So, one of GOG employees just commented on the Linux support wish, with this to say:
So, the announcement on the 18th will be probably disappointing for most of us. Unless they're just doing one of their bad PR stunts here.
Source: http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/site/add_linux_versions_of_games Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
QuoteWe've seen a lot more of you guys voting on this wish recently and I thought it was only fair for me to update you. Linux is a great platform, and we love how much passion you guys are showing for it here on our wishlist. We definitely know that it's one of the top things our community wants from us, but it's also really difficult to bring the GOG.com level of support and ease-of-use to the wide variety of distros that are commonly used by Linux users. If we're able to bring GOG.com games to Linux--and we're constantly evaluating ways that we can do this--we want to make sure that we're doing it the GOG.com way: simple, easy, and it "just works." I'm not telling you guys to give up hope--we know how much you want this--but what I am saying is that this is harder to support than it might seem initially, and we're not ready to move to support Linux officially just yet.
So, the announcement on the 18th will be probably disappointing for most of us. Unless they're just doing one of their bad PR stunts here.
Source: http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/site/add_linux_versions_of_games Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I lol'd, even though that sentiment is a tad too bitter. ;)
I guess this was partially selfish, but I just hoped they would keep with their DRM-free stance and not support an OS like that, and instead aim for Android and Linux. Perhaps they require much more work, since Macs are easier to support - not much hardware or software versions - but the fact that they still only say that 'it's too hard' and blame it on the number of distros is well, disappointing and repetitive now. After all, by targeting Debian, all Debian-based distros will just work, and then there's just SUSE and Fedora and it's solved, with a .tar for all others. Or just the installer they used in the latest Humble Bundle that can tell what packaging system is used and even register the package with it. And if they bundled all their libs, it would definitely work fine.
Anyway, no surprise, and their Interplay deal is still sweet.
Interplay you say?
http://www.desura.com/company/interplay-entertainment/
Interplay, I say.
http://www.gog.com/interplay/
EDIT: Wait... Shogo? Interplay? Am I missing something?