GOG are doing an early St. Patrick's Day Sale, a few Linux titles going cheap

QuoteAh! Now I got it. Well, as it have been said, that were Steam's (Valve's) and CDPR's problems. GOG has virtually nothing to do with that scam. Not that I am defending GOG, it has lots of problems: Galaxy ("In Progress"™, yeah!), support ("Use Ubuntu"™), missing Linux versions (this one, I suspect, is partially related to some Valve secret agreements with developers/porters, Feral™ in particular). But these are no excuses for outright bashing GOG for others' blunders.

I don't see it as bashing, rather pointing out the rather obvious issues GoG has had in the past. Steam has them as well. Itch has them, they all do. The listing of Witcher 3 on Steam as a steam only issue is not likely. Someone at CD Projekt Red(GOG's sister company) or GoG.com had to have said yes list us, before they realize how difficult it was going to be. Or maybe perhaps as the result of the reception of the Witcher 2 wine wrapped release?

Missing linux versions on GoG are less likely due to secret agreements, but due to the original games making use of Steamworks functionality in some capacity or other. Of course, GoG is much more picky as well on how releases run. I have about 500+ linux games on my Steam profile and the amount that don't run without some tinkering is rather high. GOG.COM there is only one I've ran into out of about 100. Having said that, I haven't had an issue with Feral titles not launching correctly on Steam.

QuoteItch.io… It is good, but it does allow Steam-keys "releases" which makes it hardly any different than "IGN Bundle" Inc. Plus, it does not have regional pricing which is a huge con for me. :(

I'm the reverse to be honest, I hate regional pricing. Why? In most cases if I pay in US funds, it is cheaper for me than paying in CDN funds. This goes for both Steam and GOG. Hence why almost all of my purchases as of late are via Itch.io or the odd Humble Bundle purchase.

EDIT: I can understand preferring DRM-FREE releases. I really do and prefer them myself. The sad reality is that with so many folks buying on Steam vs how many buy from GoG, many developers are going to target Steam first. I'm not going to miss out on a good Linux title just because it wasn't released on GoG. I know not everyone is going to agree, but thats how I see things. :P Now if someone puts always on DRM like Ubisoft does or Denuvo, then I'm not going to touch that with a 100 ft pole. :P


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[users-only]Here's a code for Deus Ex GOTY Edition for whoever's fastest (it's not currently in the sale but I have a spare key):

EB[GREEN]F[VIOLET]-ADEF[YELLOW]-[GREY][BLUE][YELLOW][GREY][RED]-[VIOLET][WHITE]A[YELLOW][WHITE]

Wrapper link: Deus Ex for Linux
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It would be nice if Square Enix were to bring the other Deus Ex games to GOG... they'd all be instabuys for me (ideally the DXHR release would also include the original with separate Missing Link, or it would be made available separately at least, as the Director's Cut is buggy and graphically inferior compared to the original). Would really like to play DXMD but the prior issues with abandonment of their games in buggy states and their extremely pro-DRM stance has meant I've refused to buy anything of theirs (except for their GOG releases) since DXHR: DC.


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Quoting: HendrinMckaySomeone at CD Projekt Red(GOG's sister company) or GoG.com had to have said yes list us, before they realize how difficult it was going to be.

That's not GOG's authority to decide whether to release CDPR's game on Steam (for any platform, incl. Linux) or not. From the CDProjekt's side it is either CDPR or CDProjekt itself to blame. But even that is not confirmed by evidence. What we really have at our hands are two (AFAIR) banners on Valve's Steam™ site, at least one of which mentions Valve's SteamOS™. It is hard to imagine GOG has admin access to Valve's site. BTW, did we hear any apologies from Valve? Nope!

Quoting: HendrinMckayOr maybe perhaps as the result of the reception of the Witcher 2 wine wrapped release?

That one is hard to believe for me. That theory was spoken out by one fired (AFAIR) VirtualProgramming® worker. Apparently, we must believe his word. No hard evidence, no comments from VP or CDPR itself. I'd not rule out personal motives for highly possible false statement (AKA FUD).

Quoting: HendrinMckayI'm the reverse to be honest, I hate regional pricing. Why? In most cases if I pay in US funds, it is cheaper for me than paying in CDN funds. This goes for both Steam and GOG. Hence why almost all of my purchases as of late are via Itch.io or the odd Humble Bundle purchase.

