mrkgnao: Please do not stop nor delay posting about unannounced games. I find this thread very useful, even if a news post later appears (which I likely will not bother to read).
Judging by the current home page, perhaps it's also time to add an "unannounced gog new sale" thread.
Cavalary: Like
this one? :)
And of course
this one for them, whether announced or not.
HunchBluntley: Because threads of this nature are better kept free of clutter, IMO. I really dislike having to skim past all the mentions of games that
were announced, just not as early as the early-bird forum hounds visited GOG while having their morning coffee and caught games red-handed without official announcements
ten whole minutes [GASP] after they went live. (Some hyperbole there, but not much.)
The topic should be about providing genuinely useful information to fellow users, not just pointing at GOG and crying, "Ah-
HA! Gotcha!" With that in mind, I've always used the rule "If a game becomes available for purchase (not just pre-order) and isn't mentioned in
any newspost for something like half a day after the 'normal' release window, it's time to post in this topic". Posting here any sooner just clutters up the thread, considering that release announcements often come up to a few hours "late" (and this happens often enough that people should really start counting "a few hours late" as the latter end of the normal announcement
window, rather than as "long after the normal time").
Cavalary: Pfft, clutter. If comments would be kept out, you'd go through weeks of actual posts on one page.
And if GOG started announcing new releases late, that's a problem with GOG and the sort of thing that such a thread would actually be expected to cover.
And what if someone would rely on it to see new releases as soon as they appear?
Or what if the poster(s) tend to check, manually or by having scripts run, when games are usually added and not "half a day after"? Or even if the process would be at least in part automated, with a trigger if a title is added and no matching news post appears?
Yes. Exactly like these ones. Favourited. Thanks.