That's fair... I've been irritable lately. Probably best not to spoil for a fight.

This would be suicide for GOG, as it would scare a lot of developers away. No developer wants a potential store criticising their game publically by the store they are trying to get in.

You should just vote with your wallet If they don't care you shouldn't care and move to another platform for your gaming needs. The whole problem with curation is your subject to somebody else his taste and we all know how bias people are against Japanese games or their personal biases, Barely anybody these days is neutral in their stance of professionalism you can just look at game devs that attack their fans for having a different opinion by labeling them as racist sexist or any other word that makes them feel they got the high ground.

We now know you just get copy pasted replies when you contact them so that already shows how little they care.
he is the perfect example of the mindless masses that would rather remain ignorant than actually stand for something and want to know the truth behind things or even dare question things, to begin with. Gotta love these NPC type people that just accept anything a company decides for them.

They already drive potential devs away with rejections.

I'd wager that the vast majority of devs would *welcome* seeing clearly stated, objective criteria for game acceptance on GOG.

Nobody is forcing you to participate in the discussion, You can just ignore and move along but some people would rather question than remain ignorant, And even if the question is somewhat answered there still remain Questions that GOG refuses to be clear about so they only got themselves to blame. It's better to question than remain silent regardless of how many times the subject has been discussed.
You can already see the problems with unclear Curation with Steam backstabbing VN publishers or even sony new censorship policy that is costing Japanese devs boatloads of money even demanding they pay for English speaking staff to communicate in English while they themselves have a Japanese branch that could deal with those issues.

Attacking StingingVelvet?


Okay, well that's the end of this forum.

At this point even Mother Theresa would get chewed out in here. XD

Privately, not publically.

Also, for the record, there are also dozens of RPGMaker titles that are better than most AAA games.

They tend to all be lumped together, and refused out of hand, due to the number of bad ones released that use the engine.

They don't need 'transparency' so much as they need simply to abolish curation, period.

I appreciate that. Thank you. Your perspective is understood as well.

As an amateur game dev, I would certainly love to know what issues would potentially cause my game(s) to be refused curation instead of leaving everything to chance.

The reason I spend time thinking about any of this is because I want GoG to succeed. It is just about teh only place to purchase DRM free games (and old games) and I respect that and want teh platform to be successful.

Ehm... Maybe is a subjective thing. If they like the game, it's in. If it doesn't, is not. Also, price. I remember they told the developer of Thomas Was Alone that his game was too expensive, since he refused to lower the price, they "left it out". So that. No really a method, just business and subjetiveness.

No, publically. There's no acceptable reason that the *criteria* used for making determinations isn't publically available.

Most dont give clients any criteria upfront as to why they wont work with them.