Posted April 21, 2018
HypersomniacLive: With the info shared here by GOG, one has to wonder why updates released on Steam often take months to come here (the one from a few weeks ago that was from early December 2017 being the most recent example).
From what I often hear is that they use steam users as lab rats. 1. There is a bigger test audience. 2. If they mess up a patch they only have to answer to the people who bought the game on steam. With gog they have to answer with GOG staff too I suppose as GOG tests the new build too. Maybe that feels a bit intimidating. Finally we get to the point that getting the gog build done is 'another thing on the list' of things to do and since the userbase of GOG is astronomically lower than steam's, they feel there's no rush. Of course we do have excellent developers like Larian who do update simultaniously.
But that's just my speculation.