GOG.com Are Going To Support Linux, Confirmed!

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http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/gogcom-are-going-to-support-linux-confirmed.3288

GOG.com Are Going To Support Linux, Confirmed!

by liamdawe 6 hours ago

This is fantastic news, GOG.com are finally going to open up their store to penguin lovers of the Linux family!

You may remember that I spoke to GOG.com in September of last year, where they explained they couldn't support Linux as it would be too challenging with their business model.

I am happy to share with you that they will, finally be supporting Linux.

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No, don't duck. This is actually good news. We just wanted to announce that, after much deliberation, we've decided that one of the next steps for us is to support Linux. Now, we're not ready to launch Linux games on GOG.com just yet. We've only been working on bringing these Linux games to our service for a few months, and there's lots more to go, but we wanted to let you know what's going to be coming this fall to a digital distributor near you.

We're initially going to be launching our Linux support on GOG.com with the full GOG.com treatment for Ubuntu and Mint. That means that right now, we're hammering away at testing games on a variety of configurations, training up our teams on Linux-speak, and generally getting geared up for a big kick-off in the fall with at least 100 Linux games ready for you to play. This is, of course, going to include games that we sell which already have Linux clients, but we'll also be bringing Linux gamers a variety of classics that are, for the first time, officially supported and maintained by a storefront like ours.

This is, as we mentioned, something that we're in the early stages of, so we can't talk about what games will be a part of our GOG.com on Linux gaming launch--in part because we, ourselves, don't know what those games are--but we hope that you're excited about the fact that we're able to set "GOG.com Support for Linux" in our community wishlist as a task that is "In Progress." We know we are!

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FINALLY.

This means we will finally have a true DRM free store that really fights for DRM free, this is exactly what a lot of Linux users have wanted as GOG.com's stance aligns with a lot of Linux users thoughts.

Not only that, but they will bring classic games over to our platform themselves and support them just like they do for Mac and Windows. This is exactly the way to win customers GOG.com and I applaud you.

So, who else do we have to conquer now? Not many places I imagine.

 

[Tinuva]

This news has been pretty popular today. Other than the fact that they do DRM-free games...what games do they bring that is going to be a game changer?

Edit: Nvm I see there are a few ok ones on their site.
- Nwn
- DK2
- BG
- HoMM

 

[ponder]

They have some really good classics at great prices. Last one I got was Deus Ex to which I added various mods from ModDB for widescreen, textures etc.

There are plenty of old games worth playing purely due to the gameplay experience and not necessarily 10 billion polygons flying across your screen for fancy visual experience lacking substance.

 

[ODTech]

This is great news, i didn't realise publishers were seriously looking at linux until steam announced SteamOS and the steambox. Looks like this time around i'll be sticking to ubuntu. I've always gone back to windows because of gaming and not wanting to dual boot to play them.