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Re: Gog.com Soon On More Platforms

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Post by jsnell »

citizenk wrote: post #2

The interesting tidbit being: "We're initially going to be launching our Linux support on GOG.com with the full GOG.com treatment for Ubuntu and Mint."

That's the insignificant part. There are already a bunch of places to buy Linux games, what's one more? Here's the interesting bit:

> This is, of course, going to include games that we sell which already have Linux clients, but we'll also be bringing Linux gamers a variety of classics that are, for the first time, officially supported and maintained by a storefront like ours.

Even if this is via e.g. dosemu, it'd still be offering something new compared to storefronts that already have Linux support.

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Post by misterdai »

It'd be nice to have improved support from GOG for linux. The PlayOnLinux project has a decent list of Gog.com games that it'll help install and run on Linux platforms. But I'd buy a lot more games from them if I didn't have to rely on that or manually trying to get games to work.

Only problem will be having more games to distract me, I went with Linux to avoid needing the willpower to not play games and get on with learning / working ;-)

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Post by ama729 »

GOG is run by pretty amazing people , for example, they recently announced that they were interested by regional pricing[1] when people made it clear they were not pleased by this change, they changed their mind[2]. Impressive.

Also, it'll be interesting to see if it's a plan to bring more indie/kickstarter, since most of them have linux version planned, so GOG was not ideal.

[1] You can read all their reasons here: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/letter_from_the_md_about_re... Yep, that's 5 pages of answer from staff members.

[2] http://www.gog.com/news/getting_back_to_our_roots

Re: Gog.com Soon On More Platforms

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Post by sentenza »

jsnell wrote: post #3
citizenk wrote: post #2

The interesting tidbit being: "We're initially going to be launching our Linux support on GOG.com with the full GOG.com treatment for Ubuntu and Mint."

That's the insignificant part. There are already a bunch of places to buy Linux games, what's one more? Here's the interesting bit: > This is, of course, going to include games that we sell which already have Linux clients, but we'll also be bringing Linux gamers a variety of classics that are, for the first time, officially supported and maintained by a storefront like ours. Even if this is via e.g. dosemu, it'd sti…

There's a whole load of games from GOG that you can already play on linux, be it throuhg the PlayOnLinux project or by using Dosbox.

However, there are a lot of games where it feels like they should work on linux, but they just don't. For instance, Interstate76 runs fine in PlayOnLinux, but Interstate82 doesn't. There are probably a bunch of those games where the GOG team is in a position to make it work under linux whereas we users alone can't.

I'm excited. Even if they'll just push the games that already run through PlayOnLinux, official support and the publicity are both worth it.

Re: Gog.com Soon On More Platforms

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Post by yohui »

citizenk wrote: post #2

The interesting tidbit being: "We're initially going to be launching our Linux support on GOG.com with the full GOG.com treatment for Ubuntu and Mint."

It's nice to see Mint acknowledged. Ubuntu stuff usually runs fine, but official support is a plus compared to the usual attitude of letting the user sort it out.

Re: Gog.com Soon On More Platforms

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Post by nolok »

sentenza wrote: post #6
jsnell wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the insignificant part. There are already a bunch of places to buy Linux games, what's one more? Here's the interesting bit: > This is, of course, going to include games that we sell which already have Linux clients, but we'll also be bringing Linux gamers a variety of classics that are, for the first time, officially supported and maintained by a storefront like ours. Even if this is via e.g. dosemu, it'd sti…

There's a whole load of games from GOG that you can already play on linux, be it throuhg the PlayOnLinux project or by using Dosbox. However, there are a lot of games where it feels like they should work on linux, but they just don't. For instance, Interstate76 runs fine in PlayOnLinux, but Interstate82 doesn't. There are probably a bunch of those games where the GOG team is in a position to make it work under linux…

> There's a whole load of games from GOG that you can already play on linux, be it throuhg the PlayOnLinux project or by using Dosbox.

Yeah but for those that have no native linux clients that's not an officially supported way to play them, neither from GOG nor from other retailers.

The reason it matters is not for people like the typical HN user but for, say, my dad which is now using a linux laptop and plays some GOG games on it from "his past" but isn't technical enough to know how to fix it when there is a slight unimportant mis-configuration. If I wasn't there, he wouldn't be able to.

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