Perhaps I didn't read into it correctly but it does seem like GOG does offer you the option of importing Steamworks achievements, sure, some manual work will still probably need to be done but it wouldn't be a move that weights on the entire business.

Not to mention that cloud saves are supported already, which probably takes some time as well.

The whole story about retirement is politically incorrect and it is supposed to be this way ... omg!

What a d*ck move from Nightdive...

I've talked with several devs about this issue and while it is true that you'd have to invest at least a little bit of time to add achievements in GOG Galaxy it is by no means a very hard work. And also you have two sides of the medal: the dev who does not want to invest additional work because of estimnated(!) sales and the customer here who is still asked to spend the same amount of money (if not more because of the DRM "bonus"). It is not as if they would offer something others did not get before. Usually devs know before release on which platform they will sell and that is the moment they already could make plans on giving those platforms the same treatment and how to best do this. To make it perfectly clear though: if a dev team clearly sees that achievements would be too expensive for them so that they would have to not list the game here at all I prefer to get the game without achievements.

Regarding achievements in general: I am aware that most here on GOG actually dislike them for several reasons (has to do with compatibility, resource management, immersion and Galaxy). Can't say anything against those points since they are proven facts. But when it comes to the question alone if they are useless or not: I think there are pretty useless achievements and also achievements that add additional challenges without having to be implemented into the game as goals as well. Whenever you are doing something that is more than just following the game route this could be an achievement. Best example are games in which you have to collect many things and those things you have collected won't be shown anywhere inside the game after you have picked them up. One achievement could be to go the extra mile and pick up everything that's hidden inside the game ... making sure that you really discover everything the game has to offer in that regard. Since it is not implemented inside the game the achievement would show you when this goal has ben reached. Of course many achievements (especially those that you will get anyway while following the game) are pretty useless - but imo not every achievement ... and then there are the achievement hunters (there are more than you think out there): potential customers as well and they like every achievement :)

This statement they put is legitimately the cringiest thing I've ever read. XD

What I dislike about this tweet (and tried to correct with my own) is that he blames GOG for delisting the original. We all know that GOG would sell it seperate as well if they were allowed to do so. Such things are decided by the publishers alone. Yes, GOG made many, many mistakes ... but this is on Nightdive and not on GOG.

GoG getting their unwarranted share of discontent too, as usual.

Seems like people will never learn that this is entirely on the rights holders and GoG, like any other distribution platform having to comply with their wishes/decisions, as stupid and ignorant as they may be.

That’s just part and parcel now. GOG did the same with modders recently. N fact you would have to go a long way to find anyone they have pissed off.
So are you saying it’s down to each individual to find contact details for each company, subcompany, affiliate or whatever and put their individual complaints in to them? Or should GOG, the one profiting from distributing this be held accountable? Too much “oh don’t attack the gogie” on this site that they get away with doing whatever they like.

At least some due diligence before accusing someone of something can be expected, I think, yes.
This is not the first instance of the classic version being replaced by/bundled with a remaster either, so one would think that, by now, it's commonly known that these decisions are made by the publishers or the entities holding the rights and therefore it's them that are to blame.

Not going to pay for an inferior version just to get access to the original, that's like encouraging these quick and easy cash-cows.

I do understand they had to reverse-engineer it, but to take money for this is just wrong. I remember the guy who "remastered" Unreal's OST by just adding a few filters and tweaking them and then selling them on BandCamp.

This is almost as bad, so...

Nightdive - find a void and take a dive! :D

I'm not talking too much about the delisting as the SKU tends to be on the publisher/dev (though i am generally not a fan of combing skus together same way i hate how Blizzard force you to use Reforged to play WC3)

Erm, well...since we are talking about fair here, you are aware that the buyers of the Enhanced Edition have to pay €9,99 for the two versions, while the owners of the original version only have to pay €4,99 (aka: 50%)?

Interesting to hear that Nightdive - you know the one who's actually responsible - does not profit at all. Makes me wonder why they even decided to release the game here ;)

And yes, you can attack "GOGie" whenever THEY made a mistake (there's plenty to chose from) but this is not the case here.

The 50% is the normal price for a 25 year old game. Adding a badly implemented blur filter and deleting half the non-English languages hardly justifies increasing it even €0.01. I view the price inflation of many bad remakes as being completely fake and unjustified. In fact some of these unenhanced "Enhanced" remakes seem an absolute ripoff compared to the many other games like Divinity Original Sin EE, Driftmoon Enchanted or Neighbours Back From Hell that literally give the enhanced re-release away for nothing to existing owners despite involving significantly more enhancement work than "we made our game uglier and added bugs, now pay double if you just want the original!" (which deserves some of "achievement" in itself...)

Correct and the original alone costed them 10 Euro ... so in the end they paid 15 Euro to get the same those who'd buy now would get for 10.