Linux Game Publishing Remains Offline

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Game Publishing Remains Offline

While LGP was once the leading source for providing Linux-native games, these days there isn't much to say for them and their web-site remains offline one and a half months after trying to do a server upgrade...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTcyMDE

[mark45]

News about lack of news about an irrelevant company.

[leech]

News about lack of news about an irrelevant company.

Sadly, they're still somewhat relevant, if only because of the games they sold with their horrible DRM, unless they release a patch to remove those, the games are going to become unplayable. I bought a few of them just for supporting the company. Ended up getting most of them on Steam anyhow, though I still have Sacred for Linux that I bought from them. I should fire it up and see if it's still working.

[darkbasic]

Fortunately I don't play Sacred anymore. Fuck you DRM and fuck you LGP.

[DebianLinuxero]

Fortunately I don't play Sacred anymore. Fuck you DRM and fuck you LGP.

And for the same reason FUCK YOU STEAM.

[Ancurio]

Ah, one of Phoronix' classics: "Nothing happened".

[Kivada]

And for the same reason FUCK YOU STEAM.

No internet connection? Steam games still work just fine.

[Serafean]

No internet connection? Steam games still work just fine.

Still waiting to see this miracle in action...
If you mean after digging through steam's files and launching using the .bin, then yes, but 90% of people don't do that.

No internet connection? GOG.com games still install & work just fine. (provided you have the installers backed up).

Serafean

[justmy2cents]

Still waiting to see this miracle in action...
If you mean after digging through steam's files and launching using the .bin, then yes, but 90% of people don't do that.

No internet connection? GOG.com games still install & work just fine. (provided you have the installers backed up).

Serafean

all you get is "Connection unavailable. Do you want to start in offline?". and you can run any installed steam game (unless developers made bad choice of depending on online) from client whenever you want

if game depends on online, that is not steam related. same as DRM. both things are just options put to developers to their own decision.

as far as GOG goes, they sure have strange policy. no DRM, with preference to platforms that are major DRM pushers

[Britoid]

This is why I'm just going to keep to Steam and GOG.