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General discussionSo... What exactly DRIVES the curation here?(50 posts)(50 posts)
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Posted July 14, 2022
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You can't have any curation without some people thinking the curation is "wrong." It's an inherent part of the process.
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: 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).
Don't forget the cash grab games; which I outlined in a previous thread as the Headline Ripper, Maypole of Controversy, and Witless Color Commentaries, three catagories of game of which GOG are very guilty of releasing these otherwise worthless games.
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Braggadar: 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*
I'm going to be blunt, given the games we've seen on here, I don't think that secondary criteria is applicable, unless you can see a world in which a discount shop knockoff of Plague Inc/Pandemic 2 (The latter of which was literally free), would sell well.
Post edited July 14, 2022 by Darvond
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StingingVelvet: You can't have any curation without some people thinking the curation is "wrong." It's an inherent part of the process.
yes , but that should happen to kagura games at least
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Oh great, so now we can't report trash bots because there's no downvote button.
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StingingVelvet: You can't have any curation without some people thinking the curation is "wrong." It's an inherent part of the process.
Just to be clear I never said it's wrong. I'm saying it's all over the place.
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kai2: snip
This is a good response, I like it.
Post edited July 14, 2022 by micktiegs_8
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micktiegs_8: Oh great, so now we can't report trash bots because there's no downvote button.
The original report button iirc didn't work to actually report posts. If you've been using that until now you've been wasting your time.

I reported it this time. There's a dedicated thread to report spambots.
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