No he's the Creative Director for Bioware-Mythic which is a very, very small part of Bioware,plus it's Paul Barnett and he is known to talk out of his arse.

In terms of what people want., right now...

http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/site/add_linux_versions_of_games over 6000

http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/site/add_mac_os_x_versions_of_games almost 1200

http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/site/ensure_windows_8_compatibility almost 1100

I know many GOG users don't know / care about the Wishlist Request thing, but those are the numbers.

Whenever I see a Ultima-related avatar pic I fear they'll someday give away *MY* avatar pic that *I* made back when there was still no Ultima on the site as a form of reminder/protest/request. Yes, I'm saying I think everyone is looking to copy my avatar pic like I legally owned the likeness of the Ultima 7 avatar alone.
Still would be "literally unbeatable" for some.
DRM-free Total War?

*lights candles and prays*

Before I was thinking it was probably Mac OS X, but now ... as someone pointed out they could mean Windows 8. That would be kind of a letdown, as I would've put Windows 8 as a variant on the current OS they support rather than a whole new OS. But that's a very likely interpretation to the above. It would make sense for GOG to start support of the new version of Windows.

If GOG however is making the move to release games multi-platform, then whichever they choose, OS X or Linux (my guess is OS X), the support for the other becomes that much more likely to come sooner. Not necessarily soon, but sooner. :)

Yes, yes, yes and all these people want System Shock 1+2, the SSI era AD&D games and emulated console games but that doesn't mean we are ever going to get them. Like it or not GOG is going to do what THEY feel is the best course of action for the site or what they feel or what they can do, not saying they don't take the wishlist into account but ultimately it's their site and they are going to do what they feel is in the site and the companies best interest.

I suspect most Mac gamers don't come onto a Windows-only site whereas anybody who games in Linux is pretty much used to porting over or dual-booting into Windows. Therefore the current population of Mac users is smaller than Linux users. That means releasing for the Mac is better since it has a chance of creating more new customers. :P

However, Windows 8 is also very likely (perhaps the most likely).

I'm pretty sure a company so engaged in DRM won't accept DRM-free easily, and there's one more thing: most older Total War games can offer pretty much everything their newer counterparts do, so it'd be a tough business call to give power to their outdated releases, since SEGA appear to live only on new Total War releases these days.
And here I was thinking you were joking the whole time.

This new release is based on a different franchise, and it is known it is in the works for some time now. I'm thinking it's going to be pretty awesome for us fans of the cyberpunk genre because there's practically zero other options since forever (some except perhaps for small-profile adventures and hacking games and then Deus Ex).

Yeah, but a lot of those that would be applicable to GOG were made for Mac OS "Classic" (for lack of a better clear designation), not Mac OS X, and even among those that were released for OS X, quite a few were PowerPC binaries, not Intel. OSX/PowerPC applications don't run at all on the two latest releases of the OS (without third-party emulation) and "classic" (PowerPC or 680x0) applications don't work on Intel machines, introduced 4 versions ago (again, without emulation).

Frankly, it would be much easier to build a package with the Windows version running in Wine or the DOS version in DOSBox than doing a package for earlier Mac versions of the games (though one Wine-like application exists for emulating a "classic"/68k environment, the development of it hasn't progressed for several years - no such thing exists for OS X/PPC or "classic"/PPC).

Newer games released for OSX/Intel, sure, that's certainly possible.

But they're always doing this kind of survey, they recently even invited something in the order of EVERYONE IN THE FUCKING INTERNET to complete a survey in exchange for a free copy of a game most GOG users already owned, which leads me to my point that they were most interested in the opinion of people out of its fan base.

If I had to rank likelihood of new OS support:

1. Windows 8 - it's the next iteration of the OS GOG already supports. While I wouldn't qualify it as a new OS, but rather a new version, that is a valid interpretation of GOG's statement and it makes sense for GOG to support the new Windows OS that many will upgrade to.

2. Mac OS X - CDPR has been porting its games over to the platform either natively or through Wine and GOG may want to start selling its sister companies games as well as Mac-indie games. It might also bring a lot of new customers and there are not as many configs of Mac OS computers to support (i.e. the number of different types of Mac computers even including upgrades is minuscule compared to the number of different types of Windows or Linux machines, so supporting variants is easier).

3. Linux - TET has kind of put a damper on near-term Linux support, but then some of the arguments he made might also be made against OS X and it is possible he was simply being an evil demon. However, Linux does seem the least likely despite that out of the current customer base, it is the most requested OS to be added.

If either 2 or 3, that makes the other more likely since expanding GOG support to one OS makes it more likely that they'd be willing to expand to more eventually. Even if 2 or 3 however, it may only be for current games & indie games - not DOSBox games and almost certainly not Wine games. It would be unfortunate for DOSBox games since, my understanding is anyway, they all work fairly identically under the different OSs.

That leads me to my point that there're less Mac fans of GOG than Linux fans of GOG. But Linux users are more likely to work around incompatibility and play Windows games on Linux either way, so it's kind of a surprise that there are any Mac users at all to fill the wishlist, since there are officially no Mac games to be had here.

And about Windows 8 compatibility, it's only natural that there's little following: nobody has that system installed as of now.

Still, seriously, I don't think they'd tease for a "new OS" and then announce Win 8. I'm a Windows user and even I think that would be a big letdown, damn.

All this clamoring for Linux support is misleading; Linux isn't an operating system, it's a kernel.

Just because a certain application works on Ubuntu there is no guarantee it will work on Arch Linux, or any other distribution. Sure, different Linux distributions share a lot more in common with each other than they do with OSX or Windows, and as such it is far easier to port something from one distribution to another, but they are nevertheless different enough that supporting any one (or any two, or any three...) isn't enough to support Linux as a whole.

I'm a Linux user myself and would love to see "Linux support", but I don't think it will happen any time soon. GOG prides themselves on everyone of their games Just Working, which just isn't possible on Linux. Asking for Linux support is asking for GOG to change their entire business model.

I think someone here mentioned a day or two ago that they could at least include the necessary game file to support game that runs via dos for linux, apparently that wouldn't take much work and it would add support for at least a portion of the catalogue and things to come. That would be a good start, still focusing on Windows (if Windows 8 is the new OS) but establish a basic support for another, this time Linux (and I assume with dosbox Mac OS isn't far off as well).

They already do that with the community wishlist. The number of votes Mac OS has gotten is laughable compared to Linux, the latter of which not being that far behind Windows 7 when you consider how far back Mac OS is.

Last time someone asked about Linux, Enigmatic T gave a long answer to the effect of, "We're looking into it, but no." In this very thread, when someone made an offhand remark that stuff that runs in Windows 7 would run in Windows 8, he felt the need to jump in and remark that that isn't true. So I'll stand by my prediction; I guess if I had to make a second guess, it would be Mac, which never got a long essay about how unfeasible it would be.