Posted December 15, 2018
Since the site was changed for the 10th Anniversary, it seems to me that GOG is banking way too much on using "curated games" as a main selling point of why people should buy from GOG.
I don't think that's a good idea. IMO GOG sells tons of bad games, which indicates that "curation" doesn't have much, if any purpose.
I also find the "curated collections" that the store page very obtrusively puts into the users' faces all the time to be very obnoxious. Just like how many people complained about the Thronebreaker advertisements being obnoxious, the "curated collections" are at least as bad, and definitely much worse if they are going to stay there forever, instead of eventually coming to an end, like the Thronebreaker advertising did.
I don't think most gamers need a "curator" to decide for them whether a game is good or not. Ultimately, any curator's determination is largely based on their subjective opinion, and that will vary based on every individual's likes and dislikes. The opinion of a curator may well be different from many or most of the end users who might buy/play the game they recommend.
I can't fathom any gamer in actual real-life who would think to themself: "I am going to buy from GOG specifically because a curator (or more than one) has endorsed their games as good."
I wonder what other improvements GOG might be neglecting based on the inaccurate premise
that "curation" is the thing that will keep them doing well. For example, (obviously this is just theoretical speculation in order to illustrate a point) they might think they need not make GOG into a viable multiplayer platform because "curation" will draw in enough sales to make up for those that are lost to platforms that do feature viable multiplayer.
What do you think about these issues?
Should GPG remove the obnoxious & obtrusive "curated collections" ads? Should GOG at least vastly obscure them (i.e. make them way smaller and out of the way of the average user)? Should GOG make those ads appear as opt-in options only for users who are logged in and who have checked a box which specifically asked to see them?
Should GOG stop banking so heavily on "curation" as a main selling point?
Should GOG start adding other things to its site/service so that it gains some new selling points that are actually good? (i.e. on par with DRM-free, which at the moment, is GOG's one & only good selling point).
I don't think that's a good idea. IMO GOG sells tons of bad games, which indicates that "curation" doesn't have much, if any purpose.
I also find the "curated collections" that the store page very obtrusively puts into the users' faces all the time to be very obnoxious. Just like how many people complained about the Thronebreaker advertisements being obnoxious, the "curated collections" are at least as bad, and definitely much worse if they are going to stay there forever, instead of eventually coming to an end, like the Thronebreaker advertising did.
I don't think most gamers need a "curator" to decide for them whether a game is good or not. Ultimately, any curator's determination is largely based on their subjective opinion, and that will vary based on every individual's likes and dislikes. The opinion of a curator may well be different from many or most of the end users who might buy/play the game they recommend.
I can't fathom any gamer in actual real-life who would think to themself: "I am going to buy from GOG specifically because a curator (or more than one) has endorsed their games as good."
I wonder what other improvements GOG might be neglecting based on the inaccurate premise
that "curation" is the thing that will keep them doing well. For example, (obviously this is just theoretical speculation in order to illustrate a point) they might think they need not make GOG into a viable multiplayer platform because "curation" will draw in enough sales to make up for those that are lost to platforms that do feature viable multiplayer.
What do you think about these issues?
Should GPG remove the obnoxious & obtrusive "curated collections" ads? Should GOG at least vastly obscure them (i.e. make them way smaller and out of the way of the average user)? Should GOG make those ads appear as opt-in options only for users who are logged in and who have checked a box which specifically asked to see them?
Should GOG stop banking so heavily on "curation" as a main selling point?
Should GOG start adding other things to its site/service so that it gains some new selling points that are actually good? (i.e. on par with DRM-free, which at the moment, is GOG's one & only good selling point).
Post edited December 15, 2018 by Ancient-Red-Dragon