• HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    DRM - the bane of good user experience.

    GOG nailed it - no DRM, low prices, convenience.

    If most book publishers released their texts with new features (e.g. linking references, or adding additional notes to proofs/solutions) they’d get their sales. Instead they just slap DRM on and…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkWQvzrv6gI

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      2 hours ago

      Low prices end GOG ? Yea nah, not really. Sorry but their UI is kinda shitty, hasn’t improved in years, they don’t have a client of Linux, they take 30% just like Steam, and 20% of recent games there get updates far later than Steam, if they ever receive them… The Escapists is a good example of that.