GOG team up with Amazon Luna for cloud gaming

Steam has a similar service with Geforce Now, but you do not have access to all your games, it depends on devs authorizations.
Soon we will no more need a gaming console, nor install or tweak games, to play games on Linux, we will just need a good internet connection. And we will no more need to buy expensive hardware, like graphic card, with Geforce Now you can play on your TV in 4K/60fps/RayTracing if you have a good internet connection.


Last edited by legluondunet on 19 March 2024 at 1:02 pm UTC

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.

Steam has a similar service with Geforce Now, but you do not have access to all your games, it depend on devs authorizations.
Soon we will no more need a gaming console, nor install or tweak them, to play games on Linux, we will just need a good internet connection. And we will no more need to buy expensive graphic card, with Geforce Now you can play on your TV in 4K/60fps/RayTracing if you have a good internet connection.

Before that, we need all these streaming services to stop screwing with Linux giving us a lower resolution.

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.


Last edited by yndoendo on 19 March 2024 at 12:59 pm UTC

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.

Steam has a similar service with Geforce Now, but you do not have access to all your games, it depend on devs authorizations.
Soon we will no more need a gaming console, nor install or tweak them, to play games on Linux, we will just need a good internet connection. And we will no more need to buy expensive graphic card, with Geforce Now you can play on your TV in 4K/60fps/RayTracing if you have a good internet connection.

Before that, we need all these streaming services to stop screwing with Linux giving us a lower resolution.

wich 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)

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).

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.

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)


Last edited by elmapul on 19 March 2024 at 2:03 pm UTC

Steam has a similar service with Geforce Now, but you do not have access to all your games, it depend on devs authorizations.
Soon we will no more need a gaming console, nor install or tweak them, to play games on Linux, we will just need a good internet connection. And we will no more need to buy expensive graphic card, with Geforce Now you can play on your TV in 4K/60fps/RayTracing if you have a good internet connection.

Before that, we need all these streaming services to stop screwing with Linux giving us a lower resolution.

wich 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)

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).

Yeah 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.

Steam has a similar service with Geforce Now, but you do not have access to all your games, it depend on devs authorizations.
Soon we will no more need a gaming console, nor install or tweak them, to play games on Linux, we will just need a good internet connection. And we will no more need to buy expensive graphic card, with Geforce Now you can play on your TV in 4K/60fps/RayTracing if you have a good internet connection.

Before that, we need all these streaming services to stop screwing with Linux giving us a lower resolution.

It'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.

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I am obviously joking!

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.

They've already got a partnership somewhat as they sometimes giveaway GOG games via Prime Gaming.

When i read it first i knew something was fishy

Does actual Luna server use Linux or Windows? That's the interesting part, not so much the streaming client of which there were a bunch already.

I'd say that's what Stadia should have been. I.e. sell games DRM-free and give streaming as a bonus feature. So good for GOG, but it would be better if Luna is using Linux underneath.


Last edited by Shmerl on 19 March 2024 at 4:41 pm UTC

Streaming games will never catch on because the whole point of the hand-held gaming success story is to be able to play anywhere not "anywhere there is a good internet connection".

As for the die-hard performance geeks this is a waste of time since near 0 input latency and over 60 fps is the norm and streaming just doesn't cut it and never will.

Instead of optimizing games streaming them adds more middlemen that impact performance, availability and cost.

This will suffer the same fate as Stadia and tarnish GOG's already crumbling reputation.


Last edited by devland on 19 March 2024 at 4:57 pm UTC

Does actual Luna server use Linux or Windows? That's the interesting part, not so much the streaming client of which there were a bunch already.

At least when it launched in 2020 it was all Windows and Nvidia:

"Luna will run on a standard version of Amazon’s EC2 G4 server instance running Windows, complete with Nvidia’s T4 GPUs and Intel’s Cascade Lake CPUs. "

Streaming games will never catch on because the whole point of the hand-held gaming success story is to be able to play anywhere not "anywhere there is a good internet connection".

How about having options? If you want to install your game locally, you can. If you want to stream and not worry about updates and such, you can also do that.

I would love if Valve would offer streaming for all "Steam Deck Verified" games. Such games would probably work perfectly in a Linux container. They should talk to Google to give them Stadia (doesn't Google offer Stadia as white label product?)

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Aww, yeaa, nahhh.

But I can see their strategy and wish them well assuming they don't compromise on their integrity to selling DRM-free downloads.

Considering Amazon is planning on building a Nuclear Powered DataCenter, I suppose they will have the niagra-falls of cheap energy to power even the beefiest overclocked GPUs and Cooling Solutions to make this a thing.

And Amazon doesn't have the same track record as killing off things as Google, so I imagine they really mean to carve a niche.

Still, it's not for me. Best of luck, I hope they make a billion dollars and remember their roots and stick to their core values.

Does actual Luna server use Linux or Windows? That's the interesting part, not so much the streaming client of which there were a bunch already.

At least when it launched in 2020 it was all Windows and Nvidia:

"Luna will run on a standard version of Amazon’s EC2 G4 server instance running Windows, complete with Nvidia’s T4 GPUs and Intel’s Cascade Lake CPUs. "

Huh. Am I the only one who thinks the Amazon Luna logo looks like Tux if you squint?

How about having options? If you want to install your game locally, you can. If you want to stream and not worry about updates and such, you can also do that.

There's no such thing.

Partnerships like this are made purely for marketing purposes. No corporation will ever offer its customers extra services at no cost unless there's a catch.

In this case it's the already existing amazon game streaming market. You can already buy games there. This "partnership" is meant to get people signed up for that and have them buy games there that aren't in the gog catalag nor under the gog terms & conditions.

This is bait. The swich will come later. It always does.

Amazon probably paid gog to do this since they are struggling financially. The whole thing will likely end after a year or so when it will fail to yeild new customers for amazon.


Last edited by devland on 20 March 2024 at 7:08 am UTC

Amazon probably paid gog to do this since they are struggling financially.

GOG is struggling financially??? I'm out of the loop here, since when were they struggling?

Amazon probably paid gog to do this since they are struggling financially.

GOG is struggling financially??? I'm out of the loop here, since when were they struggling?

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/11/gog-to-go-through-some-reorganization-after-suffering-losses/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/11/gog-to-go-through-some-reorganization-after-suffering-losses/

Is it still the same now that we're in 2024? This news was in 2021.