Nice post +1

Good posts and made me ponder. I linked them in a thread I made, if people happen to argue against what you said and you want to defend yourself, or just want to participate.

I got the link from another forum post :) Don't remember which one.

Donut Dodo is ... ok.
I got it for free on Evercade (at least for the time being, they'll probably remove it at some point) and the dev finally also put it on itch.io, which is a good home for it I think. Not long ago it was only available on Steam.
On itch there is a version without achievements and other Steam related stuff. If we get it to GOG, I guess it will be this one and not the Steam released adepted to Galaxy.

You seem to imply that I shouldn't ask for change (improvement from my POV), and just appreciate GOG for what it is. Have you ever heard the phrase "No one hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans"? And while it is slightly exaggerated, it does have truth in it. So why is that? Because they are passionate about Star Wars and want what's best for it. People who don't care, won't care enough to criticise it either.

Now I would never say that I "hate" GOG, I obviously appreciate them very much, otherwise I wouldn't be throwing money at them every week and promoting them wherever I go. That doesn't mean that I won't ask for improvement. Just because things are decent, doesn't mean they can't be better. Why should we let GOG stagnate? At the same time, the market model has changed. Businesses can no longer communicate one-way and expect be able to persuade customers to buy their products. Customers are all connected. They are influencing one another and the business. The paradigm has changed. The communication is two-way now. This does apply to GOG too, thankfully.

As a result of all this customer feedback, GOG is in a far better state than it was in the past. It is no longer limited to just old games, like it was in the past. It now offers modern features like launchers, cloud saves and achievements in addition to just offline installers. It has now relaxed its prudish curation and allows adult content. Just last week or two ago, we got a filter to show DLCs for owned games. This was a highly requested community feature. As a result GOG now has greater DLC discoverability than Steam. These are all great changes. Would they have actually happened without customer feedback? Maybe... maybe not. Certainly not all of them.

So once again, just because I like GOG, that doesn't mean that I have like everything about it. There is always something that can be improved. The only issue is that sometimes people disagree about what counts as improvement. So in that case, for every person that calls for the removal of adult content or games like Gollum, I will be there to tell them to learn to ignore games, which they're not obligated to buy. For every person that calls for the return of prudish curation of old, I will call for an even more relaxed curation.

What GOG chooses will be up to them, but so far the curation has been on the decline and GOG is much better for it.

Huh, so it's on itch.io too. As far as I'm concerned, an itch release is just as good as a GOG one. It might not have all the bells and whistles, but it's better than nothing.

nvm

I don't think it's perfect for GOG, since they are not great when it comes to indie arcade games.

You can finally find it on itch.io for 5$. It's DRM free, so you can easily include it in Galaxy if you want to.

Or - if you really really want to go retro, buy a Evercade VS, apparently it's on one of the two indie collections.
A few months ago, I got it as free game of the month trial version, but it wasn't really my thing.
The times when I spent hours and hours with Bubble Bobble are over.

I wished these new retro game makers would orient themselves at the graphics and sounds of later 16 bit games instead of early 8 bit games. The controls and mechanics fit 16 bit better and the presentation should reflect that.