14 DAY TRIAL // GOG.com is a digital distribution platform for old and new games that revolve around the principle of providing content without no DRM embedded (digital rights management). The company has been coy about saying anything supporting the Linux platform, but one of the members left a cryptic message on the official forums.
GOG.com users have been badgering the company to start supporting Linux games for a long time, and so far, they haven't been successful. They say that the company is not ready to provide Linux support and it would probably need a large investments in the infrastructure and man power to make it work.
This particular digital distribution platform, unlike Steam, concentrates on old games, hence the name Good Old Games. Getting old games to run on modern systems can be quite a challenge, so it's hard to even consider porting some of them to the Linux platform.
The problem is that over the past year, more games have been released for Linux than in its entire history, and some of them are multiplatform. Steam for example has already implemented Linux support and there are dozens of games that work on Windows, Linux, and Mac.
There are also some cases when the same games that are present on Steam for all the platforms, are available on GOG, but only for Windows and Mac OS. A user has raised exactly this question on the official forums and the answer surprised everyone.
“However there is one little issue I can't wrap my head around. Why don't you offer Linux versions of the games that have a natively running Linux version? This is actually the one point were the humble store wins out in some cases, it's just nicer to have the flexibility to run the game on my Linux laptop as well, especially when I'm not at home with my windows computer. There have already been some cases where I would have bought a game on GOG if the Linux version would have been available (e.g. Democracy 3, FTL),” said user iWi.
Instead of simply not answering the question or simply denying it, a member of the GOG team replied the following: “Linux you say ... hmmm ... let us chew on this ... ;).”
This is not an admission that they plan to support the Linux platform, but at least they might consider releasing the games that already have a Linux port. Time will tell.