GOG have announced that they're teaming up with Amazon Luna, to bring your existing GOG games over to their cloud gaming service.
Amazon Luna is currently available across the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. It runs on Linux too, although it will likely give you a browser warning, it will still let you actually play games on Luna if you're using a Chrome based browser.
All you'll need is to own your games on GOG, and any that Amazon have on Luna will be yours to play in the cloud too on any compatible device. Seems like a great deal really. GOG also said you'll be able to buy games on Luna through GOG too, and they will stick in your GOG library. So really, this is the best of both worlds.
They haven't given a public date yet on exactly when it will be live, only noting they will "share more updates about our collaboration in the future, and be sure that whether you enjoy timeless classics or modern hits, you’ll find such GOG titles on Luna soon".
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Sounds like an interesting strategy. Amazon Luna isn't available in Australia, though.
The one game I want to play on Linux that I can't is Rainbow Six: Siege, but that game has awful latency with cloud gaming services anyway. Amazon Luna does have keyboard + mouse support, which is nice.
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Quoting: legluondunetSteam has a similar service with Geforce Now, but you do not have access to all your games, it depend on devs authorizations.Before that, we need all these streaming services to stop screwing with Linux giving us a lower resolution.
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The only business I do with Amazon is take their money and never give them a penny. I will not fund billionaire Jeff Bezos and how his company treats their employees! Good example of economics where one sees value and another sees something completely worthless.
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the kings of video game preservation teaming up with someone developing an tech that may kill video game preservation...
im not sure how i feel about that.
this might go 2 ways, either cloud gaming sucess can become dependent on an guarantee that we will have offline drm free ways to keep acessing our games...
or the new generation of gamers may grow used to not downloading their games, not even having an hardware capable of runing then and gog change their policies in the future to backstab us (maybe not for old purchases but for new ones) and people who are used to not own anything dont see the issue until its too late because we already have tons of cloud exclusive games that disapear by the time they realize that was a bad idea.
im not sure how i feel about that.
this might go 2 ways, either cloud gaming sucess can become dependent on an guarantee that we will have offline drm free ways to keep acessing our games...
or the new generation of gamers may grow used to not downloading their games, not even having an hardware capable of runing then and gog change their policies in the future to backstab us (maybe not for old purchases but for new ones) and people who are used to not own anything dont see the issue until its too late because we already have tons of cloud exclusive games that disapear by the time they realize that was a bad idea.
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Quoting: Liam Dawewich make no sense, i can understand netflix giving us lower resolutions thinking it may be easier to break their DRM and as result this content leaking on pirate websites with max resolutions... (it leak anyway, at least make sense they try to prevent)Quoting: legluondunetSteam has a similar service with Geforce Now, but you do not have access to all your games, it depend on devs authorizations.Before that, we need all these streaming services to stop screwing with Linux giving us a lower resolution.
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but gaming? the resolution dont mater for an interactive exp, pirating the imagen isnt the samething unless you are talking about cutscenes (maybe music as well).
Quoting: yndoendoThe only business I do with Amazon is take their money and never give them a penny. I will not fund billionaire Jeff Bezos and how his company treats their employees! Good example of economics where one sees value and another sees something completely worthless.its becoming harder and harder to boycot those companies since they can do deal where we pay despite our consent.
(eg: you dont chose what games will enter an subscription service or not, in that case we didnt chose to give the money from or gog purchases to amazon in that deal... or maybe amazon paid then)
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Quoting: elmapulYeah it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense on why it's done for gaming. I don't get it either, and would be curious to know if any readers know why they're doing it.Quoting: Liam Dawewich make no sense, i can understand netflix giving us lower resolutions thinking it may be easier to break their DRM and as result this content leaking on pirate websites with max resolutions... (it leak anyway, at least make sense they try to prevent)Quoting: legluondunetSteam has a similar service with Geforce Now, but you do not have access to all your games, it depend on devs authorizations.Before that, we need all these streaming services to stop screwing with Linux giving us a lower resolution.
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Quoting: Liam DaweIt's probably all Linux can handle, everyone knows Linux can't do games or real work stuff. It's just for geeks who live in mums basement, it's not a real OS.Quoting: legluondunetSteam has a similar service with Geforce Now, but you do not have access to all your games, it depend on devs authorizations.Before that, we need all these streaming services to stop screwing with Linux giving us a lower resolution.
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Linux_Rocks Mar 19
Quoting: elmapulthe kings of video game preservation teaming up with someone developing an tech that may kill video game preservation...They've already got a partnership somewhat as they sometimes giveaway GOG games via Prime Gaming.
im not sure how i feel about that.
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