GOG are offering you a copy of Torchlight II if you own it from Steam or Runic directly

Why are we paying for products in the first place?
Because by supporting platforms , developers or publishers are guarentee a certain level of compability and performance.

Thank you for being honest and speaking out on this, but sorry, this is just nonsense and a very bad excuse. If you use commercial software without paying for it then this is called theft. There are developers and companies that invested into a piece of software and you decided to not honor their contracts. It doesn't matter at all how honorable your arguments are for the Linux community, if you are using a supported platform or if it perform well or not on your hardware etc.

Edit: Replace "piracy" with "theft".


Last edited by jens on 13 Oct 2017 at 7:58 am UTC

When you don't have the game on Steam, the "Owned" says something else instead (can't remember what now).

It's grayed out with an X.

iirc you have to have purchased the game 14 days in advance to be able to redeem a game through Connect

I just used my key which I got through a prior Humble Bundle and it let me connect the 'brand new game'.

Have them both on Humble. GOG is not needed.

I mean on Humble you get Steam keys so you can easily claim it on GOG too, so why not? I think its a good idea to have a 'backup'.


Last edited by predator8bit on 12 Oct 2017 at 11:31 pm UTC

Can we as Linux users forget about "piracy"? Illegal downloading is not equal to taking a ship violently (and likely killing everybody/taking hostage on board)! I really don't like that we still use the Microsoft (Ballmer/Gates) lingo.

About the above method: why not buy on GOG directly then? I "bought" (khm. they offered freely) Torchlight I, and it works through Wine.

The term piracy was invented because browsing the internet was called in the past as "Navigating the web", or similar things. Who are the "thieves" who navigate? The pirates. Hence, internet piracy.

The term piracy as pertains to copyright infringement has been in use long before the internet came about. Some 400 years before.

What is your proposed alternative?

Pay for it?

Talking about the term "piracy."

Ah misread it, just call it theft.

I just used my key which I got through a prior Humble Bundle and it let me connect the 'brand new game'.

I'm not sure what you meant by this tbh.

What I said was you have to have bought the game 14(?) days before it shows up on connect in order to redeem it and therefore you can't just buy stuff that shows up on connect from steam sales and redeem.

I think that restriction wasn't always there either so in case you meant you had previously purchased a different game through humble and instantly redeemed that would be understandable too.

Have them both on Humble. GOG is not needed.

I mean on Humble you get Steam keys so you can easily claim it on GOG too, so why not? I think its a good idea to have a 'backup'.

And for that I have to register on Steam, which I will not do no matter what.
I have a better idea: my HDD is spacious enough. ;)

What is your proposed alternative?

Pay for it?

Talking about the term "piracy."

Ah misread it, just call it theft.

Then you have people who argue it's not theft because the people you "steal" digital files from still have them.

So one could buy it on steam, claim it from gog and then refund it on steam?

from GOG page: If a game is removed from your Steam account for any reason, such as through manual deletion or a refund – we reserve the right to remove the games from your GOG.com library.

What is your proposed alternative?

Pay for it?

Talking about the term "piracy."

Ah misread it, just call it theft.

Then you have people who argue it's not theft because the people you "steal" digital files from still have them.

True but theft & piracy has always been about stealing physical objects, digital files don't exist in the physical world so can't actually be stolen.