Posted January 09, 2018
high rated
Occasionally when i find a game i have on GOG is not up to date with it's Steam counterpart, i will message or contact the developers in some way. More then 1 developer has said that updating their games on GOG is harder then Steam.
Here are a few:
"Actually that's not fair. GOG is not really friendly towards updates for the game. It's the really huge and costly process to update the game on GOG. :/ Sorry. We are still working on GOG update though."
Is this true, or are these just greedy developers who want to have their cake and eat it too? They put their games on GOG knowing fully well that the customer base here is much smaller then Steam's, then once they've raked in a few extra sales they abandon it because it doesn't generate as much money here as on Steam so they don't bother updating it?
Seems to me like every developer that puts their game on GOG should be aware of the smaller customer base. If they put their game on here then abandon it once they make some money on top of their steam sales using whatever excuse for not updating their game, then fuck those developers. Then some of them have the nerve to come back and release their newest titles. The ones that annoy me most are the ones that leave their game without updates for months or longer, then only update them a month or 2 before they plan to release a new game to generate some good PR for themselves on the site, or at least to keep away potential negative PR once their new game releases.
According to the second citizens GOG mix some of Telltales older games have DRM free versions of their games with fixes that they don't have on GOG for example. Apparently the second episode of Tales of Monkey Island on GOG has bad sound quality, and Telltale fixed this issue on Steam. On GOG it seems you have to contact support and ask them to send you the audio files so you can replace them yourself. Really Telltale/GOG?
There's also RWS stringing us along with the promise that they made almost 4years ago -_- to update Postal 2 to match the Steam version.
I understand GOG might not have the clout that Steam does when it comes to asking things of developers, like actually keeping their games up to date, but isn't there something they can do to improve this problem? It's the biggest issue with this site for me.
Sorry if this post is hard to read or all over the place, i haven't gotten much sleep.
Here are a few:
"Actually that's not fair. GOG is not really friendly towards updates for the game. It's the really huge and costly process to update the game on GOG. :/ Sorry. We are still working on GOG update though."
Is this true, or are these just greedy developers who want to have their cake and eat it too? They put their games on GOG knowing fully well that the customer base here is much smaller then Steam's, then once they've raked in a few extra sales they abandon it because it doesn't generate as much money here as on Steam so they don't bother updating it?
Seems to me like every developer that puts their game on GOG should be aware of the smaller customer base. If they put their game on here then abandon it once they make some money on top of their steam sales using whatever excuse for not updating their game, then fuck those developers. Then some of them have the nerve to come back and release their newest titles. The ones that annoy me most are the ones that leave their game without updates for months or longer, then only update them a month or 2 before they plan to release a new game to generate some good PR for themselves on the site, or at least to keep away potential negative PR once their new game releases.
According to the second citizens GOG mix some of Telltales older games have DRM free versions of their games with fixes that they don't have on GOG for example. Apparently the second episode of Tales of Monkey Island on GOG has bad sound quality, and Telltale fixed this issue on Steam. On GOG it seems you have to contact support and ask them to send you the audio files so you can replace them yourself. Really Telltale/GOG?
There's also RWS stringing us along with the promise that they made almost 4years ago -_- to update Postal 2 to match the Steam version.
I understand GOG might not have the clout that Steam does when it comes to asking things of developers, like actually keeping their games up to date, but isn't there something they can do to improve this problem? It's the biggest issue with this site for me.
Sorry if this post is hard to read or all over the place, i haven't gotten much sleep.