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Posted May 11, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: What do you expect, your shopping on a pale imitation of steam, if steam do it, gog will do it, just slightly worse and it will cost you more.
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toxicTom: Games phoning home has nothing to do with GOG.
Yep, sorry, gog are totally blameless in everything. Boo boo, don't hurt the Gog. They are fully culpable and aware of everything they do, and completely ignore their drm free in a bid to be the next steam.
Posted May 11, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: Yep, sorry, gog are totally blameless in everything. Boo boo, don't hurt the Gog. They are fully culpable and aware of everything they do, and completely ignore their drm free in a bid to be the next steam.
I'm unhappy about quite a few things here, but you simply talk rubbish.
Posted May 11, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: What do you expect, your shopping on a pale imitation of steam, if steam do it, gog will do it, just slightly worse and it will cost you more.
You must be a blast at parties. Perhaps you should flip to side B, because that side A is getting old with the constant repeating.
Posted May 11, 2018
Anyone else here think of the infamous 'Atari 2600 E.T. incident' when they read the thread title?
Posted May 11, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: Yep, sorry, gog are totally blameless in everything. Boo boo, don't hurt the Gog. They are fully culpable and aware of everything they do, and completely ignore their drm free in a bid to be the next steam.
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toxicTom: I'm unhappy about quite a few things here, but you simply talk rubbish.
Sorry, let me go over:
Galaxy
Regional pricing
Pre order dlc
Indev
Drip feed games
Online only games
Online almost all required games
Games with steam install
Delayed patches
Non existant updates
Abandoned games
Lack of communication
Forum broken
Pressurise galaxy at every moment
Lack of privacy
Still no fix classic downloads
Galaxy only multiplayer
Crap sales over and over again giving 0.01% discount on a game which is already vastly overpriced
Higher prices against competitors
Missing Linux versions
Lack of dev interest in platform
Terrible communication
Insistence on social integration
Connect
Failed movies
Copying all industry drivel like many different versions of a product
Selling manuals separately
Endless broken posts
Giveaways only on social media
Shovelware, by the truckload. New slogan should be, you shovel it, we will sell it.

I could go on, but frankly I have very little interest, just popped in quickly to check out this weeks spiral into hopeful oblivion.
Posted May 11, 2018
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ariaspi: I gave you my answer in another thread.

There was this thread about Fallout New Vegas and Internet connection problems, maybe you'll find some answers there.
I'll also take a look at that thread in detail when I get home, might have some promising fixes if the same "hacks" can be used to stop the game from insisting on internet access.


On the whole "Is GOG a better or worse Steam" thing... Could we take the debate elsewhere, unless it's specifically applicable to solving this issue?
Post edited May 12, 2018 by Killjoy_Cutter
Posted May 12, 2018
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toxicTom: I'm unhappy about quite a few things here, but you simply talk rubbish.
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nightcraw1er.488: Sorry, let me go over:
Galaxy
Regional pricing
Pre order dlc
Indev
Drip feed games
Online only games
Online almost all required games
Games with steam install
Delayed patches
Non existant updates
Abandoned games
Lack of communication
Forum broken
Pressurise galaxy at every moment
Lack of privacy
Still no fix classic downloads
Galaxy only multiplayer
Crap sales over and over again giving 0.01% discount on a game which is already vastly overpriced
Higher prices against competitors
Missing Linux versions
Lack of dev interest in platform
Terrible communication
Insistence on social integration
Connect
Failed movies
Copying all industry drivel like many different versions of a product
Selling manuals separately
Endless broken posts
Giveaways only on social media
Shovelware, by the truckload. New slogan should be, you shovel it, we will sell it.

