Awesome, thanks =).

I guess that means I'll be getting Narita Boy after all.

My educated guess is that it probably heavily depends on the game and the circumstances of the release on GOG, as previously stated.

Beyond the timeline of the release on GOG (on the game's release day or later), there are also questions of whether the game is from GOG's parent company, whether the GOG release has feature parity with Steam (ex: will it run on Linux for Steam, but not GOG, does Steam support a language that GOG doesn't, does Steam have multiplayer, but not GOG, etc), whether the game is AAA, indie or even simply a retro game adapted to work on modern systems.

Reassuring tweet directly from one of the devs:
https://twitter.com/Llerd/status/1438448568914915328

what's wrong with the offline installer of divinity original sin? seemed to work fine for me a couple of months ago.
that is a goddamn shame about slime rancher. i really liek that game.

https://www.gog.com/forum/divinity_series/dos_skill_book_level_not_showing

The bug is effectively only in the offline installers, as with galaxy you can move back to the earlier unbroken version.

Wait, since how long is that HK bug present?
I played it till February and the achievs unlocked normally.

Also, no doc is currently reporting this. O_o
Yeah same, but I'm not buying it here in that state.

I managed to beat the Radiance in 05/2021 and unlocked the achievement for this as well.

Congrats. I put it on hold instead, due to the damn Path of Pain. I should continue the normal Palace (hopefully I won't have lost all my "skill" by now).
But I hope Galaxy will work (there's also the Win7 problem, until the next patch).

Still, I imagine it's getting even worse for GOG as people are discovering threads like the "second class citizens" one and buy on Steam instead of here.

personally, I'm willing to buy older games here - even ones that have multiplayer, achievements, etc. cut from the GOG release - so I don't have to worry about missing patches, but I wouldn't buy new games here. (granted I only buy at nice discounts so I don't spend much money anyway)

As much as I prefer less curation to more, if curation ensures we get at least key patches and single-player DLC here from responsible devs, I'm in favor of that.

I don't doubt that, and in some cases we do want them here, and I am in partial agreement about some big publishers that abandon games here etc ... depending on the state at which they were abandoned, as getting a DRM-Free version of a game here that is not available in that state elsewhere, can still be a good thing.

We don't want GOG to be overwhelmed with Indie games though, or they might as well be Itch.io, and I wouldn't want a reduction at GOG of the better backed games. Less low quality to wade through is best in my view.

GOG for better or worse, is really the only DRM-Free competitor to Steam, though some of us have high hopes for the ZOOM Platform eventually. Itch.io games often come with a Steam Key, paid for variants anyway, so not really a competitor with Steam in the games that count in my opinion, similar with Humble. Epic (etc) and Steam are much of a muchness.

I wasn't aware that's possible with Galaxy. Good to know.

That is not correct imo. GOG already is focused on indies right now - the difference between itch.io and GOG is that GOG does not accept every game (and that the backend of itch.io apparently is one of the best on the market iirc - but that's a different thing).
Humble often comes with Steam keys - so far I diod not get a single itch.io game that included a Steam key.

I'm not sure what you think I am incorrect about?
I was just saying we don't want even more, and risk having too much to wade through, especially if quality is lower.
I've certainly noticed the increase of Indies here at GOG, many of which I own at Itch.io.

I'm not sure whether you are just getting free games from Itch.io, or actually buying them, because many of the paid ones from my exposure to them also have a Steam presence and Key. Anyway, I am no expert on the matter, not having bought an awful lot from them outside of bundles. So maybe it's less common than I realize, but I have certainly seen mention of it often enough.

ugh. thats awful. even worse that that's still a thing after 2 years.

A lot of games on Itch.io come with Steam keys. But sometimes you only get them when you buy the games directly and not if buy them in bundles. For example Steam keys were deactivated for the huge "Racial Justice" and "Palestinian Aid" bundles.