Many games on GOG have multiplayer requiring you to login to a server, service, or Galaxy. This is server based multiplayer, not DRM, and most customers seem to view it as such. As long as multiplayer is like Dark Souls (able to be turned off, or off by default if no internet connection is detected) it should not be a problem.

Actually I'm just not going to use their service to buy any more games, not cancel my account and lose my game library. So yes if i'm forced to re-buy NMS on steam of course i'm going to try and regain my loss by using the refund.

Either way you're missing the main point, the loss of trust in both HG and GOG to be able to fully support this game in the future. That's why I went for the refund. I'm not prepared to miss out on MP with my friends in NMS or the upcoming community events and there is simply no guarantee that on GOG it will get MP, or that it will be cross-platform with Steam or that we wouldn't miss out on other features in the future, not to mention the delayed updates to every other service out there. Not any more no. A proper refund might have kept me though.

I have to say, Hello Games actually trying to provide a Galaxy-client multiplayer aspect for their game is pretty incredible.

99% of developers just copy their game on Steam but for GOG Galaxy instead and remove features that seem inconvenient for them to add. Here they're actually trying to adapt to add something that would please gog costumers instead of just removing the feature in its entirety like with some games on here and move on with it. I've read that some people on here consider themselves jokingly as second class citizens sometimes when compared to how devs care far more about Steam so thats a breath of fresh air to see. They are actually spending resources to care about GOG and thats far better than not caring about it at all.

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I was somewhat upset last night when it came through that the multiplayer aspect would be delayed on GOG. I do understand why, but I was more upset by the way it was announced only after the update was released. GOG really should have come out right after NEXT was announced and at least stated that "the multiplayer aspect may not be available from GOG at launch".

So then I did what any reasonable adult would do. I stepped back for a moment. Had a drink. Thought about it a bit. Then decided that GOG very likely didn't want to screw people over, and that they just didn't appreciate the amount of frustration this would cause some owners of the game. And if anything, we should still be mad at HG for putting out a sub-par game in the first place and then not saying anything for MONTHS on end. GOG was still in the wrong for not telling us about multiplayer until after the update launched, but HG is ultimately responsible.

So then I decided if I wanted to play with friends on steam, I will just spend the $30 (since it is currently 50% off) and buy it there and just get over it. Which is what I did. I played it for a few hours (sadly I had to restart from scratch since you can't move over your saved games to steam). But I had fun rediscovering the game. Even had a nerd freak out when I was finally able to join a game with a friend and we messed around for an hour doing stuff together and by then I had totally forgotten about all this.

I am not rich. Far from it. I can only buy one cheap game every few months, so I used that to buy it on steam. And I will NOT be asking for a refund here. GOG was not the one that promised multiplayer support, HG did. So why would I want to scr*w GOG over?

If you want a refund, then ask for it. They didn't have to do it. HG games didn't when they put out the sub-par game in the first place. But GOG has a good fan base and they are clearly ashamed of what they did by not giving out all the details ahead of time. And they are doing what they think is right.

I will play on steam until hopefully GOG gets it going. I will probably play the GOG version on another computer to keep my single player game going while I do the multiplayer on steam. And I will have fun doing it.

ragrding Steam only refunding Store credit: the 1 refund I did which was because something went on sale a day later, was refunded with what I spent in cash pending a transfer back to my account and what was store credit refunded back right awway. I like the way GOG is handling this but I'm half-and-half. On the one hand a refund would be nice. On the other, I have it on Steam and won't get the preorder DLC for there-even if I tried.

I think its amazing what you offer GOG, i do not have the game on GOG, only on Steam, maybe some day you will have it on connect.
Anyway, made peace that I wasted the money, will never buy anything from Hello Games again.
Thanks anyway GOG for your generous offer to other people that have the game on GOG.

Very classy move on the part of GoG, and it is definitely appreciated.

Can I transfer my GOG save to Steam? Did anyone try this?

To allow us to make a more informed decision it would help if three questions are definitively answered:
1. We will not know until sometime after July 29, 2018 what rewards, awards, achievements, etc., will be included in the weekly updates and community missions/events or if those weekly updates or missions will even be offered to orphans of GOG. Will GOG orphans be granted those same awards, rewards, achievements, updates, etc., allowed to the other platforms and distributors simply by playing the game at least once per week even if the community missions cannot be granted or completed on GOG versions?

2. The announcement of delayed features, etc., is not very definitive and therefore not very reassuring as to whether or not GOG users will actually be welcomed back into the No Man's Sky community or simply left in the orphanarium (this reads more to be a case where this has been added to a to-do list as phrases like “we expect” and “remains in the pipeline” are general intents and not firm commitment to welcome GOG users back into the community. Can we get a definitive joint statement from GOG and Hello Games that all features, etc., will be incorporated into the GOG version? After all, Hello Games authorized and promoted GOG as one of the two distributors of the PC version of this game with no indication that we would be abandoned on someone's doorstep.

3. Will GOG castaways receive all of the same patches that are distributed to other platforms? By this I would mean anything and everything that did not absolutely require multiplayer capabilities.

Thank you in advance for your consideration and prompt reply.

Tried and no. The files are saved/encrypted differently so they won't transfer.

Did a lot of googling and the answer was basically no.

Can't you just remove it from the catalogue and cease every relationship with Hello Games?
I don't understand. You refuse to bring to the store a lot of interesting games, yet you jumped on the hype bandwagon for this proved fail of a game and now you are paying the consequences of dealing with a company that proved to lie so many times (multiplayer was a promised feature on release, not an update to be celebrated years after). I think refunds are a due act to protect the customers you exposed to such low standard, not something to be praised for. And for the future it would be better to avoid dealing with HG at all.

That would be a terrible idea for people who like the game and have no remote interest in multiplayer or anything online (like myself), dropping support for them because people are unhappy MP is not available yet is not really the way forward.

WOW GOG! You are my favourite platfom, but this one... Will not refund anyhow as I do not care for MP all that much/at all and allready had a good deal of fun with the initial version of NMS.

All the best

phil

Very classy move GoG ! Thank you guys for your support