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[–] aard@kyu.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Many years ago I bought some old DOS game where Linux runtimes using the original files exists on GOG. What I expected was a disk image or a zip containing the files - what I got was some exe containing the files. Why would I ever try to buy something from someone fucking up something that simple again?

I might buy some indie games from a developer directly - but with a middleman steam is the only option.

[–] criticalimpact@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not a steam issue, that's a developer/publisher issue Plenty of old Scumm based games work by just pointing scummvm at the game directory

[–] aard@kyu.de 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, seems I missed a "on GOG" in the reply.