GOG?

[Hawke64]

Is there any chance for Avowed to be available on GOG? Considering my previous experience when a patch significantly worsened the respective game (mostly, Pillars of Eternity II and the Blackwood Hull broken into logs to pad the playtime; to less extent, Tyranny and changing Tunon's reactions during the final trial), I would like to have more control over my purchase. Due to these flaws (and my lack of wisdom to request the code for GOG when I backed PoEII and patience to wait for the GOG version for The Outer Worlds), I have repurchased Obsidian games in the past, but the £60 price tag strongly discourages doing so now.

On a related note, again, coming from the previous experience, when approximately the GOTY edition should be expected (so I know when the deadline to purchase without having to rollback the version)? EA recently managed to release an AAA action-RPG reasonably bug-free and content-complete (so no waiting for months or paying extra to get the full experience). I would like to believe that Obsidian can achieve the same feat, especially considering the higher price.

[Wormerine]

I will always support GOG release, as it is my platflorm of choice when buying.

I doubt we will get any confirmation if the game does or doesn't come to GOG until it does. Historically, I found devs to be very cagey about GOG releases even if it turns out the release is days away - I had situations when when asked about GOG I got "we have no plans to release on others platforms" reply, only to buy the game on steam, and than few days later the game releases on GOG. I don't know what's the deal - my guess would be that GOG wants to synchronise release announcement to maximise eyeballs and sales, or perhaps something else is preventing devs from talking about their future plans - but in general, I found that unless game is on GOG, I can never get a comfirmation if there are any plans to release the game there.

Eitherway, due to its consumer friendly policies, I don't expect GOG release anytime soon. My plan is to play Avowed through gamepass, and perhaps pick it up sometime later on sale, like I did with Outer Worlds.

[Noqn]

3 hours ago, Hawke64 said:

Is there any chance for Avowed to be available on GOG?

No, very unlikely. Which sucks. I don't think there are any Microsoft-published games on GOG whatsoever, same with Obsidian's games since the acquisition. (Post-MS-acquisition TOW was released on GOG but was published by Private Division.)

3 hours ago, Hawke64 said:

Considering my previous experience when a patch significantly worsened the respective game (mostly, Pillars of Eternity II and the Blackwood Hull broken into logs to pad the playtime

Yeah I hated that too... check this out if you haven't: https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/469

 

[Hawke64]

18 hours ago, Wormerine said:

I will always support GOG release, as it is my platflorm of choice when buying.

I doubt we will get any confirmation if the game does or doesn't come to GOG until it does. Historically, I found devs to be very cagey about GOG releases even if it turns out the release is days away - I had situations when when asked about GOG I got "we have no plans to release on others platforms" reply, only to buy the game on steam, and than few days later the game releases on GOG. I don't know what's the deal - my guess would be that GOG wants to synchronise release announcement to maximise eyeballs and sales, or perhaps something else is preventing devs from talking about their future plans - but in general, I found that unless game is on GOG, I can never get a comfirmation if there are any plans to release the game there.

Eitherway, due to its consumer friendly policies, I don't expect GOG release anytime soon. My plan is to play Avowed through gamepass, and perhaps pick it up sometime later on sale, like I did with Outer Worlds.

Thank you for the insight. I suppose, if there is no GOG version in a few months, I am going to wait at least for a sale on Steam. Then again, I love Obsidian’s art and would rather prefer them to avoid the same fate as Arkane and Tango Gameworks. Complicated.

18 hours ago, Noqn said:

No, very unlikely. Which sucks. I don't think there are any Microsoft-published games on GOG whatsoever, same with Obsidian's games since the acquisition. (Post-MS-acquisition TOW was released on GOG but was published by Private Division.)

Yeah I hated that too... check this out if you haven't: https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/469

 

Thank you very much for the link! I did not think that such a specific mod existed. Definitely will install for the next playthrough.