Hi,
I just wonder where the in-forums-always-so-present poll feature is hidden here? Its always so convenient to not participate in a discussion but instead mark some of the most often oversimplistic answers given at the top of a thread and watch little colored bars grow in accordance with this markings.
It would be nice to use polls here too as a simple instrument in participating to the community with relatively small effort.
So here is the first example:
Why aren't polls not included?
[1] They are not DRM free
[2] Nobody needs them
[3] They give too simple answers
[4] Nobody thought about implementing them
[5] There is really no need for them
[6] The software might not be capable of them
[7] EA and Activision have the rights for them and are not yet convinced of the GOG strategy
[8] Polls require online activation and automatic updates
[9] Polls cannot be downloaded
[10] Who would seriously need polls
[11] The thread creator is simply to dumb to find the poll feature
:)
P.S.: Beware of the irony

Okay, this thread makes no sense whatsoever. So you're asking why there's no poll feature and then you're linking to some page about how Fox News are lying scumbags which is only tangentially related to the topic in question?

Sorry for the Fox News paragraph. Its only a historical side remark used as an example. Skip it if you want. I might even delete it/deleted it now since mixing in political views might be dangerous. The thread is about polls and motivates them by ironically emphasizing only the bad properties of polls so that the good properties are shining out even more... kind of. Its just fun. :)

See the little Beta up there under the GOG logo? It's there to let you know that things are still at an early stage and that the GOG staff aren't happy with the feature set and/or its functionality.
A new version of this site is due sometime this year. But I've got no idea exactly when you can expect that or how polltastic that's going to be.

As they aren't not included, polls aren't not important enough to not be warranted a non-inclusion, unless of course they aren't not included in the first place, which they aren't not.

I heard this beta sign is there since more than a year and thought its just part of the design. :) However this is fantastic news. I am looking forward to maybe a pollistical option then. :)
Oh, and maybe the most voted list gets extended then also. :love:

It's just a list to show off how obscure and / or awful games can you field before everyone else, ensuring that every game that was made, ever, will be there.

It's a list to show how many of us voted for obscure and / or awful games and subsequently how much we'd have brought it upon ourselves if such games were ever added to the catalogue.

To that end, that list really needs a game that maybe three people ever heard about it, but bafflingly makes it to top ten. Then, a "virgin gives birth to god" miracle occurs, and the site makes the game available. Again, three people buy it.
I just voted for Książe I Tchórz. I guess it fits the bill.

I think I've looked at the Wishlist maybe twice . . . I would visit a poll page far less . . . =)

And its a poll. I really like it and feel that it is to some extent relevant. Besides its a representation of what some people think are the classics and should be on GOG. I would really like to see the list sorted by votes. Everything above 100 votes should be kind of interesting.

I voted for DNF some time ago. I don't think I increased the odds of it being added to GOG's catalogue though.

If there were polls they'd most likely be added to the top of forum threads.

That would be my guess as well, not against the addition of polls, just rather see the staff focused on game releases and additions that would be more useful (PM etc)
Seems like I remember a time when the whole first page of the General Discussion forum was stickies . . . might have been another site . .

It does seem like efforts are elsewhere at the moment. We're back down to one game a week and a lot of other things have been promised by GOG, such as Windows 7 compatibility, site overhaul, end of beta and loads of new games from a new publisher. So whether it's down to one or any number of those things I don't know. But something is brewing in the GOG vaults.