Curation on vacation.
when: always :)

Society has but little connection with such beginnings. ;)

Another constant 90% sale is coming, yay!

I have never stopped being pissed at GOG for rejecting Degica's catalogue, but the fact they keep adding shit from these bunch of hacks is just rubbing salt in the wound.

Ask them to try again, clearly GOG's policies have changed.

I wonder

How many % of the CD Projekt shares was bought by the owner of Whale Rock Games ?
How many % of Whale Rock Games is owned by CD Projekt ?
How much money from our Gog purchases was transfered into Ukraine , and if it was transfered what it was used for ?

I have been told that GOG recently puts our surveys when you purchase a game to make sure that their customers are satisfied. While this would in theory be a good thing in my opinion I wonder why they do such things if they keep on ignoring their customer's wishes again and again and again anyway. What's the point in investing time and money to create such a survey if you won't listen to it? Not long ago the community was pretty vocal telling GOG what they think of WRG and their obviously fake reviews. I did not really know much about their games and so I looked up their reviews and I asked GOG in the thread to explain to me why those obviously fake reviews won't get deleted but GOG decided to stay silent. I promised them that I won't bother with WRG anymore as long as they don't explain themselves ... they decided to stay silent and I decide to ignore future games from WRG as well. So thank you but no thanks.

@GOG: Fix the dropdown counter - support told me that they are "on it" weeks(!!!) ago. If I would work that slow I would not be able to keep my job at all.

I'm not going to invest much energy being upset over this, though I won't argue if somebody boycotts over WRG. I remain generally in favor of less curation (though it seems some WRG games violate my desire of "no asset flips"), but that of course includes allowing games on here that actually have interest from customers / hundreds of votes (assuming of course the devs are still interested):

Unreal World, Das Geisterschiff and Der Geisterturm / Graverobber Foundation games, Realms of Antiquity, Aeon of Sands: The Trial, etc.

And personally, indies I want to buy (on some DRM-free non-Steam service: GOG, Zoom-Platform, etc.) are: Night at the Gates of Hell (indie published by Torture Star Video) and Chop Goblins from DuskDev (and might as well bring Iron Lung here too, especially with the movie coming out).

The above are just the ones I think might be easier to get here. Below are a bunch of indie or what I'd call / associate as "indie-adjacent" titles (note that I'm aware some are much harder to get - not GOG's fault, devs don't care - or they'd be here already).

Hades, Hatred, Subnautica, Dwarf Fortress, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Celeste, Axiom Verge, Oxygen Not Included, Super Meat Boy, Untitled Goose Game, Salt and Sanctuary, Valheim, Stray, The Consuming Shadow, Dungeons of Dredmor, Plague Inc: Evolved, Grey Goo, Skullgirls, The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians, Aeon of Sands: The Trial, Velvet Assassin, a return of Gray Matter, Astroneer, Zeno Clash 1 and 2, Baba Is You, All Walls Must Fall ("mixed" rating on Steam admittedly), Night Trap 25th anniversary edition, Dragon Lore II, The Ascent, SIGNALIS, Darkest Dungeon 2, Gunpoint, Disgaea PC, Ikaruga, Game Dev Tycoon, etc.

(Certain people might want to argue over the above as "technically not indie" or whatever details. People are of course free to respond, but I'm not interested in arguing.)

Great, more asset flips. GOG seems pretty intent on murdering their brand with this and Kagura Games. Just stop. Nobody wants this. Whoever curates GOG is either finanically influenced by these companies or just plain incompetent. A jar of expired mayonnaise would be better at curation.

This looks more like the start of a beginner's Unity experiment than it does an actual game. What exactly do you do? The video just shows the PC carrying a stone. Is that it?

Dear GOG,

You are making it extremely difficult to purchase games here recently.

- Having to do extensive research on any game to avoid getting DRM on a "100% DRM-free" store
- Worrying about you retroactively adding DRMed content to games already in my library (Witcher 3 "rewards")
- Intensive research to understand if the game I'm buying is an inferior version to those sold in other digital stores
- Games sometimes being removed from people's libraries without their consent (plenty of examples)

Now add on top having to wade through dozens of shovelware/garbage titles just because your curation team decided it's perfectly fine to accept a company releasing products which are 90% unfinished/tech demos/asset flips.
Which, by the way, also added a new concern, where apparently I can't even trust the user reviews, since the Whalerock Games reviews are 99% fake.

I'm extremely disappointed in what's happening with your store/company lately.

Sincerely,
A concerned customer

If it is true to the story of Sisyphus, then yes.

Sisyphus carries the stone up the hill. It rolls down. Sisyphus carries the stone up the hill again. It rolls down again. Sisyphus carries the stone up the hill again. It rolls down again. Sisyphus carries the stone up the hill again. It rolls down again. Sisyphus carries the stone up the hill again. It rolls down again. Sisyphus carries the stone up the hill again. It rolls down again. Sisyphus carries the stone up the hill again. It rolls down again. Sisyphus carries the stone up the hill again. It rolls down again.

So yes, you have captured the essence of the gameplay.

The shovelware train continues. *shakes head* Now that's some (very bad) curation!

Who knows - maybe that's currently the only means through which Whale Rock Games can support themselves/survive as a development studio under the current circumstances in their home country.
Last I heard it's possible that individual male devs can be drafted for defense duty (and unfortunately, not make it home/back to their work alive) - personally I'd give them the benefit of doubt/some slack and just ignore it (which apparently still is a REALLY hard thing to do these days), and at the same time let other people, who are genuinely interested in the games or just want to support Whale Rock Games in these trying times by chucking a few eurodollars their way, decide for themselves.

Doesn't excuse other, more-in-demand titles (like the ones mentioned in tfishell's post) to take lower priority and get chucked to the side over this though.