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Do you like what we do here? Well, you can help our continued operation by pledging to the Patreon or Paypal!

The support has been fantastic and you’re all amazing. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all who have funded GOL in the past, are doing so currently or who may do in future. Thanks to you, this website has been running smoothly!

At time of writing, we’re not all that far off reaching our most important goal on Patreon! At a little over $400 extra a month we would be 100% financially secure for the foreseeable future. If we ever manage to reach that goal, it would be pretty incredible.

We did consider adverts again in the last few months, but decided after speaking to Patrons and thinking more on it, they just wouldn’t be worth it. For one, adverts from outside sources come with privacy issues with trackers and so on. They also pay so little now, considering the vast majority block them. I’ve seen a number of people say they wouldn’t mind them, but the drawbacks of having them are too great. Consider this message our continued commitment to not have a single advert on the website.

On a personal note: The website has succeeded even my wildest dreams, it’s such a great feeling to be right at the front of Linux gaming. Linux is special to me and I really want to see it succeed as a gaming platform. It has in many ways already succeeded, with it improving year over year, so I plan to carry on doing this for many more years to come—with your support!

Sales Page

On the subject of succeeding, we have managed to create a brand new Linux game Sales Page. The old one had numerous design flaws, all of which should have been corrected with this new and improved version. It’s actually hooking into a tweaked version of our old release calendar database, so we can add DLC tags and all sorts of nice things that the old sales page couldn’t do.

One major advancement over the old one, is that you can type a name into the searchbar and it will offer suggestions, click one and it will reload the information and display the sales found for that name. It works really well too!

Each game on sale will list the stores besides it, the first on the left is always the cheapest! Making it easy to tell which one to go for at a glance.

Bundles and individual sales are split, to make it easier too. Major bundles are listed right at the top, for easy pickings!

We are currently grabbing sales automatically from: Steam, Humble Store, GOG and GamersGate. I’m hoping to roll out itch.io sales soon, but their sales feed mixes all currencies together which is a bit of a mess.

I'm also looking at adding in a wishlist feature, so each time it detects a sale and it's in your wishlist, to send you a notification. Haven't worked that out yet, so that's still to come.

We also have a merch store, where you can buy t-shirts, hoodies, cups and so on to help support us as well. Something which was a common request. Our Samsai decided to check out a hoody—looking stylish! Find our little store here.

If you’re ever curious about what we’ve been doing, we have this handy page right here. It shows a bunch of statistics, like who’s done what.

If you have any suggestions on something for us to write about, a feature for the website directly or anything else feel free to email any time. You can use our email form, or just shoot one directly to [email protected] (feel free to pass that email around to developers like sweet candy).

Support links again: Patreon or Paypal!

As usual, we won’t post directly here about asking for support for another couple months. Thank you everyone, happy gaming!