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The last games I purchased are Dave the Diver and BG3. Those games have something in common:
All other titles I simply pirate. Here are my reasons:
Regarding this:
Once upon a time, I pirated Subnautica. Played for 10 minutes and realized "fuck it" and I bought both games. Realised that this is going to be a loooong game for me. No regrets supporting the company - those became one of my favorite games of all time.
For me, paying 20-60 eur (depending on a game) is fine and using Steam is more convenient, but in most cases - piracy is usually more convenient to me. :)
BG3 has an external launcher. At least in the GOG version. You don't need to sign in though and I believe it still works DRM-free.
You can add a launch param to go straight into the game though.
Really? I changed my shortcut to go directly to an exe rather than through GOG, I still get the Larian launcher come up. Maybe I need to choose a different exe?
No, it is just a launch parameter on the .exe file
It works in steam for certain, maybe it will work as a launch parameter on the .exe. Just add it at the end of
Target
in the shortcut properties, so it should look like this:"game_location\bin\bg3.exe" --skip-launcher
Maybe that might work with the GOG launcher shortcut, depends if GOG use the same syntax.
I just checked though and I was running LariLauncher.exe, which is what GOG normally directs to. I guess I just didn't check, I think there was a shortcut already in the install folder and I copied that and replaced the GOG shortcut. In the bin folder there's bg3.exe and bg3_dx11.exe, those are the real game files.
I'll add that the DX11 version is reportedly offering more stable performance, unless you really want to use Vulkan, it should be preferred.
Idk, I have the steam version, maybe it is slightly different.
Dave the Diver is published by Nexon so you should absolutely pirate it.