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)
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.
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_togetheri’ve stopped buying on gog since the nazi newsletter shit. imo any publisher worth their salt should stop publishing on there and publish to other drm-free storefronts like itch
