I wrote this little note on my website on the feeling of purchasing a DRM-free game from GOG. Now what I wonder, not knowing much about GOG - why isn’t GOG larger than it is, what’s the catch? Because this experience was rad.

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    4 years ago

    I personally love GOG, but they had some hiccups in the past, like the Witcher 2 launch. They advertised Linux support, but apparently the game was using an emulation layer, not native. The backlash was very hard and I guess many people still haven’t moved on.

    I still think they’re cool, but Linux is definitely not a priority for them (Witcher 3, Cyberpunk).

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      4 years ago

      That was not specific to GOG, all stores had the same version which used the eON porting tech from Virtual Programming.

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        4 years ago

        True, but I always thought that the grudge many people have against GOG was related to this. After all CDPR makes both, GOG and The Witcher.