I don't really know how the front page best selling list works, and I won't pretend like I do, maybe you're right (I don't think so, but considering I don't actually know for sure, I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt). If your reasoning for that is "people here don't buy new games", though... I truly hope you're being sarcastic. GOG stopped calling themselves Good Old Games A LONG TIME AGO. In fact, when I joined GOG back in 2013 they were already just known as GOG and had dropped the acronym meaning a bit ago. True, GOG is a "small" company, in the sense that when compared with the behemoth monopoly that Steam is, everything seems small. But they have been growing, especially since the release of Witcher 3, and if you remove Steam out of the equation, GOG is by no means small. A small company wouldn't have secured distribution deals with EA, Square Enix, Ubisoft, Gearbox, Bethesda, Activision or Disney. In fact, GOG has quite a few exclusive games that you can't even buy on Steam, that's a pretty great achievement for a "small" company.

And people do buy new games, here. I personally know a lot of people who buy games, and they tend to choose GOG over Steam, even when it comes to new releases. Sure, GOG doesn't get most of the AAA one-day releases, but the indies and "AA" games they sell are still new, and people do buy them. I guess these forums are not very good representation of the vast majority of the GOG userbase, this is a very vocal minority of old school gamers who are mostly stuck in the past and only want to play the Ultimas and the Infinity Engine games. But GOG customers do buy new games. I'm pretty sure Pillars of Eternity II sold really well when it released, as did Divinity: Original Sin 2, and those are (or were) new games that people bought. Witcher 3 sold like candy on GOG when it came out. I think you need to start thinking outside of the forum community to have a sense of how many people buy games on GOG, and how many new games these people are actually buying. GOG is a company, small, medium or big, they're still a company, and they need to make money to survive as such. If people didn't buy the new games and made GOG money with those, I think it's obvious GOG would have stopped selling them years ago and just focus on the "good old classics". If they keep releasing new indies and AA games, it's because people are, in fact, buying them, otherwise it wouldn't be smart or even feasible to keep such a model working.

I have the gog version, not the HD one though.
Is the localization as bad as this game?

Sadly, yes, the original Pathologic localization is worse than that one... because at least that one becomes goofy and funny, the original Pathologic translation was just confusing and made no sense; but the game has a very serious tone and the original translation maintained that, there are no "goofy" aspects, just... words that make no sense and make the player not understand a damn thing of what was supposed to be going on. Plus, Planet Alcatraz has that during cutscenes, but the storytelling in Pathologic happens mostly during in-game conversations, for which a good translation is mandatory.

So, my advice would be to either get the fan made translation patch and apply it to the version you have or to just buy the Classic HD version, which comes with a new and very much improved official localization.

I have even installed and run the GOG Pathologic once. I think it was the original GOG release, not the "Classic HD", as I have both in my GOG library.

The start of the game felt very odd for some reason, similar feeling I got when I tried out The Deadly Premonition. However, in the beginning I was in some kind "auditorium" and some man was giving some kind of speech to someone, but I couldn't get close to them. And I definitely couldn't understand what the heck he was talking about, the voice was too low and there were no subtitles. I stopped at that point, hopefully the HD version has subtitles.

I just wish GOG would fix the library bug where those who got the Classic HD release because we had the older version of the game already, would see Classic HD marked as "owned" in the store as well. I presume it is the same release, but for some reason they have a different id in the store.

It does! I always turn on subtitles and was so glad to see this is an option. I am not getting caught up in WHF drama and don't know about The Long Dark one way or the other, but I heartily recommend Pathologic to any and all gamers.

I'm thinking it's more of a rolling total, such as the past 30 days, past 7 days, something like that. Popularity can be time-based, so that would make some sense. Might also be Headline and / or catalog clicks instead of dollars or units.

Sadly, I still don't now if this game is good or not.

Purchased today, after eight hours, I'm still stuck because there is no GOG Downloader link for it: an annoying "404 Error" message is the only answer!

Plus, my "help" request in the right section of the Forum has been ignored.

Anybody, can give me a suggestion or an answer about why I can't see the link to the GOG Downloader!?

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Thanks. I think so, too, but apparently some people are mad at me for "ranting" and "being unfair" towards Compulsion and We Happy Few.

For the record, I DO NOT MEAN TO FORCE ANYONE INTO NOT BUYING THE GAME. It's your money, your prerogative. I just think this game deserves to fail, and these devs deserve no money from honest paying customers. Sure, many of you got the game while it was still cheap, for the price it should still be sold at, post-release, but that doesn't make the whole thing fair. Many people are being ripped off by paying AAA money for a game that isn't even worth half the price, given the content and the poor optimization state it's in.

And, yes, the Pathologic and Long Dark recommendation is a genuine and serious one. Both games do what We Happy Few sets out to do, only way better. And neither Ice-Pick Lodge (Pathologic) nor Hinterland Studio (The Long Dark) lied to the people backing their game, changed the concept three times and signed with a major big name publisher mid way through development. Both those studios are more deserving of your hard-earned money than Gearbox, Compulsion and, since they were acquired recently, Microsoft, on top of it all.

All I'm saying is that people should do a bit of googling about this whole debacle and try doing an informed purchase, instead of just wasting a whopping $60 on what is basically an indie game with next to no polish and depth. Sure, I enjoy the drama around it all. I really do, I admit it. But drama or no drama, this is a legitimate anti-consumer practice that only we, as paying customers, can change, by voting with our wallets.

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