In an interview with PC Gamer, Kiciński and managing director Maciej Gołębiewski were asked whether GOG had plans to focus more on Linux going forward, given a growth in pro-Linux and anti-Windows sentiment among some PC players.
“Yes, we are,” Gołębiewski replied, stating that Linux was “one of the things that we’ve put in our strategy for this year to look closer at”.
“I don’t want to commit to any specifics, but certainly you will see this trend, and we also see that Linux is close to the hearts of our users, so we probably could do better on that front, and that’s something that we’ll be looking at,” he added.
Kiciński then addressed the current state of Windows, saying he was “really surprised” that it continues to hold such a large market share despite its issues.
“It’s such poor-quality software and product, and I’m so surprised that it’s [spent] so many years on the market,” he said. “I can’t believe it.”
(GOG founded 22 February 2008)
There are a few launchers that makes it easy to play GOG and Epic Games Store games like “Heroic Games Launcher”. It has experimental “Comet” support which means it records achievements and leaderboard statistics for certain games.
Updates are easy to apply through the launcher, and it's optional whether to update or not, you're not forced to like in Steam.
You can also select between 5 versions, although that's just a GOG thing, there's no such feature for Epic (which HGL also supports).
And it supports cloud game saves.
GOG falls short on the social features though, but it also doesn’t have “Steam Workshop”. So I definitely think of those aspects when selecting games to buy on each platform. But it’s not like all multiplayer games are unplayable if you’re not on Steam, although games that are built around Steamworks and rely on it most likely aren’t compatible with other platforms - one could call it anti-competitive behaviour by Steam to “trick” developers to only support multiplayer via their platform, but oh well.
And as for a lot of “friendslop” games, a lot of them have been made in Unity and are quite easy to mod with R2Modman or Gale which rely on the Thunderstore.
Sorry for the ramble.
Damn thats a huge answer, thank you. Comet is a very intriguing project tbh, Imma take a look at it. Thats kinda surprising for me that Heroic supports GOG, i use it for Epic curently in fact :p I guess steam workshop is not a problem for me, but the social features are very convenient when playin with friends, or just anything multiplayer. Yet it seems GOG is a very good platform for offline games, so I will consider buying some offline games on GOG to test its experience. But having convenient achievements with native Linux client from GOG would be actually very cool, hopefully it becomes the reality. Thank you again so much for such detailed answer :)