ValamirCleaver: I just read
this thread on the Paradox forum. While I would like to be wrong, especially if Tyranny has gameplay similar to PoE, it doesn't make me too hopeful that Obsidian's future releases that are published by Paradox will be appearing at GOG or any other DRM free retailers that doesn't have a mandatory proprietary client (specifically Steamworks) as a precondition of installing the game. In light of the general tone of the responses in that thread I may not even want to make any future purchases that can potentially benefit Paradox in any way, shape or form. This thread on the
Obsidian forum is interesting too. Make of it what you will... :|
haydenaurion: From the linked thread:
"All Paradox games are DRM free on Steam. Just download them via the Steam store and then move the files elsewhere. They don't need the Steam interface in order to run."
Yeah, in a MUCH LARGER decompressed file size that has no separate compressed smaller installer like a gog version and is not practical for making backups. Why is this so hard for some people to understand? :P
If Steam offered optional installers like gog for their games that are DRM-free i'd probably buy alot more games on Steam as this is one big sticking point for me. Christ, Humble, DotEmu and even Amazon do this. Why doesn't Steam do this?
Honestly, I don't understand why so many people worship Paradox. They're releasing good games like CK2 or EUIV, but then floating it with DLCs for unreasonable prices (not only talking about main features but portraits and stuff), translation of games is nonexisting (not problem for me but it's asshole move to release main game with so called translation and then don't translate any following DLCs). If they're not going to release Tyranny on GoG then I don't care. They can stay with steam. Hopefully, until both Valve and Paradox will bankrupt.