I hope you’re right. I’m future proofing anyway by preferring DRM-free stores when possible.

Sure that’s reasonable at the moment. And while it seems Gaben would never sell out, he is going to die at some point. What’s going to happen to steam / valve after that?

GOG enabled regional pricing several years ago.

Personally I enjoy the complicated character building of Grim Dawn way more than the item hunting. This also means I will play a host of characters and eventually complete item sets and have the resources for crafting after half-completed character number 86. For me the grinding is mostly a test on the efficiency of my build.

Maybe look into Warhammer: Chaosbane. It has a point system that superficialy looks similar to Grim Dawns devotions or Path of Exile, but in reality it’s super simple. And while you do collect items, they don’t matter as much as in other ARPGs. The flip side is that it’s kinda hard to fail because the game is so simple.

Maybe it’s just me but I think the Mumble UI is way better than the Discord UI

Coppelius is absolutely awesome. You get a theater-like show while they play headbanger after headbanger. Understanding German is a must though.

It’s not just that characters make stupid decisions, the same characters keep making the same mistakes and nobody ever learns from those mistakes or grows as a character. It’s so extremely frustrating.

No, all performance-related GPU settings are at default (and I already tried a factory reset through the driver install). Temps seem stable at ~70 after an hour of Grim Dawn, but I’ll keep the overlay with the metrics on for a while.

I didn’t find such a setting but the fans are definitely running at more than 0 RPM once there is any GPU utilisation. But I’ll check out the CPU game mode.

The Windows install is only a couple of months old.

Everything was on default. I’ll lower the values and see if that helps. Thanks!