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Fomalhaut30: Did we hit peak release last year?
If only there were release stats per year, one could finally know. Oh, wait.

In 2009, GOG had 2 releases in the first 11 days of the year. Releases reached 4 by January 13th.
In 2010, GOG had 2 releases in the first 11 days of the year. Releases reached 4 by January 14th.
In 2011, GOG had 1 release in the first 11 days of the year. Releases reached 4 by January 18th.
In 2012, GOG had 3 releases in the first 11 days of the year. Releases reached 4 by January 12th.
In 2013, GOG had 3 releases in the first 11 days of the year. Releases reached 5 by January 15th (two releases on that day).
In 2014, GOG had 1 release in the first 11 days of the year. Releases reached 4 by January 16th.
In 2015, GOG had 3 releases in the first 11 days of the year. Releases reached 4 by January 13th.
In 2016, GOG had 4 releases in the first 11 days of the year.

So, going by the number of releases in the first 11 days, we are as good as we were last year. Peak might have been reached.
The end is nigh!
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JMich: [stats]
...So, in other words, this trickling release rate in this part of the year is the OLD normal. ; )
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JMich: [stats]
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HunchBluntley: ...So, in other words, this trickling release rate in this part of the year is the OLD normal. ; )
No, the OLD normal was fewer releases than we had this year. So 4 releases in the first 11 days is the new normal.
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rampancy: Honestly, I will never understand people on this forum. It's only 11 days and people are acting like the sky is falling just because GOG isn't pumping out games by the truckload like Steam.

But of course, if GOG were to all of a sudden boost their releases to three, four or even five times a week (and releasing God knows what kinds of games), people would start scrreaming bloody murder.
Amazing.

Thinking that 5 releases a week including old games are too many (which GOG does many weeks). And comparing that to Steam's 40+.
Repent, The End Is Nigh!
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Fomalhaut30: Are new releases only going to come on Tuesday/Thursday now, like the old days? Did we hit peak release last year?
I hope not. Actually, I thought last year had some pretty awful stretches. I gave you a +1 because I don't see how the question alone justifies any downvotes, but I will technically agree with other users. Even Steam has its problems getting the ball rolling in 2017. Developers have made sure to churn out AAA releases during October, November and December in time for the Christmas extravaganza.

The disappointment, however, I'll share. Two classic releases I haven't ever heard of (which could come anytime, as opposed to Steam's new and sparkling releases) and one PC port of a PS3 game from 2013. And all the while a barrage of sales and coming soon announcements so that things don't look to grim.

Of course I'm looking and hoping for new releases (Thimbleweed Park), afterthought releases (Steamworld Heist, Earthlock) and some of my personal classics (Trackmania). But whether what actually releases is "enough" or satisfying to people is largely subjective. If the games from the last two weeks tickled your nostalgia centers well enough, this might already look like a fantastic year to you.

It just so happens that nothing tickled those for me yet. :p
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We are programming games as fast as we can :(
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zeogold: I assumed the thread was parody. OP is serious?
I thought it was a serious thread, given that we get such threads with so much regularity these days. But if the OP was being sarcastic, then hats off to them.

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mistermumbles: Damned if you do; damned if you don't.

Then those same people of either camp wonder why GOG won't directly communicate with them here. If all one can do is whine, bitch, and moan about not being satisfied should it be a surprise nobody is willing to answer? If only they knew there were more important issues in the world than some silly digital games.
Yep. People are screaming at them to release all of their games right now, right away. Yet if they were to do that, they'd have less (or even nothing) to relase in the future (unless they lowered their curation critera), leading to further complaining down the road that either (a) they're putting indie shovelware on GOG, or (b) they don't have any more games to release and therefore must be failing.

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rgnrk: Thinking that 5 releases a week including old games are too many (which GOG does many weeks). And comparing that to Steam's 40+.
It was a little bit of hyperbole to highlight the fact that yes, there are people out there who want GOG to follow Steam in terms of the number of games they carry and how often they're released. Personally, I think it's plain to see why that would be a bad thing.

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Fomalhaut30: Gee, I was unaware asking a simple fucking question, in a respectful manner, constitutes whining/bitching/moaning. I did not resort to hyperbole or boycotts and admitted the day thing. I remember now why I left this forum in the first place.
Coming at it from our perspective, a lot of us are more than a little sick and tired of threads asserting that GOG is "releasing less games", "releasing less classic games", or "releasing more bad games"...especially when you can see JMich's release stats and actually compare GOG's release stats year over year...and especially when such questions have been answered (and assertions refuted) again and again and again.
Post edited January 12, 2017 by rampancy
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mecharma: We are programming games as fast as we can :(
Clearly you need to be consuming more coffee!
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mecharma: We are programming games as fast as we can :(
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Bookwyrm627: Clearly you need to be consuming more coffee!
...and that I shall do! :)
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mecharma: We are programming games as fast as we can :(
at this rate we will never reach the 4207 game releases of steam in 2016 ;'( - how can you do this to us -.-
This wouldn't be a problem if GOG would stop holding out on the AAA releases Steam has like "LSDriver" and "ERR - 001". :D

Seriously, they are just shooting themselves in the foot by now allowing us access to such high quality in demand titles.
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Fomalhaut30: Gee, I was unaware asking a simple fucking question, in a respectful manner, constitutes whining/bitching/moaning. I did not resort to hyperbole or boycotts and admitted the day thing. I remember now why I left this forum in the first place.
Don't take it personally. It's a lot less about you than it is GOG's community adjusting their limits to what is a desirable behavior within the forum and hitting back against something that went beyond that limit. You were at the front and thus downrepped (that's pretty much the only tool the community has to state a mass disagreement), but the disapproval of a particular behavior is intended to be aimed generally.

TL; DR : It's not about you, it's about the userbase adjusting its norms.
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Fomalhaut30: Gee, I was unaware asking a simple fucking question, in a respectful manner, constitutes whining/bitching/moaning. I did not resort to hyperbole or boycotts and admitted the day thing. I remember now why I left this forum in the first place.
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joppo: Don't take it personally. It's a lot less about you than it is GOG's community adjusting their limits to what is a desirable behavior within the forum and hitting back against something that went beyond that limit. You were at the front and thus downrepped (that's pretty much the only tool the community has to state a mass disagreement), but the disapproval of a particular behavior is intended to be aimed generally.

TL; DR : It's not about you, it's about the userbase adjusting its norms.
But Master Yoda teaches us to be mindful of the norms.

Or is that the future?

I'm so confused.