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[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This would get me to buy games from GOG again, since heroic has been buggy when it comes to syncing saves and not providing achievements.

[–] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Or randomly decides at least half of my games are not available for download.

It's a shame. I want to buy on gog, but when the exact same game works without a hassle on Steam instead...

[–] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've successfuly installed a few GOG games with Lutris, might be worth a try

[–] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure, that will work too. Bit it's more of a hassle than just logging in and clicking "install".

Man, I have gotten lazy. :/

[–] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can also link your GOG account and install whatever game you want. Once linked, you should only have to click install.

[–] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 2 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah. Just had to uncheck the "show only installed" to see my stuff. Thanks. :D

[–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you tried Heroic? I've heard it supports GOG but I've only used it for a couple Epic Games games

[–] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I did install a couple of games with Heroic without issues. But @pleb_maximus@feddit.de said they had some kind of problem with it, so I recommended Lutris as an alternative. I haven't used Heroic in a while though, Lutris seems to work well enough for me.

[–] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 4 points 1 month ago

Yup. It's basically random which games are installable today.

Currently I can install 6/34 of my games from gog:

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's a bug which is fixed in the next version.

Still a pain waiting for the next version to actually drop. That seems like it should warrant a hotfix.

[–] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 3 points 1 month ago

It really should be. Shame that they are taking their sweet time with it.

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's nice that both Steam and GOG are encouraging Linux ports.

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is a community project, GOG themselves haven't done much in the way of supporting linux

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 7 points 1 month ago

Ok, that makes me sad again

[–] clarth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)