Soul Reaver has been removed by Square Enix with a warning that will be back soon with important updates!!! Lets hope this updates arrive at GOG too.

Source: https://store.steampowered.com/app/224920/Legacy_of_Kain_Soul_Reaver/

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It's square enix .... 99% the update will never arrive here.. Maybe if we are lucky we might get it after 10 years.Unless the update is created by the community then we might get it.

I would wait and see what kind of "important" the updates are before you demand that they replace the GOG version, too.

There was a rumour last year that Bluepoint Games had been contracted to remake the game for PS5, but it would be surprising if this were the first official sign of such a thing.

Hopefully it'll be the kind of update that actually does something beneficial, rather than mucking around with an old game and jacking up the price.

Well, yes, that is true too, I always have some back ups of the offline installers but the best would be (if the update arrives) that GOG include the original version as a goodie.

Apparently, the update will be done by GOG themselves:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/224920/discussions/0/2837788120352512948/?ctp=18#c3102386014785306296
https://steamcommunity.com/app/224920/discussions/0/2837788120352512948/?ctp=27#c6244776732844430809

It's supposedly in GOG's beta branch as well:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/224920/discussions/0/2837788120352512948/?ctp=23#c3101263284817969845

GOG can only do that if the current publisher agrees. I am not aware of very many such cases here with any of the really huge corporate publishers (among which I would definitely count Square Enix). The only big one that comes to mind is the remasters of the first couple Bioshock games coming with the old versions. Otherwise, if a new version is released, the old version is likely to become unavailable for purchase (and for download, unless you already owned it).

Even though it's not on sale, this it would probably be a good idea for anyone who wants the original version to bite the bullet and buy it (and download it ASAP), since full price isn't very expensive (at least in the U.S.).

Wow, that really great information, I wish to know how to pin your message!

Only mods can pin messages. You can, however, edit your 1st post to include the links I posted.

Nice! Hopefully other Squeenix games show up, especially the missing Tomb Raider titles.

"N: "3 additional localizations: links"
A: "There has been a new development with regards to the additional language versions - unfortunately those were never released on PC so we can't include them after all I'm afraid..."

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That is not true. The PC version of Soul Reaver has been OFFICIALLY translated into more languages. (Italian,portuguese and Spanish)

http://redump.org/discs/quicksearch/soul-reaver/sort/system/

Hope they can add them in this new re-release.

Interested to see how this turns out.

Too bad GOG can't work directly with the community experts because GOG used their own fixes back in 2012 but hopefully, something good comes out of this.

Yes, lets cross our fingers to see that in the re release, but I know that licenses are a nightmare!! it's a headache to study that things and is even worse when you have to deal with them!
Maybe they are working with some experts, GOG is know to work and support some communities that work with old titles! Like DOSBox or ScummVM.

Well, from the Steam thread, the situation is obviously very complicated and the community guys are currently just waiting until GOG releases its own thing and then they will act based on that. But it also seems that GOG used wrace's patch all the way back in 2012 when it first released here and now there are some issues because of that.

Seems like GOG will only do some basic stuff and then you will have the option of applying wrace's patch on top of that which IMO is the optimal solution. That way, purist people can go with the original PC version and those who want better cinematics or features from consoles (dynamic music for example) will have the OPTION to install a community patch. With games in general, it is always best to have the base release version (or as close to it as possible) and then apply further updates according to your taste. Sadly, ever since digital distribution became mainstream, that usually does not happen.

If GOG manages to fix the sound buffer overflow bug (sound effects get desynced/stop playing after playing the game for a while) that will be the main thing.