Owners of Armello on GOG can get a refund due to it not getting DLC and online features

You might remember a heated topic recently that the GOG version of 'Armello' was renamed to 'Armello DRM-Free Edition' and it won't be getting the DLC. It seems GOG are offering refunds now.

Writing on the forum post a GOG staff member said this:

QuoteHey everyone, a short announcement:

Due to changes to the GOG.com version of Armello and the fact that some online functionalities and future content for the game will not be available on GOG.com, we want to make sure all prior owners have a choice. If you feel that the current version of Armello is not something you wished for back when you bought the game - please contact our support team for a refund.

I still think it's crazy to lock out users like that on one particular store, but it's nice to see GOG offer refunds. It's the right thing to do after all, since they essentially have a poorly supported inferior version of the game. It gets updated late, won't get DLC and certain online features.

They actual developer of Armello posted on Steam about the issue:

QuoteJust because another studio or game has DLC on DRM Free, doesn't mean it's immediately a possibility for us or Armello. Assuming as much is incredibly naive. Every team's processes, resources, and games are innumerably different.

Almost every single piece of conjecture about ways we could have or should roll out our DLC on DRM Free have either been wildly off course or avenues we've already investigated.

Now, of course it's theoretically possible to have DLC on DRM Free, I mean, there's a robot taking selfies on Mars right now. So sure, given infinite resources and time we could undertake the task of rewriting the underlying architecture at the core of this decision, but that's straight up not feasible for a vast number of reasons that are unique to LoG, Armello, where we're standing right now and where we see Armello's future.

I don't want to automatically assume anything, but the reply here sounds really odd. It's true we don't know about their processes, but considering plenty of others have DLC on GOG it's just really damn weird.

They also claim it has nothing to do with piracy, as a lot of people were claiming the developers were doing it to keep it locked to Steam to prevent piracy of the DLC.

Nice to see refunds being offered, but still sad to see GOG get essentially shafted by a developer.

Thanks for the info Luke! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.