Age of Wonders series; Europa Universalis series.

Just to name two (I found more) of the titles published in Windows as well as Mac format - available as such at least on Steam and in the Humble Store.

These games are Windows exclusive here on GOG. Why?

Any ideas?

Here, let me do a google search for you:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agog.com+age+of+wonders+for+mac

Which includes this thread:

https://www.gog.com/forum/age_of_wonders_series/age_of_wonders_3_mac_and_linux_versions_where_art_thou/page1

With this post:

https://www.gog.com/forum/age_of_wonders_series/age_of_wonders_3_mac_and_linux_versions_where_art_thou/post17

I'll let you read the other posts that poster points to.

Give me a second and I'll do a Google search for the other one but 99% sure that's on of the publishers that doesn't like GoG in general.


edit:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agog.com+Europa+Universalis+for+mac

Yup, that's Paradox. They're not a big fan of the GoG platform either. They're a Steam only developer for their newer game:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-is-now-available-for-pre-order-information-faq.920646/ Hope this helps

As it turns out, it's hard to stay with a platform when they keep changing how the wheel works for other cases.

A new package format, an entirely new file system, and so many other silly issues.

I appreciate your effort, but no, it doesn't help. I'm sorry.

Basically because none of the links - apart from the one taken from Paradox - hold any official information. It's mostly hearsay. Someone claiming to post an e-mail response by Triumph - how do we to know it's for real? Publishers not doing business with GOG for not liking GOG and the DRM discussion seem to be 'lateral movement', since in business money decides the day.

And it's not a question of availability to every platform, since the games I am asking about do come in a mac flavour.

For example: past sale I got Europa Universalis here on GOG. I thought it would run in Wine but it didn't and GOG was nice enough to give me a refund. At the same time Steam had a sale, and since they do provide the Mac version of the game (same price) I dastardly went over and purchased it at Steam. DRM-free. That is; runs without Steam, no activation needed.

You may think I am simple minded and I probably am but it seems to me that in the end it's just a link to a digital code. Provided either by GOG; Steam; Humble or whichever publisher.

The question remains: why didn't your search return a GOG/Steam/Humble statement about the matter?

I still don't get it. I am sorry.

By the way... Off topic: wish you and anybody who might read this a happy New Year!

I'm a Linux user, welcome to my world.

As a software developer, I opted to focus on browser development for my client-side experiences, because I can't be bothered dealing with an entirely different environment for each platform.

Honestly, I don't know why game devs don't look for the most cross-platform solution they can find (especially when they don't require bleeding edge graphics)... when I see a game with graphics that look like they were from a decade ago or older and it doesn't run on Linux, I feel like smacking the devs for being plain lazy about it.

It would really help if Windows didn't have such a strong monopoly on the desktop (atm, they are like Internet Explorer in the browser world 15 years ago with their ~90% market share), though, I'm not really sure I'd want users to switch to Mac either (overpriced hardware really).

Atm, I'm strongly considering just forking the price for a Windows license and running Windows in Qemu/KVM with gpu passthrough. Unfortunately, KVM doesn't support a egpu setup yet with gpu passthrough, but my built-in graphic card is still powerful enough that it would allow me to play 95%+ of games in the foreseeable future. I just need to reserve a day to set it up.

That's a possibility in the Linux world (and the main pain free way to be able to play most games without a dual-boot in the foreseable future imo). Not sure about Macs as I know Apple is more control-freakish about what they'll allow, but it might be worth it for you to look into it.

Just google "gpu passhtrough Mac" and see what you find.

Some games are available on the Mac App Store, from the apple () menu. For example, I noticed a few from the Europa Universalis series when I did a search a moment ago. The "Age of Wonders" game doesn't seem to be there at all.

It also seems like there are sometimes different publishers/distributors for the same game depending on which store a game is sold. It might be more of a distribution issue, getting a distributor that is familiar or specializes with a specific store and different distributor for another store. (Obviously I'm not very familiar with the terms "publisher" and "distributor".) I think whether an application shows up at the Mac App Store, or GOG, or Steam, or from the creator's own website are individual options that don't all have to be chosen when software creators are selling their applications.

I buy from GOG when it offers a game as multi-platform, kind of hedging my bets in case I switch platforms in the future. I also ensure I don't have to rely on too much extra software, like a generic client for managing or enabling games. So, I've gotten to the point I don't buy from anywhere else other than GOG, not even the Mac App Store. There's always something else available when something isn't available, so I don't really care about the latest and greatest anymore, especially when exclusive.

Companies will get money from other people, they don't need my charity. I don't want to worry about getting others to change themselves for my sake, and I got other things to do with my time than forcing their exclusive products into my own life. They be them, and I'll be me.

Age of Wonders - 1, 2 and Shadow Magic don't have a Mac port as far as I know.

As for Age of Wonders 3, the dev stated that they cannot support both GOG and Steam, I won't go into deep details but if other smaller studios can do it I don't see why these can't.

Europa Universalis is developed and Published by Paradox, well known for providing only Windows versions on GOG.

As a Linux user I feel you, I wish to play AoW 3 natively for a long time, it's the only game in my library where I don't own every DLC/Expansion, because there is no point in supporting a developer that doesn't care.