I recall someone mentioning before that e.g. in the case of Steam games, those dependencies and needed registry entries (if any) are installed when you run the game the first time. So I presume those would be taken care of when you run the portable game the first time on a new PC.

Not sure about uninstallation though, hopefully running the game would also add the uninstallation entry to the Control Panel, so you can get rid of the registry entries etc. afterwards without having to clean up the registry manually.

(Even more I'd actually prefer games would touch the registry as little as possible, and be fully self-contained. Meaning, uninstallation means just removing the game directory.)

I agree with you though that having a proper installer would probably still be easier and more straightforward.

thank you :)

if that really works, then making an installer should be really easy ;) And if that's still too much work, GOG could simply put up a zip file with the game folder.

that's the same way with AoW, from what I read in the Steam forum thread, that was linked earlier.

So about last night's email that I sent to Triumph, I got a reply. I tried to point out that they don't have to release as many patches as on Steam and that the steam runtimes are open source and free to distribute, this is the reply I got: Looks like there's no way of convincing them. Many games from Steam come out on GOG and none of them have ever had this issue or excuse.

duh, and those license are all GPL and similiar open source licenses. There is a directory runtime/common-licenses in the repo that shmerl linked to. If they don't trust that, it would take them maybe half an hour to go through all packages invidually and check the licenses.
But I guess, if they don't want, there is no use in arguing. Obviously we just need to be convinced that a highly advanced DRM platform is better for us all.

Yeah after all Steam is a highly evolved distribution platform and SDK, who are we kidding here.

Wow, disappointing. All the more so because I love Age of Wonders. =/

Yeah, this is *very* disappointing... their excuses don't make any sense either; it's pretty insulting. Due to this I won't be considering any Triumph releases in future, until they change their stance.

I don't see why Galaxy would bring any change to the building of updated versions of the game.

I can see costs in testing the builds for 6 platforms, and I can see Galaxy helping in distributing builds for 3 platforms. Does Galaxy implement any Steam API that is related to this problem?

What saddens me is that, many years ago, DRM was added at the final steps of the game development cycle. That meant that it would some times cause conflict with the game itself, and DRM was seen as alien to the game code.
Now it seems that game developers are depending on DRM just to make things work, and consequently losing power as the creators. We are a big step further away from a DRM-free world.

So what if they have licenses? They are included, and libraries are all free software and redistributable. I'm not getting his point about that at all (because there is none). The only reason he provides is "DRM-free is nice, but you miss out (whatever whatever - I don't miss out anything). We just like Steam". With such attitude I'm surprised they released anything on GOG to begin with.

Just don't want to start more flame and blame. But were are those system DLLs? Okay: When libraries linked dynamically there could be more than one problem. But for this there is also the possibility of packaging and include needed libraries. In fact it is no problem to have some different versions of libraries to be executed for example from within the HOME-folder of a user. So this is it? Sorry, Triumph: I said no flame and blame, but this must be a joke. How do you create your port in fact? The answer must be from somebody without Linux-knowledge.

Why did they even released "Age of Wonders 3" here on GOG? No DRM-free release of the port, no money from my side. And if there are more excuses like the past ones I'll never buy some product again from this company. Is it so hard just saying: "We don't want to release a DRM-free release for Linux!"? Seems so, until now we are also waiting for some more games like "Trine: Enchanted Edition" or "Strife: Veteran Edition". Both should be released DRM-free, never seen them.

Unless I'm mistaken, the steam-runtime library is simply a collection of shared libraries (dependencies) for Linux games. The libraries themselves are open source and freely distributable / commercial use. How many DRM-Free Linux games from Steam have made it on GOG and Humble Bundle? None of the ones I know have ever mentioned this being an issue and the devs that made them aren't millionaires either.

I think the real reason could be more like that Triumph doesn't want the hassle of updating 2 separate builds, if they made the game DRM-Free from the beginning this wouldn't be such an issue.

I suspect Triumph were never interested in a proper Linux port, and simply made a half baked effort without interest in supporting it properly. That could explain the fact that they can't do such trivial things like bundling dependencies.

No DRM-free release for Linux, no money. Simple as that from my side! More excuses to hear about, that are this much of unlogic no interest of future products of this company at all.

Galaxy is here... Mac?

Any news for at least mac to come here, I'm disappointed that just because I bought it on a different platform at release I have reduced content.