I mean we don't know if it's GOG or the publisher, but given they themselves added a GOG option and then removed it it does rather sound like GOG went "Oh... oh no... we don't want that on our store...".

It's possible they'll change their minds if it's a curation issue. We got Opus Magnum after all...

I disagree. This doesn't sound like a GOG move at all. This sounds like an ill-guided piracy prevention measure, an exclusivity ploy of some kind, or a legal formality issue. Unfortunately, in all these cases, the developers are unlikely to explain the enigma.

This is just a little extra. There's literally no reason for GOG to reject it.

Valve always gets the best deal, sometimes without asking. Some publishers are attempting to push a game higher on the Steam charts (which increases sales exponentially) by actively drawing their customer base to Steam. Publishers and developers, especially Japanese ones, are falling over themselves to make sure "pirates" i.e. honest DRM free customers will not receive the full experience, or at least not day one. And there's also an untold number of additional parties who, for various reasons, have a say (as we've originally experienced in the Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter). There are dozens of possible reasons for the spinoff not being on GOG, and quite possibly more than one applies.

The wishlist entry can at least help to communicate that interest in the spinoff is there. Apart from that, asking nicely, but persistently seems to be the course of action. Though of course receiving an honest answer from whatever party will undoubtedly strain an alreay fragile business relationship, so... don't get your hopes up.

+1 for the wishlist entry. And thanks for not just making assumptions about who's guilty here.

GOG "curation" stays losing as usual. Ridiculous.

From the kickstarter comments page.

And here I thought gog dropped the ball again, glad to be wrong. This info would have been something to include in the initial email. -_-

Time to go poke Inti Creates and ArtPlay en masse, I guess.

I sent an incredibly angry email about the lack of the Retro Spin-Off game being on GOG last night to Fangamer. They apparently are passing on the info to the parties in charge. I would recommend that everybody that backed do the same.

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Total bummer about the Retro Game for Bloodstained being confined to Steam. Just saw the trailer from Bit Summit and it looks great! IntiCreates makes some really solid platformers that I just don't mind buying multiple times. Oh well. If it's too good to be true, than that's because it probably is...

I swear it seems like Japanese game developers have trouble with Kickstarter and crowd funding in general, like they don't fully understand it. Really hope the main game doesn't end up like Mighty No. 9.

Indeed. I was sorely disappointed with MN9.

Though the previews i saw of Bloodstained looked promising, and some of the updates a year or two ago looked good. I suppose it comes down to what you are promising to deliver vs your vision to deliver. MN9 we figured would be a Megaman reboot. Instead it was the 'next iteration' of whatever his vision/story was, when i think of MM i think of MM2 and MMX. (not to mention the fallout of his SJW PR choice).

Will the retro spin off be available DRM free from another source?

Is the base game even still coming to GOG?

As far as we know, yes.

With "Mighty No.9", at least the toxic part of the Comcept forum community got what they deserved for the inexcusable treatment of their community manager (community management is not PR, by the way). Their shameful actions started immediately after she was announced on their blog, because of some fan art she drew pre-employment, during the Kickstarter, out of sheer enthusiasm for the platformer. This toxic community was building the wildest conspiracy theory that the part-time community manager would somehow influence game development, and might even manage to make the protagonist of the Mega Man ripoff a *super gasp* FEMALE. Look at the comments under the orginal announcement, retarded delinquents started this conspiracy crap mere minutes after the announcement. "Protest threads" were cluttering the already utterly toxic forums. The community manager was a strong personality and fought back, giving the wankers even more fodder for their freeze peach revolution that only ever was targeted harassment. When the community manager left, these horrifying abusers were celebrating it like their personal victory.

Now stop dropping your abject political bullshit into this thread, thanks.

They have a different understanding of the goals, apparently. A Kickstarter that doesn't promise a DRM free version of the PC game only ever strengthens Valve's monopoly, but apparently customers accept that, and apparently Kickstarter devs repeatedly get away with "we haven't thought about that yet" when clearly what they mean is "we don't want to do it, but we want your money anyway".

There is one and only one weapon against that, and that is to not support such Kickstarters. In my opinion, the success of the ShenMue3 Kickstarter has encouraged developers to frankly give a shit about the Kickstarter spirit and try to push through with big names, backed by big companies.

The main game looks fine, BTW! No need to worry. I'm really looking forward to it. That's hardly a satisfying statement. Apparently the third party that develops the game never even tried to reach an agreement with GOG. So that means that a Kickstarter-promised bonus will likely remain Steam-exclusive (unless the devs publish DRM-free elsewhere, which is unlikely). Which is exactly the kind of ploy that e.g. Koch Media used for Kingdom Come – draw customers to Steam with bonus content only available there.

And damn this works out incredibly well... :(

I hope you're right. It just seems like there's been very few Kickstarters from Japan side that have gone smoothly compared to West side, and it's been over three years now since the game's Kickstarter launched. To be honest the announcement of this spin-off makes me think the main game will get delayed again to 2019 which would start setting off some "development hell" red flags for me. Really want this Igavania to turn out well.