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Posted November 07, 2014
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BKGaming: I know this isn't your decision, but perhaps you can pass this up to however is in charge of this stuff. Steam at-least does this, and if you want to compete with Steam... GOG should too.
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mrkgnao: I agree with your view. The more transparency, the merrier.

I didn't know Steam did this (I only use GOG). Can you link to some examples from Steam? I'm curious to see how they do it.
I simply mean Steam shows what games are coming soon to there platform way ahead of when they actually come, I do think sometimes announce changes before they happen, but I'm not as 100% sure on that. However just getting more transparency on game releases would be a huge improvement.

If you go to the steam store page and click on upcoming games you can see all the games coming...

http://store.steampowered.com/
Posted November 07, 2014
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mrkgnao: I agree with your view. The more transparency, the merrier.

I didn't know Steam did this (I only use GOG). Can you link to some examples from Steam? I'm curious to see how they do it.
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BKGaming: I simply mean Steam shows what games are coming soon to there platform way ahead of when they actually come, I do think sometimes announce changes before they happen, but I'm not as 100% sure on that. However just getting more transparency on game releases would be a huge improvement.

If you go to the steam store page and click on upcoming games you can see all the games coming...

http://store.steampowered.com/
We have a New and Coming section here you can see the games that are coming soon to our site.
Posted November 07, 2014
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BKGaming: I simply mean Steam shows what games are coming soon to there platform way ahead of when they actually come, I do think sometimes announce changes before they happen, but I'm not as 100% sure on that. However just getting more transparency on game releases would be a huge improvement.

If you go to the steam store page and click on upcoming games you can see all the games coming...

http://store.steampowered.com/
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JudasIscariot: We have a New and Coming section here you can see the games that are coming soon to our site.
Yea but hardly anything ever get's put there, hence why we usually don't see any actually coming soon stuff until it out and ready to buy. Rarely do we actually get to know head of time when something is coming.

I can go on Steam, and see a lot of the coming soon games...

For instance, outside of CRAWL, we can see only the other two coming soon games because you gave them away free for Galaxy or the site being in french now. Why not show what is coming this month there?
Post edited November 07, 2014 by user deleted
Posted November 07, 2014
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mrkgnao: I believe Judas was referring to his NDA vis-a-vis GOG
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JudasIscariot: That's correct :)
I see.

But my bad, I wasn't attacking *you* personally - I couldn't care less about who delivers the message - but just the lack thereof in genereal. Your NDAs with GOG as an employee are of course no excuse for bad communication and as such irrelevant in this case. So I didn't even think of that.
Posted November 07, 2014
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USERNAME:JudasIscariot#Q&_^Q&Q#GROUP:1#Q&_^Q&Q#LINK:4236#Q&_^Q&Q#We have a New and Coming section here you can see the games that are coming soon to our site.#Q&_^Q&Q#LINK:4236#Q&_^Q&Q#
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What is it with some of you guys? If you want to buy a game *and* if it ends up being here then wait (look up what this word means if you have a problem understanding). GOG has no obligation (which you seem to make it out they have) to tell you everything about what games are coming soon.
Posted November 07, 2014
GOG.com is stating that Wing Commander III, Shadowrun: Dragonfall: Director's Cut & Shadowrun Returns have been updated, but not what files were updated. (No indicating text located next to items.)

Any idea of what has changed with those?
Post edited November 07, 2014 by EndlessKnight
Posted November 07, 2014
I think a new "Coming Soon" tab is in order, separate from the "New" tab.

Sure, GOG doesn't have to tell us, but why not if they aren't under an NDA? I'd imagine they'd get more money if people knew ahead of time a game would show up here (unless quick patching - at least as an option - remains an issue in the years to come and it annoys enough people).

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Posted November 07, 2014
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Niggles: What is it with some of you guys? If you want to buy a game *and* if it ends up being here then wait (look up what this word means if you have a problem understanding). GOG has no obligation (which you seem to make it out they have) to tell you everything about what games are coming soon.
Because we want an idea of what is coming... perhaps to get get our finances in order to be able to buy, or to be at a place were I can download it at release in my case (crappy internet an all). Or if a games releases on Steam and GOG but is coming to GOG a little later for some reason, some may want to know that before buying on Steam.

There are plenty if valid reasons for wanting to know, that has zero to do with not having to wait... you missed the point entirely. Nobody is saying GOG has an obligation too, I'm saying there is no real reason that they can't and that they should because there competition does.

GOG is competing with Steam ( and other digital stores), and Steam right now is handling this much better... granted GOG handles a lot of things better than Steam.
Posted November 08, 2014
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From MaGog's WORK-IN-PROGRESS logs, the letter K:

NOTE! CHANGED Knights and Merchants: The Peasants Rebellion, languages: English ***TO*** Audio and text: English, French
Posted November 08, 2014
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From MaGog's WORK-IN-PROGRESS logs, the letters WXYZ:

NOTE! CHANGED Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings, The, languages: Audio: English, French, German, Polish, Russian. Text: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Brazilian-Portuguese (Windows only), Korean (Windows only) ***TO*** Audio and text: German, English, French, Polish, Russian. Text only: Chinese, Czech, Spanish, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish

NOTE! CHANGED Wizardry 6+7, languages: English, German (DOS versions only) ***TO*** Audio and text: German, English
Posted November 08, 2014
From MaGog's WORK-IN-PROGRESS logs, the letters UV:

NOTE! CHANGED UFO: Afterlight, file_size: 2.1 GB ***TO*** 2.2 GB
NOTE! CHANGED UFO: Afterlight, languages: English ***TO*** Audio and text: English. Text only: French
NOTE! CHANGED UFO: Aftermath, languages: English ***TO*** Audio and text: English. Text only: French
NOTE! CHANGED UFO: Aftershock, languages: English ***TO*** Audio and text: English. Text only: French

