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Before you buy a game on GoG, see this growing list of 1,140 titles missing updates, DLC, and more.... (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] Aielman15@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

To the people who want to buy a game on GoG that is included in the 2nd class citizen list, it's worth messaging the game's publisher. I did that when I wanted to buy I was a teenage exocolonist, and the publisher responded almost immediately, and in less than a week it was updated on the store to the same version as Steam.

YMMV of course, but it's worth the try.

Also, the GoG team is aware of the issue, and they started an effort in ~~August~~ (EDIT: May) 2026 to tackle it and reduce the length of the list. It's a shame that's not been included in the article, because they've been making bi-weekly updates since and they've been pretty consistent so far.
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/from_good_to_great_improving_our_games_together

[–] pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What a shit article. Oh no, this minor issue impacting a finite and honestly small number of games is just a scare piece supporting the most profitable marketplaces.

Missing updates (308 total issues) Missing languages (100 total issues) Missing free DLC (51 total issues) Missing paid DLC (200 total issues) Missing features (111 total issues) Missing soundtrack (439 total issues) Missing builds (278 total issues) Region locking (12 total issues)

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago

Most of these issues cover the same games, so their total # of games is greatly misleading.

Also the bias of Windowscentral is widely known. They are quick to trash GOG whenever they get a chance. I wonder why...

And the biggest annoyance is these are Developer issues. Steam probably has close to 100k games that are in similar issue states because developers do not always update every single platform to the latest prod release. This is not just a GOG platform problem.

Hell Playstation Store's and Nintendo Switch ported games from PC are almost always several updates behind and constantly miss content that sometimes never gets fixed. Just look at Oblivion Remastered.

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

i feel like you and i read two different articles. the one i read when clicking the link above was written by an author who lives gog and is upset certain devs give gog half ass attention.

[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

The problems are a bit blown out of proportion but the overdue updates is a legit issue with GOG, particularly with early access or newer titles. I feel it's a shared issue too - there's definitely some inefficiencies in GOG's vetting process but I swear some devs are effectively ignoring their GOG version of the game. And not even small teams. Games like robocop sometimes lag behind their steam counterparts. Either way, a nice list to have.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Skyrim has GOG versions of their game that are incompatible with Steam versions (as far as modding infrastructure is involved). GOG has always felt like a second-class market for a lot of releases.

[–] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I have a pirated legacy, and SE version I zipped up with all the mods that work for that version. I'm so tired of Bethesda updating a nearly 20 year old game, so they can resell it again.

Sense I've played the game with mods there have been two big instances where Bethesda decided to be greedy and break hundreds of thousands of mods. There used to be so many good mods that just don't exist anymore and where crazy intense and they're all lost to time.

The games nearly 20 years old it doesnt need to be updated every year to resell the game. Bethesda hates the mod community anyways they keep trying to figure out a way to weasle their way into free mods and put a paywall between you and their content.

Most people that use mods these days for skyrim don't even use a script extender. Their idea of mods is the mod menu built into the game which is really only reskins, and stat changes/cheats. We used to have ship houses you could build, and drive. There was so much insane big mods like that, and they just don't exist anymore.

Eventually Bethesda won't let you mod their game, and its going to be a built in "mod manager" which is devoid of any useful features. If you haven't had to use fnis, skse, etc then you are not modding the game.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I will say modding has shifted but it is not dead. The improvements have moved toward revamping the jank engine aspects of the game. Rather than making crazy things within the concoluted confines of the base game.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Yes, I have always been curious to know how much of this is caused by devs themselves vs. GOG.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's a shame, but GOG is still my default store. They make it difficult to shop for multiplayer games there though. They need to create some kind of incentive (carrot, not stick) to make sure devs keep their games in parity. They all talk about how hard it is to support multiple stores and then also complain about Steam being a monopoly. The reason they have so much market share is staring at the developers in the mirror.

[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Same here, the only thing this news does is making me aware which devs to avoid in the future. I see no reason to support someone who treats their paying users this way.

As for GOG itself, they actually started taking this issue seriously and are actively working on getting the missing updates and content on the store. Here is a forum thread run by GOG team member with updates about what they managed to hunt down. Progress is slow but hopefully they'll be able to reach parity for most (if not all) games eventually.

[–] mohab@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

No multiplayer, and no regional pricing. Also… no games, which's not their fault to be fair, but like 90% of my library is not on GOG.

I was curious what the actual percentage is after leaving this comment so I counted: 80% of my Steam library is not on GOG.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

These days I find I'm drowning in a deluge of game releases, so even filtering those down to prioritize the ones on GOG first is a form of curation that helps. Regional pricing doesn't affect me, but I feel for you. And there are exceptions to the multiplayer problem on GOG, which is what makes it harder than if it was just a blanket bad option for multiplayer. I'd love to see GOG implement something that allows for truly offline implementation of their Galaxy backend so that devs taking the easy porting route can still say that their game is 100% DRM-free; as it stands, I'm writing off buying a game like MechWarrior 5 on GOG.

[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 16 points 5 days ago

Yeah, this is a problem I quickly noticed for GOG vs Steam, its pretty bad for games that at least see active development. For games with no active devs on it, there isn't much to be done...But it is infuriating, to the point I tend to buy mostly on Steam.

I don't like that GOG is getting into LLMs for development. So that also made me swerve on GOG as well. I do hope that changes, but, they want to get drunk on that slop.

[–] Neocorporation@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The database in question

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 5 days ago

It's incomplete anyway. Peglin in Steam os in 2.12 while in GoG is 2.11. smh

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

This may be true but it also looks a lot like targeted propaganda.

[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I only buy steam

[–] not@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

I only buy on GOG.
Don't have any time to play though...