I have no idea what a cockwomble is but I'm adding it to my lexicon.

I'm certain 1-2 years from now, it will be made available in some cheap bundle. Or sooner in a humble monthly.

Ah, you also called them cockwombles?
It'd have to be DRM-free for me to be at all interested, which is unlikely given the way they pulled out of the GOG release.

Like in "releasing the game without DRM" ?
As GOG was once tricked into my people who made Gremlin's Inc (or a bit before that, by League of Geek with Armello ?)

because sure, releasing a game without DRM is very hard, and selling DLCs for DRM free games is completely and technically impossible to achieve... as would confirm... well... many DLCs available for many games on GOG catalog...

too bad, seemed a nice advance war style tactical game... But, well, Backlog© is still thriving and only have 24 hours per day, so...

This in my view is a problem that the developers have created for themselves by removing LAN play.As long as greed forms a part of the industry we will forever have problems of players being cut off and servers dying.

Aww man.... I waited for so long :(

Oh come on, I just discovered this game :c

Every time this pops up, a little bit of me goes "they changed their minds!".

So, given that this got crossplay back on August 4th... still a no?

I almost shit myself when I noticed this thread, then I came to the realization of what it actually was, then I wanted to rage about the necro, then I saw your comment. Now I'm just sad...

I don't get it....How to do these developers manage to port games to multiple consoles, but there is a problem with GOG?

I would guess it could be any of these:

1. GOG wants Galaxy-integration for the game, but the developers feel the extra work for that is unwarranted as the game doesn't necessarily sell that well on GOG. Consoles generally have a much higher potential for sales than GOG, making it more justified to work for full content and integration.

2. The developers would like to add features to the game that can be deemed as DRM, like that you have to log into some online account from within the game to access many features, even in single-player.

3. The developers wanted to release a gimped version on GOG that is missing gaming content or features from e.g. the Steam version, because e.g. DLCs or such are integrated to Steamworks. Kind of releasing only the bareboned version on GOG.

Checking the Steam page for the game, it seems to be a multplayer ("up to four players!") focused tactical game, so somehow I suspect the developer came with the idea that the GOG version would have only single-player (against enemy AI?). So, #3, gimped GOG version.

I personally am fine with the GOG version missing multiplayer, as long as the single-player part is meaningful and the multiplayer part is not the core of the gameplay. Not sure how it is with Wargroove.

Either way, the game didn't seem that interesting to me in the Steam pages, so meh. Not every game needs to be on GOG, only those that really interest me. :)

Quoting one of the Chucklefish team members (their official discord, nickname "Pilgrim"):

Sadly we weren't able to make multiplayer happen with GOG with the resources we had, which is a shame! We're a very small company, so these kinds of decisions usually come with a heavy heart as we do love the GOG community and ultimately had to do what's best for the game as a whole. We still work with GOG and have added a lot of our catalogue to their store and will continue to. I must stress, that the team over there are lovely, supportive and understanding, and I'm looking forward to continue working with the platform

Was this recently? I still have trouble imagining that getting it to work with Galaxy would be difficult given that they have cross-play running between consoles and Steam.

About 12 days ago, so it's quite "fresh" information.