Is LGP Going the Way of Loki Software?

An anonymous reader writes "After the demise of Loki Software, Linux Game Publishing sprouted up in its place, and for the past nine years has ported a number of games to Linux. But LGP may now be sharing the same fate as Loki. Linux Game Publishing hasn't updated its blog or news pages in months, has stopped responding to e-mails, and its only active ports are games they began work on in 2002/2003."

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Phoronix

[binarylarry]

Why are the assholes at Phoronix still getting linked on Slashdot?

They just make up whatever they think will get them the most hits.

Re:But here comes Valve!

[sammyF70]

hmm ... if that was a troll post, then you're a pure fanboy.
Point in case : I was looking for a gift for my niece's birthday and wanted to ask her if she would like Left 4 Dead. It took me 3 days to download my copy from steam by the way (despite a 5mb/s connection which is the best i can get where I am, but was still faster and cheaper than to have a physical disk shipped to my place). So I called her to my place, disconnected from the intertube and fired up L4D. "updating steam client ..." and then after 5mn or so "couldn't connect to steam. You have to connect to steam first to play offline" ( The phrasing might have been different but that was the gist).
I sent my niece home, and told her I'd call her as soon as I could start the game, reconnected the lan, started steam. got the message "updating steam client" (took ~only~ 10mn). Tried to start L4D ... "downloading patch. est. time : 3 hours". When the game was finally patched, I started it, it worked, called my niece, went offline as I can't really play online due to my ping of at least 200ms, and I prefer to have windows as offline as possible. My niece cam, I started Left4Dead ... "couldn't connect to steam. You have to connect to steam first to play offline".
just for the sake of it, I tried a few other steam games, and about half of them told me the same, despite the fact that I already played them all at one point or the other, which should, dixit steam, be enough to be able to play offline.
Services like Steam can be convenient (and if you're not paying in Euros, it can be cheap, as I found out yesterday when Steam told me that I'm now in Germany and not in South America anymore, and so must pay 19.99 euros instead of 19.99$ for a game, even if I am just visiting), but their DRM scheme is complete and utter shit. The net result is that I might still buy games if they are really really good, but I sure as hell will play a pirated copy if I can find one that isn't virus ridden. The only online game retailer I often find myself buying games from lately is Good Old Games : DRM free, consistent prices and http downloads! THAT is service. (no, I'm not affiliated and I'm not getting any percentage. I'm just a very happy regular customer)

Re:But here comes Valve!

[sammyF70]

well, asshol'y coward, learn to read. Steam will or will not let me switch to offline mode, depending on the position of the moon. THAT is the hole point. it's a crappy DRM scheme, and you're an idiot.