy mode. But yeah, you'll probably want to stay away from anything labeled "soulslike" then. I haven't played Hollow Knight, but these games are typically about perfecting your skill and tactics by dying repeatedly

Downdetector was bought out by Ookla? When?

The secret ingredient is crime. Games with DRM aren't on GOG, but games without DRM are on Steam.

I'm not a Steam fanboy, I'm just sick of GOG being praised as the saviour of gaming in every video game thread on Lemmy.

What do you mean by "no features"? I use GOG to buy games, that's it. What other features does a game shop need? Serious question.

Can you give an example? I'm assuming we're looking for something that works on Linux using Steam or some other store, but not using GOG - either directly or through lutris/proton. That might clear up what's being asked.

None. But since on other stores, running the game is tied to using their platform, they provide extra services to be more appealing, such as cloud saves, achievements, Steam Workshop, Steam Input, Linux support, remote play...

Or you can just pirate it in the first place if you're gonna do that anyway lol

I'm surprised they don't have some form of automatic scaling.

I never really considered cloud saves. That's an excellent point. GOG has linux support (or at least lutris offers gog-specific wine config when you launch something windowsy). To be fair I have no idea what Workshop, Input or Remote Play are, so I'll go along with them being wanted features. But I feel a lot of things are not really the responsibility of the shop and more of the client software.

1. Fuck preorders 2. This isn't a post _complaining_ that Silksong brought the networks down, it's people _celebrating_ it, because it's amazing to see a small studio doing so well and absolutely crushing their launch - not because they had an insane marketing budget, but because the community is just organically so excited for it. And all at a low price that puts big studios to shame.

> cloud saves, achievements GOG has those at least.