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Re:Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red D... by arp242 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @05:33PM (#27624076)
I believe that GOG.com doesn't accept games that rely on the steam runtime; I know some games which have Linux ports aren't available on GOG.com because of this.

Whether this matters is up to the developer. But it's a potential downside.

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Re:Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red D... by vetinari on Friday June 25, 2021 @06:29PM (#27637047)
Yes, this is downside.

Gog is quite contend with just Ubuntu being supported; they are not that different.

Not sure whether that is the only reason why some games are not on Gog though; often Mac ports are missing too. It seems more like missing rights for the ports than technical reasons.

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Re:Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red D... by arp242 on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:13PM (#27637391)
> Not sure whether that is the only reason why some games are not on Gog though; often Mac ports are missing too. It seems more like missing rights for the ports than technical reasons.

I don't know; probably not. But this was the response I got back from the devs of "Expeditions: Conquistador" when I asked if they could release the Linux version on GOG (when I bought it originally I still had a Windows machine).

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