Collectors exist, you know.

No wonder my wishlist went down by exactly 1 game today. I was trying to figure out why, and if it's something I missed.

While I do appreciate the announcement of a de-listing massively, doing it less than 2 hours before actual removal makes it kind of useless...

That's what I thought and then I realized, it's being pulled because it's not being updated. Who'd wanna buy that?

Multiplayer is the best part of the game, without it you have an incomplete game.

Thanks for the heads-up, probably for the best.

With these new public profiles and all that, games that are no longer sold, but appear in someone's profile, are kind of like most wanted rare items, for some, at least.

Far out.
Interesting thing to think about.

At some point developers switch to other projects. Then the game shouldn't receive too many updates thus it would be risk-free to release here.

cannot really say that i would have bought it for sure, but it was on my wishlist. might have...

Yeah, but if it's really that much of a hassle, it means if they do release here again, we can't expect bugfixes. That would be too much of a hassle..

What RWareHall means is that, if GOG announces that they will remove the game in X hours/days time, and at the same time that they will be offering refunds for said game, no questions asked, it's not hard to put 2 and 2 together about what would happen.

On the other hand, limiting said refunds to purchases prior to the announcement would solve the problem, but I guess they just wanted to save themselves some trouble.

Agreed! I am in the same situation. While I do appreciate GOG taking additional steps to make sure those games they are selling are still up to date it does not seem as if this time they were forced to keep a deadline. If I am wrong here - apologies.

This right here, i'd be very interested to know the detailed specific differences of updating on GOG compared to Steam. I suspect GOG is still lacking in this area in some ways.

I am not a dev but I recently read a post mortem from the dev of "Demetrios" (nice guy btw) who told what difficulties he had to experience. One of them was to keed different platforms up to date with different DRM-free builds. I will search for the link to this post-mortem and post it here.

Edit: Found it. It's here. The interesting part is this (under the DRM-free section):

"The most annoying side of doing DRM-Free is having to manage separate builds and upload full packages for each new version on every DRM Free site... It's just much less practical than having it centralized in one unique place, which also allows to upload only the differences and not the whole thing again. Which is great, especially when you've got bad internet...!"