I figured that would be the answer. Thanks for confirming skeletonbow. Hopefully GOG Galaxy will make playing against/with Steam players possible.

It would suit GOG to do more to let people know a game will come to this service. For example, in the wishlist there are 3 or 4 games that have been put as "in-progress" which is good to know, but others that are essentially confirmed (though obviously not everyone knows this) have not. The main one I have in mind is Dreamfall: Chapters.

GOG lets us know what they can when they are able to, but until a contract has been signed and legally bound anything they say in advance could turn out to not work out if a contract fails for some reason. On top of that business deals are almost always done under non-disclosure agreements which prevent parties from legally sharing such information without permission. There are really good reasons why businesses do that also, least being to not get people's hopes up and then let them down if things don't work out as expected. Having said that though, GOG has in the past let people know certain games were coming when they were legally able to do so and I suspect that they'll always do that whenever they can.

I don't think it would suit them well though to spend months or years trying to woo a developer/publisher to bring their games to the service, convince them to do it and be working on it, announce it and upset the publisher for letting the cat out of the bag and then the publisher decide to cancel the deal or have bad blood about it.

There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes under NDAs with this type of stuff.

the sooner we get galaxy the better , its going to be a nightmare under the current method , so what are the downloads for this game ?
main game installer ? additional pre order dlc installer ? day 1 patch install ? extras having separate downloads ?

this is where having a client that auto downloads the stuff for the game is needed

Larian has created their own custom updater for Dragon Commander on GOG, and also is using it for Original Sin from what they have said on their own forums. They are investigating Galaxy also now from what I hear.

Presumably once Galaxy is available, games will start moving to it for these sort of things, and the Galaxy back end will spit out more sensible update deltas for people not using the client for straight web downloads etc. also.

Assuming you pleged the cprrect tier , all items should be part of a "special" edition on GOG:(thats just a speculation, in other hand there's no field to select a platform for the dlc items); but i don't see any reason why GOG shouldn't get those....

the only part of the dlc content i don't have listed on my larian vault account is the Golden Grail DLC.

IF (for one reason or another) there's a technical issue at release and some backers get only the base game on GOG (i remember the Dragon Commander Imperial edition case) I suppose Larian will put a gog code for the DLC / extra content not avaible with the base game

I beg to differ with galaxy : maybe for you the sooner the better, but to be honest : i don't want to deal with bugs. Yeah dealing with update is a nightmare. But dealing with bugs or a nightmare , i prefer the nightmare :)

i agree how the dlc are handle on gog, its not very good -_- -> the downloader create a directory for every dlc LOL

i don't have any problem with the extras , they are archives , and it's better than Steam : Where you should navigate to the game directory where the game is installed.

GOG sure taking their time with making Galaxy, it's something we need right now, not alot of people are going to accept manual patching nowadays especially since Steam is so popular.

Having said that, a poster above might be correct in that the "special edition" of DOS on GOG has the DLC.

Er most of us *prefer* manual patching. And many used to it. Just because Steam does something doesnt mean its right or correct way to do things. Steam is not GOG and GOG is not Steam. GOG actually bothers to listen to its customers....

If that was the case, Galaxy wouldn't exist.

many people wanted a client.look through past threads.if ppl didn't want it, we wouldn't be getting it

I can't wait when Divinity: Original Sin gets released here tomorrow and when people express anger at GOG's regional pricing of the game.

That's if the game is released here tomorrow. :(

sooooo ...... when did you do this survey to be sure of what 'most of us' wants?

i can likewise say:

err..... Most of us *prefer* auto-patching.

Exactly. People clearly want auto-patching.