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scuzzidroid: Gloomy Eyes patch changed game to a dev build so no achievements and annoying watermarks while in game.
Honestly this seems to me more like a colossal mistake from the publishers/devs rather than a deliberate decision to exclude content from GOG. I think you should report en masse the issue and wait for their response
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scuzzidroid: Gloomy Eyes patch changed game to a dev build so no achievements and annoying watermarks while in game.
Are you referring to version 1.0.1?
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scuzzidroid: Gloomy Eyes patch changed game to a dev build so no achievements and annoying watermarks while in game.
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SargonAelther: Are you referring to version 1.0.1?
Correct
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Treewhisperer: Bulwark is lagging behind a bit again, the latest 'Behemoth' update (from 2 weeks ago) has yet to arrive.
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ERBlank: The publisher just confirmed on Discord that they're currently working on bringing this update to GOG.
Thanks for relaying.
Has the Gog version of Dark Envoy received the 1.9 patch and bonus pack ?
Post edited 2 days ago by Oriza-Triznyák
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Oriza-Triznyák: Has the Gog version of Dark Envoy received the 1.9 patch and bonus pack ?
Neither to both. However, looking at their Discord, while they haven't commented on the last patch yet, they seem to have been attentive to ensure parity of content between GOG and Steam in the past, even if with a few days of delay, so I'd refrain from adding them for the moment. Should it take too long, someone who owns the game could ask for an explanation
Post edited 2 days ago by ERBlank
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Post edited 2 days ago by mrkgnao
For everyone's benefit, so far I'm refraining from adding:

Gloomy Eyes: I suppose the devs committed a mistake by uploading a dev build instead of patching the Unity issue, so I'd rather wait for people to first reach them out and see how they reply.
Bulwark: the publishers confirmed that they are working to bring the missing patch to GOG

↓ EDIT: Thanks, I only noticed the 1.9 update for Dark Envoy, which was released just a few days ago. At this point it goes to the list. But I would still recommend people who own the game to contact the devs, because I've seen that in the past they were careful about GOG.
Post edited 22 hours ago by ERBlank
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ERBlank: For everyone's benefit, so far I'm refraining from adding:

Gloomy Eyes: I suppose the devs committed a mistake by uploading a dev build instead of patching the Unity issue, so I'd rather wait for people to first reach them out and see how they reply.
Bulwark: the publishers confirmed that they are working to bring the missing patch to GOG
Dark Envoy: the devs have been careful in the past to keep GOG up to date, even if not at the same day as Steam, and have even been in contact with GOG users. I think it's safe to give them a couples days more.
Dark Envoy never received the 1.7.2 patch released back in August, and they kept releasing more patches since then. Not sure if "a couple days more" works anymore.
You guys do good work, but it's endless. What keeps you going after all these years? Devs and pubs apparently seem to hate GOG because GOG is so small so not worth updating games.
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tfishell: You guys do good work, but it's endless. What keeps you going after all these years? Devs and pubs apparently seem to hate GOG because GOG is so small so not worth updating games.
Thanks a lot for your words.

First of all, this is a collective effort. I myself started contributing only this year and I took control of the Excel file only in summer. So it's not just a few people doing this.

Let's get to the important part. You said: "devs and pubs apparently seem to hate GOG because GOG is so small so not worth updating games". The truth is, the games that end up on the list are still a minority. A large minority, but a minority nonetheless. The whole "GOG isn't worth it" is just words that devs and pubs keep repeating themselves so they can get away with not providing support to paying customers, because that's what we're first of all. We're not random people asking for favours, we're their customers, we're paying for a product and we deserve to be treated with respect. This is yet another anti-customers discourse that a loud minority is trying to propagate to the public.

The truth is that the large majority of games on GOG, from Triple A to indie games, are kept up to date. The great majority of Linux and Mac ports are brought to GOG. For example, the story of GOG scrapping the development of Galaxy for Linux is always abused to claim "GOG is done with Linux", but that's ridiculous. There are around 130 Linux builds that are missing on GOG out of around 1300 Linux builds that are available. Linux games can still be packed into offline installers just like any other OS. The same way Windows games on GOG were only available as offline installers for years before Galaxy existed. The same way itch.io sells thousands of video games as offline installers. And as you can see, there's no shortage of missing Mac builds on GOG even though Galaxy is available on Mac.

If there are people who believe we have no right to expect anything from pubs and devs, so be it. But we still have the right to compile a list of games that have the same price but less features on GOG. People have the right to access such information so they can decide whether to buy a game or not. And we have every right to refuse to buy those games, or to suggest people not to buy them.

We're not doing anything illicit. We're listing public information that is available just by reading patch notes or comparing sites like SteamDB and GOGDB. In many cases devs and publishers themselves bluntly told us they refuse to update their games on GOG. It happened very rarely that developers came to us to apologise, personally I only counted three such cases. And I don't recall a single time when someone came to threaten us with anything, because there's nothing we can be threatened with.

"If you don't stop telling people that my game on GOG costs the same as Steam but is missing updates I'm gonna sue you."

Talking about myself, I'm not even as strict as it appears. I don't add games that receive their updates a few days later on GOG than other platforms but still receive them. I didn't add Gloomy Days because I take it for granted that developers didn't mean to update a dev build on GOG and was just a honest mistake on their part. I am perfectly willing to go outside the cold logic of "I paid you so get a move on" and be understanding to developers who are struggling with lack of time or resources. That doesn't bother me. But everything has a limit.
Post edited 21 hours ago by ERBlank