I see. Well, I pay only ≈38% of USD price in my currency. It is getting ridiculous sometimes when I can get non-discounted game on GOG cheaper than with 50% discount on Humble Store.

Quoting: HendrinMckayEDIT: I can understand preferring DRM-FREE releases. I really do and prefer them myself. The sad reality is that with so many folks buying on Steam vs how many buy from GoG, many developers are going to target Steam first. I'm not going to miss out on a good Linux title just because it wasn't released on GoG.

I've made much more sacrifices when switched to Linux full time without any DualBoot-ing or VMs. Not a single string of my soul will tremble if I skip yet another dozen or even hundred of Steam-exclusive games, no matter how good they are. After all, I have a rather sizable stack of un-played games at my GOG account alone.

Quoting: Alm888

Quoting: HendrinMckayI believe he(sic) means it being advertised as coming to Steam Hardware as advertised on Steam's site way back, and then never being released for Linux.

Ah! Now I got it. Well, as it have been said, that were Steam's (Valve's) and CDPR's problems.

Has been said? By who? When?
Guess I have missed this…

To my eyes GOG is CDPR. And CDPR is GOG. So hence my views.
Don't worry, Steam have earned a special treatment too.

[quote=Alm888]

Quoting: HendrinMckaySomeone at CD Projekt Red(GOG's sister company) or GoG.com had to have said yes list us, before they realize how difficult it was going to be.

QuoteThat's not GOG's authority to decide whether to release CDPR's game on Steam (for any platform, incl. Linux) or not. From the CDProjekt's side it is either CDPR or CDProjekt itself to blame. But even that is not confirmed by evidence. What we really have at our hands are two (AFAIR) banners on Valve's Steam™ site, at least one of which mentions Valve's SteamOS™. It is hard to imagine GOG has admin access to Valve's site. BTW, did we hear any apologies from Valve? Nope!

Sorry, but a company as big as Steam, doesn't go listing a game for a platform without being told it is being worked on for said platform. Why did they add it, because they felt like it? CD Projekt owns both GoG.com and CD Projekt Red. Why would Steam have to apologize for CD Projekt not delivering for a platform?

Quoting: HendrinMckayOr maybe perhaps as the result of the reception of the Witcher 2 wine wrapped release?

QuoteThat one is hard to believe for me. That theory was spoken out by one fired (AFAIR) VirtualProgramming® worker. Apparently, we must believe his word. No hard evidence, no comments from VP or CDPR itself. I'd not rule out personal motives for highly possible false statement (AKA FUD).

No comment, you seem to be aware of what information is out there. You can decide on what you think happen or did not, the same as I from the facts available.

Quoting: HendrinMckayI'm the reverse to be honest, I hate regional pricing. Why? In most cases if I pay in US funds, it is cheaper for me than paying in CDN funds. This goes for both Steam and GOG. Hence why almost all of my purchases as of late are via Itch.io or the odd Humble Bundle purchase.

QuoteI see. Well, I pay only ≈38% of USD price in my currency. It is getting ridiculous sometimes when I can get non-discounted game on GOG cheaper than with 50% discount on Humble Store.

If I only paid that, I would definitely side with you. As it is now, I have pay way more than USD(compared to being charged in US and converted to cdn by credit card company) when it is charged in Canadian Funds. Canada's yearly salary is almost 10k lower than the US and we pay upwards of 40% income tax.

Quoting: HendrinMckayEDIT: I can understand preferring DRM-FREE releases. I really do and prefer them myself. The sad reality is that with so many folks buying on Steam vs how many buy from GoG, many developers are going to target Steam first. I'm not going to miss out on a good Linux title just because it wasn't released on GoG.

QuoteI've made much more sacrifices when switched to Linux full time without any DualBoot-ing or VMs. Not a single string of my soul will tremble if I skip yet another dozen or even hundred of Steam-exclusive games, no matter how good they are. After all, I have a rather sizable stack of un-played games at my GOG account alone.

I have a large amount on both platforms, although more on Steam. If a developer is going to spend the time support Linux, I'm going to support them, regardless of the platform. Second, Valve themselves are supporting Mesa development. Plus the whole no GoG Connect on Linux bothers me to no end. To only support GoG.com(and CD Projekt) only hurts Linux as a gaming platform in my opinion.

