BreOl72: On Gamasutra, Lars Doucet wrote a piece about "Valve's judgment on Seasonal Sales":
http://gamasutra.com/blogs/LarsDoucet/20160205/265285/Why_I_trust_Valves_judgment_on_Seasonal_Sales.php In it, he also mentions GOG shortly:
Quote: ""Discoverability" is not an easy problem to solve -- the more titles in your library, the harder it gets, and exponentially so.
Curated stores like GOG solve this issue by being very selective about who they let in -- and for those of us fortunate enough to get in, GOG is indeed excellent. But Valve are trying to walk that fine line of being open to basically everyone without drowning everybody in obscurity thereby."
Nice words about my favorite store (
when it comes to games).
;o) well... I agree with this also -
"I'm really glad to see Steam moving in this direction. Not only were flash sales and daily deals during a seasonal sale bad for customers (you had to constantly watch the sale and be afraid of missing out), they were bad for developers. It created a two-tiered system where everybody was on sale, but only a select few were really on sale, and it seemed like the same list of big name developers would get the special flash and daily deal slots all the time. Even worse, it created a hostile mentality where developers felt like they had to aggressively compete on discounts in the hopes that they'd be picked for the spotlight. Now it's much better -- sure, XCOM 2 will probably get a big hand-picked headline, but if you're Korean and like Tower Defense and RPG's? You just might see Defender's Quest. The games you see on your front page now depend mostly on you.
And that's as it should be."
lets see if others stores follow suite.