I was just looking at a Hat In Time. I was tempted to buy it but I read the Steam version was more updated than the GAG version.

I have mentioned this before and while GAG itself is to blame some of the time, I think it is mostly up to the developer to have the game updated.

Most of the time, they are the ones who treat their GAG customers as second class citizens due to it being easier for them for whatever reason it might be (be it Steamworks or otherwise) to update their games on Steam. However, we as GAG customers do pay a premium for our games to be DRM-Free.

There's plenty of excuse. It's a business decision. Steam had achievements long before GOG. So if a game had cheevos on Steam before GOG even had them, there was no API to add them here. Further, once achievements were available here, coding them is different than on Steam. So if an older game doesn't have cheevos, is it worth it for the dev or pub to pay someone to code this feature and add it to a game that may or may not even be generating positive income at this time? Probably not. Cry all you want about "I demand it so it must be!!" but people aren't going into debt and lose money to appease your every whim.

I hate HBS for the state they left Necropolis in. I won't ever buy from them again because of it, and how deceptively the store didn't highlight missing features. But I do understand the decision. They gotta feed their programmers.
This. SO MUCH THIS. There needs to be a big red tag about game versions on out of date games for whatever reason. If they lose sales, maybe people will see the benefit of up-to-date games here instead of release, maybe patch, and forget it while the Steam edition gets tons of new content.

Ultimately I could almost think this is a ploy by some game devs to try and cement Steam as king and get people to buy there. "Look, people complain on GOG and are not buying our game!"


Of course my big fear is if pubs/devs are pushed, they'll just leave and while one or two doing so is ok, too many will hurt GOG and they will find themselves like Shiny or Desura.

It's just good customer relations, A long long long time ago there was a saying ''the customer is always right''.The customer was welcome and greeted.Now it's......watu wont?

Achievments are a dumb gimmick and shouldnt even be on GoG. Most of them are earned just for playing the game normally...

Do you ever get that slimy feeling when you agree with something a specific person says, but you absolutely despise pretty much everything else that person stands for? That feeling where you honestly consider for just a second changing your stance on that one point just so you won't be in agreement with them or have your own thoughts associated with the typical midden heap that is their opinion?

No? Is it just me?

You may personally hate them but they are the norm now and games without them tend to loose out a lot of sales, we are seeing a lot more posts now on gog where people are requesting of achievements.

check his profile and look at his reviews. :P

I think that says it all.

I just reported his Witcher 3 one.

Well those people need to get put back in their place with a firm slap with the back of the hand. They need to be told that achievments are silly and so they are for requesting them.

If we keep allowing achievments soon we are going to end up with fricking trading cards and more shovelware.

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I disagree. Since I couldn't care rat's ass about achievements, and with most cases not about multiplayer either, I definitely want GOG to sell them even if they are missing either of those two.

The only thing that is needed is that the GOG gamecard is clear on what the game has (and doesn't have). For instance, if there is no icon for either achievements or multiplayer on the gamecard, that should be a hint to you that the GOG version doesn't support them.

Not happening,and I don't care either.

I'm a militant supporter of lemons.

He was awesome in The China Syndrome!

Also Grumpy Old Men.