I noticed (once again) a flood of recent updates for a game.

More precisely: four updates within seven days - for the same game.

The game in question: Underrail.

The updates:
- November 1st: setup_underrail_1.2.0.7
- November 2nd: setup_underrail_1.2.0.8
- November 4th: setup_underrail_1.2.0.9
- November 7th: setup_underrail_1.2.0.10

I wonder: is this really necessary?

And yes - I know: there has been a new DLC released on Nov. 1st...

But can't the people behind these updates check, whether the update is a-ok, before they put it up?

Do we really need four new versions within seven days?
Would...nah...should not ONE update suffice?

I think this topic is better made in the game-specific forum.

https://www.gog.com/forum/underrail/changelog

edit: the changelog seems to be copy-pasted from somewhere else by community members. But if the developers aren't reading there, they certainly aren't reading here.

If there are patches available I want them.

The alternative is what happened to Dex. We never got the final update.

Better several updates in a row than none at all.

Perhaps "the flood" should be redirected to the titles that haven't received offline installer updates in several months... just saying.

I always appreciate receiving all updates in a timely manner, so this is great as far as I'm concerned.

I don't see this as a problem, quite the contrary, this is how it should be with every title on gog. Most of the time we either get updates delayed or the devs skip gog for a handful of updates.

Those are most likely hotfixes for really minor stuff, but it shows that the dev cares about the state of the game on GOG

And considering we're months AND MONTHS behind on update for some games... well, a flood of updates is much better than the alternative

I imagine that, one update to fix it all would be the wet dream of many a developer.

Maybe you remember being in a situation where you thought that a quick fix would seem to be the smartest thing to do but it turned out to be the first step on the stairway leading towards 'vanity basement', first stop on your way to self proclaimed hell

Wait until you see Caves of Qud updates.

dont you normally complain gog versions arent on par with steam?

CHOOSE ONE!

Since the modern age of game development is to release the product as-is and get customers to test it for you, the yes, this is necessary.

Ultimately it's also up to us whether we update the thing anyway. Those that do want their games updated because of FOMO or actual bug issues will relish in a developer keeping their products actively patched. Those just interested in playing a static version won't really give a rat's arse.

Me? I like games which get patches on GOG. Should be more of it. Or Northgard. Seems like every time I get a notification it's Northgard which has had some kind of balancing patch.

The only time I've ever viewed this as a problem was when so many updates to Terraria rolled out here in a two- to three-day period (during which time library update notifications were nonfunctional) that the oldest of the offline patch installers (which GOG seems to limit to three or four per game available at a time) was still a version or two too new to be compatible with the most recent version of the game that I had downloaded. This meant that I had to download the whole-game installer instead -- not a problem size-wise, in Terraria's case, but still annoying for archival reasons.

We must never get updates and always get updates, at the same time. GOG must die.

If anything, this shows that we have a dev who is willing to put the effort in supporting GOG. As a customer, I wish I didn't have to worry about devs potentially abandoning GOG.