Submitted 4 hours ago by Neocorporation@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/gog-game-issues-missing-updates-list
What a shit article. Oh no, this minor issue impacting a finite and honestly small number of games is just a scare piece supporting the most profitable marketplaces.
Missing updates (308 total issues) Missing languages (100 total issues) Missing free DLC (51 total issues) Missing paid DLC (200 total issues) Missing features (111 total issues) Missing soundtrack (439 total issues) Missing builds (278 total issues) Region locking (12 total issues)
Most of these issues cover the same games, so their total # of games is greatly misleading.
Also the bias of Windowscentral is widely known. They are quick to trash GOG whenever they get a chance. I wonder why…
And the biggest annoyance is these are Developer issues. Steam probably has close to 100k games that are in similar issue states because developers do not always update every single platform to the latest prod release. This is not just a GOG platform problem.
Hell Playstation Store’s and Nintendo Switch ported games from PC are almost always several updates behind and constantly miss content that sometimes never gets fixed. Just look at Oblivion Remastered.
What a shit article. Oh no, this minor issue impacting a finite and honestly small number of games is just a scare piece supporting the most profitable marketplaces.
What’s wrong informing any potential customer and player? Provided the data is correct, but that is the assumption for our discussion, as you made a general statement. Everyone should decide themselves.
i feel like you and i read two different articles. the on i read when clicking the link above was written by an author who lives gog and is upset certain devs give gog half ass attention.
It’s incomplete anyway. Peglin in Steam os in 2.12 while in GoG is 2.11. smh
It’s a shame, but GOG is still my default store. They make it difficult to shop for multiplayer games there though. They need to create some kind of incentive (carrot, not stick) to make sure devs keep their games in parity. They all talk about how hard it is to support multiple stores and then also complain about Steam being a monopoly. The reason they have so much market share is staring at the developers in the mirror.
Same here, the only thing this news does is making me aware which devs to avoid in the future. I see no reason to support someone who treats their paying users this way.
As for GOG itself, they actually started taking this issue seriously and are actively working on getting the missing updates and content on the store. Here is a forum thread run by GOG team member with updates about what they managed to hunt down. Progress is slow but hopefully they’ll be able to reach parity for most (if not all) games eventually.
i’ve stopped buying on gog since the nazi newsletter shit. imo any publisher worth their salt should stop publishing on there and publish to other drm-free storefronts like itch
This would be useful as a browser extension - just like the steam one.
No one or not manh will look and seafch before doing an impulse buy. But a ln extension would make it visible right away.
Which is the Steam one?
SteamDB - it shows when was the last update, if the game is likely abandoned - and other good stuff.
I think its good that anyone want to purchase can make an informed decision. So these affords are appreciated by me, even if I am not buying anything from GOG.
No idea why it gets downvoted like this at the moment. Is the provided data wrong? Only this custom headline for the post here on Lemmy might be not ideal, as it suggest that 1140 games missing updates, whereas only 308 games are known to have missing updates and 1140 titles have any sort of issue.
LostWanderer@fedia.io 22 minutes ago
Yeah, this is a problem I quickly noticed for GOG vs Steam, its pretty bad for games that at least see active development. For games with no active devs on it, there isn't much to be done...But it is infuriating, to the point I tend to buy mostly on Steam.
I don't like that GOG is getting into LLMs for development. So that also made me swerve on GOG as well. I do hope that changes, but, they want to get drunk on that slop.