Posted May 14, 2020
GOG Galaxies Ghost Wrapper might allow for singleplayer video games with microtransactions to be sold on gog.com without microtransactions being in the video games and with out the video game development companies and the video game publishing companies wasting their money on doing this themselves.
According to SPCM it reads like it.
Here you go from SPCM.
www.gog.com/forum/general/games_that_are_unofficially_confirmed_for_release_in_the_future_part_2/post11171
Here is what SPCM said.
GOG has gotten very good at hiding upcoming releases, though I haven't given up. :) Probably the most interesting development was this one mentioned by the scene group PLAZA about how Galaxy is integrated for the recent Mankind Divided release on GOG:
"Square Enix/eidos gave GOG the unprotected binary but they left all the Steam stuff intact, probably because Square Enix didn't want to waste any of that sweet MTX money on dev work. So GOG had to add a platform bridge called Ghost to the game. It's a wrapper that translates the Steam calls and redirects them to GOG Galaxy so the DLC gets unlocked."
Since Warner Bros, 2K, Bethesda, and now Square Enix have been releasing stuff recently, I think it's safe to say that any single-player focused games from these companies are likely to appear, thanks to GOG's Ghost wrapper. I would count on the likes of Mad Max, Shadow of Mordor, Sleeping Dogs, Just Cause series, and recent Tomb Raider titles showing up here down the line.
It's games with significant modding functionality, or multi-player features and content like Borderlands or modern Mortal Kombat that are unlikely to appear for the time being. Unless GOG manages to come up with another solution regarding multi-player and modding, we'll be missing out on those or seeing cut versions here. I suspect GOG is working on something, and that maybe would explain the delay for Civ V?
According to SPCM it reads like it.
Here you go from SPCM.
www.gog.com/forum/general/games_that_are_unofficially_confirmed_for_release_in_the_future_part_2/post11171
Here is what SPCM said.
GOG has gotten very good at hiding upcoming releases, though I haven't given up. :) Probably the most interesting development was this one mentioned by the scene group PLAZA about how Galaxy is integrated for the recent Mankind Divided release on GOG:
"Square Enix/eidos gave GOG the unprotected binary but they left all the Steam stuff intact, probably because Square Enix didn't want to waste any of that sweet MTX money on dev work. So GOG had to add a platform bridge called Ghost to the game. It's a wrapper that translates the Steam calls and redirects them to GOG Galaxy so the DLC gets unlocked."
Since Warner Bros, 2K, Bethesda, and now Square Enix have been releasing stuff recently, I think it's safe to say that any single-player focused games from these companies are likely to appear, thanks to GOG's Ghost wrapper. I would count on the likes of Mad Max, Shadow of Mordor, Sleeping Dogs, Just Cause series, and recent Tomb Raider titles showing up here down the line.
It's games with significant modding functionality, or multi-player features and content like Borderlands or modern Mortal Kombat that are unlikely to appear for the time being. Unless GOG manages to come up with another solution regarding multi-player and modding, we'll be missing out on those or seeing cut versions here. I suspect GOG is working on something, and that maybe would explain the delay for Civ V?