So they can inject their versions with malware.
I saw Fitgirl say that Steam versions are easier to patch later on. GOG patches seem to be a pain in the ass. I guess at least for her repacks.
Unless you’re talking about Sim City 4!
Sounds reasonable
Cause fuck DRM. And sometimes because updates and game version on steam are different (e.g. skyrim version on steam support more mods than gog version)
Why fuck DRM?
DRM has no benefit to the consumer only negatives.
What are those negatives?
- Decreased performance, as DRM is often hooked deep into event loops and adds non-negligible overhead.
- Decreased privacy, as DRM often requires pinging an external server constantly.
- Decreased security, as DRM is a black-box blob intentionally meant to be difficult to peer in to, and has been the target of attacks such as code execution vulnerabilities before.
- If you own a game but don’t have an active internet connection, DRM may prevent you from playing the game.
- If you own a game but have multiple computers, DRM may force you to buy multiple licenses when you’re only using one copy at a time (c.f., a physical CD with the game on it).
- Eventually, a DRM company is going to go out of business or stop supporting old versions of their software; if you want to play an old game that had that DRM, you won’t be able to even if you own the game.
- &c.
DRM exists to "protect’ the software developer, i.e. protect profits by making sure every copy has been paid for and to force people to buy multiple copies in certain cases. DRM never has and never will be for your (the consumer’s) benefit.
I gifted my dad a steam game for his birthday. He is a big Linux fan so he installed it on his Linux system. Now he can’t play it for more than 5 minutes before denuvo freezes not only the game but somehow even manages to freeze the complete system and he has to reboot.
Had to return the gift. It’s a shame he really wanted to play it
There might be a drm free version you could buy or pirate for him
It’s the achievements for me. Achievement Watcher doesn’t work on GOG games installed offline.
I usually grab clean steam files on cs.rin and “crack”(my vocab sucks) the games by myself by using goldberg emu. Problem is the games I want isn’t always uploaded and updated unlike Scene releases so I instead download from them if this is the case. Scene release aren’t pre-cracked when you download them. You’d still have to copy the steam emu on the game directory first before you could run it.
Also, anyone who owns the game on GOG could just share it by downloading the offline installer on GOG Galaxy. There’s no cracking happening so I think it’s not Scene’s job to upload DRM free games. We already have gog-games and torrminatorr doing that.
I guess the reason why Scene still cracks steam games that are also released on GOG is because of tradition. Plus, it’s nice to have some other options.
I don’t understand half the words in this, but I read the whole thing, so have an upvote.
On private trackers, it’s because # of uploads is one of the things that gives you a better user class. There’s other benefits too.
