Xeshra: Seems it is "hitting me hard" here, because i got those games. Do you think it is realistic just to make a community patch using the Steam data added for some of those games? It depends on how a patch is made because if it goes very deep on the engine then it is nearly impossible without knowing the source code. "Unless the game is reverse engineered"°°, which is a huge work... not realistic on almost any mod, and of course the legality is another issue.

For, almost, certain: The devs seems to have either low interest or low capability sufficiently supporting the GOG build, which is in many terms almost equal to the Steam build.

°°Would be 1000 times lesser work just to "break apart" the DRM of Steam and then it is basically a non legal "alternate GOG version", as it is how we would like the game to be served.

Anyway, yes, the devs/publishers are acting very different toward GOG. Some of them are updating their GOG games like crazy and apparently got no issues doing it and others are simply not moving a small finger for whatever reason.

Oh, besides, i am not sure it is true with the "lack of update" of Vampire The Masquerade Bloodline because the issue is that the newest patch is NOT having a OWN version number. It kinda has been added to GOG with the same version number, although it is a different build, making it hard to pin down on what you actually have.

Not the only game with this difficult patch policy... i got comparable issues on Baldurs Gate 3 for example with 3 different builds which all got the same version number, so without checking the filesize it is impossible to tell the difference.

How i had to solve the issue can be seen on the picture. So basically "comparable builds" are Version related Legacy files with the same "surface" ID such as the current build.

If it is the version of the "actual build" is is tagged as "V1" and so on... instead of "1" and further. If there is a new version at some point it will simply be named "1 V.1"... the first number pointing at the same build with a "variation". An actual build does not have a number, but can have a version.

Another issue: BG3 V.2 is according to SHA 256 (this is a very high grade redundancy, impossible to have the same hash on different files) the exact same file, so i dunno why GOG was marking it as "updated"; it is just a mess for certain game files.

DyNaer: As i mentioned after my original post it's not Vampire the Masquerade : Bloodlines

It's Vampire: The Masquerade - Reckoning of New York : the third entry as visual novels in Vampire the Masquerade world.

TheKaoBln: Imagine Earth -> Missing Linux Build
Imagine Earth Galaxies DLC -> has Linux Build as DLC????

ERBlank: To elaborate on this, Bloodlines is part of the GOG Preservation Program, and the GOG version includes the Unofficial Patch by Wesp5, which is not irrelevant, because the game was seriously broken even after the last official patch.

ERBlank: This is very strange. I don't even think that is possible considering how GOG works, I'm inclined to believe it must be a serious oversight on the store page. It would help to ask someone who owns the game.

pablodusk: Yeah probably copy/paste from the Steam store description. GOGdb only shows a Windows download:
https://www.gogdb.org/product/1293341945#downloads

TheKaoBln: (…)No Linux Builds on gog.(…)

mk47at: I'm assuming that the game uses GOG's Steam crack to remove the Steam running check and hack Galaxy achievements into the game. GOG did not bother with a Linux version of that crack, so a Linux version would need modifications and recompilation which the unmodified build (from Steam with only the steam_api.dll) replaced for the Windows version does not require. If that is the case, they are following GOG's recommendations for developers.

TheKaoBln: (…)

mk47at: Not Steam handcuffs. GOG recommends taking the easy way without real DRM free builds – probably due to the missing achievement moaners.

But I think you misunderstood what I said – I'm very annoyed about all the missing Linux builds.

DyNaer: Devs who Forgot GOG : (Left GOG build - right Steam build)

Edge Of Eternity : Community Update #3 vs New Beginning Update (with a small team i'm not sure if the game will be updated on GOG one day : i really regret my purchase here ...)

DyNaer: If some would try too :
A mail address (don't remember if it's still working though) : contact@midgar-studio.com (i believe i sent a mail but no answer since 8/9 months)
And a Discord link (i don't use Discord and an account is required after the captcha) : https://discord.com/invite/eoegame?_xm=19536.373042860263473166

MarkoH01: I am still working on it. I contacted the publisher nacon. They told me that they don't support the game anymore and that GOG should get the update themselves.So I created yet another support ticket telling GOG exactly that including the mail I got from nacon. Just received reply from GOG support yesterday (falsly) telling me that Steam and GOG were both last updated in 07/2023. I send them proof that the GOG version was updated last time in 02/2023 and are now waiting for their reply. This is not over before I die or GOG is telling me that they failed ... whatever comes first.

MarkoH01: "In February 2022, Nacon acquired Midgar Studio. Nacon .."
So there's no use anymore trying to contact midgar. Actually nacon already anounced the sequel to eoe for which the devs apparently had enough time to create it .... not enough time though to update GOG.
https://www.gematsu.com/2025/02/nacon-and-midgar-studio-announce-action-rpg-edge-of-memories-for-ps5-xbox-series-and-pc

The discord for eoe is completely useless. They will only ignore you as they did with everybody else from any other platform than Steam. The actually have become professionals in being a*holes.

DyNaer: You mentioned the change of the publisher quite some time ago in PM (at the end of 2024) : beside NACON no more appears on the store page and i told you the game isn't on their website (NACON), so i'm not really surprise by the answer.

DyNaer: The Discord link was provided by GOG's support .... And i agree with you about their professionalism : they got our money but obviously deny to provide the latest version for their game and since the second game is in work : i fail to see how we will get the latest version....
So for this reason i hope GOG will reject the second game when it will be finished... but i have some doubts there .... :-/

MarkoH01: As I said. Nacon gave permission for GOG to update the game. Nacon owns the right to the files of the game since they own midgar. GOG showed in the past that they are able to create patches by themselves. They just have to move their asses for a change and actually do something for their customers AFTER they got their money.

If the second game should really get accepted by GOG I will do whatever I can to warn the community about giving these scumbags another cent.