Nobody claimed Steam is ... the end-all-be-all for digital distribution; - so its pretty pointless trying to argue against that.

Steam is just currently the easiest option to achieve all the things you mentioned with the least hassle.

You know that as well as i or anyone else does, so its quite pointless to pretend otherwise.

I guess GoG presumably wants to do something similar but until they set it up and make it work there is no need to talk about it.

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Patch fixes have been going to both places.

errm... so?

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By officially supporting a mod, Larian Studios' reputation would be affected by how well such a mod does.


In what exact way would their reputation be affected? And why specifically according to "how well the mod does"?

Do you mean financially or some other way?

Is this the spot where you go into some tirade how some mod will be so terrible (in who knows what ways) and then it would "ruin" Larian studios reputation... because nobody on this planet would consider that a mod, despite it clearly being a mod developed by community?

We are still talking about huge, seriously done whole campaigns and new stories and stuff, that Larian would have an executive and absolute power over, right?


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Especially if they go as far as providing the Steam/GOG DLC setup and streamline whatever patch processes those entail.

How is that a problem?