I don't agree that all hangs on Feral. In fact, I haven't played any of their games. And there are enough other games in my backlog that I haven't finished yet. It doesn't look like there is games deficit.

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MS also swallowed Compulsion Games, inXile and Obsidian this year. So far it's not clear what it will mean, but likely they are lost to Linux gaming now.

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Sadly, I don't see VP ports coming to GOG anymore. At least some from Aspyr do appear there. And of course, nothing from Feral at all so far.

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Helium Rain is on sale too: https://deimos-games.itch.io/helium-rain [External Link]

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I remember when it came out on GOG, I was wondering why they didn't release it for Linux. Good to know they are working on it!

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Quoting: KristianBut if running a game under Wine reduces the FPS say from 150 to 100 or from 200 to 150 the general public will tend to perceive that as an utter failure and totally unacceptable. It will dissuade them from switching and the Linux marketshare will stay low.

Perception is everything.

I highly doubt you'll be able to notice framerate drop from 200 to 150 fps. As you said, perception is everything. So if Wine has some performance hit, but it's above noticeable - who cares.

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Quoting: jensAre there any heavy weight DX9 games?

The Witcher 2 is quite heavy (Windows version is using DX9), but it has an OpenGL wrapped port by Virtual Programming already.

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I don't see any update for it in the Humble account.

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Quoting: EhvisDo they actually sell anything right now? When they opened, everything was on "coming soon". That said, I seriously doubt you'll be able to do anything without the Epic Launcher.

Why not? If they claimed they don't enforce any DRM themselves, nothing stops them from providing DRM-free packages as long as developers that sell through them aren't DRM proponents. I don't expect them to be like GOG, but they can be at least like Humble and sell some games DRM-free.

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So the store is out. Does anyone know if they provide any DRM-free options in GOG / itch.io style? I.e. downloadable packages that don't require any client?

I was asking around, and no one seems to know.

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