Dark_Odyssey1: I have a question for all of you:
If you know ahead of time a game is outdated on GOG, do you sometimes still choose to get it here if there are no other options for a DRM Free copy? Maybe on a case by case basis where it depends how impactful the missing updates are as far as you can tell?
Out of principle, never. All the games I own that are on the list I bought
before I discovered the list. The partial exception, I may be willing to buy games where issues are clearly listed on the store page, even better if the game make up for missing content in one way or another. Or if it's a game where updates on GOG are slower but still present.
But by principle, I know that if I we let go of missing features, this will only make devs/publishers comfortable with the idea that they don't have to properly keep GOG updated. Call me stingy, but it's not illegal
not to buy games or to ask for refunds.
In fact, I also refrained from buying games that had no issues but whose developers/publishers appear frequently on the list.
Dark_Odyssey1: On another note, I don't know if this is still the case but I thought I read somewhere that on GOG a dev has to send a patch in and hope for GOG to upload it whereas Steam allows the devs direct access to upload patches themselves? Is that accurate? If so, maybe the new owner of GOG can make it a priority to implement a similar system to Steam that might make it more convenient for devs to upload patches.
To my understanding from the previous conversation, updates on Galaxy can be automised like on Steam, no human intervention required (except for the developer who updates the game). So those are practically instantaneous. What requires human approval is the update of offline installers (or new games/DLCs altogether), and those take a couple hours, at worst a few days.
"GOG a dev has to send a patch in and hope for GOG to upload it"
Well, the great majority of the games are on the list because developers refuse themselves to update their games. Not because GOG refuses or forgets to update them. I lost track of the amount of games I've read the patch history of, and I can count on one hand cases where the games were not updated because developers sent the updates to GOG staff but they forgot to approve them.
mrkgnao: StarVaders Steam: version 2.0.3 from 19 January 2026
GOG: version 2.0.0a from 6 December 2025
I have contacted the developers today via their website contact form. They recommend Discord, but I don't have it.
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P.S. Minor point: The games beginning with "Star" are not sorted alphabetically in the spreadsheet.
I'd rather wait a few days, because I see that they were often slow with GOG updates but still put them. I'm going to sort the "Star" games now.