Wrong screenshots: https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/game/rim-battle-planets-2006

These games are already on GOG but not marked so in the dreamlist:

1) Ori and the Blind Forest
2) Metro 2033
3) Simcity 4

There live ~ 8.16 billion people on this planet.
Millions of them are gamers.
Many of them are older than you.
Many have fond memories of games, which you may never have played or even heard of.
And - nowadays - there are millions, who play on their mobile phones.
What makes you think, that you are the benchmark, on which every vote has to be measured?

As others have pointed out around various threads, is it really so realistic for people to have voted for an obscure game from the 1980s when they probably meant the insanely popular title? A dry text adventure vs one of the more innovative games of the decade?

Ah, thank you!

Well, I did that, and...

It still didn't work. ^^; :/

I'm starting to think that GOG just don't want to hear my story! :P

According to your registration date, you're using GOG for almost 13 years...do you really want to try and tell me, that in all those years, you've never seen any of the "request threads" for games, that are only available on (old) consoles?
Or requests for C-64 games?
Or Amiga games?
And more recently: mobile games?

Again: you see this from your own (biased) standpoint.
Yet, other people may like things, that you don't like.
And "other people" are in the majority.
Shocking, I know.

For a few days now, GOG has this message up on the front page:
"You've achieved another milestone
3.000.000 votes & 10.000 stories are already in!"

Question: for how many of these votes and stories do you account for?

Allegedly this "new" Dream list is "better visible" (due to the news posts and presentation on the front page, I'm sure)...so, many people who never posted any wish on the old wishlist, may have taken the opportunity, to add games only now.
Do I know this for sure?
Of course not.
But is it possible?
Yes.

Question: if you and cosevecchie (and others) are apparently smart enough to properly distinguish between these titles...then what makes (all of) you think, others are obviously too stupid to notice the difference?

No idea why you're being so snarky / hostile to others here for the crime of expressing common sense, but "other people" can "like" whatever they want, and it remains painfully obvious GOG still can't legally start selling Nintendo Game Boy / ripped arcade ROM's bundled with unlicensed Nintendo / MAME emulators without getting sued into oblivion, so all that stuff does is add to the clutter.

I looked through the DreamList myself and quite honestly the first 10 pages were great but even by Page 11 you see things like "Game Boy" half cropped off the image which looks incredibly amateurish and sets the tone for the bulk of the 3937 pages to be a "wall of automated scraped bot clutter". And nowhere is that more obviously counter-productive than the fact the last 500x pages have 1x single vote (and last 1000x pages have just 2x votes) identical for every game almost like 1-2 people used a bot script to auto-upvote everything whilst no-one else has actually looked through the second half of the list because it's filled with glorified spam...

I agree on that many good games that aren't in the first pages, get lost in heaps of nonsensical requests inside all the other pages. Just because many people decided to add absolutely anything that would come to their minds.

Simple. GOG implicitly said, "We transferred the wishes over as we could."

Accuracy implies peeing in the right toilet, much less spraying it into entirely the wrong type of water source.

Well for me, right there is the key issue for all of this.

Are GOG actually intending to do anything different to what they have been doing?
Or is this just a promotion thing because they fear they need to make themselves look better.
Same with the Game Preservation stuff.

If these things are really important, like they are currently pushing, why have they waited so long, too long, to do them?

So I am skeptical about any aim other than propaganda due to a state of desperation, perhaps.

I don't want it to be that way, but honestly .....

For some time now, I have been preparing myself for what seems inevitable. Like getting up to date with all the updates. I wanted to start that sooner, but it took me a while to get around the lousy download speed I was getting with GOG (only) ... another indicator to me, that GOG aren't doing too well.

Still say that what I'm seeing is that GOG finally got some better PR people, which I'd say they haven't had since TET. And yep, their "preservation program" was more of a PR stunt than real work, and the "deamlist" is pretty much only PR, but it works, it gets people talking, increases engagement, makes them way more present in gaming media, maybe even catching the odd news piece outside of the niche too... It may not mean much of anything palpable, especially for existing users, but it's marketing done right. Smoke and mirrors, but a great thing for a business.

