Tomorrow Corporation has announced that World of Goo 2 will be released on August 2nd. To celebrate this announcement, the publisher shared a new gameplay trailer, as well as the game’s official PC requirements.
As the title suggests, World of Goo 2 won’t be available on Steam. Instead, the game will be released on Epic Games Store and on its official website. The good news here though is that the version that will be available at the WorldOfGoo2 website will be DRM-free.
PC gamers will at least need an Intel Core i5-1135G7 with 8GB of RAM and an Intel Iris Xe GPU. 2D Boy recommends using an Intel Core i5-2500K with 8GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 GPU.
In short, World of Goo 2 will run on a wide range of PC configurations. This is to be expected as the game does not push technically advanced graphics.
Enjoy the trailer and stay tuned for more!
World of Goo 2 PC Requirements
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WTF no steam??? can't wait to pirate it LOL
Why not just buy it from their website? Honestly, I would buy everything on a companies own website if I could, because It's nice to actually own the files that I paid for. I buy everything I can from GoG or directly from the company that made it. No sense in paying a middle-man if you don't have to.
No, i use only steam,gog, itchio and zoom platform, for the other platforms i use torrent 🤣👍
He is just a cheapa$$.
Any excuse for not paying the devs
yep I'm a cheap a** so I pirate. not gonna make some dumb excuse '''it's not on steam rabble rabble rabble i'm gonna pirate it''
How much of a jobless hobo do you need to be to pirate games.
Going to some shady Russian site to download an unpatched game at a few kbit/s. With a chance to get a virus or built-in crypto miner. Half the performance complaints on game forums are from pirates who downloaded a game with built-in crypto miner or malware.
You're right and wrong dude, right because yes, playing on PC is cheap AF and it's still the cheapest platform when it comes to games, but you're wrong because the piracy solution isn't as bad as you think, there's near 0% chance to get a virus from pirating a game, there are proper patches and you download a full speed most of the time if you don't use a VPN.
And often piracy isn't a money issue, i could personally pirate a game if the publisher's policy is anti-consumer like pushing me to online authentification for an offline game, and don't get me started about some games that are only available thanks to piracy, stop viewing it as the devil
Anyone still believing that downloading pirated games without virus is this amazing task is beyond clueless. The average user would probably get more virus just by browsing the web without an AD blocker.
What you simpletons don't understand is the best trojan/viruses don't actually harm your system, they just silently steal all your personal information and passwords and bundle them in large databases which they sell to other organized crime groups
Pirated games helped spread malware that infected 3.2 million PCs – Over six million files were stolen over two years
By
Andy Brown
10th June 2021
A trojan virus was spread largely through the sharing of illegal games and software.
Researchers at Nordlocker have identified that 1.2 terabytes of personal details and information were stolen through a customized malware strain.
They explained in their malware case study that a database containing the stolen information was accidentally shared by hackers.
After being discovered, Nordlocker analyzed the database in partnership with a data breach research company before taking steps to remove it from the internet.
Screenshots made by the malware revealed that it was spread through the sharing of “illegal software, windows cracking tools and pirated games”.
In particular, Nordlocker identified an illegal version of Adobe Photoshop is just one of the ways that the malware had been spread.
Between 2018 and 2020 the malware had infected 3.2 million PCs and stole over 6 million files from infected Desktop and Downloads folders.
The stolen files were mostly made up of three million text files, 900,000 image files and 600,000+ Word files.
Its not like our data isn't stolen by Google and Microsoft (and many others )…smh
Lol crying about stolen data while having social media accounts or even using Windows alone is like crying for getting a cancer while you’re already suffering from AIDS, you’re the simpleton for believing this BS not me
I pirated alan wake 2 and it works better than the epic crap store version which has DRM, if the epic servers don't work you can't start the game LOL
epic crap store is even worse LOL 🤣👍
If you claim to care if the game releases on Steam you're either a truly pathetic POS. No different than the console shills jerking off to their plastic boxes, or a poser. Likely both.
