Exsurgent: Thanks for checking in on the Weird West devs. I haven't bothered with their Discord for a while because when we first brought this up on there, the response was "the GOG build isn't done yet" and then nothing but silence on that topic. And I just don't have the energy to fight on GOG's behalf anymore :/

Also thanks for mentioning that this is, apparently, a recurring event. The RPS article only calls it "time-limited", so I assumed this is a similar situation to how the Hitman games handled their "illusive targets".

eiii: Linux support for Darwinia has been dropped on GOG while Steam got a Linux build of the 10000th Anniversary Edition.

mhoffmann: I would like to add Vambrace: Cold Soul to the list of pending updates. It's an older game, but Devespresso just dropped an update to version 1.11 on Steam on 2-18-22 with a hotfix on 2-22-22. GOG version is still 1.10B, last updated 3-24-20.

I contacted Devespresso on their Discord, and below are their responses:

ZQD — 03/10/2022
The GoG update is possible on my side anytime, (of course I should bring the new build to the publisher to let them put it up on the server) but I wanted to make some space to monitor the latest update is stable enough on Steam platform, not update all at once. Plus, since I'm handling two projects at once all day long (Paka's Coffee to release it in Q2, and LLS for this year winter), I need more time to switch myself to update Vambrace on GoG and even EGS.

"ZQD — 03/18/2022
Update from myself: I built GoG version and Origin version, and sent to the publisher. It should be updated by their own hands now."

No new info since then. I know this is a recent one, but I happened to notice it because I just finished the game last month and was starting to replay it when I came across the Steam patch. I really want to do my second playthrough, but if the patch is coming, I'd rather wait for it.

VanishedOne: Fixed with the latest update, to my pleasant surprise. The new Linux installer name is darwinia_2_2_0_107_ga89766c6_gnu_linux_full_55262.sh and the catalogue page lists Linux as a supported OS again.

Alexim: King of Seas is missing the soundtrack.
When asked on Discord about the absence of achievements on GOG that they had initially promised, was given this answer: "King of seas won't receive any more updates on GOG. This means we are not going to add achievements to that platform." It's unclear exactly what that means because they stopped answering each subsequent question. Upon verification it would appear that the last big update from last year is present on GOG, but it's not possible to accurately certify that.

EnforcerSunWoo: Which is the sad state of what this store front is becoming. GOG doesn't care enough to follow through with these publishers to make sure that their customers are being treated right. While it isn't their main job to force parity, it starts to look bad when support for a good number of titles is dropped, like what is going on here. What is the point of buying much of anything when you have no idea if you're going to be left with a broken product that could be updated but never will be because the publisher decided it is not worthwhile to do so? I can only imagine that they would rather tell most of us to fuck off if they could because they already have our money.

Kasper...: This is also what I've been noticing more and more recently... It looks like GOG has abandoned everything except the things that makes money: sales and new releases.

The whishlist never gets replies, the forums is abandoned...

...a ton of games come here missing features (The Binding of Isaac for example, I'm still waiting for the linux version)...

...DRM have been slowly, but surely started to appear on games (including CDPR own games)...

...the DRM free installers aren't consistently updated now (again, The Binding of Isaac, it took them almost 2 weeks to update the DRM free installer even though the update was on Galaxy)....

...a ton of developers seems to have gave up on the store, and never update their games now (Party Hard 1 and 2 for example).

I refuse to buy from a DRM store (unless it's a multiplayer game).

It's sad to see that the only store that was able to release AAA games DRM free, is just dying because they stopped caring about everything that doesn't make them money (today, Itch and Zoom-Platform seems to do a better job, and actually care).

Honestly... some games available on GOG have pirate Steam versions more maintained. It's sad.

Ruvika: In GOG's defense, itch and Zoom don't provide a personalized installer and most of the support is provided by the devs when they have time if they have time, I saw a game you have to compile it yourself, if you consider thar a better job then GOG is doing a great job.