Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: x_wingand in the end, is what our platform needs.

Not necessarily. Our platform needs more games. GOG installers are pretty easy to use too. If they wouldn't have been missing releases though.

GOG installers are ridiculously slow, though, always have been. I do not know what they do with these files other than unpacking them, but every GOG installation just takes ages (and on multiple good PCs, too).
Every time I installed some games that way I was reminded of the ages of installing from CD. And I use SSD, ffs!

Which doesn't even address their biggest issue: Lack of auto-patching.
Games nowadays simply aren't released in a "done" state anymore, it just doesn't happen. There are patches, sometimes A LOT of them.
With GOG installers for linux, you always have to re-install the entire game just to replace a handful of changed files.* And did I mention how slow their installers are?
A platform like Galaxy or Steam (or a launcher for the actual game that applies the patches, like many MMOs do) is almost a necessity, and GOG simply doesn't provide that on linux.

*In theory, you could argue the developers could provide patch files.
Yeah, right. All the extra effort to create a patch file, for the subset of a very small audience, for one store.
I know I wouldn't.

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I know why I stopped buying from them quite a while ago...

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: liamdaweTo anyone else, keep making comments like this and you will be placed into a mod queue. I'm done with it.

Also, he's a registered user, I think it's important if he can feel that he can identify himself with your gaming portal even if he had different opinions than you, the portal owner. Embrace, rather than exclude.

There is difference in opinion and then there's being extremely aggressive, insulting and making numerous false claims.
I see no reason at all to "embrace" any of the latter, but every single reason to exclude it.

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Quoting: GuestNice, I’ll buy it once it’s available DRM-free. Hopefully it’s not impossible to finish like the Kingdom Rush games are.

What do you mean?
I'm currently playing KR Origins and so far I haven't encountered anything impossible (on Veteran, anyway, not the even harder difficulty).

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Can you actually play the game alone? Well, I mean, I know that you CAN, but how is it?
I don't usually have people to play with and I loathe playing with totally random people. But I'd like to give the game a try as it seems really interesting.

Quoting: Alm888And what it has to do with gaming on Linux, again?

Is launching any random Windows game through WINE worthy of a news article?

To prevent useless comments like these, articles now have tags that can be ignored.
So you no longer have to suffer the terrible fate of reading Wine-related news, and other people don't have to suffer comments like yours.

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I really like their Kingdom Rush games, so this went to my wishlist immediately.

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Why would I possibly support this?!

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Ubuntu support? Currently it's too hard to run PoE on it.

Sorry, what?
Steam -> Steam Play -> Download & play PoE.
How is that hard?

I mean, sure, native would be even better, for performance alone, but PoE is definitely one of the best running games on Proton right now (at leat post Proton 4.2). Most of the problems reported on ProtonDB are actually bugs/performance issues of the game itself (like heavy stuttering when shit hits the fan) which happen on Windows as well.
I'd know, I played on both platforms for dozens of hours ;)

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I'll definitely give it another go, for the turn-based mode alone.
Should really improve the experience, especially later on as the game became extremely chaotic when everyone was slinging ten spells with twelve explosions and fourteen status effects per second...

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Man... fixed function pipelines.
That's what I had to learn back then for 3D programming, back before there were programmable shaders. Good old times!

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