I could go on, but frankly I have very little interest, just popped in quickly to check out this weeks spiral into hopeful oblivion.
While some of those are legit concerns, you're clearly just being vindictive. If you hate GOG to this degree, to blame them even for things out of their control, why are you still here?
Posted May 12, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: Sorry, let me go over:
Galaxy
Regional pricing
Pre order dlc
Indev
Drip feed games
Online only games
Online almost all required games
Games with steam install
Delayed patches
Non existant updates
Abandoned games
Lack of communication
Forum broken
Pressurise galaxy at every moment
Lack of privacy
Still no fix classic downloads
Galaxy only multiplayer
Crap sales over and over again giving 0.01% discount on a game which is already vastly overpriced
Higher prices against competitors
Missing Linux versions
Lack of dev interest in platform
Terrible communication
Insistence on social integration
Connect
Failed movies
Copying all industry drivel like many different versions of a product
Selling manuals separately
Endless broken posts
Giveaways only on social media
Shovelware, by the truckload. New slogan should be, you shovel it, we will sell it.

I could go on, but frankly I have very little interest, just popped in quickly to check out this weeks spiral into hopeful oblivion.
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kohlrak: While some of those are legit concerns, you're clearly just being vindictive. If you hate GOG to this degree, to blame them even for things out of their control, why are you still here?
I only pop in once in a while now to see how bad its got. They are responsible for things they sell, simple as that, they control acces to the products, it's is their decision to sell and support such things. As we can see with the long list of declined for no reason titles (another one missed off the list) where mobile games seeen to be right in favour, or retro pixelated titles. Anyways, that is my check for this week, nothing to see here so moving on.
Posted May 12, 2018
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Killjoy_Cutter: On every startup, it attempts to access something out on the internet that's located at an IP that traces to Amazon AWS, not much more specific than that.

If I refuse to allow it outbound access, the game crashes.
I recall a couple years ago Amazon released an SDK kit that was on par with Unity (while i downloaded it, it was like 30Gb, i never got around to trying it out).

Beyond either a scoreboard (which blocking shouldn't kill it) or checks for updates (a few other companies do game updates separate from GoG) i can't think of a legitimate reason.
Posted May 12, 2018
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So, interesting update.

Instead of setting my firewall to manually ask each time the game tries to access the internet, I switched to having the firewall auto-deny.

Now, the game loads fine, and does not crash.

Will keep digging into the issue, but for now, I can play without the game phoning home.
Post edited May 12, 2018 by Killjoy_Cutter
Posted May 12, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: ...
Sorry, let me go over:
Galaxy
Regional pricing
Pre order dlc
Indev
Drip feed games
Online only games
Online almost all required games
Games with steam install
Delayed patches
Non existant updates
Abandoned games
Lack of communication
Forum broken
Pressurise galaxy at every moment
Lack of privacy
Still no fix classic downloads
Galaxy only multiplayer
Crap sales over and over again giving 0.01% discount on a game which is already vastly overpriced
Higher prices against competitors
Missing Linux versions
Lack of dev interest in platform
Terrible communication
Insistence on social integration
Connect
Failed movies
Copying all industry drivel like many different versions of a product
Selling manuals separately
Endless broken posts
Giveaways only on social media
Shovelware, by the truckload. New slogan should be, you shovel it, we will sell it.

I could go on, but frankly I have very little interest, just popped in quickly to check out this weeks spiral into hopeful oblivion.
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Posted May 12, 2018
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Killjoy_Cutter: So, interesting update.

Instead of setting my firewall to manually ask each time the game tries to access the internet, I switched to having the firewall auto-deny.

Now, the game loads fine, and does not crash.

Will keep digging into the issue, but for now, I can play without the game phoning home.
You should go back to manually denying access, but wait some seconds. Maybe it is a timing issue. If the request is too long „open“ or „active“, it might crash the game and if it gets a quick answer (when the firewall instantly denies the request), everything is fine.
Posted May 12, 2018
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ET,tried to phone home too.
Posted May 12, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: ...
Sorry, let me go over:
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apehater: this
True soulmates. :D
Posted May 12, 2018
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tinyE: Anyone else here think of the infamous 'Atari 2600 E.T. incident' when they read the thread title?
Me. And the mass graves in the landfill. All those cardridges. The horror. The horror.
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