Ancient-Red-Dragon: GOG sells lots of games that are vastly inferior/gimped compared to the versions of the same games that are on Steam. Some of them even have new multiplayer patches on Steam for games that are over 10 years old while the GOG versions are left without them.
Today I was looking at this GOGmix of games that have Achievements on Steam but not on GOG, and it's ridiculously long:
https://www.gog.com/mix/achievements_on_steam_but_not_gog There's no excuse for that either. If a game has Achievements on Steam, then it should also have them on GOG, period. GOG customers are not second-class citizens, so it's time the devs stopped treating them as if they are. GOG should stop allowing the sale of all games on its platform that are in
any way inferior to their Steam counterparts.
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.
Tauto: Yes,you are correct.In the long run,with word spread around it will only harm them and cannot possibly be a benefit to sales.This is a must fix,if they wish to compete against the rest.The bare minimal factor should be get ALL games up to date.If unable then they should let people know that a game is not up to date with a short note or tag.Then the buyer can make up their own mind to whether to purchase or not.
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 There needs to be a big red tag about game versions on out of date games for whatever reason.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.
