The gog build is two years out of date. While the Steam version has been getting a steady supply of updates (including two levels worth of free DLC), the gog version has been pretty much abandoned by the devs. While I guess the game's sales aren't nearly enough for gog to have any sort of leverage ("Patch your game, or else..."), I'd curious about what the community thinks: Should a game from a dev that shows such blatant disregard for paying customers be pulled from the catalogue?

While I know GOG's law team are a but useless on certain issues - I'm pretty sure their skill at securing rights / licences to sell the older games etc should ensure they've a proper legal contract in place meaning they can say pretty much that and expect the devs to come back with results.


Unless their "top men" have been working on it instead of course!

That depends, I think, on whether the lack of updates is just about some some minor bug fixes and DLC-type thing, or about the game being non-functional without them. If it's the former, I think a warning note on the game's page, and maybe a price drop, should suffice. If it's the latter, then drop it like a bad habit.

Depends on the leverage. Maybe GOG is still to small in terms of revenue to apply some pressure on lazy developers. I'm really torn on that one. If devs thought the "...or else" would really hurt their purses it could work. On the other hand - GOG pulling down games for lack of support would certainly divide the community. Some want as many games here as possible, others cherish the "boutique approach" which also can mean to discontinue products that prove second rate...

Unto itself it won't really do much. But it might make other devs realise that they can't just leave their GOG releases unsupported and expect them to remain on sale.

Who?

I don't think that abandoned games should be removed unless they were abandoned in a completely broken state. I do think, however, that there should be a notice on the store page whenever the GOG version of a game is missing updates or features found in another version.

GOG really ought to add a penalty fine in their contracts when it comes to developers and delivering updates.

2 years without updates? I heard the devs were chavs but now I know for certain.

I'd pull it, it's been well beyond the length of time of an "oh sorry, we forgot to patch this build" moment.

At the very least, it should be moved into a new bargain bin for all the modern releases to go to which the devs stopped supporting. Though, truth be told, this is the only one I'm aware of.

I'm not 100% positive, but from what I heard in terms of games on multiple selling platforms, GOG is #2 or close to it to Steam's #1. Honestly, I think the devs just don't want to support a DRM free release, coz as I said, I heard they were chavs.

I think this is the best idea. People should know what they're getting into, but still have the option to do so if they want.

If Slender - The Arrival is a rotting pumpkin, then what of say, Windforge a long abandoned game that the developers all but gave up on, leaving it in a rather unoptimized state?

Or on a better example, what if it's like that one game, the one thought dead and then suddenly there was a massive update?

if they were chavs they'd have less DRM than GOG. Chavs hate anything that means you cant easily have it for free somewhere.

you might mean Harvard Graduates of law? (I Heard the two were easy to mix up! ;P)

It has already happened.

Maybe the game had not a single sale, so no need to update :D