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I very much doubt that, given it has more content than most games, and far more than what was ever promised originally. It even does have an ending. And weekly community expeditions.

So have you just not heard anything about No Man’s Sky since 2016? It’s weird having an opinion that is a decade out of date.

App images make modding much harder depending on the app, and flatpaks practically remove that as an option.

To be fair, that’s just GoG’s problem itself. GoG refuses, for some reason, to require developers to ship version-agnostic versions of their game so half the games are stuck in time with library requirements from a decade ago it expects your system to provide. Which it doesn’t. And because these are third-party installers and not from the package manager they can’t request the package manager to install the library versions they need. And even if they could most distros explicitly will not allow that given the security risk of using outdated libraries.

This could be solved by breaking the linux philosophy and just require the older insecure libraries to be included with the games; which is the most accurate to their mission statement of preserving and archiving old games, but that requires people on their technical teams, their publisher liaison teams, and probably their legal teams all to understand linux well enough to have that as a hard requirement with minimal to no legal liabilities.

Oh hey does that mean they’ll actually ship all the libraries needed to run the linux versions of games released on the platform?

That’s great and all but the current linux phone offerings are… not suitable for general public use. The iPad generation will simply not be able to use them in their current state.