I am not seeing the update on the 3D Realms store either.

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As a matter of fact there were DRM free Linux builds of Metro: Last Light Redux that were produced, but for whatever reason GOG.com did find them to be of a suitable quality to ship on their store:

We encountered a number of technical issues while preparing our DRM-free Linux and Mac OS X versions and made the call to hold back the releases until we can be confident in the quality of our product. While we are trying to fix the problems, we cannot make any promises if and when the DRM-free versions will be ready.

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Deep-Silver-Refuses-to-Provide-Linux-DRM-free-Builds-to-GOG-com-for-Metro-Last-Light-Redux-481335.shtml [External Link]

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: slaapliedjeI think the first commercially published and released game for Linux was Civilization: Call to Power, right?

Abuse, Inner Worlds, and Hopkins FBI all beat Call to Power to Linux as far as I know.

I didn't think Abuse was commercially released, more like a game that was released after on Linux as open source. Never heard of Inner Worlds.

Abuse was published commercially for Linux by Red Hat long before its source code was released:
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/press-crackdotcom [External Link]

Hopkins FBI was also distributed on CD-ROM for Linux before Call to Power.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI think the first commercially published and released game for Linux was Civilization: Call to Power, right?

Abuse, Inner Worlds, and Hopkins FBI all beat Call to Power to Linux as far as I know.

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Anyway, the GOG.com store page for Ion Maiden now lets you buy it there as well:
https://www.gog.com/game/ion_maiden [External Link]

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Quoting: TechnoJunkyI've made all the suggested changes to the quake4config.cfg file but I have crappy video. It looks like a 1970's cartoon. No shading, flat, boring. I'm running the Nvidia driver on Ubuntu 17.10. I've got the video settings in the game set to Ultra, wide screen.

Sounds to me like you have somehow toggled the "Force ambient light" option in the Advanced Settings. Turn that off and you should be golden.

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It is not like either Harebrained Schemes or Paradox Interactive have been hostile to Linux before, or more to the point, that Harebrained Schemes has failed to deliver a Linux release after the Windows version has shipped before. I know that at least Shadowrun Returns was released on Linux a few months after the Windows release.

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It was odd, when an advertisement for Battletech came up, to see YouTube promoting a game I might actually play.:O

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Quoting: Wendigo"When I was young"™ this was called "Freeware".

More like Shareware really, with it being a less polished version with a beg screen to buy the full game.

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Quoting: HendrinMckayI'm the reverse to be honest, I hate regional pricing. Why? In most cases if I pay in US funds, it is cheaper for me than paying in CDN funds. This goes for both Steam and GOG. Hence why almost all of my purchases as of late are via Itch.io or the odd Humble Bundle purchase.

I am Canadian, and I really appreciate GOG.com letting me pay using Canadian dollars. For instance, when I bought Ion Maiden from the 3D Realms store it was in USD. I go to pay off my credit card, see the pending charge, and transfer over the proper amount. I check my balance a week later and I see I still have a charge of ¢11 because by the time the charge was processed the value of the Canadian dollar had dropped compared to the American dollar. When I pay using Canadian, I can just pay off my card and not worry about currency conversions.

See also what happened to me with edX, where my refund was not enough to cover the entire charge for a course I cancelled because of the drop in the Canadian dollar. Ten years ago my father was doing contract work for a man in Massachusetts, and as such was getting paid in American dollars. Back then the Canadian dollar was worth more than the American, so the value of his pay was actually less than if he was working for a Canadian.

You can both win and lose here, but personally I just don't want the hassle.

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