Awesome work as always! Would this be getting a Steam release some day in the future? Not that I personally care, but it would be cool to make this game avaible to more people. Zoom Platform a week ago or so released a fixed/updated version of Flatout: Ultimate Carnage on Steam too.

It's just a suggestion since I know the effort it went into making this relaese possible again.

I don't care who started it first. No platform should have exclusives. Half-life and Portal should be available on GOG and Epic. Alpha Protocol should be available on Steam and Epic. Rocket League should be available on GOG and Steam. Exclusivity is inherently anti-consumer because it eliminates choice and competition.

I agree but this is just idealism. We also shouldn't have war and environmental pollution but let's be honest here: It's not gonna happen.

I just try to support GoG and devs releasing here as good as I can.

They can come here.

Zoom only doing that because they cannot afford to keep the game exclusive. Trust me they were trying to keep some games exclusive.

They refuse to release on GOG as well.
Not to forget, some mods exclusively require the Steam version nowadays.

Finished the Brayko fight, yes the original music is still there........ and that music just makes that fight.

Still remember the first time I played and got to this boss I died, not from lack of trying, but because I was just laughing at how the music just fit that moment perfectly.

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Great work out there, guys. Keep it up.

PLEASE!!!! Remake Uplink next!

I can assure you, GOG being a company that needs turnover to survive, and having spent a huge amount of time and effort to bring this game back to life, have been and are still trying to make it available to as many countries as they can.

As for using the word "propaganda in an exaggerated manner", well I don't believe you, but either way that is absolutely the sort of language that will cause me to immediately oppose anything you argue for. Whether or not it was intentional, this is the same tactics that the internet cancel culture thrives on. Whipping up a false narrative around something they are mildly inconvenienced by.

GOG is quite literally the ONLY store left that is dedicated to safeguarding your rights when it comes to proprietary games. That is not to say you can't criticise, because you can, but do so fairly please.

This might sound melodramatic, but look around you, everywhere else is a subscription service including Steam.
Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of GOG though?
There is a big difference between exclusivity on platforms and exclusivity on stores.

If a game is released exclusively for the PS5 then you need to buy an entire console to play that game - this is bad!

If a game releases exclusively on Steam, GOG, EPIC Battle.net etc then you can still play on the same hardware you have right now, for zero extra pennies you can install games from that store.

The BIG difference here is NOT the store, but the ethos behind the store. Steam is very a subscription based "YOU OWN NOTHING" store (See their T&C's), GOG is very much the opposite. I fear if GOG did make their efforts available on Steam then people would just go with the current monopoly that is Steam, thus removing the benefit of GOG in the first place - we own our stuff.

Exclusives are indeed bad for consumers, but unfortunately, that is the world we live in.

And GOG needs to try to compete in that world.

And therefore, for that reason, GOG needs more exclusives, not less.

Myself and many others said years ago that GOG should have made Cyberpunk 2077 be a GOG exclusive.

Yes, that would lost some sales to the "No Steam, No Buy" types, of which there are legions to be sure, but on the other hand, it also would have massively boosted GOG's customer base.

Exclusives for GOG does make sense.

But what doesn't make sense is the half-measured way that GOG is currently going about it, i.e. allowing a relatively unknown game like Alpha Protocol to be a GOG exclusive, yet not allowing CDPR's flagship games to be GOG exclusives.

GOG should go all in with exclusives, if they are going to have any exclusives at all.

Well said. I think GOG doesn't make it exclusive because of the cost and having to tolerate Steam. I would prefer they be GOG exclusive on PC and still release on consoles. That is a happy medium to cover the development cost and make money still.

GOG tried to go exclusive too soon and got burned...

... but...

... my guess is they'll probably try again with Witcher 4.

It was meant in that manner (if it wasn't, I wouldn't have used the quotation marks), but granted, I should've made that absolutely clear in my initial comment to avoid any possible misinterpretations/misunderstandings, or just should've used a different wording altogether (frankly, I didn't expect anyone to have such a strong reaction to it, if any at all). Alas, I let my irritation get the better of me for once, so I apologise for that. If you don't believe me, that's fine, but kindly don't throw me into the ICC basket based on one comment, because that couldn't be further from the truth.

That being said, my main point and cause of irritation was the fact that the inavailability of the game in certain regions has once again not been communicated in any of the numerous ads/promos (whether in store or emails) which users got flooded by, thus turning many people's sudden excitement into disappointment with a literal click of a button - a point raised by the user before me and one which I still maintain.

Again, I absolutely recognise the poor choice of language (and/or lack of clarity) on my part in voicing that criticism in the first place, which (may have) made it seem unfair and overtly critical towards GOG (which wasn't the intention), but don't see that invalidating my argument that they really should inform users about regional inavailability when enthusiastically promoting new releases.

Fair point. Elaborated upon above.

And I agree with and absolutely support that.

Operating under the assumption that you are referring to Uplink: Hacker Elite, in your opinion, how might that game benefit from being remade?

If you are speaking of an entirely separate game, I am afraid that I am unfamiliar with it.