Personally, that reads to me that there already is en expiration date on the plugin version as well as the GOG extension.

Either way, while they are free to charge what they see fit, I was flabbergasted by the high price and it being a subscription. I’d argue it should never be their bread and butter. I see the target audience to be too niche for this to be a fulltime gig, I dont believe there’s going to be enough users for this to be sustainable, which is (I guess) the reason they went for a SAAS subscription model.

Yes, the plugin version is open source, but I don’t believe anyone is going to bother to fork it. Simply because there already is a sophisticated, quite advanced community project (Heroic) that does the job well on a steam deck, also works very well on the desktop, and uses the same backends (legendary, gogdl, nile) as JS.

And it really irks me, that they rely on free, open-source components for their proprietary, closed-source software to function. From what i understand, they are not in breach of the GPL license if they just invoke the binaries, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.