Breja: More downvotes! We need to make sure people who don't share our point of view are punished!

Tauto: My,PLEASURE:)

HereForTheBeer: I'm thinking it's a tool to help get more developers onboard with DRM-free: "Look, you can offer your stuff through a client without the need for DRM." If that's the goal and if it succeeds without causing too much of a mess otherwise, then I think it will average out to be a good thing.

Time will tell.

nightcraw1er.488: Oh goody, so the client becomes required to play/continuously update these games?

Note related to the post above.
Personally I shop here as I don't want a client, don't want unfinished products, nor do I want any other steam-like feature. If I was interested in any of that, I would use steam. And yet every so often these things suddenly appear. This is why there is annoyance at the release of each of these items, it is a perfectly reasonable reaction to something that those of us who are here to avoid.

Matruchus: Heh, I don't undestand why people are still complaining about these things. Gog's steamlike transformation started with introduction of regional pricing two year ago, then came partial regional censorship on some games, introduction of galaxy the copy of steam client. Its a natural step if they wan't to grow as a company. I don't really see how early access on gog came as a surprise (especially since it was mentioned as an option before). The main thing is that the client is not forced for usage on single player games and that they for now remain drm-free. If those two things change then you can put a Steam sticker on the webpage of gog but not before.

zeroxxx: Spell my name correctly at least. Are you capable? Guess not.

Which discussion again? I forgot since I am trolling stupid people way too much.

zeroxxx: Because it's plain stupidity. GOG's early access is curated, unlike Steam, yet people are still complaining.

They're business and not catering to stupid point of view randomly.

Elmofongo: Personally I jus think that because of this new feature, GOG is going to focus more on adding more "In-Development" games and less on getting old classics like Command & Conquer and Total War games prior to Empire.

Or at the very least newer AAA games like Batman Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age Origins, etc.

The quality of these games can very wildly to which only a select few are good for everyone.

I mean how many people are gonna buy and play a game here like this:

http://www.gog.com/game/little_inferno

Compared to people that wants a games like this to be here:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/4700/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/47810/

Gilozard: People have complained at every one of those steps you mentioned. Regional pricing is still hugely controversial in the forums.

It doesn't make a difference, but that doesn't mean GOG customers liked any of those changes.

I do think that releasing essentially unfinished games and promising to support them is surprising.

Gilozard: I'm glad that GOG isn't afraid to experiment. But I'd really like to see more actual games here.

WebJunkie: So after 14 days you think a game is OK and keep it then later the devs disappear or change the game by removing features or not able to implement a promised feature/features or never fix a broken part/bug what then? You buy the game based on what it was when you paid then if it changes to something other than that and is no longer the game you paid for do you still get to be refunded?

No one has a crystal ball to see how a game will develop so offering only a 14 day refund is pointless! The development could drag on for months/years and it should be a refund up until the day before a game is actually 'released', THAT should be the GOG.com way, looking after the consumer, not the 14 day crap currently being offered! Any dev can just change the goalposts at any time and not deliver what was initially touted as 'the game' leaving people with a potentially different game from what was originally revealed and hiding behind the 'Work in Progress' excuse and 'things' may change and screwing you in the process, but that's my opinion!

I absolutely AVOID any EA / In Dev as I don't think allowing people to sell unfinished goods with the 'promise' of it will be completed to be acceptable, but that's my choice and again, my opinion!

GR00T: People seem to have the impression that if GOG does something like this it means they get/release fewer games. But, as JMich's numbers show, this simply isn't the case. It's not a zero-sum process. They're still getting as many - if not more - games as they ever have.

Matruchus: Oh, don't understand me wrong. I was one of the most vocal persons against regional pricing and the client but I did come to an understanding that at the end it doesn't matter what I or you think. At the end gog will always do what is best for them as a store. And if that means implementing steam early access here (+ refunds and a bit of curration) so be it. At this point the only thing that is still here is drm-free and im not sure if that is still untouchable. At the end only time will tell how this will fall out.

synfresh: Curated LOL

Because GoG's past history of 'curation' has such a stellar record so far.