Looks like it could be my kind of thing. Would love to give it a go. I can test on Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA graphics.

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My 30th birthday came as a total shock to me. But it gets easier once you embrace the downhill journey to the inevitable ending. Cheers mate. :whistle:

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Guns... Lots of guns.

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Quoting: cookiEoverdoseLove it, still have this game on ice from a past Humble monthly.

I just checked to see if I do as well, and found 3 other games that have a Linux version that I didn't know about. :whistle:

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Quoting: MohandevirThis:

"The nice thing about Linux is that it provides a fairly neutral platform from which you can then go to other platforms."

What does it means? ...

Just my personal experience. It's quite easy to lock yourself into Windows (DirectX) and macOS (Metal, Cocoa), but basically everything on Linux is cross platform by design, and we have both OpenGL and Vulkan. So it is much easier to port Linux applications to macOS, Android, and even Windows, than the other way round.

Programming on Linux is also quite a pleasant experience, even though the lack of Visual Studio and some more specialized commercial tools remains an issue. Graphical design, 3D modeling, and video editing tools is a bigger problem for game development on Linux. At least if you are developing a game from scratch, and not making a port.

Also Apple really shot themselves in the foot by deprecating OpenGL (and OpenCL), and trying to force developers onto Metal. I really think they are overestimating how big they are and how much leverage they have.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceDo you seriously not know of other games that have released a Windows version on GOG but not the Linux or Mac versions? Are you truly that uninformed?

I was under impression that we were talking about games from Feral Interactive.

Quoting: PublicNuisanceDying Light, Metro 2033 Redux, Metro Last Light Redux, Alice VR, Mafia III, Mafia II, that's all literally what came to mind in a matter of seconds and not a full list.

I also talked about how GOG is not a particularly inviting platform for Linux users or developers.

Sorry, but I am not sure what you mean by Mafia games. They are not on Linux at all, aren't they?

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Quoting: PublicNuisance1. The issue at hand here is not games not being released on GOG but that Windows versions of games are being released and not the Mac or Linux versions.

One game. Different publishers.

Quoting: PublicNuisance2. You say they won't port their own games to Linux but they did have Witcher 2 ported so the correct thing to have said was they don't port all of their games to Linux not that they don't port any at all

One game. Ported by Virtual Programming.

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Quoting: Alm888Eeehmm… Hello again! It seems you did not fully understand the whole meaning of the news. Well, just in case you missed (sorry for being Captain Obvious here), "XCOM: Enemy Unknown" is already available at GOG [External Link]. DRM-free!

Captain Obvious is my second-favorite superhero. The first one is Batman of course. :P

Yes, I know XCOM is on GOG. It is not published by Feral Interactive though. It is only one game. One exception does not make a rule.

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Quoting: TheRiddickSteam does not stop developers releasing products on other platforms, so the decision is up to the original developer.

Got any proof? Some Licence Agreement scans? Or, are you one of Valve employees and has explicit right to speak on behalf of Valve? And in this case the original developer had already decided do release the game DRM-free, but Feral is of different opinion on the matter.

You cannot prove absence. Unless there is a reason to suspect that such terms exist (in which case we would have probably heard about them by now), it is logical to assume that this is not the case.

Again, it is only one game. And for Feral to support a new platform for the sake of one game is costly. When more original publishers start releasing their games as DRM-free, I am sure that Linux versions will follow. But it is not Ferals decision to make.

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Quoting: ShmerlIf that's not clear still, I'll repeat but one last time, since I said it several times already. If Feral have an issue with GOG in particular, they can release the game through other means DRM-free...

Why do you assume that they are even allowed to release the games as DRM-free? The majority of the games they port are not even available as DRM-free on Windows. It's not like when they make a Linux version it becomes Ferals property and they can do whatever they want with the game?

We are talking about an industry that is still very much into platform-exclusive titles, locked-down consoles, Denuvo, StarForce, etc. Do you really think Feral does not have enough battles to fight?

Quoting: Shmerl...smaller companies than them do it just fine, it's not an insurmountable task. Feral aren't interested...

You are greatly underestimating the cost involved. They would have to maintain a separate build of the game that has Steam functionality stripped, different installers, and possibly different set of libraries. These games are complex, and a lot can go wrong.

Quoting: Shmerl...GOG Linux team...

A what?

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Why is everybody so up in arms about publishers not putting their games on GOG? Sure, DRM-free is important, but they are doing very little, if anything, to push Linux adoption. They have no Linux-compatible client (GOG Galaxy), no easy way to distribute updates, no standardized runtime, don't port their own games to Linux, nothing that would actually invite Linux users and developers.

GOG could become a great alternative to Steam if they actually cared about Linux, but until then Steam is much more Linux-friendly platform run by a much more Linux-friendly company.

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