Which Steam does as well.

I think Heroic basically already does that though

It's a launcher for other game launchers, but it doesn't provide downloads for other launchers.

I believe thatbis the point of GOG Galaxy, otherwise you can just use the native installers.

Well not only that. The client is there to auto update your games, and provide a friends list for social messaging in example. I also hope they integrate Wine, Proton and maybe other variants. Otherwise a Linux client would be pointless to me.

I agree.

Yes, some games have cloud saves, and gog also adds cloud saves to some old games like s.t.a.l.k.e.r or Thief gold.

That's interesting, I might give it more credibility then, but I'll believe it when I see it.

Yeah I've seen much more active development in GOG since he took over. I mean GOG left the beta phase after years.

I'm glad they're doing it, but I'll believe it when I see it. This seems like a marketing thing more than anything else, like most things GoG does. Which brings me to:

They are right about the DRM

Except they don't believe that themselves: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drm_on_gog_list_of_singleplayer_games_with_drm/page1

Plus, if you disconsider the whole "having to use Steam to download binaries is a form of DRM", AFAIK the same games that are DRM free on GoG are DRM free on Steam.

I'm all in favor of no DRM in games, but being able to play the games on my OS of choice is miles more important than them being DRM-free, because I honestly don't care about the DRM status of a binary I can't use. So I'd rather keep giving money to the company that's investing in making me able to play games. I used to buy games from GoG back before Proton and DXVK, but those projects made Steam so much more attractive for Linux users that it is not even a contest.

I can think of a couple of valid reasons someone would like to use an officially supported client, like inherent trust, ease of use, and a soft guarantee for support. But for people you're calling supremely anti-corporation and anti-closed source it doesn't make sense to use either. Both are owned by firms and are closed source. And if you count Steam games requiring the Steam client to run, then Steam also has DRM on all games

Using GOG Galaxy also won't fix the game related issues people have with Heroic. Heroic pulls the same files Galaxy on Linux would. Hence if game doesn't work, it would likely be a Wine or Proton specific issue. Heroic also automatically applies known fixes to games using Proton. So I don't know what Galaxy could do to provide a more stable experience.

Edit: missing word (use)

Yeah this must be it. I have a hard time wrapping my head around it, but there seem to be a lot of people who find downloading a file with the installer and running it to be a problem. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That's fair

Oh yeah that makes sense. I completely forgot about cloud saves. I only game on a single device so I didn't think about that.

You, you get the sarcasm :) Yeah, I'd love a platform specific version so I don't have to rely on terrible JS, but alas, here we are.

It was an honest mistake. Anybody who read the statement should be able to see that. 👍

https://www.theverge.com/games/945088/gog-apologizes-email-nazi-symbols-the-end-of-the-sun

What do Celtic crosses have to do with anything?

Same. Create APIs for Heroic launcher and Faugus launcher to interface with and send achievement results or work with them to integrate achievement modules that can be called for the same purpose.

They should also give them some funding, maybe in exchange for something like defaulting to opting into Gog pop-up ads on client open with an ability to uncheck it for anyone who has linked a Gog account. That way Gog still gets to do their marketing to those who want it and Heroic gets funding.

Otherwise I like others fear a shitty electron app or something else with lots of problems, just plain ugly, and more a vehicle for pushing ads and sales than serving Linux players. If anything I also fear them making it more difficult for Heroic and other launchers to work in order to attempt to push users to their app which has the ads.

I'm a poor Linux user so might not be best person to answer, but bottles on Linux provides a framework for programs to emulate a windows environment so you can run non Windows apps within Linux. This is a bad explanation, if anyone knows better please chime in.

Bottles is a container that is like WINE for windows applications. It was easy to install as a flatpak in kinonite and easy to use.