GOG summer sale is live
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If only the store UI wasn't buggy lol
GOG's? Which part of it?
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You boot up Heroic, you point it at your GOG account, then you go to the clearly labeled Wine Manager in the left panel. Choose the latest Proton-GE (Glorious Eggroll fork) or a version of your choosing. Then go to library and download the game you want. It will prompt you to choose a Wine version that you've already got installed, and it seems to detect the ones you have installed via Steam and via their Wine Manager; I recommend sticking to Proton-GE. The installation process for each game works much the same as any other launcher you use.
If you want to try the game on GOG first, they have a 30-day no questions asked refund policy, since they can't exactly track how many hours you've played. It's just kind of on the honors system that we're not abusing it as customers, or maybe if you do it too much. Most games just work, but I have found the odd exception. For some games, like The Thaumaturge, I had to run Winetricks to download some VC++ runtimes to get it working (which I was only able to deduce based on the depots visible on steamdb.info). I nearly bought a copy of The Alters today, but early reports on ProtonDB are that it's got some crashing issues, so between Valve and GloriousEggroll, I figure that problem will be solved in the next couple of months.
The refund policy on GOG is so good that you can just try it first and buy the Steam version instead if it doesn't work out. The 10% referral code that benefits Heroic shows GOG how much of their customer base are on Linux, and it should enhance the Linux experience via funding at the same time.
since they can't exactly track how many hours you've played
They can and do if you use the client
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GOG's? Which part of it?
Trying to buy gog through heroic, I have no issues with using gog in a browser
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It actually works? I've always had issues with getting anything to work in Lutris.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]As a recent refugee from W10, I agree. Not shitting on Lutris since it did kind of worked, so it might have been a matter of playing with some settings, but heroic just worked.
Lutris on a fresh bazzite install: install GOG launcher and sign in. Crappy launcher to install the game (same as windows). Install Witcher 3, start playing. Find out the installer never reported success. Next time it launches it throws an error because the game was not installed. Default is to not cache the installer files. Multi-GB download starts again.
Heroic on the same setup (after the above): sign in to GOG. Get black and white icons for all games in the platform you own. Double click or right click (can’t remember which) to install. Game installs and the icon is in color now. Double click, it starts and works.
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since they can't exactly track how many hours you've played
They can and do if you use the client
But since you have the option to play without the client, they can't and don't use it to restrict refunds.
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Trying to buy gog through heroic, I have no issues with using gog in a browser
What bugs do you run into? I just click on the store button, and it basically is just a browser.
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What bugs do you run into? I just click on the store button, and it basically is just a browser.
Cart persistence and going through the actual checkout is not great. Plus even as a browser there's no progress bar or sense of stuff still doing something so you're sat waiting for things to progress
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But since you have the option to play without the client, they can't and don't use it to restrict refunds.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]They do if you use the client and we have testimonials of people claiming this. Playing online multiplayer also requires using the client.
Your comment was about using Heroic launcher. I don't know why you want to misinform.
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They do if you use the client and we have testimonials of people claiming this. Playing online multiplayer also requires using the client.
Your comment was about using Heroic launcher. I don't know why you want to misinform.
I think this was a misunderstanding on my part based on exactly which text you quoted.
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Friendly reminder for us Linux folks: you can send 10% of your purchase toward Heroic Games Launcher development by buying through their client.
I'm still mad Galaxy doesn't support Linux. I'd probably still use Heroic, but the mere fact of being a second class citizen doesn't feel great.
