Too bad this kickstarted indie title became another "AAA" game after deal with Gearbox, now with pre-order bonuses, season passes and hiked up price.

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Quoting: hummer010

Quoting: Solitary

Quoting: hummer010

Quoting: elbuglioneStop GOG advertising, they are NOT Linux friendly.

My GOG account has over 200 Linux games that would say otherwise.

I don't want their client, so I don't really care if they ever make it for Linux, so long as they continue to sell Linux games.

That does not really say anything about GOG being Linux friendly though, <snip>

How so? Do they sell and support Linux games? Yes. Sounds pretty Linux friendly to me. Sure GOG could be doing more to support Linux. But you have to remember, they could also be doing less.

I guess my definition of "friendly" is slightly different. They do minimum to say they support Linux and from this article it seems like that's enough for them, does not seem really that friendly. Or maybe I am just spoiled by Valve approach. I really find it funny when someone called Valve here "indiscriminate vultures" because they provide Steam for Linux with their DRM evil efforts. Elegantly ignoring the fact that Valve pours money into Linux ecosystem itself and basically breathe life in this whole Linux gaming renaissance.

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Quoting: SolitaryYou are right and most of the Linux DOSBox wraps are mostly easy byproducts and not direct porting effort, but them porting is not really necessary. However it just shows a point that they do not do much else apart from providing bandwith and link with Linux game someone else made. That is their extent of Linux support, they let other people sell for this platform too.

That's what distributors are supposed to do. But they got into this whole idea of added value through providing multiplayer backend, matchmaking, cloud saves and what not. And that requires dedicated effort for each OS they target.

Because Steam provides it. The comfort is indisputable, no matter how much you or some other people don't care about convinient clients, auto-updates and all that noise.

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Quoting: SolitaryBy quick look, most of those 700 linux games on GOG are actually effort of the developers/publishers of those games and not GOG by any means.

GOG are distributors, not developers. The only exception are their restored games, which they fix to run on modern Windows, and games they package with DOSbox. I don't think they ever did anything like Humble Bundle and actually fund Linux porting efforts.

You are right and most of the Linux DOSBox wraps are mostly easy byproducts and not direct porting effort, but them porting is not really necessary. However it just shows a point that they do not do much else apart from providing bandwith and link with Linux game someone else made. That is their extent of Linux support, they let other people sell for this platform too.

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Quoting: Solitary

Quoting: hummer010

Quoting: elbuglioneStop GOG advertising, they are NOT Linux friendly.

My GOG account has over 200 Linux games that would say otherwise.

I don't want their client, so I don't really care if they ever make it for Linux, so long as they continue to sell Linux games.

That does not really say anything about GOG being Linux friendly though, I bet most of those are on Steam too, with client, auto-updates, cloud saving and refunds. Just because you don't care about client, comfort and all that support around is strange exception. Good for you if you don't care, but you should maybe try to understand that it matters to a lot of people.

"Client" funny way of spelling DRM.

Steam is not your friend. Just because they decide they want to milk Linux users as well does not make them Linux-friendly. It simply makes them indiscriminate vultures.

Wow... well. Except Steam itself is not DRM, if anything we could say some games have vendor lock-in because of use of Steam APIs, but DRM it is not.

But you have obviously "strong" opinion on things, so maybe it should be better if you ignore me, we will obviously not agree on many issues.

edit: I have to return to this post, because I just find it funny to call Valve indiscriminate vultures while they pour money into Linux ecosystem, while GOG makes just bare minimum effort in supporting Linux.

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Quoting: hummer010

Quoting: elbuglioneStop GOG advertising, they are NOT Linux friendly.

My GOG account has over 200 Linux games that would say otherwise.

I don't want their client, so I don't really care if they ever make it for Linux, so long as they continue to sell Linux games.

That does not really say anything about GOG being Linux friendly though, I bet most of those are on Steam too, with client, auto-updates, cloud saving and refunds. Just because you don't care about client, comfort and all that support around is strange exception. Good for you if you don't care, but you should maybe try to understand that it matters to a lot of people.

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As I already said, and many people in this comment section proven... it's a chicken and egg thing. This approach sends clear message, they don't want to work for it and expect that the user base will somehow grow by itself and make it worth while suddenly. This way Steam will always kick their asses, however small user base we are, GOG can't expect it to get better with this approach. By quick look, most of those 700 linux games on GOG are actually effort of the developers/publishers of those games and not GOG by any means. I guess we'll see how much they do or don't care when they release that Witcher card game Gwent on Steam (made in Unity engine) with or without Linux support.

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From the trailer it does look quite poor, don't let yourself get dazzled with pretty graphics. But it's free, so probably no real harm done if it sucks, except wasted time and space.

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Definitely something action oriented. I need some personal murdering...

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For those who want to filter only non-Linux Steam games, change lines in StreamExtract function in steamextract.py like this
for x in bla:
        if i >= 2:
            if "invalid_platform" not in x:
                continue
            x = x.split("\"")
            game = x[1]
            print(ProcessGameName(game))
        i += 1

The condition will skip any games that are not of "invalid_platform" status.

Edit: of course your Steam page needs to be in Linux mode, the header on the page above the list needs to read this (see below). If you login in on Linux machine it should be done automatically (I guess)
Current Steam login
username | Linux

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