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GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” (gameworldobserver.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

GOG sells actual Linux games with no 3rd party software necessary to play them.

Ah yes, stand-alone binary installers that work only on a very tiny set of Linux versions because they rely on specific version of system libraries, sometimes contain distribution-specific hardcoded paths, and so on. I especially like those older Linux ports that exclusively target Nvidia drivers because why would anyone just have coded to the OpenGL standard back then...

We have Flatpak Runtimes and Steam Linux Runtimes since years. CD Project / GOG can't even be bothered to pick these existing open source solutions.