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General discussionThe developer of Startup company abandons the development of the game in gog(83 posts)(83 posts)
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Posted April 17, 2018
According to a user who has talked with him, he will focus exclusively on the steam version. Users who have purchased the game in gog will have a key for the steam version.

The developer has contacted gog but the response is slow. He is not the first developer to complain about gog in many aspects.

Well the truth is a pity. I once could talk to a developer who complained that he did not understand the criteria of gog not to admit his game (although the developer is very happy with his sales in steam).

Hopefully confirmation by gog.com, but if true it is unfortunate that the gog users who bought the free game of drm are abandoned
Posted April 17, 2018
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boztix: According to a user who has talked with him, he will focus exclusively on the steam version. Users who have purchased the game in gog will have a key for the steam version.

The developer has contacted gog but the response is slow. He is not the first developer to complain about gog in many aspects.

Well the truth is a pity. I once could talk to a developer who complained that he did not understand the criteria of gog not to admit his game (although the developer is very happy with his sales in steam).

Hopefully confirmation by gog.com, but if true it is unfortunate that the gog users who bought the free game of drm are abandoned
I've heard some dev opinions before. I've only gotten one particular complaint, which wasn't even in complaint form at the time. What are this dev's complaints?

Also, what is this game?
Posted April 17, 2018
Here we go again.... *sigh*

Need a new delivery of popcorn...
Posted April 17, 2018
That's extremely unfortunate. I wonder what caused them to drop the GoG version.
I know that Nuclear Throne is also abandoned here. Which sucks cause that game it very fun.
Posted April 17, 2018
Sounds like an excuse for laziness to me, updating a game on GOG cannot be that difficult, you are literally just uploading a file.
Posted April 17, 2018
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Crosmando: Sounds like an excuse for laziness to me, updating a game on GOG cannot be that difficult, you are literally just uploading a file.
No, that's how you update on steam, not GOG. GOG has a review process. I'm guessing gog also has some fancy way of going about what order the games go through the QA, as well as how to notify QA of the upload, and possibly even getting the game uploaded. I don't have all the details, but i've been told before that the process is much more than "just uploading a file," which is what you do for steam.
Posted April 17, 2018
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Crosmando: Sounds like an excuse for laziness to me, updating a game on GOG cannot be that difficult, you are literally just uploading a file.
no, that's how you do it in Steam, the developer there can just update the file.

on gOg there are hoops to jump through

edit. ninjad....
Post edited April 17, 2018 by amok
Posted April 17, 2018
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Crosmando: Sounds like an excuse for laziness to me, updating a game on GOG cannot be that difficult, you are literally just uploading a file.
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kohlrak: No, that's how you update on steam, not GOG. GOG has a review process. I'm guessing gog also has some fancy way of going about what order the games go through the QA, as well as how to notify QA of the upload, and possibly even getting the game uploaded. I don't have all the details, but i've been told before that the process is much more than "just uploading a file," which is what you do for steam.
I'm pretty sure GOG's QA process is just scanning it for viruses.
Posted April 17, 2018
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kohlrak: No, that's how you update on steam, not GOG. GOG has a review process. I'm guessing gog also has some fancy way of going about what order the games go through the QA, as well as how to notify QA of the upload, and possibly even getting the game uploaded. I don't have all the details, but i've been told before that the process is much more than "just uploading a file," which is what you do for steam.
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Crosmando: I'm pretty sure GOG's QA process is just scanning it for viruses.
I've been told by a dev that it's more than just that. They actually have a process for rejection due to bugs, too. So, i'm guessing there is actually playtesting to some degree, but i'm not sure how involved it is.
Posted April 17, 2018
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kohlrak: Also, what is this game?
I think it's literally Startup Company, lol. That had me confused too.

https://www.gog.com/game/startup_company
Posted April 17, 2018
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kohlrak: Also, what is this game?
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Pheace: I think it's literally Startup Company, lol. That had me confused too.

https://www.gog.com/game/startup_company
Oh, that one. Not a concern for me, then. Still wouldn't mind hearing the reasons. I only hear people who're positive of gog go into detail, so i've concluded that there's something in the way of an NDA, which is why I can't release my sources. I can't get anyone to even discuss whether or not there is an NDA.
Posted April 17, 2018
Let's hope to see what the guys on gog.com tell us. The problem is serious because it is not a developer that stops updating its game but leaves the platform to update it exclusively in steam.

That does not create security for a user when buying games on gog.com

Maybe in the end everything will be solved. In the worst case, if true they will offer a key in steam
Posted April 17, 2018
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kohlrak: No, that's how you update on steam, not GOG. GOG has a review process. I'm guessing gog also has some fancy way of going about what order the games go through the QA, as well as how to notify QA of the upload, and possibly even getting the game uploaded. I don't have all the details, but i've been told before that the process is much more than "just uploading a file," which is what you do for steam.
I thought that was a common misconception. Isn't there a dev portal now that allows direct upload of updates to Galaxy? I thought it was just the installers that we had to wait for GOG (to package them etc).
Posted April 17, 2018
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boztix: Let's hope to see what the guys on gog.com tell us. [...]
then prepare to wait a long, long, looooooong time.
Posted April 17, 2018
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boztix: Let's hope to see what the guys on gog.com tell us. The problem is serious because it is not a developer that stops updating its game but leaves the platform to update it exclusively in steam.

That does not create security for a user when buying games on gog.com

Maybe in the end everything will be solved. In the worst case, if true they will offer a key in steam
If I wanted the game on Steam, I'd bloody well buy it there. Luckily, I don't own this game. But this will just make me avoid this developer in the future altogether. So this dev goes on my avoid list.
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