From what I’ve heard, the Steam version also lacks DRM. Once you’ve downloaded it you can close Steam and just launch the game with the exe. Obviously GOG or Steam is still handy for updates.
officially link to it and offer some level of customer support
at least financially contribute to it, and perhaps provide dev resources as well
provide Heroic developers access to pre-release versions of any new API they introduce so support could theoretically land day 1
But not being hostile toward it is not enough for me to call it “support,” so I’m going to feel like a second-class citizen until GOG does something official.
@sugar_in_your_tea@Holzkohlen heroic doesn’t have a forum or an accessible place to get support. It’s AI and then discord or GitHub. Contact needs to be easier. Gog feels like I’m buying from a emulator site with no human contact for help
@sugar_in_your_tea@Holzkohlen so DRM free on steam is legit as it is on gog? If so, then I I just buy it on steam and not need a launcher or have any worries about not owning the purchase.
YMMV of course, but I’ve played several Steam games without Steam running at all when my kids were playing on my account on another computer. I just killed the Steam process and ran the games from the commandline, and it worked fine.
These were Linux native games, so I’m not exactly sure on the best method to play Windows games without Steam (I guess lutris like anything else, but I haven’t needed to).
@sugar_in_your_tea @Privatepower42 I’ve got some tar.xz compressed archives with win32 or win64 Steam games and Proton on my NAS. Sometimes one needs to replace the steam_api.dll or steam_api64.dll if the game relies upon it but it works most of the time. I’m downloading them with steamcmd.
That’s good to know, my sons were interested in it, now we can all have a good gaming session together before they decide if they want to buy it. Sadly there is no PS5 cross play (although saves can be linked) so I am going to have to buy the PS5 version to play with friends. Still I don’t mind giving Larian some more money as the game is just fantastic, relatively bug free and even performs pretty well on the steam deck.
From what I’ve heard, the Steam version also lacks DRM. Once you’ve downloaded it you can close Steam and just launch the game with the exe. Obviously GOG or Steam is still handy for updates.
Updates are the main reason I stick with Steam. If GOG Galaxy worked on Linux, I’d probably buy a lot more from them.
But for something like this that’s likely to get more frequent updates, I’ll stick to Steam.
Could they not just support the Heroic Game Launcher and call it official? That’s what I’d do. By support I mean mostly financial.
Sure! But by support I mean:
But not being hostile toward it is not enough for me to call it “support,” so I’m going to feel like a second-class citizen until GOG does something official.
@sugar_in_your_tea @Holzkohlen heroic doesn’t have a forum or an accessible place to get support. It’s AI and then discord or GitHub. Contact needs to be easier. Gog feels like I’m buying from a emulator site with no human contact for help
@sugar_in_your_tea @Holzkohlen so DRM free on steam is legit as it is on gog? If so, then I I just buy it on steam and not need a launcher or have any worries about not owning the purchase.
YMMV of course, but I’ve played several Steam games without Steam running at all when my kids were playing on my account on another computer. I just killed the Steam process and ran the games from the commandline, and it worked fine.
These were Linux native games, so I’m not exactly sure on the best method to play Windows games without Steam (I guess lutris like anything else, but I haven’t needed to).
@sugar_in_your_tea @Privatepower42 I’ve got some tar.xz compressed archives with win32 or win64 Steam games and Proton on my NAS. Sometimes one needs to replace the
steam_api.dllorsteam_api64.dllif the game relies upon it but it works most of the time. I’m downloading them withsteamcmd.That’s good to know, my sons were interested in it, now we can all have a good gaming session together before they decide if they want to buy it. Sadly there is no PS5 cross play (although saves can be linked) so I am going to have to buy the PS5 version to play with friends. Still I don’t mind giving Larian some more money as the game is just fantastic, relatively bug free and even performs pretty well on the steam deck.