When it comes right down to it, I don't think we will see eye to eye on most of this. I have my opinions and you have yours. To each there own. I'm not going to stop buying from Steam (or GoG, or Itch, or Humble) and I'm sure nothing I can say will have you buy something from Steam.

I will say I am glad GoG.com is having these sales and the amounts off are quite nice in a bunch of cases. I've found Steam sales as of late, rather meh, to be honest. Picked up Sunless Sea!

Well wouldn't advise touching the mystery hats going by what I got on my two. Granted I have a 100 got games on my account so that may have something to do with the selection.

Wish I didn't already own Yooka on console. Pretty good deal even if it isn't quite as good as the old Banjo games. They have done a good job of supporting it after release compared to most companies.

Quoting: HendrinMckayI'm the reverse to be honest, I hate regional pricing. Why? In most cases if I pay in US funds, it is cheaper for me than paying in CDN funds. This goes for both Steam and GOG. Hence why almost all of my purchases as of late are via Itch.io or the odd Humble Bundle purchase.

I am Canadian, and I really appreciate GOG.com letting me pay using Canadian dollars. For instance, when I bought Ion Maiden from the 3D Realms store it was in USD. I go to pay off my credit card, see the pending charge, and transfer over the proper amount. I check my balance a week later and I see I still have a charge of ¢11 because by the time the charge was processed the value of the Canadian dollar had dropped compared to the American dollar. When I pay using Canadian, I can just pay off my card and not worry about currency conversions.

See also what happened to me with edX, where my refund was not enough to cover the entire charge for a course I cancelled because of the drop in the Canadian dollar. Ten years ago my father was doing contract work for a man in Massachusetts, and as such was getting paid in American dollars. Back then the Canadian dollar was worth more than the American, so the value of his pay was actually less than if he was working for a Canadian.

You can both win and lose here, but personally I just don't want the hassle.

Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: HendrinMckayI'm the reverse to be honest, I hate regional pricing. Why? In most cases if I pay in US funds, it is cheaper for me than paying in CDN funds. This goes for both Steam and GOG. Hence why almost all of my purchases as of late are via Itch.io or the odd Humble Bundle purchase.

I am Canadian, and I really appreciate GOG.com letting me pay using Canadian dollars. For instance, when I bought Ion Maiden from the 3D Realms store it was in USD. I go to pay off my credit card, see the pending charge, and transfer over the proper amount. I check my balance a week later and I see I still have a charge of ¢11 because by the time the charge was processed the value of the Canadian dollar had dropped compared to the American dollar. When I pay using Canadian, I can just pay off my card and not worry about currency conversions.

See also what happened to me with edX, where my refund was not enough to cover the entire charge for a course I cancelled because of the drop in the Canadian dollar. Ten years ago my father was doing contract work for a man in Massachusetts, and as such was getting paid in American dollars. Back then the Canadian dollar was worth more than the American, so the value of his pay was actually less than if he was working for a Canadian.

You can both win and lose here, but personally I just don't want the hassle.

True enough. Guess I'm just bitter that most of the games I want are more expensive now than they were a year or two ago. :P

Quoting: adamhmOlder/classic games currently on sale on GOG that I've made Wine wrappers for:

Freedom Force vs the Third Reich

Hi, any hint how i can play this full screen and in 1920*1080, or at least in a good ratio so it's not stretched ?

It works well in fullscreen, but if i change resolution to fit my (standard i think) screen ratio, my screen is "destroyed" (weird size and unplayable, with the picture "out of the screen", hard to explain...).

Quoting: TcheyHi, any hint how i can play this full screen and in 1920*1080, or at least in a good ratio so it's not stretched ?

I'll be adding an option to the start scripts soon to select the aspect ratio & apply the required hacks as detailed at WSGF:

http://www.wsgf.org/dr/freedom-force
http://www.wsgf.org/dr/freedom-force-vs-3rd-reich/en

Quoting: TcheyIt works well in fullscreen, but if i change resolution to fit my (standard i think) screen ratio, my screen is "destroyed" (weird size and unplayable, with the picture "out of the screen", hard to explain...).

This is an issue with Wine itself AFAIK, it's always seemed to have issues with switching display resolutions in my experience. It's one of the reasons why I always try to have my wrappers detect the system's desktop resolution & set that on first run before starting the games (the other reason is that some desktop environments really hate when the desktop resolution is altered by something & it can cause big problems for them). One possible workaround is to set a virtual desktop.


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