Does patches usually release late with GOG? it's kind of getting annoying, especially since there is no news or info.

It's been my experience that if a game has a GOG version and another version, like Steam, the GOG version will come days later. That's not a guarantee, but usually the GOG update will come a day or two after the game update officially launches. It especially sucks when the game update launches on a Thursday or Friday; when that happens, you're probably waiting until Monday or Tuesday for the GOG version.

So I would say, expect the GOG update either later today or most likely tomorrow or Wednesday.

If Gog wants to remain competitive, they really need to get important updates sooner than this.

Still waiting...

Until now I bought my "old" games on GOG whenever possible.
But looking at the late updates (BG2:EE 2.0 is out since April, 2nd) maybe Steam is the better choice...
Now is April, 6th... 8-(((

The problem (still) is the way GOG is handling updates. Even though afair there once was the idea to change this with Galaxy obviously Galaxy did make this even worse:

Every game update GOG is receiving has to be tested by GOG if it works on all systems. They also have to test it on Galaxy as well. After all these tests have been completed they roll out the update. The only thing GOG has not much influence in is when they actually DO receive the files themselves (this process in my experience can be shortened by contacting the devs or publishers urging them to get these files to GOG asap). On Steam the devs are able to update their games without help from steam afaik. Steam acts like a cloud server and so the devs will upload the game there and release it. This is one reason why many beta releases are only released on steam because a bug can be fixed quite fast. GOG does not have this possibility at the moment. But I agree that they really should have and that this probably is one of the biggest disadvantages from GOG.

It s available now ;) have fun

Guess I was right when I said it would drop around Wednesday. Sucks that it took that long, but at least it's out now.

Wasn't the GOG Galaxy program supposed to fix things like this? I thought one of the reasons they made a Steam-like program was to help with automatic updates. I guess they still have to launch patches at the same time with all the versions of their executables, but I figured if you installed your game through Galaxy, you'd get patches faster.

The reason for this is that GoG actually builds Gold Masters of their own instead of just taking whatever the developer uploads, I learned this by talking to someone at Nordic Games who release stuff here too :-)

In my mind, this is way better than just distributing whatever the developer uploads. We are actually getting QUALITY ASSURANCE from GoG, hence I am pretty happy with how things work.

There's positive and negative, sometimes I wonder if it's not why there's so many indie games pretty good in their niche that aren't on Gog. It was a procedure coming from making package for Good Old Games, in current market context, particularly from Mac point of view I'm not sure it's still a that good idea.

I would setup this plan:
1 - Add a shop "currency/points" system so refund are always points management.
2 - Setup multiple plans of refund with no question that will be options offered to any dev/publisher, only the base will be mandatory like 1 week to download and 1 day try after download and dev/publisher paid only past that delay plus the other delays required.
3 - Offer a last option have gog doing the packaging and some quality insurance on it and then the base refund plan is only an option to choice of dev/publisher.
4 - Setup a quicker selection process of games ok for the shop, nothing automatic at submission, but no intensive quality testing nor any gog done packaging.
5 - Define labels and shops mentions very clear to highlight the different type of buy and special refund process.

The reason to do such evolution is the market has changed, if indie games can't sell that well for most, more and more players have their set of niche games that translate into rather good indie games. For such games the shop system needs cost the less than possible so be automatic as much than possible. And a part of quality responsibility is transferred to developer/publisher through automatic refund plans.

For Gog such evolution is even more required because more or less the pool of Good Old Games is more or less exhausted.

I could be wrong and there's certainly ton of details and problems I can't imagine, but my feeling is Gog needs an evolution.

thank you gog!

Does GoG have a quality control for patches/updates? Steam withdraw this function some years ago and developers are able now to release patches without approval from Valve. Keep this in mind.

I cant find the patch 2.0 in my download section, there is only the complete game download and the one for siege of dragonspear. Is there no manual patch available? I dont want to download the whole game again.

It seems that way. No patch for BGEE and BG2EE, only full downloads.

I havent tested it but I think you can use Galaxy to do the update for you. But be careful. It may ruin mods.