Halp, all I get is this exe file, that can't work on my penguin box... :-)

Seriously GOG - testing your new platfom with a non-crossplatform game. Fail.

I'll try to play it on the legacy os (winxp), that I dual boot though, but I'm disappointed.

Try using WINE, if it come's to Linux it will probably be WINE wrapped anyway like Flatout and BG. Game should be old enough that it can run without issue.

Please don't mindlessly insult GOG and misrepresent the attitudes of Linux users. It makes more sense to test the infrastructure first with a non-crossplatform game, otherwise they'd be testing too many variables at once. Testing only on Windows first and then on other platforms allows them to isolate one problem then move to the next. I'm just guessing, but it's how I'd do it, anyway.

I'm ok with using wrappers (as long as they are properly tested and work correctly, unlike some game about a white haired warrior mage from a certain polish studio, pun intended :-P ), but I tried wine with GOG's windows releases many times in the past and it fails on the installer (though the game itself would run just fine).

Well like I said, I'm just disappointed that GOG isn't doing things the proper way with launching all platforms at once, but doing only windows, and we'll have to wait an indefinite amount of time for GNU/Linux support, which will have to be ported (the proper way would be planning/desigining/coding for multiplatform from the start, that way most of the problems with porting are nonexistent). I also expected Galaxy to be a "game launcher client", not something that gets used by the games only internally (though this might be cool if it allowed to play MAX2 multiplayer).

As a linux user and gog customer i couldn't agree more , i think GOG should go step by step .

Who do you think you are?

How much did you pay for this game?
How much did you pay for this OS?

How long did you try to make the game work, what steps did you take?

The fact is, the game works very well on Linux, and so does the installer.

You should show more respect to people who work hard and let others benefit of their work before spitting out "it doesn't work" - you should rather say "I don't know how to make it work".

A few years ago people would take hours and days to try to make games work on DOS, nowadays if a free game given for a BETA test doesn't work immediately in one click, on a free OS it wasn't even aimed at, people like you feel they've been cheated.

The feeling of self-entitlement of this generation really sucks.

what has this got to do with anything? He is somebody who expresses an opinion that you clearly do not share. I do not share it either but i do not share your opinion either. Again, irrelevant. The GOG team decided to give this game for free so that we test the new platform. The poster still has every right to express his opinion. free or not free makes absolutely no difference. Internet Explorer comes for free and it sucks. (it did at some time, haven't tested it for a while). Exactly the right question to ask in my opinion. I agree with you on this one, the original poster should be encouraged to explain what he did to make it work on his machine. It is not a fact because the original poster elluded that he did try it and he said it failed. It will be a fact once you explain what you did to make it work I agree, this is what I would like to see people talk. What do you mean by "people like you"? To me it sounds like an attack on the original poster. I havene't met any "people like you" in my life. I have met people like me though.


Reading your post I get the feeling that you are angry at the original poster for no reason.

I cannot "read" the original posters thought if he does have respect for the GOG team or not. I do not know him, I have not conversed with him and he has not written much to tell what he thinks of GOG in general. Instead of attacking him you should encourage him like other posters to try solutions and report back. What do you mean "of this generation"? I could mistaken your post for a glimpse of self-entitlement on your part just by being of a different generation.

Just like I do not know the original poster, I do not know you either. I hope you see my post as an invitation to stop attacking people and instead engage with them. Written text and especially in a few words is easily missinterpreted. respect his opinion that he clearly is dissapointed with the release from GOG, try to understand why he is dissapointed and help him resolve his issues and be happy.

Cyber Killer, nice to meet you too. I get called a jerk by a lot of people, but don't let that fool you, I'm really an ok-guy once you get to know my point of view :-). (bonus points for spotting the Aliens reference :-) ) About 5 minutes of my time so far. Around 15 years of usage, hacking, tweaking, convincing other people to use it too, plus I'm ramping up to something close to 100euro in donations over the years to various FLOSS projects included as a part of many GNU/Linux distros and to some free software helping fundations. Not to mention some fragments of code here and there. 0 minutes and absolutely none, my good sir. This is a nonfree/commercial product, which would be somewhat acceptable, however I do not have the source code to even try to debug it, so in this case I fully expect it to work as-is. The last GOG installer I tried in Wine was for Heroes of Might and Magic 3, at ~2 years ago, I tried many other GOG games before that. None installed correctly. I'd say I know more than a few ways to run this game on GNU/Linux, but I'm saying this for the sake of argument, to show there is interest in day-1 support for GNU/Linux. Been there, done that. That was around the same time I started using GNU/Linux. Well, I tried to make it look like a joke (see line 1 of my first post), but it seems it didn't work out too well. I'm also fed up with "this" generation, as I kicked 30 a few weeks ago (so I'm officialy a dinosaur now), the kids nowadays don't seem to understand anything.

Anyway, without escalating this further - sorry GOG, but you should be sorry too. With all the marketing stuff going around for Galaxy, this made me feel like I'd be able to play around on my main OS with this game, instead, this is what I got.

Just to chime in, a native version would have been nice.
Or a simple PlayOnLinux module.
Or as a last resort some instructions for the clueless. Not everyone who wants to use Linux has over 10 years of experience with it. :)

EDIT:
I should mention that this does not only count for AvP but for any game on GoG. :)