Nothing new here, just more or less the same form letter from Capcom. Only a few additions about the missing Dragon's Dogma updates, which can be found below:


Thanks for contacting Capcom USA Customer Support. At this time we have not provided any new announcements regarding updates for the GOG.com version of the game, however rest assured we have forwarded your feedback to the appropriate team. Thank you for your support and interest in Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, and we apologize for any inconvenience.



Best Regards,

CAPCOM USA Customer Support

I'm sick of redirects and misdirects from japanese companies.

Crap PR bot email again? Wow, I don't even know why Capcom bothered bringing anything to gog. I'm giving it another month before I ask gog for a refund if they'll even give me one so long (months) after purchase. Paying for a game to have its gog version patching abandoned is ridiculous.

"Thank you, honorable sir, for your inquiry!"

Didn't someone on the forum just recently post an interview with a gog staffer about what a complicated and long winded process business dealings with the Japanese are? Something to the effect that they'll wait with their reply for a week (and that reply would usually state something like "We have read page one of our business agreement, we'll let you know next week when we have moved on to page two", otherwise that would indicate that they're not giving their business partner proper respect and they expect their business partners to do the same.

Maybe it works the same way for patches.

Sounds like the japanese: when you talk, they constantly make noise out of respect to make sure you know they're still listening. The problem for international business is, not everyone shows respect the same way, so you have to adopt the ways of the country where the deal is taking place. When you're dealing long distance via phone or something like that, you don't even have that backup plan to fall back on. So who's ways do you adopt?

My personal common sense would dictate that the selling part adopts the ways of the buying part, "customer's always right" and all that. But maybe even that saying nor (most likely) my common sense are not universal either, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Honestly, i get the impression that GOG is looked at as 目下 and gog isn't taking the time to bother or care. On one hand that sounds bad, on the other, i really thing some companies need to be put in their place.

نَعَمْ ?

Inferior.

I'd like to point out that Hand of Fate, reported as "currently up-to-date" in the GOG-mix, it's not up-to-date anymore since June at least, because it's still version 1.3.18 while it's 1.3.19 on Steam.

This is the changelog, it seems to fix a launch bug:

June 30th 1.3.19
Workaround a unity launch bug https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/win-first-time-calling-systeminfo-dot-devicemodel-when-game-is-maximized-on-play-causes-nullreferenceexception

Source: http://steamcommunity.com/app/266510/discussions/0/618463738399731941/

Reading the bug report itself, I have to ask if it's even relevant. It seems the exceptions are very likely to actually get ignored, like linux text when it's starting up.

I don't think it's really relevant in terms of game stability (it's just a little hotfix after all), but maybe it matters for the GOGmix curator or for the people who want to buy the game. I mean, it is still an update behind the Steam version, as minor as it is...

Perhaps, but i think it's relevant to note how significant it is. When i look at the gogmix, i ask myself whether the title is worth what's missing. If i see "startup bug fixed," it sounds to me like the game doesn't even launch. It might not be here on gog, since it might cause problems with the steam client exclusively, hence why it wasn't brought here.

It seems to be an engine issue, completely fixed only by a Unity update (version 5.50), so that may be the reason why they didn't bring the update to the GOG version too, it's not a definive fix, but that's just a speculation.

Anyway, we should also keep an eye on Finding Paradise, the game is getting a lot of translations on Steam, using alternative and beta channels for updates, and even an alternative build that fixes some issues for Windows 7/8/10 users, but I don't know what's going on here on GOG, because there's no support for beta updates.

How can a bugfix be a beta release?