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Posted September 16, 2015
I enjoy being F'd over by developers who want my money and support.

I also enjoy buying my games from a distributor that has no real power in these matters.

edit: here are my current out of date games:

Pixel Piracy
Breach and Clear: Deadline
Victor Vran (just a tiny bit, not really bad)
Hand of Fate (DLC)

okay it's not really a list... I couldn't be bothered looking through my hidden games. Just seems that I come back to this conversation a lot.
Post edited September 16, 2015 by micktiegs_8
Posted September 16, 2015
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Tormentfan: Yes, you most certainly can blame them.. What about their customers who DID buy it here, that's a massive F.U

It should be in GOG's contract that they MUST get access to sell DLC if they agree to sell the game in the first place, GOG have an obligation to their customers to give them completed products when they become available if they sell the main game.. why does this need explaining?
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Avogadro6: I said "if they haven't sold much"; for any other reason I'd agree with you. A lot of indie games sell a ridicolously small amount of units on Gog, and if that means releasing and supporting multiple version is not financially realistic for the devs (which may or may not be the case here, I don't know, and it seems no one does either) then I'm sorry, I don't expect them to do so.

As a side note, contracts are an agreement between multiple parties. Which means that Gog has its fair share of responsibility when its consumers are treated like second class citizens, and yet, somehow, everyone is knee-jerking only against the devs... but that's neither new or surprising, I suppose.
If supporting two versions is not financially viable, then why bother coming here in the first place. they are a business and should learn to start acting like one, just because it is a digital game doesn't mean they can get away with whatever they like, well outside of the steam environment anyway.

As for maintaining separate versions, if they didn't impose steam software into their product in the first place there wouldn't need to be two versions, that is where the real problem lies.

I do agree with you though, focus should not be solely on the dev, GOG has to take a big share as well. This is damaging for them in a business sense. In an ideal world the should just pull the game from sale, however I doubt they have the clout for that type of action and may feel they would lose further games.

As.for me, I have very little impetus to support devs production of green light or steam only releases so I have dropped from my list.
Posted September 16, 2015
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Hi all,

The various DLC for The Escapists will be here for the GOG version as soon as possible. That is all.
Posted September 16, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Hi all,

The various DLC for The Escapists will be here for the GOG version as soon as possible. That is all.
Well that tells us absolutely nothing...
Posted September 16, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Hi all,

The various DLC for The Escapists will be here for the GOG version as soon as possible. That is all.
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Pheace: Well that tells us absolutely nothing...
Seems pretty clear to me. Gog's not a place where you get crippled games; on the ABSOLUTE contrary, mon capitaine :P
Post edited September 16, 2015 by vicklemos
Posted September 16, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Hi all,

The various DLC for The Escapists will be here for the GOG version as soon as possible. That is all.
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Pheace: Well that tells us absolutely nothing...
Well, it tells me that either the person that answered the user mentioned above messed up or that the shitstorm got someone's attention.

Thanks for the update Judas.
Post edited September 16, 2015 by Tannath
Posted September 16, 2015
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Pheace: Well that tells us absolutely nothing...
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vicklemos: Seems pretty clear to me. Gog's not a place where you get crippled games; on the ABSOLUTE contrary, mon capitaine :P
'as soon as possible' can mean anything from tomorrow to never (ie not possible). It's like saying it'll get here when it gets here, if it gets here.

If there's actual plans on the table for it getting here, he should be clear about that. At the moment, this statement is just hot air, meaningless PR speak.
Post edited September 16, 2015 by Pheace
Posted September 16, 2015
nvm
Post edited September 16, 2015 by Tannath
Posted September 16, 2015
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vicklemos: Seems pretty clear to me. Gog's not a place where you get crippled games; on the ABSOLUTE contrary, mon capitaine :P
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Pheace: 'as soon as possible' can mean anything from tomorrow to never (ie not possible). It's like saying it'll get here when it gets here, if it gets here.

If there's actual plans on the table for it getting here, he should be clear about that. At the moment, this statement is just hot air, meaningless PR speak.
When gog sez asap it means soon! :D
Posted September 16, 2015
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vicklemos: Seems pretty clear to me. Gog's not a place where you get crippled games; on the ABSOLUTE contrary, mon capitaine :P
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Pheace: 'as soon as possible' can mean anything from tomorrow to never (ie not possible). It's like saying it'll get here when it gets here, if it gets here.

If there's actual plans on the table for it getting here, he should be clear about that. At the moment, this statement is just hot air, meaningless PR speak.
I said "as soon as possible" because we don't know WHEN we'll have the DLC. I fail to see where the maningless PR speak actually is in my statement.

The DLC will be here but there's no definite date as to when it will arrive.
Posted September 16, 2015
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vicklemos: When gog sez asap it means soon™! :D
FTFY. ;)
Posted September 16, 2015
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Pheace: 'as soon as possible' can mean anything from tomorrow to never (ie not possible). It's like saying it'll get here when it gets here, if it gets here.

If there's actual plans on the table for it getting here, he should be clear about that. At the moment, this statement is just hot air, meaningless PR speak.
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JudasIscariot: I said "as soon as possible" because we don't know WHEN we'll have the DLC. I fail to see where the maningless PR speak actually is in my statement.

The DLC will be here but there's no definite date as to when it will arrive.
Until your last sentence there was no statement from you that the DLC will actually come here, that's what I'm trying to make clear to you. That final sentence would have been the better way of stating it.
Posted September 16, 2015
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JudasIscariot: I said "as soon as possible" because we don't know WHEN we'll have the DLC. I fail to see where the maningless PR speak actually is in my statement.

The DLC will be here but there's no definite date as to when it will arrive.
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Pheace: Until your last sentence there was no statement from you that the DLC will actually come here, that's what I'm trying to make clear to you. That final sentence would have been the better way of stating it.
Unless my English skills have failed me, the statement "The various DLC for The Escapists will be here for the GOG version as soon as possible." states quite frankly that DLC will be here. I am not sure where the problem is with that previous statement.
Posted September 16, 2015
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Pheace: Until your last sentence there was no statement from you that the DLC will actually come here, that's what I'm trying to make clear to you. That final sentence would have been the better way of stating it.
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JudasIscariot: Unless my English skills have failed me, the statement "The various DLC for The Escapists will be here for the GOG version as soon as possible." states quite frankly that DLC will be here. I am not sure where the problem is with that previous statement.
He wants to say that "as soon as possible" still includes the option 'never'. He's a smartass... ;)
Post edited September 16, 2015 by PalioDeMonte
Posted September 16, 2015
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PalioDeMonte: He wants to say that "as soon as possible" still includes the option 'never'. He's a smartass... ;)
That's my point yes, though I don't think it's that smartass when the point of the thread is that the developers stated there's no plans of getting the DLC here.
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