There would be no problem whatsoever if everyone in the world just learned and spoke Finnish. We already have gender-neutral pronouns that don't care if you are a male, female, fluid, queer, alien etc.

Ah Finland...

same here , except we dont have queers

Thank god for Monty Python, otherwise no brits would even know of our existence. :)

Hmm, the minus button has disappeared! I wonder if this will stop the "low rating" scripts or if GOG have just hidden the button without disconnecting the functionality that the scripts are triggering.

Same. This is a good guinea pig thread to see the result. Although if GOG only hid the element but the functionality can still be triggered by a script.... :D

Yeah, since this thread seems to be hit by a blanket downvoting script it'll be interesting to see what happens.

human pain and suffering

Quick, write something everybody will hate! Like... hmmm... like... both gays and Russians are real people!

I Thought they were posting recently as FloridaSucks or something similar.

A centrifuge and a handful of darts.

Was there a time when GOG's curation strategy / process seemed more decipherable?

Other than "classics era," I've been baffled by GOG's curation strategy / process.

IMO GOG does procure some good games (ie Wildermyth, Darkest Dungeon, Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Gloomhaven, Call of Juarez Gunslinger, etc.), but...

... they seemingly turn down a number of interesting titles as well. I've been dismayed to have a number of indie developers respond to my inquiries with something akin to "We wanted to release there but GOG turned us down." Were some of these projected to sell poorly on the platform? We'll never know. A few of these developers have claimed that they didn't fully understand why their games were turned down. That would seem a communication issue. How can they fix an issue if they don't understand exactly what the issue is? Dunno... that's obviously just one side of the story.

But moreso than titles that have been turned down, my attention has been on developers / publishers who have released a number of games on GOG suddenly foregoing day one releases on GOG... or not releasing new games on GOG at all. This seeming lack of retention of devs / publishers is worrisome. And while we don't know the particulars (little of this may be GOG's doing), I'd certainly like to know "why?"

I'd love to see listings of games as they go through the curation process. This could generate customer interest and keep players from purchasing a game elsewhere (I certainly would delay purchases elsewhere if I knew DRM-free versions of games had a good chance of releasing on GOG in the near future), but this could potentially make negotiations difficult for GOG on a number of levels (I'd hate to see the fallout should a very popular game publicly go through the curation process only to get rejected. yikes). I don't profess to know all of the behind-the-scenes back-and-forth. Dunno the answer.

What drives the current curation? Two things:

1. Personal game preferences of the staff.
2. Whatever they can get their hands on which "will sell".

I don't think the team is guided by rules as stringent as before. For one example I think they used to look past the "sex sells" argument and seek better quality and less niche titles suited to a much wider audience. But now eroge/hentai/whatevs titles are flooding in. *shrugs*

What "drives" curation is ideology of games that conform to the viewpoints of GOG employees.

I know the assertions in this thread that say "games that will sell" are certainly incorrect (just as they are in other threads about the same topic), since GOG has games on here that have sold less than 50-100 copies on Steam (but which clearly promote the ideology that GOG wants to promote, which is the only reason why they are on GOG).

Please... tell us about those demons again. We are all (mostly) ears.