adamhm: Once again thanks for your continuing promotion of Linux. You're really going way above and beyond!

Since I won something in your last giveaway, I doubted for a long time if I should be entering this one. But eh, I figure you appreciate more people writing to publishers more than you want to not give away games, and that I should just trust that you set the requirements of your giveaway as you want them to be. So, I'll be in for:

> Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
> Wasteland 2 Director's Cut Digital Classic Edition
> Infinifactory
> Transistor
> The Bard's Tale
> Human: Fall Flat
> We Are The Dwarves

I got this very generic answer from Techland (I suspect only the first line has been custom-written for my question). My question was sent using this form: http://support.techland.pl/support/tickets/new
Still, maybe it'll have increased a counter somewhere?

It'll at the very least show that there is demand & and hopefully convince them that it'll be worthwhile to bring the Linux versions here :)

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Thanks for another great giveaway and your continuing support of Linux. Even though I mostly use Linux in a server environment and not at home for client systems I do like to keep my options open in case Microsoft screws up Windows even more. When support runs out on Windows 7 I'll see what comes next. IMO Windows 8 and 10 were huge steps back and are not worth installing.


I'm in for the these games:

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Infinifactory
Dungeons 2
Freedom Planet
X: Rebirth + Home of Light Complete Edition Upgrade
X3: Terran War Pack
X3: Reunion
Hotline Miami + Hotline Miami 2
Papers, Please
Bastion
Tower of Guns

I've just got an email from my friend with some more news. He warns me though that it's not a solid data but more like his own speculations based on incomplete information he was able to acquire... long story short it seems that some Linux games were optimized externally by Steam employees. And the decision makers are afraid that putting a Linux build on GOG may result in a lawsuit. My friend knows that it doesn't make much sense but he is afraid that his boss attitude may be "better safe than sorry". Sadly, he says he sees a lot of weird things like that in this company...

Wow adamhm, another impressive list!
I am still in the middle of going through Thief, but I will line up the possible next one from the following:

Hotline Miami + Hotline Miami 2
Sam & Max hit the road
Master of Orion 1 + 2
Legend of Grimrock.

Thank you again for the opportunity, and now I am off to write some emails to some publishers :)

I doubt that's really an issue as Valve haven't used such restrictive licensing before AFAIK - the last I heard they didn't even impose such restrictions on using the Source engine, but I can believe that some people responsible for arranging releases might be unsure about it & haven't bothered to actually look into it.

I know for certain that it isn't the case with these games at least:

Metro Redux series - these not being here is partly GOG's decision due to issues they encountered (not sure what kind of issues though, as the Steam versions run great for me).

Saints Row series - these were ported by VP; when VP were asked about bringing them here their response was that they hadn't been asked to prepare any builds for GOG by Deep Silver. Given its current state on Steam I expect SR2 would get rejected (it's *still* missing a lot of audio and has some performance/graphics issues even taking into account the original poor quality of the Windows release - it actually runs better in Wine) but SR3 is mostly stable and its performance while not great is reasonable, especially when compared to Wine.

Dust: An Elysian Tail - a build was prepared & submitted to GOG a little over 4 months ago. It's been waiting on some "red tape" to be cleared ever since then; no idea what's currently holding it up.

GOG is responsible for the Linux GOG builds according to GOG themselves.

That's essentially what I said, except that I don't consider GOG entirely responsible. If they encountered technical issues that are serious enough to withhold them from release and GOG are unable to fix those issues themselves, then the responsibility falls to Deep Silver/4A Games to fix them and provide working builds.

In this case GOG should also be contacted as they are the ones who were creating the GOG builds. Which is what I was trying to clarify. Presuming the issues aren't Galaxy related crap, hell even then, I agree the devs likely could help.

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Hi there,

today i sent an e-mail to Deep Silver (regarding the Saints Row and Metro series). I described the situation and took a few ideas from the posts here.
As soon as i get a written reply, i will send you a rough translation. (I hope it won't be a
generic copy+paste response).

As for your current giveaway: although i won a game from your last giveaway, i want to participate again. Would that be fine with you?

So if i may participate again, i'm in for the following games (descending order of preference):

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
X3: Terran War Pack
Mark of the Ninja Special Edition
Hotline Miami + Hotline Miami 2
Terraria
Transistor
Bastion
X: Rebirth + Home of Light Complete Edition Upgrade
The Bard's Tale
Wasteland 2 Director's Cut Digital Classic Edition
Dungeons 2
Ultimate General: Gettysburg
Freedom Planet
X3: Reunion
Dex
Shadowrun Returns
Door Kickers
Turmoil
Defender's Quest
SteamWorld Dig
Human: Fall Flat

Thank you, adamhm, for your generosity and your devotion to Linux !  :-)

I'm still debating with myself whether I should enter this giveaway or not, because I won a game in your previous giveaway.  If it's not against the rules and you're fine with this, I'd like to be in for (in order of preference) :

  ▪  Lumo
  ▪  Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
  ▪  Human: Fall Flat