Quoting: PangaeaGOG is the only place I buy games these days (if quite sporadic), so it would be a big disappointment if they go under. The bar has been lowered since 5 or so years ago, but they're still the best in the business for gamers who value their privacy and independence.

What about Itch?

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Quoting: Linuxwarper

Quoting: TuxgamerDevelopers need to stop using DX all together and use Vulken.

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/cyberpunk_2077_no_gameworks_vulkandx12 [External Link]

I think we need to make it clear to CDPR how important Vulkan is for us.

I don't think we need to make anything clear to CDPR; they won't listen anyway. I'd still rather have GOG than Epic. But let's face it: GOG and CDPR have no particular fondness for Linux. They will do more things for Linux when they feel there are enough people gaming on Linux that they will be leaving significant money on the table by failing to do so. Until then, it doesn't matter what we make clear to them.
And, we aren't there yet.

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Ever get the feeling the possible stories to tell have gotten a little . . . mined out?
Not that I'm objecting to this. That's one passionate fridge! Did you notice how he teased her before he put the meat in?

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: TheRiddickRelease GOG Galaxy for Linux, allow people to plugin proton to it.

GOG games are quite easy to use with Wine. Instead of clients and etc. GOG could just bundle more games like they did with Flatout 2.

I was actually thinking, I suppose in the absence of Galaxy one sensible thing to do would be use Lutris, not just for Wine but for all games bought from GOG. Wouldn't get you all of what Galaxy does, but it would maybe help?

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Quoting: Klaas

The official version of Descent 1/2 is Dosbox based. The native versions are unofficial.

But Dosbox runs on Linux. I think I have, uh, three games from GOG. Two of them are Master of Orion I & II, both of which were offered by GOG as Linux games, both of which run in Dosbox. And that's just fine.
Wasn't part of the point being made precisely that GOG could easily package for Linux many games that run in Dosbox, but has not done so?

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Patola

Quoting: GuestCan somebody explain me why so many are like no Galaxy = No GOG Buys? Like do you all REALLY need a client for your games? Just go for the normal installer or when it's a Windows game just use innoextract. I for myself couldn't care less for Galaxy. I don't even use it on Windows sooo....

- Automatic updates. Or do you like going to every page of a game you own on GOG regularly to see if the shown version is bigger or the same as you have installed?
- Multiplayer. Chat. Use of libraries for that. Some Linux games are not on gog due to the lack of these libraries.
- Centralized solution for your purchases there, e.g. if you need disk space and aren't going to play a game from some time you can just uninstall it, knowing full well that you could reinstall it anytime you want with minimal fuss. That's something you can easily replicate if you like messing around with files and directories, though.

That's all nice and all but I for myself don't care that much about Updates. When it runs and I can finish the Game why bother? At least that's how I feel about that. And for Multiplayer and such I myself don't care. I was and will be a Singleplayer Guy. And for the rest like Automatic here and there I call lazyness. Before Steam there was no such thing either and everyone was okay with it.

You didn't ask why you should care about Galaxy, you asked why "so many" care. Patola's list seems like a solid answer. Doesn't mean you have to start caring for your particular use-case.

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Quoting: hardpenguin

Fair enough, that all sounds quite normal in the business world.

No, it is not. Letting go a significant group of (often experienced and long-term) employees without any further notice is never ok.

"OK" and "normal" are two quite different concepts.

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Dang. If Epic arriving ends up squeezing GOG to the wall that's a lousy trade.

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I dunno. I just can't trust a game studio owned by the Living Planet. :wink:

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: PJso it seems Linux percentage sucks on Asian markets, while on other it seems higher than I'd though. Interesting.

Asian? No, we got the numbers for Russia, China and Japan, it doesn't make the most of Asia; there are indian people, iranian people, thai people and many other ethnic populations. Having said that... what's wrong with these people? What japanese and chinese have against Linux to use it so sparingly? That makes me really curious. Curiously enough, even though for this game the russian percentage is the same as the japanese percentage, I see russians contributing with open-source software a lot more often.

I think you're looking at the figures wrong. The percentage column seems to just mean that country represented that percent of total sales. The Linux percentage can only be derived by dividing the number of Linux units by total units for that country. In the case of Russia it's 22/220, 10%. In the case of Japan it's 1 measly Linux unit out of 214 total, less than half a percent. So your intuition and experience absolutely does match these figures.

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