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General discussionRegarding Feral policy toward GOG releases of window versions.(4 posts)(4 posts)
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Posted June 09, 2022
Could some journalist ask Feral and GOG why while there are Linux ports of some games only windows versions are offered in GOG ?
Is it a difficulty or policy of gog not to split versions or a policy of Feral to not release drm free?

I think with Mad Mar Feral raised some eyebrows on it related policies but lately after Deus EX and now Alien Isolation released in gog and having in mind that Steam is acting as a third platform between Windows and Linux monetizing both users it seems to me that Feral policy is kind of self harming... because the steam user camp wont ever pay for a linux only version if they feel that they have a wine-playable drm free version.
Posted June 09, 2022
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chomwitt: Could some journalist ask Feral and GOG why while there are Linux ports of some games only windows versions are offered in GOG ?
Is it a difficulty or policy of gog not to split versions or a policy of Feral to not release drm free?

I think with Mad Mar Feral raised some eyebrows on it related policies but lately after Deus EX and now Alien Isolation released in gog and having in mind that Steam is acting as a third platform between Windows and Linux monetizing both users it seems to me that Feral policy is kind of self harming... because the steam user camp wont ever pay for a linux only version if they feel that they have a wine-playable drm free version.
Aspyr is the same as Feral there is quite a few AAA games that have native Linux ports on Steam, but Windows only on GOG, though with Indie games there is now well over 200 games that are missing the Linux port on GOG because of no Galaxy and they removed the in progress status of the wishlist after 8 years of lies that GOL article is from 2014:

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/release_the_gog_galaxy_client_for_linux

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2014/06/gogcom-announce-galaxy-their-optional-client-linux-support-to-come
Post edited June 09, 2022 by Cakemancer-
Posted June 09, 2022
Feral is not a GOG partner and have shown no inclination towards becoming one.
Posted June 09, 2022
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Grargar: Feral is not a GOG partner and have shown no inclination towards becoming one.
I know it works on Steam because it allows game developers to set a different publisher for each platform, so if a Linux or Mac user buys Borderlands 2 on Steam the money goes to Aspyr who did the ports, but if a Windows user buys the game Gearbox gets the money.

GOG doesn't have anything like that.
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