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GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” (gameworldobserver.com)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Too bad, I use Steam and it works wonderfully on Linux, but i don't want it to be the only option.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

i don’t want it to be the only option.

Neither do I but it is. GOG doesn't support Linux. Heroic is a 3rd party community effort. Valve is currently the only company making financial investments into Linux gaming.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It does support Linux: it lets you download Linux installer for games that have a Linux port.

The lack of GOG Galaxy on Linux just means you have to manually manage your games.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (6 children)

It does support Linux: it lets you download Linux installer for games that have a Linux port.

GOG lets publishers upload various installers but GOG does nothing to support them, let alone offer something like Proton (which is open source, so they could take and integrate it for free).

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Many more companies than Valve are making financial investments into Linux gaming, including companies that own various Linux distributions (Red Hat, Canonical, etc.), CodeWeavers (who amongst other things have been contracted by Valve on a lot of Proton work) and to a lesser extent Humble Bundle.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (47 children)

GOG is the only big option if you want to own the games you purchase.

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