Before you buy a game on GoG, see this growing list of 1,140 titles missing updates, DLC, and more....

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• pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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)

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  • tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • terabyterex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To the people who want to buy a game on GoG that is included in the 2nd class citizen list, it’s worth messaging the game’s publisher. I did that when I wanted to buy I was a teenage exocolonist, and the publisher responded almost immediately, and in less than a week it was updated on the store to the same version as Steam.

  YMMV of course, but it’s worth the try.

  Also, the GoG team is aware of the issue, and they started an effort in August 2026 to tackle it and reduce the length of the list. It’s a shame that’s not been included in the article, because they’ve been making bi-weekly updates since and they’ve been pretty consistent so.
  gog.com/…/from_good_to_great_improving_our_games_…

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• Neocorporation@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The database in question

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s incomplete anyway. Peglin in Steam os in 2.12 while in GoG is 2.11. smh

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  • rursta@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    cease using NaziDocs.
    Nextcloud is free.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not everybody wants to self host every single piece of software they use.

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • mohab@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No multiplayer, and no regional pricing. Also… no games, which’s not their fault to be fair, but like 90% of my library is not on GOG.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      These days I find I’m drowning in a deluge of game releases, so even filtering those down to prioritize the ones on GOG first is a form of curation that helps. Regional pricing doesn’t affect me, but I feel for you. And there are exceptions to the multiplayer problem on GOG, which is what makes it harder than if it was just a blanket bad option for multiplayer. I’d love to see GOG implement something that allows for truly offline implementation of their Galaxy backend so that devs taking the easy porting route can still say that their game is 100% DRM-free; as it stands, I’m writing off buying a game like MechWarrior 5 on GOG.

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• absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The problems are a bit blown out of proportion but the overdue updates is a legit issue with GOG, particularly with early access or newer titles. I feel it’s a shared issue too - there’s definitely some inefficiencies in gog’s vetting process but I swear some devs are effectively ignoring their gog version of the game. And not even small teams. Games like robocop sometimes lag behind their steam counterparts. Either way, a nice list to have.

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  • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Skyrim has GOG versions of their game that are compatible with Steam versions (as far as modding infrastructure is involved). GOG has always felt like a second-class market for a lot of releases.

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    • FoxAlive@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have a pirated legacy, and SE version I zipped up with all the mods that work for that version. I’m so tired of Bethesda updating a nearly 20 year old game, so they can resell it again.

      Sense I’ve played the game with mods there have been two big instances where Bethesda decided to be greedy and break hundreds of thousands of mods. There used to be so many good mods that just don’t exist anymore and where crazy intense and they’re all lost to time.

      The games nearly 20 years old it doesnt need to be updated every year to resell the game. Bethesda hates the mod community anyways they keep trying to figure out a way to weasle their way into free mods and put a paywall between you and their content.

      Most people that use mods these days for skyrim don’t even use a script extender. Their idea of mods is the mod menu built into the game which is really only reskins, and stat changes/cheats. We used to have ship houses you could build, and drive. There was so much insane big mods like that, and they just don’t exist anymore.

      Eventually Bethesda won’t let you mod their game, and its going to be a built in “mod manager” which is devoid of any useful features.

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, I have always been curious to know how much of this is caused by devs themselves vs. GOG.

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• LostWanderer@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Melobol@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    addons.mozilla.org/it/…/gog-2nd-class-helper/

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    • Melobol@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wow! Ask and shall receive! Thank you!

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  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Which is the Steam one?

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    • Melobol@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      SteamDB - it shows when was the last update, if the game is likely abandoned - and other good stuff.

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• carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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  • tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bra, itch has openly admitted to banning nsfw content because of credit card companies.

    You are telling us you are upset because some intern accidentally used an emoji and apologized about it but you are totally fine with a platform that is blatantly supporting fascism?

    The fuck?!?

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  • regdog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Weird hill to die on when actual nazis are running the government now.

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  • EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They knew what they were doing enough that they didn’t send that email in Germany, then their “apology” was weak and dodgy. I don’t feel good buying from them anymore either.

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  • QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m out of the loop on this. Got a source?

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    • carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers

      GOG has apologized for a “Slavic adventure” newsletter sent out today that featured a number of very distinct Nazi runes in its subject line.

      To be clear, this is not a misunderstanding, or images that look kind of alike, or a misinterpretation of an ambiguous situation: That’s a Sonnenrad, a kolovrat, and the extremely unmistakable double Siegrune of the SS—quite possibly second only to the swastika as the most distinctive emblem of the Nazi regime.

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      “We are sorry for today’s newsletter,” GOG wrote in an apology on X. “We made a series of mistakes: We created an unfortunate visual association by placing the runes incorrectly, we used the wrong logo for The End of the Sun, we did not check the display of the newsletter on mobile devices—which came out worse—and we didn’t port the feedback from our German QA to other languages.”

      The apology doesn’t substantially address how the symbols wound up in the email in the first place. The problem with the runes isn’t their placement, it’s that they are explicitly and indelibly associated with Nazis and white supremacists. Just as with the swastika, their meaning prior to the Third Reich is irrelevant: The Nazi links are too clear and prevalent to pretend that any other connection is equally meaningful.

      the article also has a screenshot of the email in question, and of gog’s apology on xitter

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• vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This may be true but it also looks a lot like targeted propaganda.

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• curiousaur@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I only buy steam

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  • not@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I only buy on GOG.
    Don’t have any time to play though…

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