jjstraka34: Going on two weeks wihout a patch for this version. There is zero reason something like this can't be done within hours of Steam. Every other major title does so.

Angmar86: I am dissapointed too, this is disrespect from developers

Angmar86: I am dissapointed too, this is disrespect from developers

Nickcronomicon: Calm down, It's free. They obviously have a good reason as to why it's not available yet. If it really was 'a matter of hours' to fix the gog version based off the Steam version they would've done so.

Spectrum_Legacy: There is not much of a difference I believe, it's more like doing more of the same-ish all over again. Some things like fixes you can port easily, while others require intensive testing under specific conditions to make sure the desired functionality is maintained. Sometimes changing a small thing in your core build breaks a lot of added features down the line.

Easiest example would be a completely drmfree build, like some sort of internal version you build and develop upon. It's easiest to maintain since it doesn't have any 3rd party extras attached. Then you can have an extension that builds upon it that has steam features implement, another build with gog features implemented, and so on for other platforms. Or you have one version with both of them (that's why you sometimes end up with steamworks dll files in gog install and vice versa - it's kinda easier to have just one build for both platforms imo, for sake of simplicity and you could deliver updates almost at the same time).

However even despite that, there is windows, linux and mac build on top of it and each time you publish a major branch update that you think is ready to go, it has to go through quality assurance and testing before going live (if you are responsible dev and who can afford the qa service that is). It all takes time. Lastly, both steam and gog takes time to validate the update. That can range from almost seamless upload (couple of minutes/hours) to a week or two in some rare cases. I don't have a direct comparison experience between steam and gog publishing, but I believe that steam has it more streamlined and thanks to the size of its userbase is seen as a priority.

In case of this game, I believe there were some bugs reported by steam users (not sure about consoles). I don't want to speak for devs here, but it seems they went the route of first fixing all the issues internally after steam users helped to "test" the patch and only then delivering a single finalised update on gog, instead of going the multiple patches/QA sessions on each platform/OS route. However it's worth to note that the gog version might end up having its own platform-specific bugs too, which we will have to "test" ourselves.

Cereb83: Well, it was pretty much the same with the latest patch, which released much later on GOG than on Steam (months later if I'm not mistaken). I'm disappointed, too. I 100%ed the game right before the DLC release date to be "ready", but oh well...

GOG is my favorite store, but it lacks the user base and simply does not seem that important to many developers. I'm not familiar with all the machinations behind this, but I simply cannot believe that it's that time consuming or hard to release a DRM free version of a game. And I'd rather play it with bugs than not at all.

jjstraka34: Going on two weeks wihout a patch for this version. There is zero reason something like this can't be done within hours of Steam. Every other major title does so.

joehtosis: They have nothing to calm down from, they're expressing disappointment, you're being dramatic.
They're perfectly within their right to feel scorned, free as it may be, those of us who decided to buy the game under the pretense that the DLC would be included have still been misled and that's something worth acrimony.

WoodenMage: I've really tried to like GOG but situations like this really make you wonder why you ever gave these people your money in the first place. :/

Lesson learned I guess, never buy games here if its available on Steam, GOG users are second-rate customers.