Buy the games you like. They play the same on your PC. Hell you can even add it to steam if your desire to please Gabe is so deep.
I read somewhere that it took about $10,000 to make the first Goo and it took in about 2 million dollars so the two guys that made it did well. This one is probably extremely low budget as well. I never played it even though it got a lot of really good feedback. I remain Goo-less :p
I played for a bit waaay back, it's decent puzzle physics but nothing much.
Wow the first one came out likely a decade or more ago iirc still have the installer and have played it wayyy back when never went back to it, it's like bejeweled, tetris just something some people do while watching something or bored on a phone while waiting room. But then there are some people who love games like this.
Games on Epic Games Store are generally DRM-free, unless the developer implements their own DRM.
PCGamingWiki shows around 60% of games on Epic Game Store are DRM-free, but PCGamingWiki doesn't usually have pages for smaller games, so the real percentage is likely considerably higher. Smaller games don't usually implement thier own DRM.
This is in contrast with Steam where almost no game is DRM-free because DRM is built into Steam. The native Steam DRM wrapper checkbox is turned on by default in the Steam developer tool, which is used to upload your game files to Steam. Valve actively tells developers to leave DRM on. While you have some rare exceptions where a developer decides to turn off Steam's native DRM, this is incredibly rare.
There are people who play on Linux, which Epic doesn't give a F about, there are people who who share their games through Family Sharing, which is a service no other platform has, there are people who are used to Steam Forums for support instead of going on downward spiral on reddit or Emailing the devs when you have issues like it's fcking 2003.
I thought Epic defenders were as dead and buried as their useless mobile-like storefront but it seems like they started to pay people again…
Hey, thanks for remembering me! 😉
And don't worry, we'll wrangle Epic Games down as well.
Of course, Timmyboy is a particularly stubborn one, however much bigger empires have already succumbed to the embrace of Linux – just a matter of time…
There's actually tons of games that are DRM-free on Steam but almost all of them are indie games. AA and AAAs devs/pubs, especially nowadays, don't see the appeal on making their games easier to pirate unless they're called CD Projekt Red.
I looked through some of the biggest games in recent years which are available on EGS via PCW and I've yet to see any except one which claim to be DRM-free on that platform. Kena: Bridge of Spirits is DRM-free only on there but Sifu is DRM-free only on Steam. So it's really a mixed case scenario. The only major platform where you are guaranteed to be offered a full DRM-free service will always be GOG.
Most games on Epic Game store are DRM-free since Epic has not implemented DRM. Of course, bigger "AAA" games on Epic often implement their own 3rd party DRM (Denuvo), something GOG does not allow.
Let's go over the games on Epic that are currently free through Amazon, so my sample list is unbiased. We will use PCgamingWiki to check for DRM.
Cat Quest II:
✓ DRM-free on Epic
✓ DRM-free on GOG
✘ DRM on Steam
Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX:
✓ DRM-free on Epic
✘ DRM on Steam
TMNT Shredders revenge:
✓ DRM-free on Epic
✘ DRM on Steam
Weird West:
✓ DRM-free on Epic
✓ DRM-free on GOG
✘ DRM on Steam
Of the 4 games, all 4 are DRM-free on Epic and can also be launched without the Epic launcher, 2 are available on GOG and are of course also DRM-free. But they all have DRM on Steam. You are free to check those games on PCgamingWiki yourself.
Fair enough. My previous comment wasn't based on any deep and meaningful research, just a few examples of notable games which sprung to mind. After digging deep I did find a chart on the site which shows the difference between each of the platforms. According to the page, EGS has 1,989 games currently available. 490 of which are DRM- free. Steam has 41,385 games currently available. Only 1,275 of those are DRM-free which should give anyone an idea of how they compare.
