By now my GOG library has far exceeded my Steam library in size. I was surprised by how many games on my Steam wishlist are also on GOG.

For context, Steam is now forced to display this due to a new law passed in California: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24254922/california-digital-purchase-disclosure-law-ab-2426

Valve is not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts.

Frostpunk 2 is also available DRM-free on GOG!
https://www.gog.com/en/game/frostpunk_2

What exactly did Palworld steal? Surely you have sources for your claims

https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/releases/tag/v2.13.0

Your statement “if you’re on Windows” is still wrong.

Additionally, the Heroic project is officially affiliated with GOG, so saying that they don’t care is also wrong.

Wrong.

Well-deserved shout-out for GOG. Its standalone installers make actually owning your games much more convenient than it would be on Steam.

How did you try to get The Thaumaturge to run? I found that I could run many games on my library without issue using the Heroic Games Launcher, which is arguably the premier Linux client for GOG games.

You’re already free to support developers and instance owners financially if they’ve set up either Patreon, OpenCollective or LiberaPay 🤷

Problem is, not enough people are doing it. Case in point: https://join-lemmy.org/donate

Turns out you’re actually the owner of your home instance. I didn’t know that when I made my previous comments.

I’m guessing you’re currently paying for your instance’s upkeep out of pocket? I can’t spot any donation links on your instance. This might work for you personally, but do you really expect other, larger instances to do the same? Even donations are only rarely sustainable.

How do you expect your instance to cover its costs, then?

So how is your home instance financially sustaining itself? Surely you’re helping it, right?

XMPP didn’t die, so why would the Fediverse?

B-b-but the Fediverse told me that XMPP was embrace-extend-extinguished by Google!!?!

Don’t confuse their initiative for benevolence. At the end of the day it’s all still for their own benefit and their ecosystem.

The contributions to open source are still a nice side effect.

GOG exists and has managed to carve out a DRM-free niche for itself for more than 15 years now.

Where’s the meme

If you want to own your games, buy them on GOG.

Not once have you linked to any of those studies you keep referring to.