Posted March 31, 2018
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Ouch, I too am very worried about this new trend…
I hope there is a better explanation than just making projects like Adamhm’s wrapper or ./play.it impossible to maintain.
With password-protected RAR installers, at least we were still able to extract the game data to do what we want with it. But this, this is very bad. The worst being that I can’t see any rationale behind it other than prevent us to install our games in any way but the "official" one.
This kind of artificial restriction has a name. A name that I thought we would never see associated with GOG…
I hope there is a better explanation than just making projects like Adamhm’s wrapper or ./play.it impossible to maintain.
With password-protected RAR installers, at least we were still able to extract the game data to do what we want with it. But this, this is very bad. The worst being that I can’t see any rationale behind it other than prevent us to install our games in any way but the "official" one.
This kind of artificial restriction has a name. A name that I thought we would never see associated with GOG…