Well... I know I've started playing Fallout again earlier this year, that's about 20 years after its release.

You do realize you're asking this question on a website partly focused on selling old games, right? :D I bought Pillars here because I suspect this will be a game I will want to replay at one point or another, as long as hardware supports it.

I want to think that you weren't making a tasteless joke about my life-expectancy.

Moving right along, and to answer your question: yes I do. I fired up Neuromancer and played it through, a few weeks ago. I've been doing turns for a Master of Magic game, for the last week. Like Fenixp mentioned, I played original Wasteland about 6 months ago, to see how the InXile folks updated it (I originally played that one on my C64).

I wanted to say that I really appreciate the people who play the game in all its stages, from alpha to beta, through release and beyond, seeking out bugs and filling out reports and helping improve the game more and more. If it weren't for those type of people giving their time to the game, it'd take so much longer to get fixed and take much longer getting where it could! It's really offensive to just complain about the state of a game. Become a bug reporter, wait until the bugs are fixed, or play with bugs and be quiet and wait like sensible people. The people working to improve it work really hard at it, there is just a LOT to do in a huge complex deep game like this.

Any update on those two hotfixes? More communication would be nice indeed. :)

Communication is unnecessary. *Know* that they will have hotfixes and patches up for all the games they can as soon as they are able. I bet it is even their #1 priority regarding PoE, and everyone possible working on it does as soon as they can when they can. They don't sit there going "should we delay doing this work a bit longer to see how long our customers can be patient?" They really don't!

If you want to play games that require patches (especially NEW games) just don't use GoG - use Steam.

When these games get older and therefore are fully patched, you can use Good OLD Games.

This might change when GoG finally releases their Galaxy client.

I have no idea what the big deal is. The patch got released. I downloaded it. It applied. The game is updated.

Why is this making people flip out? Because its not automatically done? Have we become THAT lazy?

Even for old games, new patches come out occasionally. These are delayed by the patch-building and QA process, as well.

Things are not always rosy on the Steam side. Many games force you to download and use the updates even if you don't want them (perhaps this policy has changed for some, but I still see a few games in my library marked as "upgrade required"). In the past this has indeed resulted in broken games because the patch was buggy. Never trust a "director's cut" edition.

At least with GOG you can revert a patch if it is causing problems (even if it means reinstalling), and you're never forced to accept a patch. If you keep all the files along the way then you have a full history of the game, just like you used to with all the other good old games.

The only thing Steam is really giving you is a few days sooner on patches. Anyone who's been around in the days of the good old games will remember that it was often good advice to wait a couple weeks or more before buying the latest and greatest game; it gave time to get patches out, time to get some realistic reviews to appear, fan provided workarounds are discovered, etc.