Telika: It's not a "new game". There are a lot of new games I'm not interested in for many reasons, but are always worth checking out, in a "hey, a new game, what is it about" way. But when a new title is announced and you get rickrolled into a porn VN, it simply feels like entering another shop. It's a different object with a whole different function. I can dislike a random platformer or racer, but it's still, like a RTS, meant to be enjoyed without a dick in one hand and a kleenex in another, so I can understand why a videogame shop asks us if we're interested in it. And actually, there is also a difference between featuring sexual content (in a book, movie, song, game) and being a porn product. Again, not the same function.
I understand GOG makes money with that, and it's legitimate and not even in contradiction with curation. Again, I've known a video shop owner who was an avid cinephile, but admitted that his shop was making profit thanks to its backroom porn videos. That's what allowed him to curate the real movies and sell them at decent price. But still, he had them separated. We could browse movies without getting "anal underage princesses 7" between "the godfather" and "broken flowers".
Right now, gog just mixes up apples and oranges. And honestly for dumb reasons : it branches out to porn, okay, but doesn't assume it - as the reluctant and euphemistic tags show. It's certainly convenient for some customers' self-definition ("i'm, uh, buying a videogame, because it, er, the gameplay is interesting"), but it's mildly inconvenient for those who peruse gog as a videogame store.
Because "apostle: rebellion" would have sounded kinda cool for a real game's title. But nope. We're not in the real game section here. We're in the boobs slideshow section.
Surprise.
(Actually, GOG had the same problem a while ago, wen it tried to branch into movies. You saw a new title, went "hey cool, haven't heard of that game" and "oh, it's just a short film". But at least they kept the shops separated.)
To be fair though, for better or for worse (I'll admit I don't have a well developed opinion about that, I tend to think that in a purely fictitious context, it is rather harmless), I know of at least one 'game' (VN really with limited choices that do impact the story) that straddles that line and have a foot in both worlds.
Song of Saya has segments that felts downright pornographic, but it is still a legitimate visual novel with an engaging story.
Thinking about it some more, while ultimately it wasn't for me, I'd say Huniepop also has a legitimate claim at being a game (the reflex puzzles, the memory games while 'dating', the pleasant soundtrack and overall aesthetics, it has things going for it), yet part of it felt pornographic (although admittedly that part is limited to pictures).
I could see other games following suit.
megajellyfish: well everybody got their taste of course. But personally I love it :)
Magnitus: Sure, I don't think it is wrong per say, it is not my taste for the reasons outlined above.
Huniepop is a legimate Match 3 game, you can count the mild porn pics on one hand and you can also just ignore them if you want to.
This here, as with most other games, are legitimate games with porn aspects. (Sure the mileage may vary but generally they are games)
VNs are well..... VNs, many of them are hardly games even if no porn is involved but they are a story telling device(Say Dead End Aegis is a good story with a porn aspect)
The problem with people here is the porn aspect, at that point for them it's irrelevant if it's a game or not.
It's like the bible belt of Gog.
