The Bard's Tale (2004) Updated on Steam

[shmerl]

If you aren't willing to bring those fixes to GOG then you should be offering Steam keys to those that want them, rather than treating us as second rate citizens.

One thing to point out, it wouldn't be an acceptable solution for those of us who aren't using Steam. So hopefully inXile can resolve this properly and update the game on GOG.

[Mawthra]

Every time I try to embrace GOG, something like this happens... too many games I have on there just never get the updates Steam gets... sad

[hexaae]

No support at all… sigh
I think I'll blacklist "inXile Entertainment"

[thebruce]

GOG is a different beast than Steam. inXile is doing what they can. Sometimes, it's just GOG.

[shmerl]

GOG is a different beast than Steam. inXile is doing what they can. Sometimes, it's just GOG.

Are you saying that inXile provided an update and GOG rejected it and didn't release for whatever reason? Should I contact GOG about it?

[Mawthra]

GOG is a different beast than Steam. inXile is doing what they can. Sometimes, it's just GOG.

Yah, some clarification on that, please. Are you just referring to technicalities, like how games are submitted and updated on Steam vs GOG? Showing your preference for one store over the other? Or are you saying you sent the game to GOG and they haven't made it available yet? Your statement was really vague.

[Drool]

From what inXile has said, it's often a bit of a trial to get GOG to update through the offline route. Patches to be applied through Galaxy work fine, it's just getting them to push patches for people to download manually that can take time.

[shmerl]

From what inXile has said, it's often a bit of a trial to get GOG to update through the offline route. Patches to be applied through Galaxy work fine, it's just getting them to push patches for people to download manually that can take time.

That can be, but I don't think the Galaxy version for the game ever received the update either. So until now, I thought inXile were the cause for the delay. I can double check that with my GOG contacts (I'm not using Galaxy). Besides, the Linux version only has the classic (non Galaxy) release on GOG, since they didn't release Galaxy for Linux to begin with.

[Mawthra]

I only use Galaxy and the game has never gotten an update... I have so many games where Galaxy will get game updates the same day as Steam while the backup installers take days longer, so that’s why I find this stuff frustrating that it would take so long to get the update to Galaxy users at the very least.

[shmerl]

This means it's not a bottleneck of GOG's side at least.

[Mawthra]

What adds salt to the wound on this one, I just found the DRM-free Remastered version in the Humble Trove! Why can't you just take that DRM-free version and send it to GOG so they can update theirs?

[shmerl]

Interesting. Indeed, if they already released it in other DRM-free store, why are GOG users getting the short end of the stick?

[Mawthra]

Interesting. Indeed, if they already released it in other DRM-free store, why are GOG users getting the short end of the stick?

They could literally take that build and just send it to GOG... I don't get it

[shmerl]

For some reason in the actual store, it's not DRM-free: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/the-bards-tale

[Mawthra]

For some reason in the actual store, it's not DRM-free: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/the-bards-tale

Yah, kinda weird, but... this was from the Trove section which is solely for DRM-free games that are included with a Humble Monthly subscription

[Mawthra]

I see inXile is now on GOG's dev portal / build system... BTIV in Galaxy got updated the same day as Steam (YES!)... so it should be an easy thing to put that Humble Trove update of the original Bard's Tale on GOG now?!! I'd like to see it at some point in my lifetime

[Mawthra]

Bringing this one back from the grave once more...

[shmerl]

+1. inXile really should fix this mess.

[Mawthra]

It would be so dang simple for them to just take the build on the Humble Store and send it to GOG

[shmerl]

It would be so dang simple for them to just take the build on the Humble Store and send it to GOG

May be write to their contact e-mail? I really don't get what the problem they have with doing it. @phimseto mentioned some "business reasons" before:

There were a few business-related reasons for it.

What does it even mean?