tinyBuild's CEO reiterates company's devotion to DRM-free releases on GOG

Quoting: GuestCD Projekt has a lot of things to improve on GOG but they don’t seem to care :-/.

Yea, I love the philosophy behind GOG but I pretty much gave up on them the moment I ditched Windows. Hopefully they will manage to sway me back some day.

Yeah, if the community manager had proper training he wouldn't have said this. Doesn't mean it's not true.
Party Hard is a great game with absolutely broken Twitch integration and you can't get a sensible response from the devs or publisher regarding that.

Uh-huh. If people are just getting into inde game development, they're MUCH better off going with something like Godot than tinyBuild in any case.

Quoting: DesumUh-huh. If people are just getting into inde game development, they're MUCH better off going with something like Godot than tinyBuild in any case.

What? You're comparing a game engine, to a game developer/publisher. That makes no sense.

If the CEO says the community manager did NOT represent company policy, the question remains why ARE the GOG builds poorly updated and partially broken, and have been for a long time? Either it was indeed intent - or the company is grossly incompetent. It's one or the other and either would be a solid reason not to buy a game from them.

Quoting: KimyrielleIf the CEO says the community manager did NOT represent company policy, the question remains why ARE the GOG builds poorly updated and partially broken, and have been for a long time? Either it was indeed intent - or the company is grossly incompetent. It's one or the other and either would be a solid reason not to buy a game from them.

It doesn’t seem that different from how an update to a game might be released for Windows first and delayed for other platforms, or be complete in one language but have missing translations in other languages. None of this is ideal for affected gamers, but it’s often the reality, and there is no reason to automatically assume bad intent. The fact that in this case the CEO provided an explanation and listed plans to solve the problem is actually a big plus in my opinion.


Last edited by hagabaka on 8 July 2019 at 6:25 pm UTC

The Imgur conversation... Same bullshit as usual. facepalm
It was like "We accept the GOG users's money but sorry you'll not have our respect." :|
Snolus is a good guy, and I agree with Kimyrielle.

Also this link speaks for itself.

I don't have Punch Club or Party Hard (but I have Graveyard Keeper), but I count on Linux users to inform the community if they will really update them.

These issues around GOG publishers, missing things, huge delays etc... I'm thinking of just boycotting them now and they won't have my money. Simple as that.

Quoting: CyrilThe Imgur conversation... Same bullshit as usual. facepalm
It was like "We accept the GOG users's money but sorry you'll not have our respect." :|
Snolus is a good guy, and I agree with Kimyrielle.

Also this link speaks for itself.

I don't have Punch Club or Party Hard (but I have Graveyard Keeper), but I count on Linux users to inform the community if they will really update them.

These issues around GOG publishers, missing things, huge delays etc... I'm thinking of just boycotting them now and they won't have my money. Simple as that.

Graveyard keeper was a mess at release but has been updated for Linux pretty much in sync on GOG.

Party Hard I got only a while after release and I think they had EOL'd it by then. As far as I know they had significantly scaled back Twitch integration by that time and whatever was left never worked for me.