Probably because Linux gamers believe that GOG has more to gain from supporting Linux than Mac. Mac keeps getting attention, while Linux isn't even on the table.

I don't think Linux users believe the horse is dead. Quite the opposite actually. Linux is getting more attention than ever. Even Steam, AMD and Nvidia are putting more into it. AMD and Nvidia drivers are finally on par with Windows drivers. A lot of indie developers and some AAA developers are on board with Linux. Between Steam for Linux, SteamOS and Ubuntu, I only expect the platform to grow from here.

@GOG - Linux users are a passionate bunch. They remind me of Amiga users. Anytime a kickstarter project decides to support Linux, the word spreads among their communities, and they jump on board.

Also, I'm not concerned with GOG making games work on Linux using DOSBox or WINE. I can do that myself. I would just like to see games that already have a native Linux version be made available on GOG. That should take most of the work out of the hands of GOG. Wasteland 1 and other games here already have a native Linux version. Project Eternity, Wasteland 2, Shadowrun Returns and other future games coming here will too. Why is it so hard to offer what already exists?

Wow! That is very cool. Thanks a lot for sharing that great news. It's wonderful to see Mac sales quantified and that they are doing so well here. Awesome!

It is awesome how far Wine has come to be sure. I love it and Boxer both. It was unfortunate about the MR compromise. I suppose the more this stuff happens, the better tech is going to become at defending against it. At least I hope it plays out that way.

It turns out there was a thread about the sales already going so I just added the list of the newly released stuff. I am getting confused now posting back and forth. I wonder if I just said this... lol. Anyway, it's taken care of now.

That would be quite jump in downloads as they reached 6 million downloads just two years ago and at that time GOG was windows only.

Edit: If I'm reading the information right, GOG alone made 64% of net profits and 41% of total revanue of entire CD Projekt group made in past 9 months!

Edit2: If I would make a quess, the big project for 2014 they mentioned might be early access/alpha funding we GOGers voted for in the questionaire awhile back (in addition wether or not GOG should sell MMO's, games (MMO's?) with 3rd party accounts, games with multiplayer focus and wether or not Planetary Annihilation should be added to GOG catalog or not etc.). It's popular right now and would certainly expand the service.

Yeah, I just double-checked the numbers and it was "only" over 1.1 million in August (slide 26)
https://www.cdprojekt.com/resources/20130827_-_CDP_prezentacja_polroczna.pdf

Still, it should be safe to assume that Windows game downloads are many times more than that meaning the total number of downloads this year alone (that isn't even over yet) is more than total downloads from GOG service for first three years.

This isn't a zero-sum game where it has to be one platform or nothing. The larger GOG grows and the more mindshare the service gains, the greater potential it has to not only sign on elusive publishers/labels like Microsoft, LucasArts, Take Two, or Bethesda, but also support platforms like Linux. The lessons that GOG has learned from supporting a minority platform like the Mac will also serve it well when Linux support comes in the future. Many of GOG's games that worked well under Linux with WINE or DOSBox will still continue to do so...as well as the many future games that will come to GOG, new or old. Just because Mac users are benefiting from GOG's expansion, doesn't mean that Linux users won't benefit either.

He means the dead horse in terms of GOG's current position on Linux support.

I know, but we intend to convince GOG otherwise.

If you look at the requested site features, Linux is number 6 of all requested features with 12607 votes. 1 through 4 are all "in progress", and will probably always say "in progress". It's not like Linux votes are sitting around 500.

Bad thing is (for GOG) I'm buying old games and new indie games on Steam again - simply because their Linux support.

Lost $$$ Mr. GOG. Wake up! Rise and shine!

This is what I mean by your reasons for not supporting Linux also apply to other OSes.

This reason actually boils down to "We chose to support Mac first and don't have the knowledge or manpower to extend to Linux too, we are unable to support it".
Why limit it to Linux? I can automate testing on all OSes. The tools I am going to use for my automated testing are cross-platform too..

If I were allowed to, I would automate myself out of my job. It's the IT department that won't let me.
Because, as the wishlist reflected, there are more people (on the forum) who care about Linux support than Mac.
I had the exact same thing.

I backed something and got a Wasteland 1 code to redeem on either Steam or GOG. Linux support is in the works. So I had a choice:

Steam: Will run natively in Linux but has DRM
GOG: DRM-free, but no native Linux

You should not listen to what customers say, but to how they behave. The GoG staff have more information available than we do, I'm sure there is more than just one factor involved in the decision. Even Valve only started investing into Linux because of Steam OS, and Steam OS only exists because Microsoft's Windows 8 is directly cannibalising Steam. of course when Valve announced Linux support no one knew that there as something much larger going on than just Valve wanting to sell to the Linux market as well.

Shame I can't remove my vote now. I don't want my vote being used as excuse for spam and topic derailing. It was vote for "I'm not against it, do it if you (GOG staff) see it profitable".

I don't think that constitutes a valid reason to hijack a thread about more Mac games coming to GOG.

Let us be happy in peace will you please? It isn't like I haven't twice now said I sympathize with Linux gamers wanting Linux games here too. This is not the place for this discussion. By all means, create a new thread to carry it on there. I promise I will not come and hijack it with a lot of stuff about how Mac games are more lucrative to sell here thus they are first, etc., etc.

Back on topic, did you see the post above about how many Mac titles GOG has sold since bringing them here? It sure looks like that turned out to be a good move regardless of how many of those users like to visit these forums.

Too bad Arcanum isn't on the list. Bought it when I still used Windows but never played it much, now I can't play it at all.

No official support yet, but others have been successful in the Arcanum forum.