GOG release hopefully too.

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Quoting: mrdeathjrthis is dont only broken thing on wayland, have many things to solve

That's a big one that affects my use case. I'm sure there can be more, but nothing else bothered me so far.

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Clipboard is still broken in Wine Wayland.

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Quoting: Eikeand so many games need 32 bit support anyway.

Only legacy games. Nothing recent should require 32-bit (if something recent does, I'd simply stay away from it).

With Wine you can now run 32-bit games without 32-bit libraries (at least as long as they go through Vulkan path). The only need to have 32-bit libraries now is for old Windows games using OpenGL path (something like DX7 era games) or for old native 32-bit games.

So dropping 32-bit bloat could be a benefit and Steam client itself shouldn't be a thing that slows this down.

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Quoting: AsciiWolfWhat about x86_64 support? (Steam client is still 32-bit.)

It's bizarre it's 32-bit to this day. Kind of same level of weirdness as github.com not supporting IPv6 still.

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New ffmpeg backend doesn't seem to help videos in Blood West yet.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboySadly, the overwhelming majority of GOG.com's catalog is either old and / or indie titles, or so-called "shovelware"; "AAA titles" are few and far between in the overall catalog.

Still, it just highlights the point. Even if GOG delists something in a way that removes the game from your account (which they don't usually even in the above case), if you take care to do backups, you'll still have it. So it's not really about all digital itself. That was my main point.

But yes, you are right that many games aren't available DRM-free. It is improving to some degree though? GOG has more newer games from big publishers than in the past these days.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyThis is the most obvious downside to going all-digital, and a big part of the reason console manufactures are pushing this for the future... All-digital means you don't "own" anything and can have your purchase taken away at any time.

Wrong. It's the most obvious downside of using DRM. All digital DRM-free allows you to make your own backups, and no one can take it away at any time then any more than physical media you store it on. So if anything, GOG is the example of why DRM-free is important to prevent that.

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Delisting usually happens not because GOG doesn't like the games, but becasue developers or publishers pull them or something happens to affect rights of the games (like some kind of dispute / legal limbo upstream).

So I doubt there is any point to blame GOG for it. If you want to get an idea, try to dig into those publisher names and see if anything is going on with them, that info might not be completely unavailable.

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Some pretty good games there, like En Garde!

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