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Does anyone have experience with playing Baldurs Gate 3 from GOG? (feddit.de)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
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I have read it runs fine on steam but would rather buy it on GOG due to the lack of DRM.

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[–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

From what I've heard, the Steam version also lacks DRM. Once you've downloaded it you can close Steam and just launch the game with the exe. Obviously GOG or Steam is still handy for updates.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Updates are the main reason I stick with Steam. If GOG Galaxy worked on Linux, I'd probably buy a lot more from them.

    But for something like this that's likely to get more frequent updates, I'll stick to Steam.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I link my GoG account to Heroic Launcher. It works just fine, updates included, store front included. I'm on Nobara Linux.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, I have Heroic installed as well on my desktop and Steam Deck, but that's third party support, not first class support. First class support to me means they're investing in my platform, which is important to me.

    So most of my purchases go to Steam, because Steam supports Linux as a first class platform. Because if this, they make an effort to get games supported on Linux (either through Proton or natively), and that's really valuable to me.

    I'm not expecting Steam-level of support, but I do expect a little more than just making binaries available through the web interface. I'll occasionally buy from GOG, but until they decide to actually support Linux, I'll keep buying most of my games from Steam.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's understandable. I think my take on Galaxy has always been that it's just a utility for managing your library, because they don't do DRM on any games they sell, they don't need to have a client like Steam does. That's a big reason why I don't have an issue with their client Linux support as their client isn't a requirement to use your library of games. I will also say that Heroic runs better than the Steam client for me. I get a lot of weird flickering and stuff with the Steam launcher. Additionally it downloads some games insanely slowly. I have tried different servers and a number of the fixes I've found online to no avail. I bought BG3 on Steam and ended up waiting overnight for it to download. Heroic doesn't have that issue at all and can take advantage of my connection speed. Obviously those are issues that don't affect everyone though.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Huh weird, I haven't had an issue with Steam for a long time, and that's on both NVIDIA and AMD. Granted, this is on a desktop, not a laptop, so if there's any kind of issues switching with the iGP, I'm not going to see it. I've also never had an issue with download speed, but my Internet connection isn't super fast anyway (just 50 down).

    My issue is that Heroic doesn't seem to fix controller issues, so games are hit and miss on my Steam Deck. It works fine on desktop though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I really wish I could figure out the download issue. My connection:

    Steam:

    Heroic:

    I have tried a few solutions I've seen in various Steam forum posts, and asked for advice on the Discord for Nobara. I'm a Linux newbie though and I don't have much knowledge to sort stuff like this out. I have also been having the disappearing cursor issue in some Steam games. Again, can't track down a solution that works, though I've tried a few things. My overall experience with Linux has been great, and I almost never boot Windows anymore, but there are some issues for sure.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Could they not just support the Heroic Game Launcher and call it official? That's what I'd do. By support I mean mostly financial.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sure! But by support I mean:

    • officially link to it and offer some level of customer support
    • at least financially contribute to it, and perhaps provide dev resources as well
    • provide Heroic developers access to pre-release versions of any new API they introduce so support could theoretically land day 1

    But not being hostile toward it is not enough for me to call it "support," so I'm going to feel like a second-class citizen until GOG does something official.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    @sugar_in_your_tea @Holzkohlen so DRM free on steam is legit as it is on gog? If so, then I I just buy it on steam and not need a launcher or have any worries about not owning the purchase.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    YMMV of course, but I've played several Steam games without Steam running at all when my kids were playing on my account on another computer. I just killed the Steam process and ran the games from the commandline, and it worked fine.

    These were Linux native games, so I'm not exactly sure on the best method to play Windows games without Steam (I guess lutris like anything else, but I haven't needed to).

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    That’s good to know, my sons were interested in it, now we can all have a good gaming session together before they decide if they want to buy it. Sadly there is no PS5 cross play (although saves can be linked) so I am going to have to buy the PS5 version to play with friends. Still I don’t mind giving Larian some more money as the game is just fantastic, relatively bug free and even performs pretty well on the steam deck.

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