Just did a GOG survey that focused on the idea of a paid membership option on GOG. Seems they’re determining what people would be willing to pay extra for. Some of the options were

  • a tool for backing up offline installers
  • ability to install previous versions of a game
  • extra insight into the preservation work they’re doing.
  • voting rights on games to bring into the preservation program.

And others that I can’t remember.

  • trevor (he/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Anything but properly supporting the Linux community 🤡

    How have they still not learned that the largest intersection of the people that care about their core value proposition (game preservation, DRM-free, etc.) are Linux users?? It’s not like they have to create the compatibility layers from scratch; Valve did it for them.

    If they provided a launcher for Linux users, I’d actually buy shit from them. Yes, Heroic Launcher exists, but I’m not paying GOG for the work that the Heroic dev did. I want first-party support.

    • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      What if I told you that the intersection between people who care and the 5% of their potential audience that are Linux users is very small either way?

      I’m not saying Linux isn’t a chance for them, but it’s also an investment and very like not a profitable one for quite a while.

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Why do you want a launcher? I have a few GoG games and I don’t really feel like a launcher is something I need.

      What I do want is games to actually update on GoG at the same time as steam, not over a week later. X4 7.0 came out and it was over a week longer for the GoG version to update, in the end I refunded and bought it on steam instead.

      • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
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        16 days ago

        Cloud saves, achievements, and tracking hours is something I do like. I have over a 100 GOG games, so individually managing exe files isn’t something I really want to do.

        • metaldream@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          10 days ago

          You don’t need to manage the exe files. Just install heroic launcher. You can access and install your whole GOG library from there, and you can configure each game with different versions of wine or proton, if you need to. It also integrates with Epic and you can easily add games to Steam as well if needed.

          You can even sync the game saves with the GOG cloud, although last time I tried the save sync was a bit clunky.

          • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
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            10 days ago

            Yeah I’ve used heroic launcher, but a native launcher is still preferred. I like the GOG launcher on windows.