Major disappointment to find a Steam release but none for GOG. Briefly mollified by the recent announcement that a release would occur in a "few days." Not sure what GOG means by a few days, but I have waited and still nothing. Holiday weekend ahead offering some free time for gaming and Original Sin was on the menu. Long time GOG customer with a ton of games on the shelf...not as fond of Steam, but no acceptable choice here but to head there to purchase and download. I have had literally no complaints about any aspect of GOG until now and I will be back at some point. Lesson learned by GOG decision makers. Maybe?

Honestly, I'm not sure they were well aware that all profit of a game is achieved in day 1 of release and it's not important that other things are delivered later (in this case: galaxy integration), but we'll see.

I understand your ambivalent feelings about steam(have them myself) & the delayed release of Original Sin on GOG for non-kickstarter backers.


Worse case: once GOG does have Original Sin publicly available & you buy the gog version, the steam & GOG versions save files are supposed to be cross-platform compatible.

Yeah, this is exactly the kind of stuff that makes people use Steam over GOG. An average consumer simply doesn't care enough about DRM and their privacy to suffer for it.

Reality is, most people here do not want a fancy platform for tracking achievements of somesuch crap. We just want a game updater that works, but doesn't restricts you options for updates only to GOG. It should not require any integration with a particular game.

All of the technology for building this has existed for at least a decade. Binary diffs + bittorent = win.

What's fun is they did exactly that for the last update of Divinity Dragon Commander: A .exe you can launch, and then checks for newest version, and downloads/patches the game in case.
They did not do such a functionality for the backer-only release (so far) of D:OS here on GOG.
Granted, STEAM users don't give any shits about their game being patchable if the internet or their gaming service goes down, so it's OK on there to use their infrastructure.
I'm hoping, with the release of galaxy, GOG will also update their patch delivery system, so galaxy ist not just be able to patch the game, but store the patch on your goddamn machine so you can backup that as well with your base game and all people will be happy.
At least, from now and then (like it's practice today), accumulate all patches and put that version in the manual downloading section, and tell the crowd: Wanna have 0day patches? Use galaxy. So they won't break their "purely optional" promise.