At least for me the Linux support was one of the reasons why I wanted to buy the game.

You might be right... just another way GOG makes things more difficult for everyone I guess.

Galaxy (and other shop specific APIs) to be blamed, which causes unnecessary effort for developers to bring a game to a shop and leads to games not being available here. I very much would prefer vanilla games without such proprietary shop extensions, especially for DRM-free releases!

this game is charmin'
just throwin' that out thar.

It looks good and it was on my wishlist, I'll be sure to get it if the dev brings it back.

some people complain games aren't here because of some Galaxy requirement or encouragement, other people complain about games here missing Galaxy features

Oh, the game from *that* dickhead...

Good riddance.

Maybe gog should hire a team that's in charge of making Galaxy features work instead of having strapped-for-cash indie devs put in extra work that may not pay off for them. They don't really release too many good old games these days (certainly not too many where compatibility with modern operating systems would be much of an issue), so they could put these efforts towards making sure games are feature-complete.

Looks like I missed another deadline. I need to get my act together. :(
Game looked like fun. I might still have the demo in my library, maybe. Hopefully the dev will change his mind somewhere down the road...

Galaxy SDK is not a problem.

The problem with this dev is that he has no idea how to do a business (kind of Phil Fish style, very good games, but bad PR/business decisions). His previous comments suggest he views GOG as a bunch of annoing linux nerds (hence no reason to exist as a Steam competitor) and Steam-DRM as no issue.

In the meantime, he broke a deal with the most valuable gaming company in Europe (GOG is a part of CDP).

I'm not saying GOG isn't responsible for the delay, but he didn't do anything to promote or support GOG version. Just look at Steam, all the info are posted exclusively there.

your avatar is horrific

Why thank you!

I will no longer support the developer in the future, because the attitude of the developer is totally unacceptable.

That's not going to be hard to do if their game isn't here. I sent them an email and they seemed open to the idea of releasing a GOTY version when the game is "finished". I'll support them if they do that.

No, it does not cause 'unnecessary effort,' because if the effort is not performed, then the GOG customers get a gimped, feature-removed, parity-lacking, second-class-citizen-status-bestowing, inferior version to the Steam version.

In order to prevent that crap, the devs putting in the effort to avoid letting it happen is 100% absolutely necessary.

If anyone/anything is to be blamed in this situation, then it is the devs themselves for being lazy, and/or GOG for allowing them to be lazy (i.e. when GOG accepts games onto its platform that have Achievements on Steam yet not on GOG... instead, GOG should outright reject those games unless the devs agree to shape up and give the GOG versions full parity with other platforms).

There are plenty games on GOG made by small devs of 10 people or less yet which have 100% full Galaxy support & feature parity with Steam, including Achievements. It cannot be that hard to accomplish that. Therefore, there's no good reason for devs to be lazy about this matter.

And even if there was a good reason for devs to be lazy about it, then they shouldn't be releasing their games on GOG in the first place if they know their games aren't going to have full parity with Steam because they can't be bothered to do the work to make it happen.

I think the dev might have been referring to GOG insisting that the DLCs are accessible to download via the Galaxy client, but not that they keep Achievement parity.

But GOG definitely should demand Achievement parity for all games that it allows onto the GOG storefront. It would be real nice if they actually started standing up for their own customers by doing exactly that, which historically, they haven't, and hence GOG have thereby been complicit in allowing & facilitating devs to treat GOG customers like second-class citizens.