Only the publisher and Steam knows the answer to that question. No one here can tell you a sure answer.

Hey, why not buy from both GOG and Steam? :D Support competition!

Also you'll have to talk to the publisher about a Steam release. GOG and Steam are competitors, so there's no way in hell GOG is going to actively encourage a Steam release. :P

haha
threads like these... time to call him again!

heh

Ps: lotsa 2k games didn't get to Steam so here's my bet: they do promos here and there, pal. Stick to GOG, willya?! Guaranteed to work, drm-free etc etc to say the least ;D

The game was on Steam in the past: https://steamcommunity.com/app/40990/discussions/
I don't see why it shouldn't return to Steam in the near future.

I bet it was removed from Steam because they didn't want to keep paying for the music licenses.

From memory it was never "sold" on steam. It was a bonus when you purchased Mafia 2

I'm pretty sure it was possible to buy it separately.

I have been thinking about this and I've come up with a speculative theory.

Maybe the reason why GOG got an exclusive (for now at least) on the butchered version of Mafia is because the butchered version was offered to Steam first and they passed on it.

Why would Steam pass? Because they don't want to tick off all of their customers who have bought the original/non-butchered version.

Steam only features one version of any one specific game on its platform, right? So if they did accept the butchered version of Mafia, how would that work in light of them having released the non-butchered version previously? Are they going to release a new patch that is forced onto all of their customers who have the original/non-butchered version, which ruins their versions by debasing them into the new & butchered version?

Maybe selling the new version on Steam could work if they called it something else to differentiate it from the original, like "Mafia: Gimped Edition"...but apparently the publisher and/or Steam doesn't want to do that.

IMO it should be called something else (other than "Mafia") on GOG, because the version of the game that they are selling is a new & worse game that is not the same game as the original, but to call both versions by the name misleadingly implies that they are equally the same game.

Highly unlikely as the same happened to GTA Vice City and San Andreas. Alo, this is not how Steam works. The days when Valve was picky about allowing games to be released on their platform are over, it' has been pretty much just a platform to put your game on for quite some time now.

Steam doesn't give a shit man. Check out Jim Sterling's channel and see all the indie garbage Steam allows.

And Rockstar removed songs from GTA San Andreas in 2015 and pissed off a lot of people. Do you think Steam cared?

yes, I bought is separately from M2.

It was for sale on steam by itself. I know, I bought it.