Or how GOG treats forum users as second class citizens. Copy-paste from facebook:
Stronghold GOG Tournament

We’re thrilled to finally announce that Stronghold Crusader 2 will be coming soon to GOG. This new version of the game will be DRM-free and has also been reworked to be fully compatible with the new features of GOG Galaxy. Galaxy is GOG’s online gaming platform, which means you can enjoy the full multiplayer experience as well as achievements, chat, game-time tracking and more completely DRM-free!

To celebrate the upcoming release we’re organizing a new Crusader 2 GOG tournament! Sign up now and defeat your fellow players, before taking on the resident Firefly Studios champion! With matches streamed live via the Firefly Twitch channel, the time has come for you to test your mettle against Firefly’s best.

Scheduled to begin on Sunday October 18th, our tournament introduces new loot to be won in the form of GOG vouchers for games, a Firefly GOG collection, signed physical prizes and merchandise. Those skillful enough to reach the semi-finals can look forward to winning at least some of the following tournament-exclusive prizes:

Winner

• GOG discount voucher ($9.99)*
• All Firefly Studios Games on GOG
• Signed Physical Copy of Stronghold Crusader 2
• Firefly Studios T-Shirt (Medium or Large)

Runner-Up

• Signed Physical Copy of Stronghold Crusader 2
• All Firefly Studios Games on GOG
• GOG discount voucher ($5.99)*

Semi-Finalists

• Stronghold Crusader 2 and all DLCs on GOG
• GOG discount voucher ($5.99)*

* Valid for games up to $5.99 or $9.99 in value

The winning player will go head-to-head with our Firefly Champion in a grand final. Emerge victorious and they will be awarded with:

• Sealed royal parchment declaring YOU as champion (Signed by Firefly)
• Stronghold Crusader 2 Polo Shirt (Small or Medium)
• Firefly Studios Coffee Mug

How to Enter

1. Submit your application form by 17:00 (UK Time) on Monday October 12th - http://bit.ly/1LvHmJi
2. Add us as a friend on Steam - http://bit.ly/C2Steam
3. Check your e-mail to see if you've been selected!

This tournament will take place over the course of three separate weekends. The first round will be held on October 18th, with the quarter-finals on the 25th, semi-finals on 31st and the grand final against our reigning Firefly Studios champion on November 1st. All games will be streamed live on the Firefly Studios Twitch channel. To enter you must be available to play during the official tournament hours of 14:00 to 19:00 (UK Time).

Full details of the tournament can be found here: http://www.strongholdcrusader2.com/?p=2021

Follow us on Twitch - http://www.twitch.tv/firefly_studios

Those horrible 3d graphics. They should of stuck with 2d backgrounds and sprites, SH/SHC HD look better than this game.

Interesting. Does this mean that there's going to be a DRM-free reissue of the physical version? Or is that "signed physical version" simply the original Steam version?

Interesting to see how Firefly changed their stance for drm-free release on gog. A year ago they were saying they won't release Stronghold Crusader 2 here cause were all pirates here :)

A new game on GOG is always a good news! That was fast of you, blotunga! Am I the only one who thinks odd that, in order to enter the Crusader 2 GOG tournament you need to friend Firefly Studios on Steam? It does not seem to be a slip of the mind.

Indeed. Also you need to own it on Steam, which is even weirder... As I don't own it yet, I don't care, but I might get it here at some point.

Methinks I will avoid this like the plague, late to the party, friending on steam, galaxy online features, I imagine it will be around £30 etc.

I can't blame them, indeed we're full of pirates:

Pirates!
Windward
Risen 2
Tales of Monkey Island
Secret of Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2
Guild 2: Pirates of the European Seas
Space Pirates and Zombies
Pirates Cove
Pixel Piracy

All Firefly Studios games released on GoG?

From what I remember, Firefly Studios hasn't really made all that many games. And Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader and Space Colony are all already on GoG.

I know they released Stronghold 2, Stronghold Legends and Stronghold 3, but those games were generally regarded as inferior to the ones mentioned above. Why would they hold a contest to have those games on GoG when they've already got their better games on GoG right now? It's not really that much of an incentive.

I mean, I enjoyed those games because I'm an inexplicable and hopeless fan of that genre, but to have to enter and win at least second place in a contest just to get the privilege of owning it on GoG? Ehh....

Why not just release the games on GoG normally and not have them be a part of a contest? I don't get the logic here.

Or am I reading these prizes all wrong?

Who knows why. The entire contest is a bit weird...

You mean, because GOG is promoting Firefly Studios, which is promoting Steam as a promotion for one game on GOG? No, I don't get your point.