[quote who="Frogboy" reply="8" id="3616881"] The short answer, unless Valve/GOG create some sort of shared MP platform, that's the way it is. [/quote] From the GOG FAQ: Crossplay-enabled games offer online play between GOG and Steam. Because where you buy your games shouldn't prevent you from playing with friends.
I'm also wondering how you are going to sell the game on other digital retailers and in stores. Which multiplayer platform is going to be the standard one that gets bundled when you buy the game somewhere else? If I buy the game digitally on amazon or physically in a brick store, where is my multiplayer taking place? Whatever your choice, it's going to kill the other one. If every buyer outside of Steam and GoG gets the Steam version, what about those poor folks on GoG? Is GoG going t
Well I didn't realize that buying the exact same game on the PC on two different retailers is now like buying a PS4 and a Xbox game. Maybe there should be a press release and a warning on the store pages that there is basically Ashes Steam and Ashes Galaxy now and that you have to decide between the two. By the way, have you noticed the irony in splitting your community between retailers and your slogan "Planetary Warfare. On a Mass
So my friend owns the game on Steam and I own it on GOG. I can't join his game I see in my Steam friend's list (by clicking on "join game" within the Steam client) because that would require Steam to launch the Galaxy client and share connectivity data between clients. Obviously you can't make those clients talk to each other, so that can't work. I understand. ...However I don't see why I can't launch the game, create a multiplayer match and my friend finds said game W
Wondering the same as well. I'm just gonna copy paste these questions from the GOG forum: 1. On the GOG store page for this game it says that it requires the GOG Galaxy client. Any reason for forcing the Galaxy client instead of providing a Steam key? Just wondering since the Galaxy client itself is still in "early access" and still buggy, incomplete and far from done. So... if I run into problems I won't even know if it's the alpha of the game or the