arpovpolik: Why does the GOG not follow the relevance of the games that it sells?
timppu: Do any digital stores do that? Does Valve track the status of all Steam games, whether they are up to date and possibly missing some updates?
How would such tracking work in practice anyway? GOG (or Steam, or whatever) has several employees whose task is to daily, or weekly, go through all the games in the store, and try to find out if some other store has a more recent version?
Nah, I think GOG mainly expects the developers themselves to make sure their GOG games are up to date, just as they should. If you think it is GOG's job to track it (while other stores like Steam are not doing it), are you willing to pay more for GOG games for such an extra service? After all, GOG has to pay salary for the assigned "game version trackers", don't they?
Wasn't Sony's store authenticated? (The trade-off is less content, but higher quality.) So it may be self-limiting, because a store may not have the range to keep customers happy. But, with iStore, Steam, and other flagrant box-moving shovelware sites, there is little quality control and zero assurance.
I am willing for
arpovpolik to pay extra for the service, does that count? :P