Starmaker: How come you still don't understand how idiotic this plan is and how it is an insult to GOG, the devs and the users? "Hey, devs, we think your game is kinda cool, we'd like you to participate in a shitty popularity contest so that maybe we condescend to host you?"

Pheace: I assume you count GOG among those others as they are no different when it comes to that, you don't buy ownership over your game here either.

Chacranajxy: You could make a case that you do buy ownership, given that outside of the fine print, GOG refers to your purchase as "ownership," rather than a subscription.

Pheace: And Steam says 'Buy' and not 'Subscribe'. The fine print is what matters.

Yes, the big difference is that after you purchase, GOG has no control over your game, so you can defy them even if you somehow lose your rights to your purchase and keep it anyway. If that's what you call 'ownership', then absolutely, you 'own' the game you buy on GOG. However so does the pirate who never bought it but downloaded the game for himself.

Both on Steam and GOG you buy a license. Legally there's little difference between them. Practically there is, but that's not a valid argument when used to argue Steam is still DRM even for the games they have no control over after you purchase/downloaded it.

yogsloth: There is a game I desperately want on GOG.

Right now, it is only available on Steam. Nowhere else in the world.

The developer submitted his game to GOG some time ago - and never heard back at all.

He's just re-submitted a few days ago... and so far still no response of any kind. Yet.

This is a game that absolutely deserves to be here, and I'm one of the people who believes in a highly-curated GOG, and supports most of these rejections.

But I'm gonna be really really burned if this game gets ignored here.

yogsloth: The developer asked me not to share it at this point, until he finds out for sure whether he will succeed. If he gets ignored or rejected, I'll howl about it plenty.

Ganni1987: GOG went from an awesome site to a good but very flawed one. One would think that DRM-Free here is a liberation and it's a sigh of relief, no doubt about that. But sooner or later they find out they've got another problem, some of their games are either rejected or released without their platform of choice and a valid reason wasn't given.

On other occasions a person tries to be the good gog customer, only to find out that the company doesn't release DLC xyz at the same price / way of Steam, while they'll offer it for a different game.

I also remember when GOG used to communicate on the forums, they used to fight for what's fair and right. Now it seems now their heads grown bigger, pockets got deeper and they no longer hold the community in high regards.

I can hardly call GOG serious anymore, one would think that submitting a game will have more or less a form of checklist if it qualifies or not. And instead of having a robot answer you the same beyond-expiry-date canned response, there should be a real person writing a real response, slightly detailing what's wrong and why a game was rejected. They call a game too niche yet a week later they release a (sorry for the expression) shitty game such as Pony Island (no offense to those who like it).

I could sit here all day detailing each and every game that I personally think GOG screwed up.

fortune_p_dawg: Can you share the genre?

timppu: I used to have a co-worker in the same team at my work who was from Congo (an engineer), he was good in indoors football too. I was kinda half-expecting you were him, but I guess I can't win every time, not even always.

vicklemos: Which Congo? The best one, right? :P
Afaik there's a healthy rivalry between brazza-kinshasa ;D

ncameron: That's the problem with curation. It doesn't matter what they do, there will always be games that miss out, and invariably there will be people who are annoyed about that. There really isn't any way to solve that unless they abandon curation completely and go the steam route... but therein also lies a problem, because if they do that and open the floodgates, then say goodbye to any sort of decent support for the games as well - there simply won't be time for the GOG staff to do all of the things that they currently do with games such as compatibility testing etc.

I can understand the frustration, and I do share it myself - there are games that I'd like to see here. But I like the care and attention to detail that the GOG staff give their catalogue, so I'd prefer that they keep on the way they are.