Seriously, will GOG sell games for Linux?
I was looking for places to by Rogue Legacy and the only place selling for Linux is Steam. This happens to some other games too. I really would like options to buy my games and GOG is one of the best. There's no other place to buy games from CDPROJEKT, for example.
So I ask again: will GOG sell games for Linux?

I would recommend adding it as wish for a site feature or if one has already been done, then give it a vote.

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Unlikely, they're rather aggressively anti-providing games for Linux. Even just getting zip files is met with ludicrous post hoc rationalization.

Linux is a small user base compared with Windows or OSX, so I never understood why they couldn't just say that they didn't think the resources were well invested in perusing it. FWIW, the dosbox games should work just fine on Linux. And take a look at: http://www.gogonlinux.com/getting_started/

Steam doesn't have Linux support for Rogue Legacy yet. Buy the game from the dev's homepage and get it DRM-free in addition to a Steam key. They appear to be promising Mac and Linux versions in the near future.

"Buy now and get a DRM-free copy of Rogue Legacy for Windows as well as a free Steam key! Mac and Linux versions coming soon!"

http://www.roguelegacy.com/

My point is that when it comes up, they tend to rationalize the decision rather than just admitting that they don't think there are enough Linux users to make it work. It was rather insulting that in the period of time when there aren't always extras included and there's a few games that just will not work for a substantial portion of their customer base, that they pull the experience as the reason rather than them not thinking that Linux is a large enough install base to worry about. That looks awesome. I'll have to check into the Linux support as I'm not interesting in paying to upgrade my XP installation, which means no patches come next April.

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Nope.

It will be someday. Resistance is futile :-)

My answer to these questions is normally a trite: "No."

They don't care for it and they don't care to learn about the platform. I'd like to be proven wrong, but I'm not holding my breath.

GOG didn't have Mac support for the longest time either (many games that can currently run on Macs, still do not have Mac versions available from GOG). Yet this changed and continues to change. Thus I do not think that Linux is out of the long term question. Short term (within 3-6 months) no, I highly doubt it. Long term (1-2 years) I certainly don't see why not. The reason I doubt a short term release of Linux support is that there has been zero hype from the GOG team regarding one. However, I do not doubt that Linux versions will one day be offered on GOG.

GOG stated that they would like to support the linux ecosystem (which is not a "platform" as you indicate) but they were repelled as it is pretty hard to support because of its fragemented and unfocussed nature.

If the linux ecosystem would be easier supportable (e.g. by being a platform) for ISVs, GOG would have provided support long ago.

I know what's been said. I just don't care for their answers because there's ways around it. To me they just don't care to learn the ropes. The Raspberry Pi comment ought to be enough hint to that.

Being the smallest audience (linux 1-5%) and being the most complicated & demanding to support mixes not well with the wish of being taken serious as "platform" for ISVs.

The linux community should think about if the they should maybe change their abrasive stance against all technologies which help ISVs to distribute binary software. FatELF and Autopackage as infamous examples come here to my mind.

PS: maybe GOG should support more reasonable platforms as free and open source alternative, like
Wine or ReactOS http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/wine_as_a_supported_platform