linuxvangog: Guys, if you REALLY want to unpack it without running the installer, someone already explained how to do that in this thread. But I can assure you this is certainly NOT the supported way of installing our games from now on and if you do that we CANNOT guarantee that everything will work without problems.
classicgogger: So you guys introduced distro-agnostic installers, but don't want to support other distros.
You guys replaced deb/ tar.gz archives with a shell script + zip archive, but you don't support unpacked zip archives, but did support tarballs?
Zip archives are generated from the same sources as tarballs. Re-adding tarballs is not a problem at all. There's also no need to "support" tar.gz archives. I doubt anyone believed they were "supported" anyway. Hide that option and we are all happy again.
It's extra server space, extra bandwidth and if you really feel like just extracting the files, it shouldn't be too hard to do that. You get a little extra work, but the script has all the relevant information you need.
It's even possible to replace the script at the beginning of the file or use a 3rd party script to do the extraction for you. Once somebody does the work, that is. It wouldn't surprise me if somebody would do that just to be helpful.
I'm not really sure I see a problem here.
OTOH, it would be kind of nice if they handled it like AMD does. Have a script that can generate the appropriate package, but I have no idea how much work that is.
GR00T: I'll third this. It wouldn't confuse anyone that way (other than figuring out where to find them in the first place).
linuxvangog: Guys, if you REALLY want to unpack it without running the installer, someone already explained how to do that in this thread. But I can assure you this is certainly NOT the supported way of installing our games from now on and if you do that we CANNOT guarantee that everything will work without problems.
FWIW, this is almost exactly what I've been wanting since GOG announced that you'd be supporting Linux. Probably the only thing better would be if the script could generate a package for the specific platform.
But, I don't particularly think it's worth the effort. I know AMD does that with their driver packages, but it's a pain and I'm sure it would just add to the support questions.