“Games that GoG charges full price for, despite more complete versions existing on other platforms”
Steam definitely isn’t a monopoly and they are your friend. Or so I’m screeched at when I remind folks here.
Steam is a cult.
I wonder how much of this is down to the developer/publisher decision to release an altered version of the game, rather than GOG
100% all of it.
Lemmings don’t understand nuance, they just know they’re supposed to glaze GoG because “Steam bad” and “Steam unc”
Maybe some explanatory text would be good before I go and open a random google docs link?
Google docs 2 scawwy 4 me 😿
Since it’s missing from the OP, here’s the thread on GOG’s own forum where people report those issues, and with the Google doc attached to the opening post:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_that_treat_gog_customers_as_second_class_citizens_v2/post1
Nice, thank you
It’s a spreadsheet of games along with omissions and missing features that are only missing on GOG.
I guess games being older versions than on Steam? And maybe unavailable features and content?
Ok, some DLC missing. Some bugs due to different variations.
Being treated as 2nd Class? Nah, that’s weird bombast.
It’s Lemmy. We’re supposed to have a hate-boner for Valve and Steam here, so any reason to put GoG on a pedestal or pretend Steam is “literally EA” gets upvoted and circle jerked
It’s not rare for games on gog to be abandoned but maintained on steam, was hit often enough myself.
And while it makes business sense, it is a bad thing. It should not be released there if, yes, you’re being treated second class.
Aside from missing content or features one of the most common issues would be for multi-player not being included, working or incompatible. Sometimes without being transparent about it.
How is that not second class?
If GoG abandoned the game, but Steam didn’t, then GoG is treating you as second-class by making you pay full price for a lesser experience
One game that I want to buy on gog but have paused on is Wreckreation (Dangerous Driving 2 aka ‘Burnout reborn’), as the gog version doesn’t have any multiplayer, while the steam version does. This is a big deal since the entire ‘spin’ in this follow-up is ‘make tracks, jumps, stunts, and havoc with your friends in real-time, involving the game world at ground level or the open space sky-high’. Up until recently the gog page listed multiplayer as a feature, even though reviews and forum posts say that is not true.
Though Dangerous Driving 1 promised to release on Steam (promotional materials, videos, website…), then bent over and took a cash enema from Daddy Epic, and never released on steam at all. So I might just pirate Wreckreation too, because they clearly want profits over what their users want (honesty, choice, transparency, and equal treatment).
