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Do you mean that the MP is terrible and non-functional and so the game is better without it? O_o

No effort to balance it and nobody played it because it was just bad.
1v1, one playing as aliens one as soldiers. (if remembering right, been a while)

Oh well, ok then lol.

tweeted image & form about bringing steamworld heist up to date and they said "We'll forward this to our developers! Thanks :D"


asked semisoft about legrand legacy on the steam discussion page and if they plan on bringing the gog version up to parity with the steam version and they said "Yes, thank you for letting us know, we will definitely be updating GOG version as well. "

The latest version of multiplayer allowed you to mix and match aliens, exalt and xcom. Still unbalanced as hell though. For some bizarre reason the game would auto-pick marches where one side would steamroll the other. One side has all human weapons with the occasional laser while the other has plasma and ethereals. It wasn't fun by any means. Don't even know if that issue still exists - nobody plays multiplayer to check.

Broforce lacks a major update released a month ago:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/broforce_lacks_a_major_update

That's crazy. I've written several email at the beginning of the year. It's impossible that they do not know. I was promised that the new patch just needed a little bit of testing in January and was told that they are only a small studio in February.

@topic on which games to include in the list.

Whenever I buy a game from gog, I look for it on your gog mix. Then I will choose on the following options:

1. If the game is not on your list, I'll buy the game
2. If the game is on the list, I'll check what features are missing.
a.) If the feature is unimportant to ME, I'll buy the game
b.) If the feature is important to ME, I'll not buy the game here.

Since the decision whether or not a feature is important is in many cases highly subjective, I would love to have a complete list of all games that lack any type of feature included in other versions of the game. For example, I personally don't care that Cossacks is missing russian language support. In contrast, a person who plays the game for nostalgia reasons might be really disappointed, if he can't select the language setting he originally played the game with. Same goes for achievements, which matter to some people and not to me.

Furthermore, it could be confusing to people, if your gog mix only covers selected features like missing patches, multiplayer, language support, bonus games etc. Then you would have to explicitly state which features are excluded from your list, because I always thought that your gog mix highlights all differences between the gog version and other versions of the game.

Lastly, I think it is more convenient to have all information about missing features in one place, even if some information can be easily gathered from the game card, for example. This way, I don't have to look through all the different information sources (game card, subforums, release thread etc.) to make an informed decision.
Since a games shouldn't have more than ~5 missing feautures, the entries of the individual games on the list should be sufficiently compact and overseeable.

So all in all, I am in favor of a complete list instead of some "curated" list that excludes certain features.
No matter on how you decide, I think your gog mix is extremely helpful and it kept me from making purchases I would have regretted later on :-)

I think every single game on this list should be added to the list of "Games that treat GOG customers as second class citizens:"

https://www.gog.com/mix/achievements_on_steam_but_not_gog

...and that list isn't even complete. Every other game that also has Achievements on Steam but not GOG, yet isn't on that list, should be added as well to the list of "Games that treat GOG customers as second class citizens:"

Star Wars: Empire at War should also be on the list because on Steam it has new patches that refresh the multiplayer experience for this generation, but the GOG version simply doesn't have and will never get those patches.

Grim Dawn should also be on the list because the GOG version is vastly inferior since the devs refuse to implement Crossplay. Therefore, the Steam version has functional multiplayer yet the GOG version does not in actual practice, since "Galaxy only" multiplayer is a ghost town with almost no people in it. This also leaves GOG players extremely gimped in terms of their ability to trade items with other players, which is a key function of games in this genre; yet Steam players don't suffer from that problem either.

I could shed some light on Titan Quest Anniversary Edition - Thom from THQ Nordic told me 2 years ago that achievements for the GOG version were not planned at all. In his own words "Titan Quest Anniversary is more seen as a brand new polished version of a back catalogue game."

With the way GOG nowdays made easier for devs to update their games with a single click, i think it's possible for almost any game but only if we would push them hard enough. :p

I thought a lot about it and I also think that the games that have the achievements on Steam and not on GOG are a case of games that treat GOG customers as second class citizens. Not surprisingly, very often games that do not have the achievements conceal other problems with updates, and are a tangible sign of the laziness of developers.

But since the list is long, add them to the GOGmix of fronzelneekburm I think it would only lead to confusion. But fronzel could add a link to the GOGmix of vulchor if both agree, because I think they complement each other.

About the achievements, I've personally written to many developers and distributors, and although some have never responded, others have done so and, if they haven't lied, in the coming times we might have some nice surprises. So I invite anyone interested to personally write to the developers, via email or social, to make them understand that it's a feature they are interested in and would like to see implemented.

An thanks again to fronzelneekburm and vulchor for their valuable work that allows us to make informed purchases.

dude, most people are shitty email checkers and shittier email repliers. i created a twitter account for communicating with devs and only for communicating with devs. and while only like 50% of them have responded, my tweets are public and front and center and im also super super nice when inquiring about updates.

i dont pull the "i paid for this too lazy jerk!" card. im very much the "greetings good chap! if you would find moment in your indubitably busy schedule, we over at the gog-front, would very much appreciate your sweetest of update ejaculations henceforth upon our waiting storefront. and by the way, do you have any grey poupon?"

oh and alien trap responded to my inquiries about apotheon with this: "Hey if I remember right, the Apotheon 1.3 update is just steam related changes. I'll check again though"

Could be true. This is the changelog for 1.3: The integrated graphics card could be the only thing not Steam specific - I don't have a way to test it though.

That's odd, I could've sworn there were more non-Steam fixes with that patch.