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I know, it's still a single-digit percentage of the market share, but I wish GOG would finally give us an official GOG Galaxy version for Linux. Yes, I can integrate my GOG account with Lutris, which is fine, I guess, but steam manages to grab my fickle attention with their app easily, including tempting me to waste money on DRM-proteced game licenses where the games aren't even owned by me ๐
So far, Valve hasn't abused that, and they have been amazing for Linux gaming, but it does not feel great, knowing the fundamentals there are what they are.
Other people have mentioned Heroic as another Gog client
Well colour me intrigued - and also abysmally ignorant - I hadn't followed them initially, because I was never interested in the Epic Store, but checking them out again just now, the project has just easily grown into something amazing and far beyond the initial scope!
I wish GOG's client was native to Linux, but in lieu of that Heroic is the next best client I have tried.
AFAIK Heroic is more or less officially supported by GOG, they even have a affiliate deal when you buy games from within the launcher
Heroic is pretty much flawless for me. It flakes out less than Linux Steam, honestly. I'm looking at it right now, and it picked up all my GOG installs, it keeps them updated and it does support cloud saves on GOG, although it's in beta and they caveat enough to make you think twice.
Heroic works perfect on steam deck.
I wish Valve would move to New Zealand.
Being based in New Zealand would give Valve such an incredible glowup!
Do a merger with mega.nz
My biggest issue with GOG is that its just missing so many modern games. Even kingdom come deliverance 2 isn't on it so I'm basically just forced to get it somewhere else or wait. The majority of games I currently play aren't on it.
At this point I'm just trying to buy games from gamersgate/greenmangaming to use on steam so at least part of the money goes to EU while still being able to do my hobby the way I want to.
KCD2 isn't on GOG yet, but is announced to be there in spring: https://www.gog.com/en/news/kingdom_come_deliverance_ii_is_coming_to_gog_this_spring Anyway, I get your point as you probably mentioned it as anecdotal example
Anecdotal correct. I saw it was releasing there soon but sadly that's already a while after release and I think that does impact the sales on GOG specufically.
I've been wanting to use GOG more ever since Cyberpunk released but just plain can't for 99% of my needs.
I do use it as a launcher (connected with my steam etc) but outside of cyberpunk and the witcher I never spent money on it. All my games on GOG are from amazon prime.
Well...
The name was "good OLD games"
The idea of sharing alternatives is that they can replace the use of the other service. Sadly GOG just isn't there yet.
CDPR releases their new games day 1 on GOG and I did buy Cyberpunk and the DLC on there to support them, just can't find any other game I've wanted to buy on there for months.
I gave up on GOG years ago. Not only do publishers who put their games on GOG treat the customrlers there as second class, but then GOG treats linux users as second class. So we're like. Fourth class. Sucks ass, man.
While I respect and use GOG occasionally there really isn't any competitor to Steam for its library, Greenlight, and Linux support. Also their CDN tech is bleeding edge and massive, not even the Publisher's shitty apps like EA could hold a candle to it. We're very lucky Valve isn't a malicious company, really fuckin hope there's some sort of long-term plan for their leadership post GabeN.
And while yes it is American made, it's at least from Washington so that's not as bad I guess.