This is fantastic news, GOG.com are finally going to open up their store to penguin lovers of the Linux family!
You may remember that I spoke to GOG.com in September of last year, where they explained they couldn't support Linux as it would be too challenging with their business model.
I am happy to share with you that they will, finally be supporting Linux.
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FINALLY.
This means we will finally have a true DRM free store that really fights for DRM free, this is exactly what a lot of Linux users have wanted as GOG.com's stance aligns with a lot of Linux users thoughts.
Not only that, but they will bring classic games over to our platform themselves and support them just like they do for Mac and Windows. This is exactly the way to win customers GOG.com and I applaud you.
So, who else do we have to conquer now? Not many places I imagine. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
You may remember that I spoke to GOG.com in September of last year, where they explained they couldn't support Linux as it would be too challenging with their business model.
I am happy to share with you that they will, finally be supporting Linux.
QuoteNo, don't duck. This is actually good news. We just wanted to announce that, after much deliberation, we've decided that one of the next steps for us is to support Linux. Now, we're not ready to launch Linux games on GOG.com just yet. We've only been working on bringing these Linux games to our service for a few months, and there's lots more to go, but we wanted to let you know what's going to be coming this fall to a digital distributor near you.
We're initially going to be launching our Linux support on GOG.com with the full GOG.com treatment for Ubuntu and Mint. That means that right now, we're hammering away at testing games on a variety of configurations, training up our teams on Linux-speak, and generally getting geared up for a big kick-off in the fall with at least 100 Linux games ready for you to play. 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.
This is, as we mentioned, something that we're in the early stages of, so we can't talk about what games will be a part of our GOG.com on Linux gaming launch--in part because we, ourselves, don't know what those games are--but we hope that you're excited about the fact that we're able to set "GOG.com Support for Linux" in our community wishlist as a task that is "In Progress." We know we are!
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FINALLY.
This means we will finally have a true DRM free store that really fights for DRM free, this is exactly what a lot of Linux users have wanted as GOG.com's stance aligns with a lot of Linux users thoughts.
Not only that, but they will bring classic games over to our platform themselves and support them just like they do for Mac and Windows. This is exactly the way to win customers GOG.com and I applaud you.
So, who else do we have to conquer now? Not many places I imagine. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Mhmmm...To be honest: Not surprised at all.
Obviously a case of "One [platform] to find them [..]". ;)
Steam Achievement unlocked: Build an attractive environment for developers. :P
Obviously a case of "One [platform] to find them [..]". ;)
Steam Achievement unlocked: Build an attractive environment for developers. :P
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ScummVM, DosBOX AND GemRB.
This could work, it seriously could.
This could work, it seriously could.
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I admit, I'm surprised; I didn't expect that to happen any time soon (or at all). In fact, I'm still suspicious this is an early April Fools' joke.
I expected it to happen in 2014 (but I wasn't fully sure). So I'm very pleased it's happening.
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Very good news!
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Of course, I own Zigfrak thanks to FireFlower Games. Thank you!This means we will finally have a true DRM free store that really fights for DRM freeThought you already had that. ;)
Glad to be of service. :)
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Are any of the Dosbox wrapper based games supported on Mac? I have not seen any from a casual glance, and it makes me wonder if they have any plans to do so on Linux.
Regardless, really, really, really, great news! :D
Regardless, really, really, really, great news! :D
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commodore256 Mar 18, 2014
Hoary! Dosbox and wine wrappers! (I bet those are the first 100 games because it's so easy to "port") To be serious, I am excited, it's a step in the right direction and I'm looking forward to legit native gog linux games.
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Great news! Thanks GOG! :)
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@Hamish: If it's DosBox, I don't see any reason why they wouldn't work on OS X already. Just some minor config modifications (same as for Linux) and it should be OK.
Related thread: http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/16917-How-to-run-GOG-DosBox-games-on-Linux
Related thread: http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/16917-How-to-run-GOG-DosBox-games-on-Linux
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Taking another look, there are some OS X DOSBox wrappers on GOG:
http://www.gog.com/game/duke_nukem_12
http://www.gog.com/game/redneck_rampage_collection
http://www.gog.com/game/duke_nukem_12
http://www.gog.com/game/redneck_rampage_collection
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Great news. I've been looking for support on Linux as I've been buying quite a few games from gog.com to run on Linux (I don't have Windows) and about 5% of the games I can't seem to make them run, which are mostly running under wine. About 10% I use scummvm, dosbox, Java, and open source engines.
It would also be nice if they provide native Linux ports for free downloads for those already purchased in Windows platform. I hope my risk taking (spending money on games for platform that I don't have) gets its reward.
It would also be nice if they provide native Linux ports for free downloads for those already purchased in Windows platform. I hope my risk taking (spending money on games for platform that I don't have) gets its reward.
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Well Liam.
This means that in short you should make a new GoG.com distinctive icon for the GOL user's avatars.
:)
This means that in short you should make a new GoG.com distinctive icon for the GOL user's avatars.
:)
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This seems like a very forced decision probably because of Steam, I hope they get serious though.
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Oh joy! Around Y2K I jumped from Amiga straight to Linux, so I missed most of the DOS and Windows games. Sure, I know I could run them in DosBox, ScummVM and Wine, and I sometimes did, but usually I was too lazy to tweak the config files in effort to make things work (and I didn't have much luck with PlayOnLinux either). So now someone will finally take care of the classics for my lazy ass. ;-)
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Cheeseness Mar 19, 2014
I'll be really interested to hear what sort of approaches they'll be taking with regards to packaging.
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philip550c Mar 19, 2014
I'll be really interested to hear what sort of approaches they'll be taking with regards to packaging.I'm guessing since they are supporting ubuntu/mint that it will be deb files.
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I wonder if they'll use the Steam runtime for native games. I think that would be a good idea.
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I'm guessing since they are supporting ubuntu/mint that it will be deb files.
I certainly hope not; as Ryan Gordon said in his Steam Dev Days talk, it is never worth the trouble for game developers to actually integrate themselves into distribution's package managers.
Also, I was under the impression that GOG prided itself on their own installer solutions? At least on Windows?
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