Gog is doing much better than in 2022. They are making 1.2M dollars in profit. Which is pretty good for such a platform personally. I really like the ideals of GOG, but haven’t really used the platform a whole lot.
If you want a markup of what this actaully means see here
I’d be happy to shop there again if they put out Galaxy on Linux. Community launchers are cool, but I want the same support for automatic updates that their Windows customers get.
yeah… Steam has always been my go-to anyway. Even before using Linux myself.
But i’m totally up with having other launchers like GOG.
I never really minded having different launchers until I got a Steam Deck. Just having native Linux support would make them much less of a hassle.
I’d be thrilled to mostly sit and purchase from GoG if they really dedicated to Linux.
I do not fucking understand this. You’re never going to compete with Steam. But you have this niche of DRM free marketplace and you ignore the entire Linux community? A community that THRIVES on FOSS and DRM free software.
It’s such an idiotic move to not develop a linux client. I will never fucking comprehend this.
On the bright side it runs really well installing it from Bottles
Their apple support has always been pretty mixed at best. I always assumed they’re the kind of gamers who are like “windows is for gaming, gamers use windows, sure you CAN do other things, but why would you?”
I started buying legitimate copies of games when I was finally able to afford it a few years ago. I love how GOG lets you actually keep the games forever and that’s where I was getting games from at first, but then moved to Steam because of how much good they’ve done to Linux gaming. meanwhile GOG Galaxy for Linux has been a most requested and most ignored request for years.
Same, Steam on the other hand had been killing it for Linux gamers. What’s funny is if you go to the gog forums it’s been like the number one requested feature for years.
Truely sad that they never saw the need for it, even after the launch of the steam deck.
I don’t know how they don’t see the overlap between Gog users and people who use Linux
no idea
If you’re on Linux, Steam is pretty much the only game in town.
I dropped Steam because I don’t like bloatwares
I dropped Steam because it gradually made the client less and less user-friendly. It’s bad enough that I kinda have to use the Steam client, but then they had to do things like trash the old rendering engine and replace it with the bloat of a browser, and completely discard List View (which GOG Galaxy has just fine) and replace it with a tile view that can’t even display game names in plaintext (which GOG Galaxy also has an option for in its tile view).
And that’s on top of other issues with the platform such as how the Steam client forces updates. (Sure there’s various workarounds but at that point Steam stops being a convenience anyway.)
I never actually needed a launcher client anyway. I gladly buy direct-download installers from sites like itch and Humble and DLsite. I don’t have a fear of command line interfaces, lol, much less simply using File Explorer as my launcher. I’ll use a platform’s launcher willingly if it just offers benefits, but the drawbacks of Steam’s using it as DRM eventually turned out to outweigh whatever minor benefits it presented.
For all you Linux folks complaining about why GOG isn’t on there:
For desktop and laptop computers, Microsoft’s Windows is the most used at 69%, followed by Apple’s macOS at 17%, and Google’s ChromeOS at 3.2% (in the US up to 8.0%), and “desktop Linux” at 2.9%. In addition, 5% is attributed to “unknown” operating systems - which are likely forms of BSD or obscure varieties of Linux.
Maybe a small company can’t devote the resources for 5% of the market share when they have 86% covered.
I’d guess the percentage of players with a steam deck is also in a single digit.
It is. There’s no doubt about that.
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