That’s so cool! UT2k3 and 2k4 were absolute staples of our childhood LAN parties. Would be so nice to have a ‘modern’ Linux-supporting version.

Perhaps we could even organize a community event or two for the fediverse crowd? Surely there’s enough cranky old people here willing to feel 16 again for a few hours :)

And I generally agreed with you above.

But from my reading you just spent 9 paragraphs simply to restate

you need to run the steam client to initiate the original download in the first place, and that’s definitely a difference in quality of life

While I agree you with in principle - the official support is not the same - I don’t think the two processes are as far fetched from each other as you make them out to be.

I have ‘offline installer’ backups for a few of my drm free steam games, for which I basically downloaded the game, zipped up the game directory and that’s that. Now I have an equally portable game as the gog installers.

The big difference is that you need to run the steam client to initiate the original download in the first place, and that’s definitely a difference in quality of life - no argument there.