I bought Divinity: Original Sin today at GOG. The current version on GOG is 1.0.67, while the Steam version is 1.0.74. Due to these different versions, i can not play with a friend over lan or direct IP.

I have to admit that i am disappointed.

Sadly, that's GOG for you.
Nothing Larian can do, they can only supply the patch, GOG needs to host it for themselves.

thanks

GoG runs patches and new versions through its own QA before releasing them (which is not the case with Steam). This usually means that a patch release will take an additional day or two to appear, but the extra set of eyes going over things has proven valuable in the past since from time to time they've caught 'bad' patches that ended up live on Steam.

I see. Thanks. Additional QA sounds good. I'll gladly wait a day or two. Excited to try the multiplayer mode.

GOG should be releasing the 1.0.72 update later today ("today" depending on timezone).

My only question is, how does GoG run QA on a patch for a game this large? Do they dig through the code? Do they play the game? It seems an odd practice, to me. At least for new games, anyway.

By checking the Steam forums for complaints.

Which actually is not such a bad idea

They would do best to immediately go to .74 instead

And it looks like they just have.