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I am believing more and more each time that DRM is not fair (even in Europe it is not valid) however as I am moving towards GOG I have a feeling about their ports. Many of them are only a wine wrap. I don't feel like I am supporting linux developers through that (I mean, I could do that in a moment: just install wine and run a win game, and nobody contributed to linux).
Before it was advertised when it was only a wine port, now I don't see this information anymore in the gog website. Is it not possible to know now?
And also: What's your position about this? I ask because I think gog is better, but I don't want to buy such portings.
Thanks in advance
GOG's refund offer is enough to make me shop with them. Try getting a refund from Steam...
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Exactly. The likelihood of seeing native versions of the kinds of games that GOG offers with wine or dosbox "wrappers" is probably in the negatives... not to mention you could "filter" most of those games through 100 layers of wrapper/emulator and still be able to play them on Linux with hardware made in the last 5 years.
My feelings on the matter of wrappers is that if it brings yesterdays titles to Linux and they run well on reasonable hardware by today's standards then the only response (as far as I'm concerned) is "AWESOME!!!". With many of the "next gen" engines supporting Linux "out of the box" then these types of ports would certainly be unacceptable for newer games in the coming couple of years and I will certainly view them as "lazy".
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Hi,
I am a GOG employee and I wanted to tell you that we do state on the gamecards that a given game is "ported" via Wine, if that's actually the case. We also note whether a game comes as a 32-bit binary and we also note which packages are required in order to run said game with the proper package names given so that you can copy-paste them into your terminal and download them via your distro's package manager.
See FlatOut as an example: http://www.gog.com/game/flatout
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GOG has very few Wine wrapped games, you can find out if they're using Wine by looking at the system requirements there's a "The game comes with a 32-bit binary only. This is a Wine game." notice written < - taken from the original Baldur's Gate page.
The majority of Linux games on GOG are native.
As an exclusive GOG user I bid you welcome :-)