I've noticed threads which keep an updated list of games, such as the one which lists games which have DRM.

I'm wondering, is there a thread with a list of games which have been rejected by GOG? The reason I ask is that I have lost count of the number of times that I contacted a dev and asked them to release their game on GOG only to be told that they tried and GOG rejected it.

I think it would be very helpful for everyone who shops here on GOG to know what games a developer or publisher tried to publish here on GOG but which GOG rejected.

I don't post here enough, nor do I have the time, to update such a thread myself, assuming there isn't one already. But perhaps one of the regular posters could do it. Each time someone hears from a dev that GOG rejected their game the list could be updated.

Devotion should be on top of that list. Accepted by GOG, only to be vetoed by Chinese Communist Party who have some pull on GOG for some reason.

"For some reason"??? I wonder if the ability to destroy half of GOG's business could be that reason. Hmmm. Let me think about it. Please, no more off-topic posts.

Oh look, it's another political weirdo who probably doesn't even play video games and just comes to this forum to engage in political arguments.

Closest you did prior was mention Chinese Communist Party .. Which isn't inherently political when the CCP is legit a ruling power in Chinas government yet oddly people have started to see the very mention of the CCP everywhere as political when its not spoke of political in alot of cases

Also It would be handy if someone would make a thread-list of games and gaming companies that recieved funding by taxpayers generally, included denied requests. If someone already has the list. It's a lot to go through for a one person.
Would be interesting to have the possibility to compare those two threads, so I think it's related.

There is a lot of games falling into the category (EU, USA, anywhere), CDPR/Cyberpunk included (as cdprojekt site states itself if you click on the EU flag). I think that GOG itself was at least filling some requests for taxmoney too (some sources stated).

People have right to know and should be informed as citizens. Most of the time when I talk about it with someone - they are not aware that Cyberpunk recieved (at least) 7-7.5 millions of euro to fund fundamental technologies for the game or that lots of games sold here recieved millions for their technologies/development without them going open source and used it for a private profit only. And some temporary "freebies" used for advertising here were funded as well. It's widespread.

I think it needs some awareness, because if people don't know it, they can't object to their local government.
We love games, but this is wrong (my opinion).

I was going to ask GOG where I can get those documents regarding their company, but I am not getting any answers for months from the support at all.

half ? how? i bet china market is no more than 5%

A related thread of possible reasons, but I won't go off-topic with specifics here.

GOG Curation

Personally I don't think there is much point to a list, without factual reasons about why each game was 'so called' rejected.

Many such supposed rejects, are possibly deals that just never got accepted.

I say that as someone who is annoyed about a bunch of games not being here that should be. I will however give GOG the benefit of the doubt, that it is entirely their fault or bad curation ... we simply don't know, and after seeing what some of the devs or pubs get up to that do get a game at GOG, I am not in any hurry to trust anything such providers say.

It is still a kind of lie to me, if omissions are present in any claim.

Depending on the service/product, for something like GOG, the market would be tiny overall in comparison to their other markets...which made the whole Devotion thing even more bizarre

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_gogcom_has_turned_down

Page 11 has a list compiling every title mentioned up to around 2018-2019 but since then hasn't been updated with newer additions to the thread.

Could now be extended with "Games GOG can't be arsed to even have a proper look at", considering the poor and business-damaging wording of their automated email going out to devs w/ pending game submissions.

Ah yes, I was going to mention Drifting Lands. I recall the developer lamenting being rejected by GOG in the Steam forums (or maybe I was the one who was lamenting. It's been a while).
And how could GOG turn down a DoDonPachi game????

That could also be due to GOG having an issue with the DEV in question.

I imagine GOG has a big long list of DEVs and PUBs who have done certain negative things in regard to GOG or GOG Customers .. perhaps down to specific people who may have worked at multiple companies.

And one can never rule out psychology entirely.

DRM-Free would always be a hard sell to providers. But it might get easier if you foster the notion you have plenty of submissions and don't really need others, especially where any deal is difficult to agree on terms.

The best scenario, is for providers to approach GOG, rather than the other way around. That changes the power dynamic.

Commercial considerations are always tricky, especially if you might be fighting to survive.

How one Earth is a prominent example of GOG rejecting a game "off-topic"?

Hence the proposed re-wording resp. extension of the ridiculous 2 weeks period of response time to something more along the lines of:

"Hey, your submission has been received, but with the pandemic going on and having to work from home and the sheer number of emails, support tickets and game submissions our comparatively small staff's still slowly working their way through we might not be able to properly review your submitted game in a timely manner and it may, in fact, take us several months before we even get to your submission.

So if you don't receive a response within 2 weeks don't be alarmed. It just means we haven't got the time yet to review your submission and/or get back to you about it."

Isn't that way more sensible compared to just automatically deny developers/publishers without even having looked at the submission, because that's essentially what this meager 2 weeks period of response time after which developers/publishers can be "safe to assume that GoG decided to pass on the submitted game" does.

Again, I don't want to imagine how many developers/publishers that aren't as understanding or patient already got fed up and as a result won't release any of their present as well as future games on GoG, period.
Games that would be a perfect fit for GoG and/or have more than decent backing in form of hundreds/thousands of community wishlist votes.