cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/8787838
From their about-page:
We make games last forever
A home for building and playing your curated game collection, GOG is a digital distribution platform that puts gamers first and respects their need to own games.
GOG.com is Part of Polish CD PROJEKT group.
Yes, but that is not GOG supporting Linux. Steam on the other hand goes out of their way to support Linux. And the solution you mentioned wouldn’t even be working all that well if steam hadn’t brought proton to the scene. I know wine has been there forever, but only since proton the game compatibility shot through the roof.
GOG is eeking out a living on old games, trying to preserve them. Steam makes billions of dollars. I think it’s unfair to expect that from them, don’t you? The fact that Heroic is supported on Linux and can use Steam Proton is huge. GOG still gives you the installers. Do you want them to make every single old game compatible with Linux as well?
GOG isn’t some little indy outfit. They’re owned by CD Projekt Red, which is a multi-billion euro outfit and the largest video game company in Europe. They’re no Valve, but they’re not small fry.
Yes, I do actually. If GOG can’t do it then they should donate to one of the projects that enables their users to use the platform they want. Linux support is the most important feature for any service I use, I do not want to support services that treat me as a second class citizen.
You’re talking about hundreds of games that were written by people years ago and would have to be recoded to play on Linux natively. I fail to see how that’s GOG’s mission.
A native Linux client for GOG’s platform is a bare minimum one should except.
Why? Just use heroic.
I want to track time played with GOG.
I want to track achievements with GOG.
I want to chat with my friends via the overlay.
I want cloud sync for my Linux games (only available for game installed as Windows application, means buying a Linux native game pointless).
Because I like GOG’s client.
Because I want to use GOG’s client.
Because I am human and my resons are not solely on logic but emotions as well.
Heroic is a great client but I want to use GOG’s client. That should be reason enough.
It’s a digital distribution and shop site…
Those wishes are akin to demanding libre office calc to be a database.
No, I’m really not. I’m talking about an official client that is supported by GoG both monetarily speaking but also with customer support. Steam doesn’t have to rewrite things to work, and I’m not asking for rewrites. I’m asking for a Linux client, just like I have for steam. They support windows and Mac with their client, they can very easily do more to support Linux.
Happy cake day
Thanks my friend _ I didn’t even realize. Thanks for letting me know and idk who’d downvote you, but I hope they touch some grass today. <3
It seems that you conflate steam with valve. I truly appreciate all the hard work they put into Linux, proton and steam.
Gog just doesn’t demand to use a client from them, as it would be the Anti-Thesis to their mission, instead they offer an open API for all the clients out there. Heck you don’t even need a client to get the work gog/cd Projekt put into preserving all those games and make them runnable.
I’m not disagreeing, but Steam went out of their way to support Linux because they needed to, when they first dipped their toes in selling hardware (Steam Machine, circa 2013 I think).
GOG had no incentive to do so when Linux gaming was such a small slice of their pie. And now that it’s growing fast, they still have no incentive to do so, because third parties are already doing the work for them.
At the end of the day, we gamers are still the beneficiaries of the immense effort of CDPR, Valve, and the whole open source community.
They didn’t need to, they could have built SteamOS on top of Windows (much worse, but probably still acceptable given the Decks competition that runs Windows).