Yes, there are a number of games here missing patches, updates, and content that has been released elsewhere. This is merely the first, to my knowledge, to publicly confirm that they are abandoning the game here.

lack of multiplayer ?

wait... i did play online with a friend (who also had the game on gog) and it worked well

what are you saying ? leagu of geeks REMOVED the multiplayer from gog version now with this new crippled edition ? i wont be able to play private games with passcodes ? devs could/should implement a direct IP/hosting game feature to gog version then

because solo game is nice, but quickly boring alone

No. I already wrote what happened: I played Torchlight 2 for 208 hours and am not longer in the mood for ARPGs.

7 months delayed! That's the problem. I bought the games because I was in the mood for an ARPG. I didn't want to start Van Helsing 1, 2 and 3, because I didn't want to start over when the Final Cut arrives. So I waited and waited and waited.

As I said: I didn't buy the game on GOG to play it on Steam.

Nope, you won't see me around here anymore. I left the forums because I don't want to read racist bullshit from KiNgMyShIfTkEyIsNuTsBrAdLeY anymore, or deal with the trolling of Kleetus, Regals, ciomalau, Tauto and all the other idiots who can't seem to get enough of tinyE and follow him from thread to thread. I'll only post in the game specific subforums if I can help or need help with a game. I just thought this thread is a good chance to let GOG know that it isn't smart to build up a reputation for being extremely slow with patches and updates, or for having outdated versions of games.

Yup... Seven months later. Again: I was in the mood for an ARPG and the Final Cut was supposed to get here. Of course no one said it'll be released here when it'll be released elswhere, but... C'mon, you don't really want to argue about this, do you?

We're not talking about "on the same day". We're talking about "not a couple of months later, if at all". And again: If a publisher or dev isn't willing to sign that he's not going to abandon the GOG version of his game (or not to release a patch that brakes the game and then tells GOG users that they won't release a fix), it might be better if we don't get the game here at all! Sorry for being that arrogant to demand that the games I purchase here get the same patches and stuff that they get on other stores.

You do realize that we're still talking about new games? I usually don't buy new games at full price to wait a couple of months until the GOG version gets the same stuff as other versions. And that happens quite often lately!

If this happens once or twice: Yes, blame the publisher. But if a store starts to build a reputation for getting updates very late, or even for having lots of games that treat GOG costumers as second class citizens, you should be allowed to ask the guys who run the store to make sure that the games you purchase will recieve updates. A Steam version of a game isn't fundamentally different from the GOG version of a game. Steamworks doesn't turn the invisible Sybill from Sam & Max visible. Steamworks doesn't prevent Omerta from showing the ending credits after the first mission. Steamworks isn't what gives KotOR 2 widescreen suport and bug fixes. Steamworks isn't what gives Fahrenheit better textures. Steamworks isn't what gives Deadalic adventures the German audio. All these things don't have to do anything with "maintaining a DRM free version". These things got nothing to do with DRM or DRM free. It's just publishers and developers being too lazy to send their files over to GOG. Yes, it's their fault that they're lazy. But it's GOG's customers who have the choice to live without the updates, or to buy the game again, on another platform.

I do care about DRM. That's why GOG was the first digital store I used. That's why I bought all my games on GOG when I had the choice. That's why I bought games on GOG again that I already got elsewhere (when they weren't available here). That's why I'm writing this oO

I never said that people who care about DRM are religious nutcases who fight the DRM free war. I just said that I AM NOT a religious nutcase who fights the DRM free war. I prefer DRM free, but not at the price of getting an abandoned and outdated version of a game.

I think the worst part of all this is how GOG is embracing it & trying to spin it as a good thing.

i got a notification about one UPDATED game in my library today... i saw it was armello... i think gog was mistaker: it's a DOWNdate, not an update
in fadt, the "Steamworks" framework that add steam-dependant features to some games that "supposedly prevent them from being on gog" is not exactly the steam DRM anticopy engine, it's a completely different thing (but comes side to side, hand in hand with, most of the time)

it's the social/multiplayer/communautary layer of some sort

if you check the two wiki lists about drm-free steam games, you'll see many games that rely on "steamworks" only can perfectly works from their steam folder/installed version, without steam at all (i mean, even if copying only the steam game folder to another computer where steam service and dll/client never ever was installed)
and those games will still run (so drm free) but "of course", will lack those features that needs interconnexion with steam API through steamworks (like friendlist matchmaking/multiplayer invite and the like)

and many of those "steamworks games that still run perfectly fine without steam" are completely up to date to latest patchs (content or bug correcting patchs) there

so to any dev that tells me that the use of steamworks in their games prevent them from keeping the gog version up to date in diligent and reasonnable time frame, i'll say "uber bullshit, sir !"

I wouldn't delete the previous version from your drive if you have it. Who knows what you'll lose.

Seeing as GoG just updated the user agreement to allow microtransactions... :(

now that is a frigthening and sad day for us... nothing protects us anymore from unleashed horde of crappy mobile-game bad ports and shitty "cashmilking" games here

i expect gog to label those games ina very visible way (in fact it is a consumer LAW in my country to properly advertise and present such digital products that would use microtransactions)

so if gog wants to uphold law of countries they are doing business in (and be honnest with full disclosure and consumer awareness) they'd better put a BIG flag/color box/icon/whater to each and every store page of games which rely on this.
I would HATE to have to learn this crap either the hard way or through a diligent user's gogmix on this topic... it's GOG duty to fully warn customers here

Part of me does wonder if this is a "foot in the door" strategy to get people to accept things like that here. First announce a cut-down version of the game, then after a few days of community uproar announce "we heard your complaints, and that's why we'll be implementing these features here to allow this game and others to have feature sets more comparable to their Steam releases..."

yes, i did the mistake of not keeping old versions of some games and i regret it, and now i rather keep most of the versions i can (but i had to change from a 2 Tb to a 3 Tb hard drive to store my GOG library because of that :( )
and, sure, i'll keep previous version of armello... was glad when i kept my darksiders 2 "non-deathshitnitive edition "

I was thinking the same thing XD
See,we listened,you can buy the DLC with new characters and other "features".
I buy DLC without hesitation if i like the game but micro-transactions...here...it's the end,no?

Ahh... yes, this is a common misunderstanding. You see, there is a way for you to provide DLC for DRM-free users although it is not always obvious. GOG might not have mentioned it to you so I'll give a brief overview of how it works.

Basically, the way for you to provide DLC for DRM-free users on GOG, is to provide DLC for DRM-free users on GOG. Perhaps one of the game developers of one of the 50 or more games that already have DLC for their game on GOG.com could hook up with you on the phone and explain how to go about sending GOG a zip file containing the DLC and other details. Perhaps one of the Witcher 3 developers even.

Hope this helps!

Their reasoning being that the GOG version doesn't bring in enough money is rather ridiculous when taken into account that they're working on a mobile port - more effort than adding LAN and unlikely to turn a profit for them.

The Steam inventory holds items that can be used in-game, items that can be bought or sold on the Steam Marketplace such as trading cards, items that can be used on Steam itself such as stupid emoticons, wallpaper backgrounds you can display on your Steam profile background, game gifts you buy to hold on to to give them or trade them with others in the future, and other similar items.

Few games seem to use the Steam inventory for anything other than dropping trading cards over time. Team Fortress 2 and CS:GO have keys and other in-game items that are mostly tradeable and sit in your Steam inventory. Not aware of any other games that use it though.