Let's go back a few days.
GOG launches its new and improved "Dreamlist".
I notice that it gives you the ability to filter the list for all the games you have voted for, something that wasn't possible before.
I then quickly proceed to review all my past votes, and with great curiosity as I have never done it before (it would have been a real pain in the neck with the old wishlist).
Among old favourites, I find out that, apparently, I have voted for Chameleon 1986, Soldier Of Fortune 1988 and Atari Spider-Man from 1982.
Except... no, I never intended to vote for Chameleon 1986, Soldier Of Fortune 1988 or Spider-Man 1982.
I voted for Chameleon 2005, Soldier Of Fortune 2000 and Spider-Man 2000!
I had to cancel my votes for Chameleon 1986, Soldier Of Fortune 1988 and Spider-Man 1982, and vote again for Chameleon 2005 and Spider-Man 2000.
What are we to make of this? Clearly, the most logical, reasonable, indeed obvious, explanation, is that something went awry in the transition from the old to the new wishlist - namely, that votes were wrongly assigned to different games with the same, or slightly different, title.
And if this happened for those games, it is entirely reasonable to suppose that it happened for other games as well. And that's precisely what other users besides me concluded.
I stated clearly at the beginning of my original post that I was bringing together the remarks of other users, in addition to mine. I refer, in particular, to

binteon
BrazilSummer2012
Kreeg
TheOdds

Really, if I see that Wolfenstein 2009 had almost 12000 votes in the old wishlist, but has under 1500 in the new one, what am I supposed to think? That votes were transferred correctly? And if, on top of that, I see that Wolfenstein RPG (a mere 228 votes previously) now has 18000+, shouldn't I get at least a sneaking suspicion that something went wrong? Especially given my first-hand experience (related above) of similar glitches.
Notice that, in my original post, I even qualified my statements with words and expressions like "rather", "I'm doubtful", "likely" etc. Evidently, they weren't enough (no I did not use them for Wolfenstein, that's just too glaring).
And that is all, really - signaling out what appear to me (and others) to be blatant inconsistencies that point to some kind of mistake happening during the automated transition process, all in the hope for someone at GOG to look into the matter, eventually.
And how I wish it would happen soon... and put an end to this nonsense. But I'm not too confident about that.
I honestly have a hard time understanding what's so controversial about all this, to the point of stirring up such an argument, that I find completely meaningless, sterile, and, frankly, disagreeable.
Man, you're reading too much into it.

Not at all.
Of course I have seen such requests.
I have even linked to one of them in my previous reply.
What I was trying to say, it's rather that all evidence points to some mistakes happening during the transition from the old wishlist to the new one, so that some of those Atari, C64 or mobile games ended up garnering votes that were originally intended for other titles.
(About the migration process, I refer you to this post by king_kunat).

No, it isn't shocking at all.
It's a banality of colossal proportions.
No need for that.

Ah, good catch! That's another one. You can see in the attached screenshot that it's got my vote (that I promptly removed after taking the screenshot, of course). Now, did I vote for Game Boy Prince of Persia, "now available on Virtual Console!" (2012) in the old wishlist? No way! I rather voted for the über-classic DOS game - that currently has 3899 votes (and mine wasn't among them initially! I had to vote for it anew). So - again - why should we suppose that the 7395 votes from the old entry have been transferred correctly? And why am I such a bad person for expressing my doubts? Or even my reasonable certainty that some bugs happened?

Exactly. You said that in a very concise and effective manner. Thank you for restoring some sanity to this discussion.

See? That's some important info, that's missing from your initial post.

Geezus!

Just because you have a shitty internet connection to GOG's servers doesn't mean that GOG dies. I also don't see signs of desperation. So... what is the deal with the Preservation Program and the new Dreamlist?

Someone from the game industry told me it is important to keep talking about older games. The people with the copyrights need to see that there is still interest in certain older games. People from SNEG and Nightdive also mentioned this in interviews. Instead of the older interviews I recommend to read the new interview with the GOG staff.

Click here! On X GOG shares posts about the Dreamlist. They tweeted about Digimon World.

This message has been retweeted 2.7K times and has 10k likes. Look at this screenshot which they added to the text above. Last week Digimon World had 11180 votes, now it has 24747 votes.

Today they tweeted about Breath of Fire IV
After 3 hours it already has 2.2K likes.

Resident Evil 1, 2 and 3 are on page 5 on GOG's all time bestselling list. Dino Crisis 1 and 2 are on page 17. Alpha Protocol is on page 12. They are all part of GOG's preservation program and had thousands of votes on the whishlist. These games are good arguments for publishers to release other older games here.