Overview page: https://www.gog.com/en/anniversary
Direct sign up for Galaxy Linux beta: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/t/YEF5EV/
Overview page: https://www.gog.com/en/anniversary
Direct sign up for Galaxy Linux beta: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/t/YEF5EV/
For those of you who were able to switch to Steam, I understand why this isn’t very interesting for you, but GOG has a huge library of very old games that Steam does not have, so this is still a pretty big deal, even if it took a really long time.
Not to mention DRM free!
GOG also adds community patches to old games very often, so their releases work better than their Steam equivalent.
Also because of their no-DRM policy, some Windows games from GOG are actually more compatible with Wine because the DRM was removed.
In my Steam collection I actually have a situation of a game which won’t run in Linux from Steam no matter what I do, yet the pirate version of that game runs just fine in Linux (and in fact that’s the only way I can enjoy my purchase), whilst in my much larger GOG collection I have no such situation.
When I buy a game I check if it’s on GOG first.
I have a HUUUGE steam library… Thanks to a few years of Humble Monthly. But really I prefer GOG.
Yeah I usually do the same. Offline installers are a pretty big benefit. I like to know a lot of games are available offline.
Also because of their no-DRM policy which forces games publishers to remove any DRM from their titles before they can sell them there, older Windows-only AAA games sold there don’t have the $&/"%*$# DRM that often makes them almost impossible to run under Wine or Proton.
I mean, you still have games from GOG that won’t run under Wine no matter what you do, but at least you don’t have the situation like you have with Steam were the game you bought won’t run in Linux yet a downloaded pirate version of it runs just fine.
To add, they originally repack(so it run on modern computer) and sell old game, which is why they named it Good Old Game.
I’m just happy that i can play Witcher 1 and 2 i bought on GOG last time.
Heroic Launcher connects with GoG, so you don’t need to wait for this. I’m still happy it’s coming, but we do have other options.
Same with Lutris.
Personally I prefere store independent launchers that aren’t constantly trying to sell me shit or market shit to me, or which were designed to try and tie me to their ecosystem.
None the less, that GOG is actually puting out a version of their launcher for Linux is a good sign, even if I personally won’t use it same as I did not use it back when my game machine was Windows.
One nice thing about GoG Galaxy, at least a version I used a very long time ago, is it is actually an agnostic launcher as well. It could connect to Steam, and other services, to automatically manage your unified library. I have no idea if it’s still like that on Windows or if the Linux version will be like that. It was very non-judgemental and not pushing purchases, like Steam does. This was like a decade ago though, so that may not be true anymore.
I also bought those games when they were on sale!
Personally, I like the Ultima series of games
For me if the GOG client can’t offer better support than Lutris I don’t see a reason to use it over Lutris. Not going to lie, the bar is kinda low as I don’t particularly love Lutris but the bar is there for the GOG launcher.
If they manage to implement a working pause an resume function for downloads, I am in.
Spent the day trying to download Indiana Jones’ 120 GB of madness. Lutris crashed after 5 Gb, because I dared to move a window. Heroic showed me a pause button, but after I pressed resume it forgot about the 8 GB already downloaded and started at 0% again. I ended up using aria to fetch the offline install files directly, sitting at 110 GB at the moment. Hope the install goes smoother.
I started with Bottles, then switched to Lutris, which dramatically improves the experience. I now (and for a while now) use Heroic Launcher. It’s my preference. Lutris has still been useful, in particular for installing Escape from Tarkov from an install script for Singleplayer Tarkov (or whatever it’s called now). Heroic doesn’t support that as far as I’m aware. It does connect with Steam, GoG, and Epic though, so you can buy and play games from those through it.
You’re assuming those will work on GoG, that might not be the case unless they do something like Proton, otherwise those old games are Windows/DOS only and so you would have to manually download the binaries and run then through wine or something, so Galaxy coming to Linux wouldn’t affect this.
Proton is not part of Steam. It’s a package that you can run games on from anywhere. Yes, this will need WINE and likely Proton, and it’s easy enough to have the launcher use those, as Heroic and Lutris already do (or as you can do from the terminal).
I know it’s theoretically easy, but that doesn’t mean GoG will do it.
It seems like a particularly stupid design choice to make a launcher for Linux and yet refuse to do something that both simple and required for most Windows game to work in Linux which is launching them with Wine AND DXVK, same as Lutris and Heroic do.
You’re basically just insisting that they could be purposefully incompetent.
Sure, technically, they could, but then what would be the point of spending money on a GOG Galaxy Linux version given that only a small fraction of the games in their store have a native Linux version?
It took them over a decade to implement the most requested feature which could have probably accomplished in one afternoon as GoG Galaxy is an electron app, and they didn’t, I’m not holding my breath expecting them to be competent.
Sure, and were also assuming it works at all. What’s your point? It’ll almost certainly have something like this or there’s no point in them making it at all.
Regardless, it still doesn’t even rely on them because, like I said, you can do it yourself from the terminal. You could just write a simple script to launch the game and they’d run. Proton exists. It isn’t a Valve thing that they have to remake.
GoG has native games for Linux, at the time the feature was initially requested to GoG Proton wasn’t a thing and we had to do janky stuff to run windows games on Steam. I’m not saying GoG won’t do it, I’m saying people are assuming it will just because everyone else does, which might not be true. Hopefully it is, but it’s just an assumption.
Lutris & Heroic already install all windows GOG games into Wine +/- Proton prefixes using some simple automation. The bar for an official GOG launcher to achieve the same isn’t that high if they want to go down that route. Proton is freely available and open source, so GOG can use it too if they want (and would be sensible to do so).
All of those old games just run through wine or dosbox. They install just fine through GoG Galaxy. GoG Galaxy has been on macOS for years.