That guy was way too polite and understanding with him. Should have just said "but people can just upload the extras from Steam too, there's no DRM on them. Makes no sense." Though honestly knowing humans even once that was explained to him the dev would have found a way to defend his position, rather than admit he was wrong.

Anyway, shame to see this kind of ignorance effects support for GOG customers. It's the kind of thing that makes me hesitate to buy a new release here sometimes, unless the publisher has a history of solid GOG releases.

To be perfectly honest, I wasn't aware of that at the time the conversation took place. But from the way it went, I'd have to agree with you that it likely wouldn't have made a difference.
I am often too polite when I'm baffled. ;p

And yet they are so quick to reject games from publishers/devs that have a track record of keeping their things relatively up to date.

I get the strange feeling that GOG's contracts don't cover for such behavior, so they'd have to bteach it.

I wonder what the future of Pathologic 2 will be here. I mean it's been updated in terms of patches so far, but compared to the earlier game (Pathologic HD), it was also only released with only 1 of the 3 playable characters (Haruspex) with the other two chars (Bachelor & Changeling) supposedly being released as "DLC" later on. Anyone want to place bets on the GOG version permanently missing that "DLC" and ending up a Haruspex-only build? As soon as it was released, I saw "TinyBuild" as the publisher and thought "I'm not even going to look at the game until it's properly "finished" with all three chars playable". Glad I did too given recent revelations.

All TinyBuild games should be removed from GOG as soon as possible.

Ignoring this sets a terrible precedent for other publishers and reinforces the worst stigmas associated with GOG and DRM-free games.

Different games.
Pathologic 2 is a sort of remake of the first. But only one out of three characters are in there right now.

Now I get it. Thanks for clarification.

As omega64 already clarified, I meant Pathologic 2 for which the developers said:-

"We've made the tough decision to release the game in parts. The first part - the Haruspex's storyline—will be available in Q2 2019. The Bachelor's and the Changeling's stories will be released later. For now, we’re unsure how exactly we’ll release the other two stories technically - whether as DLCs or something else. What matters is, they remain as crucial to the overall concept and as content-complete as before, no matter how delivered to you"

http://ice-pick.com/en/the-state-of-pathologic-2/

So the developers (Ice-Pick Lodge) have said they'll release the other two parts "somehow", but there's zero guarantee that their publishers (tinyBuild) will require it to be on GOG. It could potentially end up Steam-only (like Party Hard's "High Crimes" DLC).

Sounds like Early Access release to me. Another reason to take their words with scepticism.

Oh, I completely agree on this as well. Did not want to defend this behavior. Now that GOG knows imo they wiht come is their decision.

Hey GOG, could we get some curation over here? lol

The thing is: I won't buy games here if I can't be sure if they'll get patches and stuff. GOG has to decide wether they want to lose publishers that don't update their games here (but on other stores), or customers. Losing a few customers seems to be more profitable.

I don't really care anyway... I prefer my games DRM free, but I buy games on Steam, too. Patches and DLC are more important to me than DRM free, so I just buy interesting titles there. I'm still hanging around here to see if things are going to change some day. I'd love to get my games on GOG again :/



edit: Interesting... Your emoticon broke my post. Anything behind it just got deleted. That's... my whole answer^^ Thank God I always hit Ctrl+a, Ctrl+c before I hit the post-button, because we all know what a broken mess GOG's website and especially the forum can be (which is a whole different topic).

That would be ignoring though that the developer, Ice-Pick lodge, was on GOG long before they took on tinyBuild as the publisher for Pathologic 2 and that they've reliably been releasing and updating their games here for years. Both the soundtrack and art book are also available here, so in no way is the GOG version currently inferior to the Steam version.

Considering their behavior so far, it wouldn't be fair towards them to assume that Pathologic 2 will receive subpar support. There's no guarantees that it won't happen, of course, but there's no guarantees either that they won't go bankrupt and never finish the game at all, either.