Son_Ovagun: Howdy everyone, I thought i'd help ease things on whats happening with orange door, both as dev tester and supporter, and friend of Andrew.

Q: Why is the game being delisted from GOG?
A: It's been said on the record that, quote "GOG is a hassle to push updates for, theres little to no communication, no workshop support for modding in the future and generally not a good enviroment for a game still in early access". It was also initially not even added onto GOG by him, but by his publishers.

Q: Am I being scammed? Whats going to happen with my copy?
A: If you have a copy of orange door on GOG, you are entitled to a free steam key, simply contact either Andrew#3004 or any of the moderators in the discord.

Q: Dev seems like a douchebag, why is that?
A: Context is everything, and Andrew has an extremely satirical and sarcastic attitude. He will almost instantly apologise if he came across with any malintent. It's also worth noting that GTTOD started development in 2015, gone through numerous overhauls and had a small mental breakdown when 'The Excessive Update' released to negative reviews. This isn't at all an excuse to excuse his behaviour, but it is worth noting.

If you have anymore questions feel free to ask me and I'll answer them to the best of my ability.

my name is catte: Hey, thanks for passing on the message from the dev. I see where he's coming from, apart from the bit where he makes no effort to understand why people wouldn't want to use Steam. GOG absolutely needs to improve on this stuff for developers, but from a consumer point of view GOG is often the only DRM-free option.

For those of us that don't want to deal with DRM, the disadvantages of GOG still pale in comparison to the disadvantages of Steam.

I wish Andrew well, but hope he gives a bit more thought to the reasons people don't use Steam.

Son_Ovagun: Cheers for actually reading man! Maybe there'll be an alternative option in the future for the release of this game, though I wouldn't hold my breath. Steam has plenty of issues that are a pain but GOG (from what i've seen and heard over years) seems quite outdated. No DRM is cool as hell though!

If you ever want to discuss with the dev, hit him up! He's almost always willing to respond to messages and questions and clear up any misconceptions.

neumi5694: I guess the Galaxy API that other devs use for pushing updates, don't work for this one then. Definitly GOGs fault.

my name is catte: I don't really use Discord, but I'll bear that in mind. There's something I was in the process of adding onto my post when you replied so I'll just add it here as well:

It would be interesting to see if he's willing to release the game on another DRM-free store that doesn't give him dev-side problems. A lot of people who are on GOG for the DRM-free games aren't GOG-only, they're DRM-free-only.

Son_Ovagun: Howdy everyone, I thought i'd help ease things on whats happening with orange door, both as dev tester and supporter, and friend of Andrew.

Q: Why is the game being delisted from GOG?
Q: Am I being scammed? Whats going to happen with my copy?

If you have anymore questions feel free to ask me and I'll answer them to the best of my ability.

my name is catte: It would be interesting to see if he's willing to release the game on another DRM-free store that doesn't give him dev-side problems. A lot of people who are on GOG for the DRM-free games aren't GOG-only, they're DRM-free-only.

mqstout: No workshop support is a pro. Games should NOT be built to lock in modding to a specific platform. A grand total off zero games should support "Steam Workshop". It's an anti-feature with one goal: to make gaming worse by locking people in to Valve's exclusive platform. (Modding is GREAT. That's why it shouldn't be tied to Workshop.)

As for Steam keys, they have a negative value. Yes, less than zero value. I would sooner give up PC gaming with my existing library than to even create a Steam account. Steam has done immeasurable -- and continuing! -- damage to the PC gaming industry. And I happen to like PC gaming. I don't want to be a horrible person and contribute further to making things shittier.

So, yes, my above hypothesis is correct per these responses.

As for "pain in the ass pushing updates"... Like I said, plenty of other teams large and small have no problems. I wonder if it's his workflow. Did he tie Steam Trojan horse features too tightly to his code that it's painful for him to do alternate builds, for instance?

"no communication with GOG" is indeed damning, however.

Berzerk2k2: Well I guess I'll ask GOG for a refund then... 15 months after buying this. First time I have to refund something here. I hope they'll accept it considering the situation with the game being incomplete and being soon delisted.