NOTE! CHANGED Unepic, languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Hungarian, Korean, Russian ***TO*** Audio and text: Chinese, Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian

NOTE! CHANGED Vanishing of Ethan Carter, The, file_size: 5.7 GB ***TO*** 5.3 GB

NOTE! CHANGED Vertical Drop Heroes HD, languages: English, French, Brazilian-Portuguese, Spanish, German ***TO*** Audio and text: German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese

NOTE! CHANGED Volgarr the Viking, sys_req_win: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8, 1.4 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7, Mouse, Keyboard ***TO*** Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8, 2.0 GHz Processor, 1 GB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c with 256 MB VRAM, Mouse, Keyboard
Posted November 08, 2014
From MaGog's WORK-IN-PROGRESS logs, the letter T:

NOTE! CHANGED Teslagrad, languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian-Portuguese, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Dutch, Turkish ***TO*** Audio and text: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian

NOTE! CHANGED Tetrobot and Co., languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian-Portuguese, Chinese (Traditional) ***TO*** Audio and text: Chinese, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese

NOTE! CHANGED Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon, languages: English ***TO*** Audio and text: English. Text only: French

NOTE! CHANGED Time Commando, languages: English ***TO*** Audio and text: English. Text only: French

NOTE! CHANGED Trine 2: Complete Story, languages: Audio and text: English, French, German, Spanish; Text only: Italian, Brazilian-Portuguese ***TO*** Audio and text: German, English, Spanish, French. Text only: Italian, Portuguese

NOTE! CHANGED Trine Enchanted Edition, file_size: 1.7 GB ***TO*** 1.8 GB
Posted November 08, 2014
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USERNAME:Niggles#Q&_^Q&Q#GROUP:4#Q&_^Q&Q#LINK:4239#Q&_^Q&Q#What is it with some of you guys? If you want to buy a game *and* if it ends up being here then wait (look up what this word means if you have a problem understanding). GOG has no obligation (which you seem to make it out they have) to tell you everything about what games are coming soon.#Q&_^Q&Q#LINK:4239#Q&_^Q&Q#
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We have to remember that GOG is asking devs to do something completely against the run of the rest of the gaming industry - release their hard work with no protection from piracy. OK, WE know DRM doesn't stop pirates, but we also know that's how it's perceived in the industry.

There are several reasons I can think of why GOG may not be able to make announcements ahead of release :

1. They don't know themselves if or when a DRM free version of the software is going to be made available to them;

2. The devs/publishers don't want it announced too far in advance that their product is going to be released to the internet wthout any copy protection so that more people buy the DRM'd version first;

3. Devs/publishers contracts with Steam prevent other platforms from promoting the release ahead of the date.

Now these reasons may be completely way off the mark as I admit I have absolutely zero knolwledge of how the games industry works.

GOG is a business so I'm sure they would want to announce a new game release as early as possible to attract new customers or prevent people buying from other sites first and there must be damn good reasons why they don't.

I would suggest if you see something coming on Steam that you'd like to buy here, PM a blue and ask 'em. If there's a way to get this information out to us earlier, a few weeks of being inundated with "is X game coming to GOG" will soom make them find it! :-p
Post edited November 08, 2014 by LynetteC
Posted November 08, 2014
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LynetteC: We have to remember that GOG is asking devs to do something completely against the run of the rest of the gaming industry - release their hard work with no protection from piracy. OK, WE know DRM doesn't stop pirates, but we also know that's how it's perceived in the industry.

There are several reasons I can think of why GOG may not be able to make announcements ahead of release :

1. They don't know themselves if or when a DRM free version of the software is going to be made available to them;

2. The devs/publishers don't want it announced too far in advance that their product is going to be released to the internet wthout any copy protection so that more people buy the DRM'd version first;

3. Devs/publishers contracts with Steam prevent other platforms from promoting the release ahead of the date.

Now these reasons may be completely way off the mark as I admit I have absolutely zero knolwledge of how the games industry works.

GOG is a business so I'm sure they would want to announce a new game release as early as possible to attract new customers or prevent people buying from other sites first and there must be damn good reasons why they don't.

I would suggest if you see something coming on Steam that you'd like to buy here, PM a blue and ask 'em. If there's a way to get this information out to us earlier, a few weeks of being inundated with "is X game coming to GOG" will soom make them find it! :-p
New games I could see some of these points being valid for, but these old games... not so much. There really shouldn't be any NDA's or anything unless it like a remastered copy or something be released. Besides as I stated before I'm only talking about a month or so... just so we have a little bit of a heads up. Big companies don't make a last minute decisions, and I doubt GOG does either, so they should have an idea what games there releasing in any given month.

If they can't do that for some reason, than they should at-least give us the reasons. GOG has said themselves they want to be more transparent, I'm asking why were really not seeing it yet.
Post edited November 08, 2014 by user deleted
Posted November 08, 2014
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Fair point, but with classic games there's always the technical issues of getting them operational on newer systems.

If GOG announce that they've got, say for example the original version of Grim Fandango (wishful thinking on my part) to release on X date and then find that the dual processor issue is more difficult to resolve than they anticipated so prevents them from releasing it on time, imagine how pissed off people are going to be. So they say nothing, make sure it's working first and rather than hold it back for a week or two to make a pre-release announcement, they just drop it on us all ready to install and play.

We know these techincal glitches happen to prevent releases from the Enigmatic Hint thread. That's just a game the members play but imagine if it were a public announcement on the website. GOG's reputation would take a hit with every delayed release.
Post edited November 08, 2014 by LynetteC
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