i got this game on STEAM and i ask myself if the gog.com version differs from it? (without the Gentlemen of the row patch!)

http://www.gog.com/game/saints_row_2

they said they fixed it

hmmm im thinking about buying it here but if it'S the same crap?

What does that mean? GOG version has an exclusive fix missing from Steam version?

Official words from GOG:

"Our release of Saints Row 2 has received the GOG.com treatment: the most infamous issue, which required gamers to manually slow down modern CPUs to play the game, has been greatly improved upon."

So from this I would say, this game has an exclusive fix, indeed.

This is utterly crappy. So who bought this game on Steam need to be stucked with that mess that's SR2 here?

A quote from the release announcement regarding the game:

well who buys it and gives feedback? ;)

Seems so, the more interesting question, though is - has GOG used the community patches publicly available or has it cooked something completely fresh up? i.e. with some tinkering, can you get the Steam version up to the same standard as GOG's out of the box?

Didn't Gentlemen of the row fix that issue anyway? Sure it requires installing a mod to do it but it was a good mod anyway :)

That said, a lot of GOG 'fixed versions' eventually seap through to the other portals. It's not impossible the future might seen an update on those anyway. (Or better, a GOG key for previous owners ^^)

I understand your complaint but from what i gather it was the gog team fixing the game, no?

What's crappy? The fix is most likely built by GOG, GOG doesn't provide Steam with fixes (and Steam doesn't much care whether or not a game works at all), and GOG is not the publisher of the game so they don't really have access to publish patches on Steam.

yes
but you do know that cd projekt red was responsible for the ( shoddy ) port in the first place
they'd better have fixed it by now

and the gentlemen of the row mod fixed all that and much more to begin with

so it could be that gog had an arrangement to use the mod in a official capacity
i have heard stranger things

I know, but if a fix exist, make it available for all platforms...why Nordic keep selling SR2 on Steam, than? The game is playable only with the unofficial Gentlemen of the Row patch.

I may give some feedback unless someone else is quicker, but I'm waiting to buy it for a week or so so more than likely i won't be the first one.