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

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You should see what happens when someone posts news about Windows

We can cherry-pick projects too.

Lemmy barely gets enough donations to fund a single developer.

core-js, one of the largest JavaScript libraries, was cussed out for even having the audacity to ask for donations.

Donations aren’t the steady source of income you seem to be thinking they are.

You’re right, Firefox deserves a little blame for that. :-P

It’s easier to make small saves for games like The Pedestrian, because essentially all you have to track is which puzzles you’ve solved.

Whereas in an RPG with a persistent world like Cyberpunk or Skyrim, you have to save the state of every single object and mechanic the player has interacted with during their run, and there are usually a whole lot of those.

Federated?

You’re just throwing together FOSS buzzwords at this point.

With GOG, you can at least have full confidence that the game will continue to work without any outside connections.

I didn’t say they deserve no protection at all. You are twisting my words because my opinion doesn’t align with yours.

I advocate for games having a clear indicator for any online dependencies. I do not advocate for outlawing said dependencies or mandating “offline patches”.

If you are clearly told that you’re buying an ephemeral product and you are still surprised when it shuts down, then I don’t know what to tell you.

This basically boils down to “read the terms & conditions”, which isn’t unreasonable.

If a game states in its terms that access may be revoked at any time and you buy the game, then you have no reason to be surprised when access is eventually revoked.

Obviously when terms aren’t clear enough or intentionally obfuscated, that’s indeed an issue for legislation to act upon.

All this wouldn’t be necessary if gamers would just stop buying games that are obviously live services with remote kill switches.

Expect to find more of this type of user on Lemmy.

I’m noticing a lot of people are just… “anti-everything”.

Edit: Case in point: The person further down this thread who said your comment was too long LMAO

It’s unsolicited advice.

It would be like you posting about a minor annoyance with Minecraft, and then having multiple people tell you to ditch it and play Minetest instead.

How are they ditching LoL on Linux if they’ve never officially supported it in the first place?

I will now attempt to invalidate your opinion by parroting the words “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”. :^)

But the entire point of E2EE is that you don’t need to trust them.

There’s a point to be made for web apps, but with their client apps, the source code that encrypts your data is right there.

and now that a new owner is taking them all

But they’re E2E encrypted? I don’t understand the issue here.

How else do you expect the moderators of that sub to keep out raiders and spam bots?

And that was the end of GOG

How?

I don’t think the person you replied to actually knows what they’re talking about.