The absolute 'easiest and most convenient way' for me is to just continue to use my alternate HD with my legit Windows 8.1 installed.

Steam method is merely the easiest and most convenient way What EPIC, the owner of the franchise, did. Digital games will always be worthless and in the long run, unavailable to play, IMO. I also am a bit of a collector and some of my games are becoming quite valuable. I own my collection of games, all in retail box CD & DVD form that can be installed & played OFFLINE (like story mode or VS bots) on any PC I built or build in the future. What happens when Sony releases the next GT8? GT7's plug will be pulled. For example, Sony's latest Gran Turismo 7 must ping Sony's servers even to play single player ladder mode. What makes you think they will allow you to play all your downloaded games in the future? Hint: They won't.Įven console gamers are effed now. Now I bet you are thinking I'm unreasonable or something but go ahead and research what Epic and Steam and GOG did just recently to the Unreal Tournament series. I don't download games (last time was when I played WoW WOTLK). We know spam when we see it and will delete it.īecause I'm strongly against 'software as a service' business model. This means things like repetitious posting of similar content, low-effort posts/memes and misleading/exaggerated titles on link posts. We all need to support each other to help GNU/Linux gaming grow. If it's a link post, think about writing a comment to tell us more - the more you engage with us, the more we like it. Remember you are talking to another human being.ĭevs and content producers: If you've ported your game to Linux or created some GNU/Linux-gaming-related content (reviews, videos, articles) then, so long as you're willing to engage with the community, please post it here. Heated discussions are fine, unwarranted insults are not. Please flair tech-support requests as tech support and re-flair them as answered if an answer has been found. What exactly did you do, and how, and with what version of what? How have you tried to troubleshoot the problem? Vague, low-effort tech-support requests may get removed. Include relevant details like logs, terminal output, system information. Tech-support requests should be useful to others: those who might run into the same problem as well as those who might be able to help. It is not (primarily) a tech-support forum. r/Linux_Gaming is for informative and interesting gaming content, news and discussions.

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