reijoslav: […]
It seems it's impossible to please everyone. Patch released -- it sucks, it's too big. Diff'ing patch released -- it sucks, because it takes too long, it corrupts the game files when manually cancelled and it doesn't have an animation.
Oh, it
is simpple: Give us a patch and upload the newest version of the installer. See? No problem!
reijoslav: Can't you see any positives in this?
1. GOG servers are fast -- I'm getting full speed on the 100mbps link on my private dedicated server.
2. GOG servers actually have support for resuming downloads.
3. Patch is here -- Nobody gives the "we do not support Linux" crap.
4. The game is as stable as the Windows version -- even the bugs are the same ;).
Maybe the servers are fast, but not everybodies internet connection. For me, the download aborted two times and it was not possible to resume it. My lucky last try for the day was to fiddle the link into wget. Maybe a bad timing, but the download rate was about ~ 200 KB/s and you can imagine how long it took me to get the game. Why no split archives like in the Windows version? Never heard of split and cat (which
every Linux PC should be able to handle) or the dozens of other possibilities?
Oh, and that „patch“: It is
no patch. It is a new version of the full installer! That is a big difference!
reijoslav: You already forgot what the Linux gaming situation was 6 years ago? It didn't even exist. It's starting just now, today.
Please not. Thanks to the humble guys, Steam and many other awesome people, there
is a great selection of Linux games today. GoG jumped that train (if you can translate this german proverb) not because of their great philanthropy and FOSS idealism, but because it pays. That is totaly okay, but when you work as one of the venders of a game, you have to do it right. I am so uncomfortable with Steam and I really apreciate the GoG way —you know, DRM-free, you don’t need any kind of plattform etc.— but the Steam people seem to do it right.
This has nothing to do with „hate“ or trolling or whatever. It just seems, that the Linux version was added to reach a wider customer range, but there was no effort made to provide us Linux users half of the good service, the common Windows user gets. There is as much need for people who downplay that problem, as for the many trolls here, who are complaining just for the „fun“ of annoying people.