But as I've stated before, it can still be a mixed bag when it comes to individual games. The examples I mentioned is proof of that. Not all games that are DRM-free on Steam will be DRM-free on Epic and vice versa. Also, you are wrong when claiming that Epic does not implement DRM. Like Valve, Epic Games has provided developers/publishers the option to implement the store's own proprietary DRM onto their games. So certain titles like Dead Island 2 has either a Steam or Epic Games Launcher DRM depending on the storefront you decide to obtain it from. It's not like the cases you listed above even if it does allude to the fact that EGS generally has less intrusive DRMs across the board.
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In the recent court case of Apple VS Epic, court documents showed Epic had no store DRM of their own, but was working on one, similar to Steam. Afaik Epic still does not have a native store DRM (I don't follow everything month to month, I am willing to be proven wrong on this).
If anything, it is a good time to download Epic Game files and make a back-up. Because, who knows, Epic might retroactively add DRM to existing DRM-free games when they do develop a native DRM.
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Sure but how does it explain games like Dead Island 2 being restrained to EGS's launcher? I could be wrong but PGW suggests that it needs the launcher to run every single time kinda like how most Steam games require Steam's launcher to run.
I'm a simple guy, to me this would mean that its tied to a DRM of some kind which isn't third party, even though it comes with one of those as well. The community on Reddit even suggests that Epic does not properly disclose their DRM policies. What you provided is something that's probably outdated. It may have been true in the past but a lot can change in several years.
Also check the latest news on this site covering Earth Defense Force 6 being forced to run EGS when running the game through Steam. It's clear that there's something going on under the hood which the public isn't fully aware of.
One small caveat. A very small number of games on Epic Game Store tagged as "DRM free" by PCGamingWiki, are not entirely DRM free.
To be specific, some games, like for example "Orcs Must Die! 3", use cloud saves, which of course need the launcher. But what PCGamingWiki doesn't mention is that you also need to enable cloud saves to upgrade several weapons in the game. This seems to be a shady developer trick to implement a soft DRM on EGS without paying for 3rd party DRM.
GOG users would be up in arms about this, someone else might argue this is still DRM-free but with limited game functionality. It's debatable, to me it is no longer DRM-free. I have only encoutered this for 2 EGS games. It's definitely rare.
It does seem rather shady and makes no practical sense why they would even do that in the first place. If the game locks offline single-player content behind cloud saves, then it's not completely DRM-free. But if it's something that only ever happens in the online multiplayer component then I'd give them a pass for that since you'll be needing the internet to run the thing in the first place.
A very small fraction of games on Steam are DRM-free. PCgaminwiki actually has data on this.
PCgamingwiki has data on 42,660 Steam games. Of those, 1,275 are DRM-free.
That is 2.99% of games on Steam that are DRM-free.
Most of those DRM-free games on Steam are actually quite old. The percentage of DRM-free games on Steam is going down over time, since Steam has made it more and more unintuitive to turn off DRM for developers. That DRM checkbox is now hidden in one of the tabbed pages when you upload game files to Steam, and the default setting is "On".
Yep I just mentioned that before reading this comment. Corrected myself on that. It’s a shame if Valve is making that process more of a hassle but even if the option was there in plain site it’s still an issue that it exists to begin with. Ultimately though when it comes to the overall experience, Steam just simply offers the best one. It’s more versatile, has more functionality and a larger catalogue of games. But of course the biggest concern has always been and will always be the existence of their proprietary DRM and what it will mean for their future and the future of their customers. But the same things can be said for EGS and just about every other digital store.
Eh… I have a lot of games on my backlog so I'm in no rush to play this. But for a game that appears to be centred on the theme of anti-corporatism, at least in the sense of greed, this move does seem to go against their message.
Also, for anyone who cares, the Switch version will be the only one with local co-op multiplayer. As always, PC gamers are treated like second-class citizens.
Honestly it doesn't bother me when you can buy it directly from them DRM free, it's essentially the dev saying "hey guys we know you hate EGS but they covered our entire dev cost so you can buy it here instead of EGS before it eventually comes to steam".