I was awaiting for House Flipper 2 (I know…) but the developer decided to do a 180 and even pulled House Flipper 1 + all the DLCs from purchase, so if you didn’t buy the DLCs before they pulled out, then tough luck. It goes without saying that I won’t buy their games anymore.
It looks like Frogwares is listed as the publisher here, so it sounds like whatever issue they had with their previous published has been resolved. I hope they got all the money they were owed
The game comes with Unity and uses Unity’s user tracking feature to spy on you. Neither does it tell nor does it present the opt-out option. This violates GDPR, so selling the game in Europe is illegal. Developers and Publishers who do this should be banned permanently from platforms like GOG.
Not sure how true that is, but you might want to be cautious if privacy matters to you.
Reviewers (at least) report the code is mod-unfriendly
ETA: Quote from GOG reviewer:
There’s no SDK, no modding tools and based on a report from a programmer, the game is coded in a way that makes it especially difficult, if not outright impossible, to mod. And that’s the biggest shame because an active modding community would have fixed the game.
As save-games and configs of my GOG Linux games are normally(!) outside of the installation folders (found them in my home-folder, under .local or .config), I simply install such new version .sh file into the same locations (overwriting the existing installation). But I do not know for sure, if this is the best solution in all cases.
Anyway you can easily try it by yourself after backing up your game-folder (simply zip it). This way you will not lose anything if overwriting game files will mess something up.
EDIT: maybe it is worth finding the save-game/config folder and back it up, too. Just in case the new version messes with config files.
I considered just installing the new .sh file in the same location, but wasn’t sure whether that breaks my saves in the worst case. So it’s reassuring to hear that others had success with this method. I’ll try it when I get an update for one of my Linux native games. Thank you :)
I’ve dabbled with Lutris and Heroic. But Lutris only showed me the Windows patches during its update (which obviously don’t work).
Heroic on the other hand doesn’t work as well as I’d hoped. All operations take a really long time and some of my GOG games don’t show at all (in Lutris they’re appearing). I’m using the current version 2.13.0.
And even if it works, I’d be interested how Heroic implements its update mechanism for Linux native games since it should have the same issue regarding available data :)
From what I understand, you’ll still be owning your game on GOG the way you currently do, it’s mostly a new way to “consume” them. It does not feel like a regression to me, seems mostly to be opening to new possibilities. But this of course assuming that this trend would not lead to GOG discontinuing in any way the current distribution model DRM-free…
From what I understand, you’ll still be owning your game on GOG the way you currently do, it’s mostly a new way to “consume” them. It does not feel like a regression to me, seems mostly to be opening to new possibilities.
I think you’re correct with the first sentence, but on the second, I somewhat disagree. Strictly speaking, it’s correct, yet it’s not so new insofar as other platforms have done similar sorts of things, and with GOG I’d have hoped they might look into partnering with some software developers working on enabling local/self-hosted game streaming solutions more in the spirit of the DRM free approach.
I can only hope and encourage the development of self hosted game streaming!
One thing which I just thought of and which may be influential, is the fact that if you play on a remote server, will there be a way to recover your save files? That would matter a lot to me and I’m sure to many others.
I hope the GOG spirit would lead to it being downloadable.
I’ve tested Cyberpunk on it, but I’m not sure what other GOG purchases can be streamed. A lot of publishers can’t be bothered to support more than just their Steam versions sadly.
Meh, I wanted to try it out but it’s not available yet and it’s impossible to see what Luna actually costs. Is it bundled with Prime? Could be. I don’t know.
But all in all this seems to be at least a better approach than Stadia.
If you have prime, you also have prime-gaming which gives you a few free games every month and also access to a few games via Luna. Ive tried it a few times, never super impressed, but I have gaming machines.
Comes with the typical bs Playstation EULA: “The Software is licensed to you, not sold. SIE grants to you a limited, non-exclusive license to use the Software for personal use on the system or device for which it was purchased.”
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